This article outlines the general principles of European environmental law so that common law jurists can understand their potentials and limits as a means to protect the environment. Though general principles of law are important as a source or at least as a persuasive guide to law in civilian...

Algorithmic signs. I. Introduction 4 A. Problematique 4 B. Definitions and Common Terms 5 1. Semiotics 5 2. Interactive art 5 3. Sign 6 a. Saussure 6 i. A Structural Theory of the Sign 6 ii. A linguistic theory of the sign 6 iii. The Arbitrary Sign? 7 b. Peirce 7 Semiotics, Grammar and Rhetoric...

Sovereign state power, absolute and unlimited, was to guarantee the lives and property of citizens. Instead, States became vectors for mass violence. The realist/atomist model of sovereignty failed to preserve peace and instead led to global wars of mass destruction. The same technological...

Economic analyses of law predominate in the United States because they can claim to be objective and scientific thus verifiable and the basis of predictions and reproducible experiments. However, several of the claims of economic analysis of law go too far and are unrealistic. This explains why...

Insider trading: The words alone evoke conflicting feelings of jealousy and greed. But what is wrong with insider trading? Nothing. In fact, insider trading is good for the economy. Insider trading results in an efficient allocation of capital and thus makes the world wealthier

Both the New International Economic Order (NIEO) and the New World Order (NWO) have failed to end poverty in the third world, most notably in Africa. The failure of these two theories, themselves responses to the failure of the Westphalian state system, and the material facts of globalisation...