The majority of Americans fail to execute a simple will, much less prepare a comprehensive estate plan in the event of lifetime incompetency or death. The increased popularity of fill-in-the-blank forms for will terms and provisions has made the ability to create a will a little more...

This chapter of the edited collection 'Settling With Indigenous People' examines the recent history of Aboriginal land claims, self-government and resource development agreements in Canada's Northwest Territories. Through an analysis of the changing political and legal landscape of the Northwest...

Recent work at the intersection of law and behavioral biology has suggested numerous contexts in which legal thinking could benefit by integrating knowledge from behavioral biology. In one of those contexts, behavioral biology may help to provide theoretical foundation for, and potentially...

The United States has long been a country of prohibitions, with the most memorable prohibition in American history being the ban on alcohol sales in 1920, which lasted until the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. While the federal ban on alcohol has long since been...

This chapter considers the landmark status of the House of Lords in Thorner v Major [2009] UKHL 18, understanding it as an example of story-telling in the law. The chapter explores the issues surrounding the equitable doctrine of proprietary estoppel, as it applies in particular in the context...

Clinical research faces a reproducibility crisis. Many recent clinical and preclinical studies appear to be irreproducible; their results cannot be verified by outside researchers. This is problematic for not only scientific reasons but legal ones: patents grounded in irreproducible research...

The law of trusts has spent the last twenty years rapidly shedding many traditional requirements, forms and restrictions which imposed liability on negligent trustees, protected vulnerable beneficiaries and prevented the use of trusts to avoid the claims of settlors' and beneficiaries'...

In the context of the decision of the UK Supreme Court in Jones v Kernott [2012] UKSC 53; [2012] 1 AC 776, this note looks at the way in which the interests under a common intention constructive trust can vary over time. It considers the role of s.53(1)(c) of the Law of Property Act 1925, which...

This paper makes a detailed analysis on how parody affects the fashion industry. In addition, the scope of this paper is to advocate the need for a better balance between parody and fashion, which can be arranged by affixing the Trade Mark Dilution Revision Act. This paper starts by making a...