J don't intend to provide any background information on Black? stone, except to say that he published his treatise in England be? tween 1765 and 1769, and that aside from Chancellor Kent's Commentaries on the Law of the United States, published between 1820 and 1825, Blackstone's work is the only systematic attempt that has been made to present a theory of the whole common law system. Duncan Kennedy.1

The Structure of Blackstone's Commentaries

Law and the Economy of Early America: Markets, Institutions of Exchange, and Labor

https://czasopisma.uni.opole.pl/index.php/osap/article/download/1279/994

Rediscovering Blackstone: wpływ Williama Blackstone’a na rozwój amerykańskiej nauki prawa w recepcji Alberta W. Alschulera

William Twining describes the impact of globalisation on legal scholarship but laments the absence of a general theory. I argue that there are grounds to be more optimistic about legal scholarship's ability to respond to globalisation. In particular, the realist tradition offers a set of conceptual tools and analytic techniques that can be used to explore the economic, social and cultural dimensions of law. I illustrate the use of these tools and techniques in a study of Canada's Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), a law reform ostensibly meant to allow Canadian companies to export generic medicines to countries in the Global South. I suggest that CAMR was shaped by certain understandings of international trade law and of intellectual property rights, which had become naturalised, taken-for-granted features of Canadian political discourse. Access to medicines advocates' failure to reform CAMR can be partly attributed to their failure to challenge these legal ideas.

Globalisation, Legal Ideas, and the Creation of Canada's Access to Medicines Regime

In this article, the author explores several points of connection between the legal theory of Ronald Dworkin and a particular issue in Belgian constitutional case law, i.e. the question whether a Region (one of the federated entities in Belgium) can authoritatively interpret its own legislative measures, notwithstanding the fact that no such competence has been explicitly conferred to them by the Constitution. The Constitutional Court implicitly seems to have accepted that, and I will employ Dworkinian legal theory so as to assess whether this implicit acceptance can be duly justified. On the other hand, the case law of the Constitutional Court can serve as a benchmark to assess the viability of Dworkin’s theory, in its representative power of judicial interpretation.

The regional interpretative decree: in search for a right answer

Toward Normative Jurisprudence: Critical Legal Studies – The Missing Years

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The Structure of Blackstone's Commentaries

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Law and the Economy of Early America: Markets, Institutions of Exchange, and Labor

Rediscovering Blackstone: wpływ Williama Blackstone’a na rozwój amerykańskiej nauki prawa w recepcji Alberta W. Alschulera

Globalisation, Legal Ideas, and the Creation of Canada's Access to Medicines Regime

The regional interpretative decree: in search for a right answer

Toward Normative Jurisprudence: Critical Legal Studies – The Missing Years

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