Databases are increasingly used in international law settings. This requires new strategies for those who want to critique legal practices and their effects. In this essay, we claim that scholarship tends conceptualize the database ways leave older inadequate ideas of method(s) sovereignty context largely unquestioned or even serve reinforce them. Further, argue these tendencies obstruct proper...

Abstract Digital traces that people leave behind in our digitalized society can be useful evidence criminal courts. The central question of this article (how is the use data as Dutch courts regulated and, considering how these deal with such practice, what needed?) answered by analyzing relevant legal frameworks for processing courts: law and protection law. Next, current court practices are ex...

Work and the family constitute important aspects of life. This article explores manner in which employment law protects unit. It discusses importance unit social economic planning role that it plays protecting vulnerable members society. compares relationships created within those arising from work with a view to highlighting nature challenges arise both domains. problems based on gender, diffe...

This paper explores the extent to which nurses can use statutory and common law provisions as lawful authority to detain informal psychiatric patients. The power of a nurse to detain informal psychiatric patients received statutory recognition for the first time in the Mental Health Act (1983). Section 5(4) of this Act, the 'Nurses Holding Power', provides for nurses of the 'prescribed class' t...

The pre-reform period was characterized by state monopoly of land and by land use that did not require any payment. The legal principles of land reform in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union were set in 1989 by the Basic Law on Land Legislation in the USSR and the Soviet Republics. This law established the right of the citizens to receive land in permanent or temporary use for agricu...

Recent amendments to the Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 1997 have resulted in introduction parental leave. This provides employees with 10 consecutive days time off from work care for their newborn babies and may commence day birth. The right leave has additional benefit impacting gendered social assumptions that place women primary role caregiver a secondary as worker. With rise labour ...