Male bank swallows pursue a mixed reproductive strategy. As previously documented, they form monogamous pair bonds with females with whom they will share parental duties of nest-building, incubation, and feeding of the young. In addition, however, they routinely seek promiscuous copulations with other females, both before and after pair-bonding.

Abstract This article analyses international obligations related to adaptation in the UN climate change regime. It argues that interpretation and application of these can compel shape anticipatory, proactive state measures on, support for, adaptation. To accomplish this, begins from premise regime’s treaties are a dynamic part system law should strive for coherence. Accordingly, it takes an evo...

Adolescents, defined by WHO as 10 to 19 years old, can give independent consent for reproductive health services if their capacities for understanding have sufficiently evolved. The international Convention on the Rights of the Child, almost universally ratified, limits parental powers, and duties, by adolescents’ bevolving capacitiesQ for self-determination. Legal systems may recognize bmature...

Professor Eric Claeys’s forthcoming book, Natural Property Rights, offers a deep perspective on property rights principles. However, while the law tends to focus—as I believe it must—on rights, are inextricably intertwined with duties or responsibilities. The natural framework for is, as Claeys says, “good enough government work.” It reflects principled way allocate and use protect them.
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