The book Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives orients gender stereotyping as the underlying cause of much of the discrimination that occurs against women throughout the world. The book discusses the duty and ability of state and non-state actors to dismantle negative gender stereotypes and diminish their effect. The authors, Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack, writing from a tra...

article 1 of the european convention on human rights provides that the contracting parties shall secure to everyone ‘within their jurisdiction’ the rights and freedoms defined in the convention. at a technical level, the key question is how one should interpret the word ‘jurisdiction’ in article 1. this article plays a key role in the convention system since it sets out the limits on the obliga...

The Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks came into force on the 14th of April 2015 and provides a framework for wreck removal. Three central questions arise when dealing with shipwrecks; Who is responsible? What measures can and are to be taken based on such a responsibility? And lastly; how can the responsibility be enforced? The Nairobi Convention on the Removal of Wrecks...

In our lives we are used to face situations in which something we all desire depends on the coordinated action of our peers. If we were to solve the practical problem of what to do in these situations from scratch, our daily life would be constantly at risk or even impossible. Luckily enough social life is full of patterns that we are able to discern in order to predict what the others will do,...

I will argue that social ontology is constituted as elaborate hierarchical and interlocking conventions of multifarious kinds. Convention, in turn, is modeled in a manner derived from that of David K. Lewis. Convention is usually held to be inadequate for models of social ontologies, with one primary reason being that there seems to be no place for normativity. I argue that two related changes ...

Conventional behaviors develop from practice for regularly occurring problems of coordination within a community of actors. A convention is a predisposition for participants in a joint activity to expect certain points of coordination to develop during the course of the activity. The expected points of coordination form a design for activity; they evolve over time to match changes in circumstan...