this article outlines the questionable role of non-state law that is based on globalization and rise of private law making. proponents of non-state law believe that there are numerous private legislators which make legal rules that govern large groups. the article examines troubled concept of non-state law and its shortcomings and benefits. it considers non-state law by theoretical and empirica...

With the rise of importance of sport as a social phenomenon in recent decades, more public attention has been paid to the issue of the legal nature of the rules governing social relations in sports. The issue raised above are only a part of a much broader topic that involves questions of relations of a classical Westphalian state and changes in the international community as well as issues of t...

Background One of the requirements of the Osun State smoke-free legislation is to ensure smoke-free enclosed and partially enclosed workplaces. This survey was conducted to assess the knowledge and attitude of workers in indoor bars, beer parlors and discotheques to smoke-free legislation in general and the Osun State smoke-free law in particular.   Methods A convenience sampling of 36 hospital...

next to mechanisms, methods and instruments and classic public bodies to administer, there are new independent administrative and public authorities equipped with various skills and attribution, composed of soft law and hard law to regulate the public fields. the multiplicity of forms of regulation show the composite nature of regulation, which is between the private and public domain: laws, co...

there are two different contradictory approach regarding the interaction of the state immunity and jus cogens. some jurist argue that jus cogens rules should prevail over other inconsistent ordinary rules of international law including state immunity. this argument therefore depends upon the existence of conflict between rules of jus cogens, and the rule of customary law which requires one stat...

with the rise of importance of sport as a social phenomenon in recent decades, more public attention has been paid to the issue of the legal nature of the rules governing social relations in sports. the issue raised above are only a part of a much broader topic that involves questions of relations of a classical westphalian state and changes in the international community as well as issues of t...

If globalization is the main paradigm of our time, then a chapter on globalization and law could also be entitled, simply, the law of our time. Few, if any, areas of law are not—at least potentially—fundamentally impacted by globalization. In reality, of course, the impact of globalization on legal thought has, so far, been more limited. That has various reasons. A first reason is that globaliz...