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The role of lawyers in interaction: influences of ADR practice on legal thinking and legal education KU Leuven
Historians as expert judicial witnesses in Tobacco litigation: a controversial legal practice Universiteit Gent
Historian Ramses Delafontaine presents an engaging examination of a controversial legal practice: the historian as an expert judicial witness. This book focuses on tobacco litigation in the U.S. wherein 50 historians have witnessed in 314 court cases from 1986 to 2014. The author examines the use of historical arguments in court and investigates how a legal context influences historical narratives and discourse in forensic history. Delafontaine ...
A legal framework on advanced practice nursing in Belgium : what do we and donU+2019t we know? Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen KU Leuven
Transregional Normativity in Learned Legal Practice. Loans and credit in Consilia and Decisiones in the Northern and Southern Low Countries (c. 1500 – 1680) KU Leuven
In the early modern period, the Low Countries performed a key role in trade and commerce on the European continent. In their ‘Golden Ages’, Antwerp and Amsterdam attracted merchants from all over Europe, and even beyond. The development of commerce and finance within this transregional reality raised new normative questions on how to deal with novel financial techniques. At the same time, public, private and ecclesiastical debtors were in a ...
The legal foundations of post-mortem examinations in early modern Flanders : princely legislation, custom, doctrine and judicial practice Universiteit Gent
Because of its manifold references to the consultation of medical experts in homicide and infanticide cases, the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1532) is often regarded as an important milestone in the development of early modern forensic medicine. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the County of Flanders, a principality within the Habsburg Netherlands, witnessed a similar upsurge in the production of ...
Partnerships as Flexible and Open-Purpose Entities: Legal and Commercial Practice in Nineteenth-Century Antwerp (c. 1830-c. 1850) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The data analysed above is quite counter-intuitive. Company structures typically associated with small business could be used for activities of manufacturing. Sociétés and SNCs (ordinary partnerships) were chosen often even when capital was locked in. Sociétés en commandite, typically considered as vehicles for large companies having outsider-investors, were mainly used to structure family firms, even though they always encompassed invested ...
Building in early modern Prague: practice, organisation and legal instruments Universiteit Gent
The cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic nature of PragueU+2019s building sector of the sixteenth through early eighteenth century offered opportunities to foreign, and in particular Italian, craftsmen and artists. However, from a practical and juridical point of view t h e d e v e l o p m e n t of these menU+2019s a c t i v i t i e s w as a l e s s o b v i o u s enterprise t h a n it may seem t o d a y . While originally active as ...
Legal aid for ensuring access to justice in Bangladesh: a study of standard and practice Universiteit Gent
After an introduction, the thesis contains five chapters. The second chapter attempts to conceive the concept of access to justice. It then addresses the barriers that disable the poor in their access to justice. It should be noted that while discussing and analyzing the barriers to access to justice, this chapter focuses on the context of Bangladesh. Chapter Three begins with the conceptualization of legal aid. The conceptualization is made ...
A Business Trust for Partnerships? Early Conceptions of Company-Related Assets in Legal Literature, and Antwerp Forensic and Commercial Practice (Later Sixteenth-Early Seventeenth Century) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In the early seventeenth century, Antwerp jurists combined the urban law of their city with contemporary legal doctrine. In some respects, they used writings of civil law of the later Middle Ages and of the sixteenth century, and many urban rules remained close to the latter. Most provisions in the 1582 Antwerp law book did not give much consideration to real rights of partners on company assets, and they explained problems surrounding ...