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A majority of patents are used not to produce commercial value, but to create defensive legal thickets that can keep potential competitors at bay.
Such strategies must also be open to innovations in legal and financial instruments and guarantees, and they must be viewed as legitimate by diverse constituencies, including the young people who will inherit the arrangements that are created today.
But if and when they do is an irreducibly political question, not one that hinges on legal possibilities.
In 1998, the UN issued Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, which sets out these legal rights.
The second claim was that externalities were relatively small, or at least that they were better dealt with via contract and tort law than through government regulation, because the disadvantages of government regulation outweighed the harm done by those externalities that the legal system could not properly address.
After all, it had appeared to do so – at least for those who did not suffer from legal discrimination or its legacies – for the entire post-WWII era.
So the Friedmans argued that a minimal safety net for those whom bad luck or a lack of prudence had rendered destitute, and elimination of all legal barriers to equality of opportunity, would lead to the most equitable outcomes possible.
I know that one undergraduate has more recently pursued legal action against a staff member, who, she said, drugged her with Rohypnol, the “date rape” drug, and assaulted her.
A fully functioning legal system and – perhaps more importantly – the mentality associated with the rule of law are often absent, or primitive, in most developing countries.
Moreover, law enforcement and legal sanctions don’t mean much if people do not own property themselves, that would be at risk through fines or other sanctions.
Second, common legal rules on group consolidation do not exist; indeed, many EU countries’ commercial law contains no legal definition of a group.
The attribution of companies to a common group would need to be based on legal control, that is, ownership of some defined threshold of equity – 51% or higher.
This model leaves the assessment and administration of corporate taxes entirely in the hands of member states, and would not require harmonization of legal and accounting rules.
It also follows from these legal and moral first principles that once there are reasonable grounds for confidence that the threat to civilian populations has been removed or neutralized (as seems now to be largely the case, at least in the east), military action should cease.
The US, increasingly confident in its ability to identify and strike back at any cyber assailant, has so far evaded legal obstacles by focusing on deterrence.
The Public Sphere’s New EnemiesNEW YORK – Before November’s terrorist attacks in Paris, it was legal to stage a demonstration in a public square in that city.
In some cases, governments do not even bother to create a legal precedent for their actions.
A few days ago, the ghosts of the past returned to the Sejm, when deputies rejected a government bill intended to keep religious slaughter legal.
Within weeks, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government proposed legislation that put religious circumcision on a solid legal basis, with the support of most members of the Bundestag.
Likewise, in Poland, following a Constitutional Court ruling in November 2012 that struck down on technical grounds a provision permitting religious slaughter, the government promised that the practice would remain legal.
You cannot win domestic wars (even non-violent ones) through legal processes alone.
The Brain-Drain Panic ReturnsNEW YORK – While developed countries are angst-ridden over mostly illegal immigration by unskilled workers from developing countries, a different set of concerns has surfaced in Africa, in particular, over the legal outflow of skilled, and even more importantly, highly skilled, people to developed countries.
Given that this is a legal question of contract definition and enforcement, it should be answered in the courts or arbitration tribunals, not by regulators.
Sensible debt strategies, a professional and independent debt office, and a clear legal framework for public borrowing have become more important than ever.
Legal uncertainty aside, whether the ECB’s decision to pursue QE can be justified ultimately depends on its impact.
Entrepreneurs are allowed to set up shops, but they do not feel legal security, because they are harassed by the authorities, with an arbitrary tax system and various licenses in the whole of the CIS.
Capitalism needs lawyers, and they have become very well paid, attracting many able and ambitious students to the legal profession.
In fact, it was the longest period of continuous decline in the crime rate ever recorded, and all legal institutions were strengthened.
The nature and scale of this exodus have rendered all previous legal and political assumptions about migration obsolete.
The refugees’ flight from Syria and other war-ravaged countries comes up against legal regimes that are poorly adapted to cope with it.
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