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Of, for, and by the people: the legal lacuna of synthetic persons Open
Conferring legal personhood on purely synthetic entities is a very real legal possibility, one under consideration presently by the European Union. We show here that such legislative action would be morally unnecessary and legally troubles…
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Between Truth and Power Open
This book explores the relationships between legal institutions and political and economic transformation. It argues that as law is enlisted to help produce the profound economic and sociotechnical shifts that have accompanied the emergenc…
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Legal Consciousness Reconsidered Open
Legal consciousness is a vibrant research field attracting growing numbers of scholars worldwide. Yet differing assumptions about aims and methods have generated vigorous debate, typically resulting from a failure to recognize that three d…
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Hukum dan Studi Penelitian Empiris: Penggunaan Metode Survey sebagai Instrumen Penelitian Hukum Empiris Open
In legal research, one of the instruments for collecting data and legal materials is the survey method. Often researchers in the field of legal science see surveys as a means to collect data from informants or research informants to conduc…
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Legal Pluralism in Theory and Practice Open
Legal pluralism has vast policy and governance implications. In developing countries, for instance, non-state justice systems often handle most disputes and retain substantial autonomy and authority. Legal pluralism's importance, however, …
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Methodology of Comparative Legal Research Open
Methodology of Comparative Legal Research In this paper, an attempt is made to work out a methodology for comparative legal research, which goes beyond the ‘functional method’ or methodological scepticism. The starting point is the idea th…
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A Transdisciplinary Approach to Public Health Law: The Emerging Practice of Legal Epidemiology Open
Public health law has roots in both law and science. For more than a century, lawyers have helped develop and implement health laws; over the past 50 years, scientific evaluation of the health effects of laws and legal practices has achiev…
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Normative and Empirical Research Methods: Their Usefulness and Relevance in the Study of Law as an Object Open
Legal research is either normative or empirical. The results of normative law research are prescriptive in nature: the norms provide a prescription as to how one should behave in accordance with the norms. Normative legal research involves…
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JURIDICAL ANALYSIS OF VICTIMS OF THE ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE TO REALIZE LEGAL PROTECTION FROM HUMAN RIGHTS ASPECTS Open
the Aspect of Human Rights (Research Study at the Office of Social Affairs and Community Empowerment), has been carried out as it should, in accordance with Law Number 35 of 2014 concerning Amendments to the Law Number 23 of 2002 concernin…
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Comparative Legal Research and Legal Culture: Facts, Approaches, and Values Open
This article seeks to provide an overview of how the controversial concept of legal culture has been used so as to clarify its potential role in further developing comparative studies of law in society. It shows that the term is currently …
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Lenses of Legal Research: A Descriptive Essay on Legal Research Methodologies Open
The problem faced by researchers and scholars, especially students, is finding the right reasons for choosing legal research methods. For this reason, this article was created to make it easier for scholars to choose the right legal resear…
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The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History Open
The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History charts the landscape of contemporary research and the shift from national legal histories to comparative methods, which have profoundly affected the way we understand legal transformation at th…
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The Ethereal Scholar: Does Critical Legal Studies Have What Minorities Want? Open
This article offers friendly criticism of certain trends in critical legal studies scholarship that some minority scholars of color find troubling including the CLS critique of rights and disdain for incremental piecemeal reform
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The Critical Legal Studies Movement: Another Time, A Greater Task Open
"The civil rights and feminist movements of the sixties did not leave legal theory untouched. Over the following two decades, the critical legal studies movement...led by the Brazilian philosopher, social theorist and politician Roberto Un…
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PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM TERHADAP ANAK DALAM PERSPEKTIF HAK ASASI MANUSIA Open
This study aims to analyze the problem of legal protection for children in the perspective of human rights. The type of this research is socio-juridical or including descriptive research with a non-doctrinal approach, which views law as a …
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Normative Legal Research in Indonesia: Its Originis and Approaches Open
The legal research method is one of the academic fields that continues to generate debate among law students and law colleges in Indonesia. This debate is important because the research method is a means for a legal scholar to obtain the t…
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Computer-Assisted Legal Linguistics: Corpus Analysis as a New Tool for Legal Studies Open
Law exists solely in and through language. Nonetheless, systematical empirical analysis of legal language has been rare. Yet, the tides are turning: After judges at various courts (including the US Supreme Court) have championed a method o…
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A Rule of Persons, Not Machines: The Limits of Legal Automation Open
For many legal futurists, attorneys’ work is a prime target for automation. They view the legal practice of most businesses as algorithmic: data (such as facts) are transformed into outputs (agreements or litigation stances) via applicatio…
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Law as computation in the era of artificial legal intelligence: Speaking law to the power of statistics Open
The idea of artificial legal intelligence stems from a previous wave of artificial intelligence, then called jurimetrics. It was based on an algorithmic understanding of law, celebrating logic as the sole ingredient for proper legal argume…
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Legal Control of Marginal Groups Open
The legal control of marginal groups is a central topic in social scientific and legal scholarship. Examining the most influential research produced over the past two decades, as well as a broad collection of foundational and exemplary tex…
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Theorizing Transnational Legal Ordering Open
This article categorizes three approaches to theorizing transnational legal ordering that respectively address private legal ordering; provide a framework for the study of the interaction of lawmaking and practice at the transnational, nat…
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Legal Research Methodology Reposition in Research on Social Science Open
A legal researcher must see that research is an activity. The research is not only reading books, principles, doctrines, and regulations but also an activity to find data. Legal research should no longer distinguish between normative resea…
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Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Legal Complexity Open
Application of cold shock or tungstate to butterfly pupae produces a unique color-pattern modification type on the adult wings, in which the color-pattern elements are dislocated toward the reduced focal elements. This modification-inducin…
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ChatGPT and the future of legal education and practice Open
The launch of ChatGPT, a natural language open-source AI platform, in November 2022 has taken the world by storm and artificial intelligence appears to be at a watershed moment in technological advancement. This article explores the emerge…
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Theoretical and Normative Frameworks for Legal Research: Putting Theory into Practice Open
Theoretical and Normative Frameworks for Legal Research: Putting Theory into Practice Legal doctrinal scholarship engages with the problems of legal practice: it systematizes, comments on, evaluates and debates what goes on in law. These a…
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The Value of Systematic Content Analysis in Legal Research Open
In ignoring the overall debate regarding the need to incorporate empirical research methods in legal scholarship, this article explores the utility of applying a particular method, namely, systematic content analysis (SCA), as a complement…
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International Law in National Legal Systems: An Empirical Investigation Open
International legal scholars have long recognized the importance of the rules and processes by which states adhere to international legal obligations and “translate” them into their domestic legal systems. Research by political scientists …
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The Future of Law Firms (and Lawyers) in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Open
This article explores the future for lawyers and law firms in the light of the changes that Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is already bringing to the universe of legal services. Part I briefly describes some of the ways AI is already in us…
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Legal Aspect of Plastic Waste Management in Indonesia and Malaysia: Addressing Marine Plastic Debris Open
Marine plastic debris is a common issue faced by the entire international community, with some countries finding it exceptionally difficult to address and combat the issue, including Indonesia and Malaysia. The two neighboring countries ar…
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A conceptual framework for legal personality and its application to AI Open
In this paper we provide an analysis of the concept of legal personality and discuss whether personality may be conferred on artificial intelligence systems (AIs). Legal personality will be presented as a doctrinal category that holds toge…