{"title":"Gezina van der Molen","authors":"S. Nouwen, W. Werner","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3920232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3920232","url":null,"abstract":"As one of many portraits collected in Immi Tallgren’s eye-opening portrait gallery of (forgotten) women in International Law, this chapter paints a picture of Gezina van der Molen. Contrary to many of the women discussed in this book, Van der Molen was already recognized as a significant actor in the world of international law and relations in her day. In many of her roles she was the first woman in a man’s world: the first woman to obtain a doctorate at the Free University of Amsterdam; the first female professor at that university; the first woman to be appointed as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. For Van der Molen, it was not so much the positions that were important, but the work she could do through those positions – work that she had also pursued as a resistance fighter in the Second World War and in various social groups. This work was initially heavily inspired by the religious and moral principles of the church to which she belonged: the Neo-Calvinist. But her increasing encounter with plurality created a dilemma that still confronts international lawyers today: given that there are many different readings of what justice requires, who should be able to determine its meaning in concrete circumstances? In one prominent role, that of Chairwoman of the ‘Committee for War Foster Children’, it was Van der Molen who was to a large extent responsible for deciding just that. It has been her insistence on equality without wanting to recognize cultural differences as being legally relevant that has turned her into a pioneer who cannot be celebrated.","PeriodicalId":106924,"journal":{"name":"University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116263457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial Crises and International Law","authors":"M. Waibel","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3407483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3407483","url":null,"abstract":"Ten years after the global financial crisis (“GFC”) that started in 2007, the time has come to take stock of the international regulation of finance. This report assesses the causes and consequences of the GFC and the broader context of the changes in the international financial system since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates (Section 2); and then turns to the status and evolution of international financial law (Section 3). It contends that the growth of international financial markets has outpaced the development of international financial law. Section 4 concludes with a brief comparison between the first golden age of capital in the late 19th century and the contemporary second age of global capital – both characterised by recurrent financial crises, rising inequality within countries and backlashes against globalization.","PeriodicalId":106924,"journal":{"name":"University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116877415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-fettering, Legitimate Expectations and Consistency of Policy: Separate Compartments or Single Principle?","authors":"S. Stark","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3305130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3305130","url":null,"abstract":"This paper assesses the apparent tension between the need for both flexibility and consistency in administrative law. First, it considers the relationship between a possible new 'consistency of policy' ground of review and its progenitor, legitimate expectations. \u0000 \u0000Second, it considers the relationship between those two grounds of review on the one hand and the non-fettering principle on the other. It is argued that all three grounds of review are necessary to provide both optimal transparency in the courts' judgments, and to guide administrators' decision-making.","PeriodicalId":106924,"journal":{"name":"University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131013396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Turning the Rule of Law into an English Constitutional Idea","authors":"J. Allison","doi":"10.4337/9781786432445.00017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786432445.00017","url":null,"abstract":"In response to highly selective recent treatment, Dicey’s rule of law contribution is presented, not merely as coining or popularising the well-known phrase, but as multi-faceted. It was the express, methodical and comprehensive incorporation of the rule of law as one of two pervasive constitutional principles, which accorded with his various nineteenth-century expectations or understandings of the English constitution. They are distinguished as expectations of method, national specificity, remedial effectiveness, congruity of first principles, and historicity. The chapter explains to what extent Dicey’s exposition of the rule of law, relative to comparable earlier leading writings on the English constitution, answered those expectations. Dicey’s expectation of congruity of the constitution’s first principles is shown to have been of particular strength, importance and distinctiveness. It affords normative interpretivists good reason both to claim continuity with one prominent facet of Dicey’s contribution and to avoid suspicion of interpretivist distortion by unnecessarily overstating that continuity or by ignoring other such facets. \u0000 \u0000This draft chapter has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 'Handbook on the Rule of Law' (Chapter 10) edited by Christopher May and Adam Winchester (see ElgarOnline). Published in 2018, it is complemented by Chapter 9, the SSRN version of which is available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3219199.","PeriodicalId":106924,"journal":{"name":"University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130874780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Single Rulebook and the European Banking Authority","authors":"V. Babis","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3205222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3205222","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 10 starts with a discussion of the so-called Single Rulebook (SR) and the European Banking Authority, summing up the state of the art and critically examining the most recent developments. As the author shows, the Single Rulebook is not truly an example of maximum harmonization and is not really a ‘single’ document, but is rather a ‘multi-tiered’ structure. Several of the Directives composing the SR leave, in fact, wiggle room to Member States, and in any case local rules might create different regulatory environments in which the shared EU rules apply, with sometimes relevant effects on substantive harmonization. The chapter also analyses how the role of the European Banking Authority (EBA) should be strengthened to facilitate a more effective and harmonized rule-making activity.","PeriodicalId":106924,"journal":{"name":"University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125312626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breach of Contract: A Plea for Clarity and Discipline","authors":"N. Andrews","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3198563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3198563","url":null,"abstract":"The author identifies an `anti-termination’ bias in the judicial classification of terms (and in some legislative intervention). The problems engendered by this bias are, first, a weakening of the innocent party’s protection in the face of breach; weakening of commercial discipline overall in the fulfilment of contractual undertakings; and the inability to advise with confidence on whether breach in particular instances will permit, or has permitted, a party to terminate the contract for breach. As the author concludes, the anti-termination bias is a denial of “bright-line” protection of the innocent party and it promotes an overall slackening of discipline by failing to insist on strict compliance with contractual obligations.","PeriodicalId":106924,"journal":{"name":"University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132057844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Conversation with Emeritus Professor Judge James Richard Crawford - Part 2: Scholarly Works","authors":"Lesley Dingle, D. Bates","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3287720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3287720","url":null,"abstract":"This is an interview with the twenty-seventh personality for the Eminent Scholars Archive. \u0000Judge James Richard Crawford is a judge of the International Court of Justice at the Peace Palace in The Hague, and is Emeritus Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge. The interview was recorded in Judge Crawford’s office at The Hague. \u0000A complete entry for Judge Crawford, including an audio recording of this interview, is available in the Eminent Scholars Archive.","PeriodicalId":106924,"journal":{"name":"University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123373630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Conversation with Emeritus Professor Judge James Richard Crawford - Part 1: Early Life and Career","authors":"Lesley Dingle, Daniel Bates","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3287715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3287715","url":null,"abstract":"This is an interview with the twenty-seventh personality for the Eminent Scholars Archive. Judge James Richard Crawford is a judge of the International Court of Justice at the Peace Palace in The Hague, and is Emeritus Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge. The interview was recorded in Judge Crawford’s office at The Hague. A complete entry for Judge Crawford, including an audio recording of this interview, is available in the Eminent Scholars Archive.","PeriodicalId":106924,"journal":{"name":"University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124318421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Demandingness of Deontological Duties","authors":"Matthew H Kramer","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3160571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3160571","url":null,"abstract":"Consequentialist doctrines have often been criticized for their excessive demandingness, in that they require the thorough instrumentalization of each person’s life as a vehicle for the production of good consequences. In turn, the proponents of such doctrines have often objected to what they perceive as the irrationality of the demandingness of deontological duties. In this paper, I shall address objections of the latter kind in an effort to show that they are unfounded. My investigation of this matter will unfold by reference to a scenario that strikingly and concretely exemplifies the demandingness of deontological duties. That scenario, which involves a situation of torture (specifically, placatory torture – in other words, torture undertaken for the purpose of appeasing people who have demanded that it be administered), will serve as a springboard for my endeavor to vindicate the rationality of deontological absolutes and will help to illuminate the endeavor’s practical implications.","PeriodicalId":106924,"journal":{"name":"University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128522926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flexible Work: A Law and Economics Perspective","authors":"Marc T. Moore","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3105306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3105306","url":null,"abstract":"Both casual and gig-based work arrangements have been subject to unprecedented levels of attention recently. This is mainly due to the widely-reported usage by many well-known corporate employers of controversial ‘zero-hours’ work contracts, the recent spate of well-publicised tribunal and court decisions on alleged employer exploitation of gig economy workers in cases such as Uber and Deliveroo, and also the publication in 2017 of the high-profile Taylor Review and subsequent House of Commons Committees’ Report into modern UK employment practices. While these developments and issues are likely to be subject to extensive analysis by employment lawyers, they remain relatively underexplored from other pertinent legal and inter-disciplinary angles. Accordingly, this paper will adopt an alternative perspective on flexible work inspired by the economic analysis of law and, in particular, the Coasean theory of the firm. Focussing on the implications of casual and gig-based work for the allocation of authority, risk, profit and decision-making rights within the firm, it will present a normative case for worker ownership as the reciprocal counterpart to flexible workers’ residual risk-bearing function. On this basis, it will critically assess key aspects of the current legal framework and policy agenda for the protection/empowerment of flexible workers in the UK.","PeriodicalId":106924,"journal":{"name":"University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133636665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}