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Blurring boundaries on ‘taking part’ in an unlawful assembly: HKSAR v Choy Kin Yue (2022) 25 HKCFAR 360 模糊“参与”非法集会的界限：香港特别行政区诉蔡健月案（2022）25 HKCFAR 360
Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-13 DOI: 10.1080/14729342.2023.2244774
A. Wong
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‘Delicate plants’, ‘loose cannons’, or ‘a marriage of true minds’? The role of academic literature in judicial decision-making “娇嫩的植物”，“松散的大炮”，还是“心灵的结合”?学术文献在司法决策中的作用
Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14729342.2023.2222977
Lady Justice Carr
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Corruption and the constitutional position of the Overseas Territories 贪污与海外领土的宪制地位
Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14729342.2023.2210920
P. Scott
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Legal transplantation of minors’ contracts in India and Malaysia: ‘Weak’ Watson and a ‘misfitted’ transplant 印度和马来西亚未成年人合同的合法移植：“软弱”的Watson和“不合时宜”的移植
Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14729342.2023.2189359
M. Cheong, Divyangana Dhankar, Shaun Star
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Constitutionalism and the sacred cow: the secular mythology of the Indian Supreme Court 宪政与神牛：印度最高法院的世俗神话
Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14729342.2023.2238454
A. Bindal
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‘The law has taken all my rights away’: on India’s conundrum of able-normative death with dignity “法律剥夺了我所有的权利”:关于印度的有尊严的正常死亡难题
Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14729342.2023.2234749
K. Kalra
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Neither here nor there: reconciling nominee directors’ dual loyalties under the Indian Companies Act 2013 既不在这里也不在那里:根据《2013年印度公司法》，调和被提名董事的双重忠诚
Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/14729342.2022.2151793
Aparajita Kaul, Rishika Agarwal
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A comparative analysis of legislative protection from harassment: a view from Singapore 骚扰法律保护之比较分析:以新加坡为例
Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/14729342.2022.2109272
Joel Soon
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Comparing maintenance and property rights in marriage under customary law and statutory law in Africa 非洲习惯法和成文法下婚姻中的赡养权和财产权比较
Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/14729342.2022.2153508
S. E. Ojogbo, O. K. Edu
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Republic of Fiji v Prasad: revolutionary legality and the taxonomy of legal change 斐济共和国诉普拉萨德案：革命合法性和法律变革的分类
Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/14729342.2022.2106734
Ashutosh Kumar Singh
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