: Abstract This Article explores Founding-era views about the grounding of constitutional rights and how those rights obtained determinate legal content. Today, we typically view... The post Determining Rightsappearedfirst on Harvard Law Review
: EU restrictive measures, or EU sanctions, are essential tools in the EU's foreign policy arsenal, designed to promote peace, security, and human rights. However, these measures can significantly impact individuals, law firms, sanctioned banks, and businesses listed under these sanctions. Discover how EU sanctions work, the legal recourses available to those affected, and the crucial role banks play in compliance. Read on to understand the complexities of EU restrictive measures and how to navigate them effectively. The post Understanding EU Restrictive Measures: Rights, Recourses, and Banking Obligations appearedfirst on Droit bancaire et financier en Belgique
: EU restrictive measures, or EU sanctions, are essential tools in the EU's foreign policy arsenal, designed to promote peace, security, and human rights. However, these measures can significantly impact individuals, law firms, sanctioned banks, and businesses listed under these sanctions. Discover how EU sanctions work, the legal recourses available to those affected, and the crucial role banks play in compliance. Read on to understand the complexities of EU restrictive measures and how to navigate them effectively. The post Understanding EU Restrictive Measures: Rights, Recourses, and Banking Obligations appearedfirst on Droit bancaire et financier en Belgique
: EU restrictive measures, or EU sanctions, are essential tools in the EU's foreign policy arsenal, designed to promote peace, security, and human rights. However, these measures can significantly impact individuals, law firms, sanctioned banks, and businesses listed under these sanctions. Discover how EU sanctions work, the legal recourses available to those affected, and the crucial role banks play in compliance. Read on to understand the complexities of EU restrictive measures and how to navigate them effectively. The post Understanding EU Restrictive Measures: Rights, Recourses, and Banking Obligations appearedfirst on Banking and Finance law in Belgium
: Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from more than 80 recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible. This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. Canadian occupational health & safety law 2. Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada 3. Legal Post Blog 4. Know How 5. ABlawg.ca Canadian occupational health & safety law Do you know what you don’t know? Workplace hazard disclosure and the limits of owner liability under the . . . [more] The post Monday’s Mix appearedfirst on Slaw
: Hannah Steeves, the Instruction & Reference Librarian at the Sir James Dunn Law Library, Dalhousie University (Halifax), recently wrote an article on "Using Vinyl & Spotify to Understand Legal Information Online" . It originally appeared on Slaw.ca on February 15, 2022 . Most legal research is done online through a combination of open and subscription databases. Legal information is available at our fingertips through Justice Laws, LEGISinfo, CanLII, Westlaw, Lexis, ProView, SOQUIJ, [insert your preferred database here], and the list goes on. The availability of electronic resources has radically changed—and will continue to change—the way legal professionals conduct research. However, despite my enthusiasm for the improved accessibility and retrievability, I think the lack of engagement that new legal researchers have with print resources creates comprehension issues. The disconnect between a source’s print and electronic formats reduces their understanding of the process used to create the document. Unders[...]
: CALL member Erica Friesen, Research and Instruction Librarian & Online Learning Specialist at the Lederman Law Library at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario recently wrote an article on " Thoughts on the New Lexis+ Brief Analysis Tool: For Law Students and Novice Researchers ". It originally appeared on Slaw.ca on September 28, 2022. It is republished here with permission of the author. New academic year; new legal research tools. Something new always comes out right as another cohort of students is gearing up to begin their law degree. And, as with many new product launches these days, “artificial intelligence” is often a prominently displayed term with accompanying materials. As legal publishers continue to launch AI-driven research tools in Canada, what do students and other novice researchers need to know to be prepared for their first forays into legal research? Lexis recently launched the latest version of their legal research platform, Lexis+ Canada, for Canadian law schools. It features signific[...]