Search for dissertations about: "Contemporary legal issues"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Contemporary legal issues.
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1. Metaphors and Norms - Understanding Copyright Law in a Digital Society
Abstract : This is a compilation thesis in the sociology of law, which analyses copyright law in three steps; the legal norms, the social norms and the underlying conceptions in their metaphorical representation. These three steps assist in answering the overarching question: "How do legal and social norms relate to each other in terms of the conceptions from which they emanate or by which they are constructed, and what is the role played by the explicit metaphors that express these norms?" The thesis shows how the development of copyright in Europe, when faced with the digital challenge, has been resiliently path dependent (Infosoc, IPRED and more). READ MORE
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2. Competition Law's Market Failure Paradox : Economic Efficiency, Consumer Welfare and Public Policy in EU Antitrust and State Aid Law
Abstract : Contemporary markets grapple with pressing challenges to secure socially and economically outcomes. Against this backdrop, market failures, notably those accentuated by sustainability and income inequality issues, have risen to prominence in competition law discourse, both doctrinally and in the realm of policymaking. READ MORE
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3. On the Ontology of Love, Sexuality and Power : Towards a Feminist-Realist Depth Approach
Abstract : The thesis offers a theoretical account of how and why, in contemporary western societies characterized by formal-legal equality and women’s relative economic independence, women continue to be subordinated to men through sexuality and love. By means of an innovative application of Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism, dialectical critical realism and philosophy of metaReality, it investigates and elaborates Anna G. READ MORE
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4. Planning processes for transport and ecological infrastructures in Poland – actors’ attitudes and conflict
Abstract : Biodiversity conservation is an important contemporary issue on global, EU and national policy agendas. However, in the face of human economic development, the important question is how to protect, maintain and restore biodiversity, without compromising economic and social dimensions of sustainability. READ MORE
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5. Information and records management systems and the impact of information culture on the management of public information
Abstract : The information society and the paperless office are by now two timeworn metaphors of contemporary society, where information is considered as the main asset and vehicle for economic, cultural and political achievements, enhanced by the use of information technology. Though information is considered an important asset not much attention is paid to its management. READ MORE