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Law has been studied at Cambridge University since the thirteenth century.Today, the Faculty has more than seventy teaching staff, about 750 undergraduate students, over 100 LL.M. students and about 100 graduate research students.
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Eminent Scholars Archive
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The Juristic Nature of Taxation
(2021-06-30)Taxation is modal: tax may be used to achieve several different social objectives, achievable by other means, both legal and non-legal. Taxation is heavily under-theorised. Juristic definitions of taxation, (in case law, ... -
A Colony and Its Law: The Jurisdictional Origins of Extradition in Hong Kong, 1842–1875
This thesis is a history of the making of extradition law in early colonial Hong Kong. It explains extradition as a doctrinal product of British jurisdictional practice following the assumption of sovereignty over Hong ... -
Equality Before the Law: Equal Dignity and the Rule of Law
(2020-10-08)This thesis explores the concept of equality before the law, critiquing the claim that such a principle would either have to be purely formal and normatively inert or else be wedded to a full theory of political morality, ... -
Revisiting the Theoretical Foundations of International Organisations in Public International Law
(2020-11-27)This dissertation draws interdisciplinary insights from philosophical discourse on collective entities in order to advance a refined conception of international organizations in public international law. It suggests that ...
