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Beyond Short-Termism: Effective Regulatory and Financial Industry Reform for Sustainable Long-Term Investment in Publicly Listed Companies
(2019-03-30)This thesis examines responses to the problem of stock market short-termism (‘SMST’). SMST is defined as investors preferring short-term financial returns over potentially more profitable longer-term investment opportunities. ... -
The Legal Limits of Intervention by Invitation of Government in Civil Wars
(2019-05-24)It has become widely accepted that if a state sends troops into another state following a government request, it will not breach the prohibition on the use of force set out in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter. This is known ... -
The Concept of Equity in Early-Modern European Legal Scholarship
(2019-02-23)In modern scholarship, the concept of equity is often assimilated with that of Aristotelian epieikeia, a process which serves to correct rules when, though their wording undoubtedly applies to a case, yet the outcome would ... -
The Contributions of UNCLOS Dispute Settlement Bodies to the Development of the Law of the Sea
(2019-04-27)This thesis seeks to systematically examine the contributions made by the dispute settlement bodies established under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to the development of the law of the sea. ...
