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Drawing on original survey research, this study examines how lay Muslims in Malaysia understand foundational concepts in Islamic law. The survey finds a substantial disjuncture between popular legal consciousness and core epistemological commitments in Islamic legal theory. In its classic form,...

This article by Marios Papaloukas starts by claiming that sports were always considered to perform a State function amongst other functions. When sports authorities were emancipated from the State they started behaving like a common business. Nowadays sports have evolved from a social activity...

This article by Marios Papaloukas, claims that for the last thirty years the athletic community as well as academics are dealing with an effort by the European Court of Justice to influence sport law and the rule-making power of member states in the area of sports. In the present paper the...

Business networks are a feature of the organizational landscape of many countries, though they vary in magnitude. This paper develops a theory of business networks where they are endogenous to the reliability of the legal system. Networks are a substitute for reliable institutional support that...

This paper explores a puzzle concerning the authority of certain images that increasingly find themselves at the center of legal disputes: surveillance or “real time” film images that purport to capture an event about which there is a dispute. Increasingly, this kind of “evidence...

This honours paper was supervised by Professor Hilary Charlesworth. This article examines the concept of the rule of law as a development mechanism and its application to women in developing and post-conflict situations. It identifies three main approaches to the rule of law in the development...