UbaldusdeVries

There is a clear link between the cof­fee I drink in the morn­ing and the oppor­tun­ity of the daugh­ter (or son) of the cof­fee farmer of being able to go to school or being left to work the fields for sub­sist­ence. It makes me won­der whether I should drink cof­fee or rather (as I do drink cof­fee in ...
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The fol­low­ing is the intro­duc­tion to Ubal­dus de Vries & Lyana Fran­cot (Eds), Law’s Envir­on­ment: Crit­ical Legal Per­spect­ives (Eleven Inter­na­tional Pub­lish­ing, 2011), pub­lished sub­sequent to the Crit­ical Legal Con­fer­ence 2010 held in Utrecht. Intro­duc­tion Law’s envir­on­ment is char­ac­ter­ized by socio-​structural devel­op­ments that demand, now more than ever, a crit­ical per­spect­ive, not only on law but ...
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Crit­ical Legal Con­fer­ence 10 – 12 Septem­ber, Utrecht 2010 Since 1984, every first week­end in Septem­ber, the Crit­ical Legal Con­fer­ence brings together crit­ical and rad­ical legal schol­ars from all over the world. It has been a phe­nom­enal suc­cess des­pite its mod­esty. The CLC is also exactly that: a con­fer­ence. No organ­isa­tion, pres­id­ents and sec­ret­ar­ies, mem­bers and sub­scrip­tions. This ...
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