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29 Oct 2007, 9:44 pm
The proposal to use electricity provoked legal wrangles between the Edison and Westinghouse companies which promoted, respectively, direct and alternating current.Following the first electrocution in 1890, Dr Alfred Southwick, the chair of the commission which recommended the electric chair, was reported as saying that "we live in a higher civilisation from this day"(5) though Thomas Edison reportedly "rebuked the doctors and said it was a mistake to have let them handle the… [read post]
24 Mar 2024, 6:50 pm
David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment has recently summarized and reflected on th quite interesting case recently decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Habitantes de La Oroya Vs. [read post]
20 Jan 2013, 5:54 am
La ONG Asociación de Superficiarios de la Patagonia (ASSUPA) promovía una demanda por daño ambiental contra concesionarias de explotaciones de petróleo y dos provincias concedentes de la Cuenca Hidrocarburífera Austral. [read post]
5 Jan 2020, 2:52 pm
The liability environment for directors and officers is always in a state of change, but 2019 was a particularly eventful year in the D&O liability arena, with important consequences for the D&O insurance marketplace. [read post]
5 Jan 2020, 2:52 pm
The liability environment for directors and officers is always in a state of change, but 2019 was a particularly eventful year in the D&O liability arena, with important consequences for the D&O insurance marketplace. [read post]
1 Nov 2022, 10:23 am
[Professors Miller and Tucker miss the mark, while Saul Cornell disdains accuracy] An article by Duke law professor Darrell A.H. [read post]
