We are delighted to announce the first issue of the LSE Law Department's Law, Society and Economy Working Paper Series for 2014.
In this issue, Jeremy Horder (WP1/2014) argues for the legitimacy of bureaucratic criminal law by defending a number of its controversial characteristics; Sivaramjani Thambisetty (WP2/2014) contends that by not applying the person skilled in the art standard India’s Supreme Court in the case of Novartis v Union of India failed to develop a coherent and TRIPS-compatible measure to deny patents for derivative pharmaceutical inventions; Eva Micheler(WP3/2014) asserts that structural reform in the area of transfers and holdings of securities is needed to enable ultimate investors to hold securities directly; Jacco Bomhoff(WP4/2014) begins a project of re-imagining private international law as a constitutional phenomenon; Carsten Gerner-Beuerle (WP5/2014) suggests a method for the modeling of legal evolution, convergence, and the political economy of corporate governance codes; Carsten Gerner-Beuerle and Edmund Schuster(WP6/2014) explore how increased corporate mobility leads to the disintegration of coherent regulatory responses to problems posed by companies trading in the vicinity of insolvency; Jill Peay (WP7/2014)calls for a fundamental review of the purposes of imprisonment for offenders, in the light of observations about mentally disordered offenders; Michael Wilkinson (WP8/2014) considers the way European integration is destabilising the national frame for resolving questions of justice and asks whether the frame of justice itself must be subject to democratic contestation; Stephen Humphreys and Yoriko Otomo (WP9/2014) sketch some early lines of enquiry towards a theoretical understanding of international environmental law and elaborate on some of its dilemmas; Jan Komárek(WP10/2014) reviews Kühn’s The Judiciary in Central and Eastern Europe and finds it to serve as an interesting exhibit, rather than an accomplished study, of post-communist legal culture; and Jo Braithwaite (WP11/2014) explores the effects of the case law that arose from the collapse of the Lehman Brothers group in 2008.
