Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Ahead of Print. This article examines how the Inter-American Court of Human Rights differentiates torture from other forms of cruel,

inhuman, or degrading treatment through its interpretation of the notion of ‘severity of suffering’. [...]

Perceptions of older adults as a societal burden (hereafter referred to as “societal-burden view”) are hostile stereotypes undermining the health and well-being of older

people. From the perspective of the intergenerational contract, the societal-burden view may manifest differently between the younger population (the contributors) [...]

AbstractIn Australia, unlike some international jurisdictions, there is limited scope for a person living with dementia to access voluntary assisted dying (VAD) for their dementia

alone. While there is growing attention on whether VAD for dementia should be available in Australia, there is limited evidence about what a regulatory framework [...]

AbstractThe Venice Commission and the European Court of Human Rights both shape the meaning of the European Convention on Human Rights, yet their mutual influence has never

been systematically examined. This article fills that gap by mapping and assessing, for the first time, how and when the Court relies on the Commission’s work. [...]

AbstractThis study examines stewardship disclosures when institutional investors retain discretion over their content. Disclosure economics, signalling theory, and institutional

theory predict that discretionary disclosure frameworks create incentives for investors to provide low-cost symbolic disclosures while underproducing more costly [...]

AbstractThis article examines how non-standard terms are produced in non-cleared OTC derivatives documented on the ISDA Framework. Although ISDA documentation is widely treated

as a paradigm of contractual standardization, market participants routinely amend, supplement, replace, and avoid standard terms. [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court and legal scholars have long traced the origins of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishments” to the English Declaration

of Rights, codified as the English Bill of Rights (1689). The English Declaration of Rights recited that, in King James II’s reign, “illegal and cruel punishments” [...]

This article examines the issue of overlapping and competing responsibilities and competences that arose in the United States and Brazil, following the COVID-19 global emergency

of 2020. It considers the way in which the diffusion of power within both federal systems generated intergovernmental conflict and the extent to which the differences [...]

Proceeding from the assumption that Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule’s theory of common good constitutionalism must ultimately prevail in the debate about what Anglo-American

law is, this Article contributes to the discussion by proposing how his skeletal theory can serve the interests of outsiders. [...]

The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment confers birthright citizenship in cases of lawfully domiciled aliens, but not in cases of illegal immigration or legal visitation

by aliens. The best reading of the original understanding in the 1860s is that the Clause impliedly requires parental domicile in the United States, domicile in turn [...]