The Legal Research Society

We are winding down the Spring events series in May with a presentation by Fozia Lone titled "Restoration of historical title, State Continuity & Succession: Revisiting the Kashmir Case within International Law." It is sure to be an interesting presentation. Coming next month, the College of Arts and Social Sciences Moving Forward Postgraduate Conference will take place on the 13th and 14th of June. There will be over 20 law presentations at the conference, from researchers as far away as Nigeria, Denmark, Ireland, and a handful from Aberdeen as well. The deadline has passed for submission of abstracts, but you can still register for the conference to attend the events and the evening reception. Details about the conference are available here . UPDATE: Justin Borg Barthet will present his research on May 29th in a presentation titled "Theories of the Firm and connecting factors". Here is the abstract: Theories regarding the determination of the g

The Supreme Court in a close 5-4 decision upheld a Federal ban on partial birth abortions in Gonzales v. Carhart . You can read the opinions here . The decision was a very close one, as an earlier ban by the State of Nebraska of the procedure was struck down 5-4. In that case Justice Sandra Day O'Conner joined the majority in striking down the State law. However in this case, her replacement Samuel Alito voted in favor of the ban. The majority opinion was authored by Kennedy, and joined by Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito. The dissenting opinion was written by Ginsburg and joined by Stevens, Souter, and Breyer. The opinion applied the same "undue burden" test as in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Ginsberg writes quite strongly in opposition to the majority saying: Today’'s decision is alarming. It refuses to take Casey and Stenberg seriously. It tolerates, indeed applauds, federal intervention to ban nationwide a procedure found necessary and proper in certain c