Philip Morris Asia Ltd. v. Australia: Abuse of Rights in Investor-State Arbitration

The concept of an internationally wrongful act

Sovereign immunity and the enforcement of international investment arbitration awards: The case of Anatoli Stati et al v. Kazakhstan

Proportionality as a principle of legal pragmatics

Good Faith and International Legal Pragmatics

Legal standing before the ICJ: The admissibility of claims of breaches of obligations erga omnes and erga omnes partes

A retrospective observational study of 1000 consecutive patients tested with the FilmArray® Meningitis/Encephalitis panel: clinical diagnosis at discharge and microbiological findings

FilmArray® Meningitis/Encephalitis panel (FAME-p) is used to diagnose central nervous system (CNS) infections. In this study, we investigated performance of FAME-p compared to comparator assays (CA), and for the first time, clinical diagnosis at discharge (CDD). 1000 consecutive patients with a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sample analyzed with FAME-p were identified. As CA, culture, polymerase chain

The Effect of Jus Cogens and the Individuation of Norms

Rational Reconstruction and International Legal Reasoning, solicited paper

Justification or Discovery? A New Way to a Fuller Understanding of the Law on Treaty Interpretation, key-note speech

The Exercise of Discretion in International Law: Why This Topic Needs Studying, How It Should be Studied, and by Whom

Hjortsjös gravöppningar

Why should we distinguish between the exercise of discretion and interpretation?

Concepts as tools of legal reasoning: How pragmatics may promote the rationality of the work of international legal scholars

Rational Reconstruction and International Legal Reasoning

Making Bureaucracy Work: Norms, Education and Public Service Delivery in Rural India

Central venous catheter tip misplacement : A multicentre cohort study of 8556 thoracocervical central venous catheterisations

BACKGROUND: There is a paucity of data on the incidence of central venous catheter tip misplacements after the implementation of ultrasound guidance during insertion. The aims of the present study were to determine the incidence of tip misplacements and to identify independent variables associated with tip misplacement.METHODS: All jugular and subclavian central venous catheter insertions in patie

Randomized controlled trial of nasogastric tube use after esophagectomy : study protocol for the kinetic trial

Esophagectomy is a complex and complication laden procedure. Despite centralization, variations in perioparative strategies reflect a paucity of evidence regarding optimal routines. The use of nasogastric (NG) tubes post esophagectomy is typically associated with significant discomfort for the patients. We hypothesize that immediate postoperative removal of the NG tube is non-inferior to current r

The Effect of Background Noise, Bilingualism, Socioeconomic Status, and Cognitive Functioning on Primary School Children's Narrative Listening Comprehension

PURPOSE: This study focuses on 7- to 9-year-old children attending primary school in Swedish areas of low socioeconomic status, where most children's school language is their second language. The aim was to better understand what factors influence these children's narrative listening comprehension both in an ideal listening condition (in quiet) and for the primary school classroom, a typical liste

Between Regulatory Fixity and Flexibility in the EU AI Act

The EU AI Act aims to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) in a way that balances innovation and protection from harms, but faces the challenge of keeping pace with the fast and dynamic development of AI. This paper examines the tension between fixity and flexibility when regulating emerging technologies, drawing on literature on the so-called pacing problem, contrasted by sociolegal theory on th