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Beijing Law Review (BLR) is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancements in law. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and promote the research work in law and related disciplines. All the manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rig…
Constantine N. Nana
This paper critically examines currency relations between members of the European Union (EU) and members of the CFA franc zone. It demonstrates that these relations provide empirical support to the dependency theory given that the CFA franc monetary system is…
Batahan Fransciskus Sihombing
This article aims to examine in depth the legal system in Indonesia. However, this study presents and limits the description of the development and renewal of Indonesian law. To explore more deeply, this article discusses the tendency of the Indonesian legal…
Cláudio Alberto Gabriel Guimarães, Márcio Aleandro Correia Teixeira, Sandro Rogério Jansen Castro
The initial objective of this work is to elaborate a quantitative survey of police inquiries initiated by crimes committed by Municipal Mayors, with a specific spatial and temporal cut, which are defined in Decree-Law n° 201/67, to explain them from the p…
Celeste Maria Vásquez Dan Lins
The article discusses the principle of tax legality in the Brazilian tax system. The distinction between views is on the conception of the principle of tax legality. The Brazilian tax system is made up of a legal relationship, through the occurrence of a fact…
Jamal Ait Laadam, Yasmine Hasnaoui, Paul Wang
The legally and internationally labeled Spanish Sahara is the oldest colonized territory in Africa. Colonized by Spain in 1884, Western Sahara has been an unchallengeable statutory case file in the UN tasks of the dispute between various actors at different t…
Fábio Sampaio Mascarenhas, Ricardo Begosso, Rodrigo Oliveira Salgado
The purpose of this article is to analyze transportation planning in Brazilian constitutions. To this end, it examines the way in which Brazilian constitutions from the 1930s to 1988 include the role of the state in the transportation sector, bearing in mind…
Walber Palheta de Mattos, Tamara Almeida Flores, André Luís Assunção de Farias, Norbert Fenzl, Maria do Socorro Almeida Flores, Christian Nunes da Silva
The article discusses the consequence of forming Metropolitan Regions due to population growth and the increased demand for services to implement minimum social rights. These regions do not adhere to traditional border limits, leading to a collision of fundam…
Qianru Fu
In representative litigation proceedings, the relationship between the representative and the represented is a hallmark that defines different types of representative litigation, and also determines the way in which collective litigation procedure functions.…
Marcelo Kokke, Maraluce Maria Custódio, Lyssandro Norton Siqueira
Brazil’s environmental legal framework has peculiar practices and characteristics linked to its federalist system. This article provides an overview of the Brazilian environmental system, and it aims to demonstrate how the system applies a double regulation o…
Onyinyechi Lilian Uche
This paper aims to provide a broad perspective on the plastic waste management problem globally and examine different theories and approaches to plastic waste management. The objective is to ascertain best practices for sustainable plastic waste management. R…
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Beijing Law Review (BLR) is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancements in law. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and promote the research work in law and related disciplines. All the manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rig… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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