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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…
Joseph N. Madubuike-Ekwe
This article examines how the existing law of armed conflict may be applied or adapted to meet the challenges posed by cyber-attacks. It begins with a definition of cyber-attacks, cyberexploitation and cyberespionage and their differences. The article discuss…
Henok Kebede Bekele
This article explores the quest for the legal definition of terrorism under international law. By employing doctrinal research methodology, the paper qualitatively analyze international legal instruments, customary international law, and decisions of internat…
Babafemi Odunsi, Jade Mohammed, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1
In the conventional human rights, socio-legal and related discourse of domestic violence, focus has preponderantly been on men as the perpetrators, with wives or women as victims. This may be due to some factors. One is the entrenched empathy and solidarity w…
Kholisani Solo
This paper makes an attempt to define informal social security and discusses the role of traditional support systems and extended family as social security institutions. Self organised mutual support systems which are neighbourhood or community-based informal…
Junxiang Mao, Ammar Ahmad Ahmad Gady
Recently, some Arab governments, including Yemen, have requested other states to intervene militarily to eliminate the protests and popular movements that challenge their powers under the justifications for consensual interventions, resulting in the emergence…
Ekundayo Oluwaremilekun Babatunde, Mutiat Mobolanle Abdulsalam
This study examined the development of international and municipal laws on maritime safety and security and identified the challenges undermining the efficiency of the provisions at combating security threats within the Nigerian maritime space. The study reli…
Michael Attah, Bertha N. Otunta
In Nigeria, the intersection of cultural behaviour, feminist and judicial responses to protection of women from forced eviction upon intestacy is an intertwine of 1) the conflict between full proprietary rights and possessory/rights of use; 2) intrusion of cu…
Abebe Kebede Jalleta
Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) in international environmental laws (mainly, but not limited to, biodiversity) converges with human rights instruments on indigenous people. State parties should take legislative, administrative, and practical measures to real…
Michael Attah, Elizabeth Iyamu-Ojo
The question of family composition remains a subjective jurisprudence in various jurisdictions. In Nigeria, legislative and judicial responses to different family forms are generally broadening under the general law in cases where there is a biological link b…
Luciano Alberto Ferreira, Vladimir Passos de Freitas, Gilberto Passos de Freitas
Discussions about climate governance and climate justice from an international perspective have highlighted a close relationship between climate change and human rights. Thereafter the number of national and international policies and litigation about this re…
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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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