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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…
Theresa U. Akpoghome, Ufuoma V. Awhefeada
In the past decade, Nigeria has experienced an increased rate of sexual violence in armed conflict between the armed forces of the State and the dissident armed group, Boko Haram. This paper carefully examines the challenges of prosecuting sexual violence in…
Ngozi J. Udombana, Kafayat Motilewa Quadri
Knowledge thrives on access to information. Recognizing this, the United Nations in 1945 adopted the Freedom of Information as a fundamental human right to which it is consecrated. Till date, 119 countries have enacted laws promoting access to information. Ho…
Douglas Castro, Danielle Mendes Thame Denny
This paper uses sentiment and content analysis techniques to investigate treaties and other international documents signed by Brazil and China. It identifies the strong presence of values such as solidarity orienting their economic relations, and therefore su…
Isaac Olawale Albert, Nathaniel Danjibo, Olumayowa Albert
Kidnapping is now a disturbing security problem in Nigeria. Using ideas pieced together from newspapers, magazines and interviews this paper traces the origin of the problem to the crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta region in the 1990s. The paper discusses ho…
Ming Chen
During the current investment boom, any Intellectual Property, especially of film, is one of the long-lasting destinations that capital pursues. As a result, the new model in the film capitalization, a high-priced bet agreement between the producer and the di…
Emanuele C. Francia, 1 1
While in many countries we observed a privatization of many businesses, China adopted a different personal way called ‘corporatization’, i.e. “entails restructuring state enterprises, adopting the corporate form, and instituting stock ownership and trading wi…
Arántzazu Vicente-Palacio
This study summarizes the traditional characteristics of the Spanish Social Security System (generally taken from the European model), the different legal reforms that have come into force in recent years and the degree of penetration of important financial g…
Charis Papacharalambous
Immigration is conceived of as a primary law concern, especially one to be addressed through criminal law. Despite its descriptive accuracy of this view, criminalization of immigration has to be seen rather as putting in question the very governability of the…
Hong Yang
The nature of community correction has been controversial in Chinese academic circles, but a series of official legal documents have always made it clear that community correction is the execution of punishment. Based on the research of normative analysis and…
Richard A. Posthuma
This article compares labor laws in China, Russia, and the US. It demonstrates how mimetic isomorphic tendencies and general principles of fairness such as equality, equity, and need may have resulted in similarities in the labor laws across all 3 countries.…
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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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