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The success of local user groups managing communal natural resources depends to a great degree on external factors such as the legal environment. However, depending on their political power, the local users may exert some influence on the legal environment. This creates important dynamics between external legal factors and local resources governance. To explore this path dependent dynamic in common property resources, I conduct a historical case study of the development and legal transitions of acequias (irrigation ditches) in modern day New Mexico, US. Initially colonized by Spain in 1598, acequias have been developed and used for irrigation even as the region transferred from Spanish to Mexican to US sovereignty. The biggest legal changes occurred during the US territorial period (1851–1912), and I draw on the primary sources in the New Mexico Territorial Archives to better understand the origin, evolution, and motivation of irrigation statutes. I combine this with data on the timing of acequia and other irrigation enterprises development in New Mexico to show how the legal rules influence new development and how that new development shifts the vested interests and political coalitions, influencing future legal changes. The historical perspective highlights that external factors are important, but also that those factors are not entirely independent from the local systems: dynamic feedback loops create path dependence, in this case producing an incremental loss of local governance and power.

Providing the first comprehensive account to look explicitly at the relationship between global politics and science through an account of the International Polar Years, this volume combines both interdisciplinary and multi-theoretical approaches to engage directly with the most recent debates in international relations scholarship.

Article is devoted to one of the hottest topics today. Development of the Internet network represents a standard channel of social communication via which a large number of trade transactions, money transfer is carried out, besides, all connection functions are performed, and Mass Media broadcasting is realized. In article some changes in the legislation which are connected with legal regulation of the Internet relations are analyzed. Nowadays no country in the world has codified legislation which would regulate internet issues. With rapidly developing Internet more and more countries in the world realize the necessity of the Internet's legal regulation. It is caused by the fact that the Internet became one of the major factors of social, educational and cultural development, which provides new opportunities for humankind. The following article emphasizes the importance of not solely additional legal norms, but also a new effective approach to problem solution. ; Article is devoted to one of the hottest topics today. Development of the Internet network represents a standard channel of social communication via which a large number of trade transactions, money transfer is carried out, besides, all connection functions are performed, and Mass Media broadcasting is realized. In article some changes in the legislation which are connected with legal regulation of the Internet relations are analyzed. Nowadays no country in the world has codified legislation which would regulate internet issues. With rapidly developing Internet more and more countries in the world realize the necessity of the Internet's legal regulation. It is caused by the fact that the Internet became one of the major factors of social, educational and cultural development, which provides new opportunities for humankind. The following article emphasizes the importance of not solely additional legal norms, but also a new effective approach to problem solution.

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The effects of globalisation are many. One of them is the effect that globalisation has on commercial contracts and contractual relations between contracting parties. Due to a fast pace of economy and the speed and volume of the conclusion of contracts in international trade, participants must rely on stable and reliable legal framework for contractual obligations. In globalised economy, traders from different countries bring with them individual trade practices and norms of national legislation, often diametrically opposed, and sometimes the legal institutes that are regulated in one country don't even exist in another. This is the case with the institutes of force majeure and a change of circumstances. Due to large differences in the regulation of these two institutes in national legal systems, there have been demonstrated some attempts of standardisation and creation of a unified system of exemption from liability for non-performance, due to force majeure or a change of circumstances. This problem becomes even more evident when dealing with the long term contracts, which are prone to the effects of unforeseen circumstances. This paper aims to explore the nature of the above mentioned legal institutes in some of the most important sources of international commercial law. With a special attention paid to the Serbian regulatory solutions, in order to further understand the similarities and differences between the national legal systems and sources of international law. The first part of the paper deals with applicable legal framework in Republic of Serbia, concerning force majeure and a change of circumstances. The second part of the paper deals with the international sources of commercial law, such as UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods of 1980; UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts; Principles of European Contract Law; Draft Common Frame of Reference; and Common European Sales Law.

Angelina Inesia-Forde (Walden University) has posted The American Founding Documents and Democratic Social Change: A Constructivist Grounded Theory on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Existing social disparities in the United States are inconsistent with the promise of democracy; therefore, there...

This article analyzes the use of legal tech technologies in legal practice, highlights the expediency, pros and cons of their introduction into the legal market, and modern legal tech is one of the most frequently used technologies in Russia. How does technology change legislation? What is a digital court? Is it possible to automate the work of a lawyer? We will analyze the answers to these and other questions in our article on legaltech