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Jurisdiction — Territorial limits of — Extraterritorial effect of criminal statute — Colonial statute — The law of Mauritius.

210The individual in international law — In general — Human rights and freedoms —, Freedom of expression — Mauritius Constitution, Section 12(1) — Whether law creating offence of sedition inconsistent with Constitution — The law of Mauritius

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Sale of goods — Claim for shortage in delivery — Attachment of funds — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — The law of the Netherlands

Masson v. New Yorker goes to trial -- Literary journalism and the New Yorker -- The historical origins of the Masson-Malcolm dispute -- Libel at the New Yorker -- Masson v. New Yorker in the early years -- Libel law and the postmodern dilemma : the search for truth -- The end of the line for Masson

The author critically presents Talcott Parsons' theory of power. According to Parsons, power is a generalized capacity to secure the performance of binding obligations by units in a system of collective organization when the obligations are legitimized with reference to their bearing on collective goals and where in case of recalcitrance there is a presumption of enforcement by negative situational sanctions - whatever the actual agency of that enforcement. This definition of power does not offer enough satisfying answers to the issues of interest and power conflicts as well as of social and political change.