Vilhelm Lundstedt’s ‘Legal Machinery’ and the Demise of Juristic Practice

This article aims to contribute to the academic debate on the general crisis faced by law schools and the legal professions by discussing why juristic practice is a matter of experience rather than knowledge. Through a critical contextualisation of Vilhelm Lundstedt’s thought under processes of globalisation and transnationalism, it is argued that the demise of the jurist’s function is related to law’s scientification as brought about by the metaphysical construction of reality. The suggested roadmap will in turn reveal that the current voiding of juristic practice and its teaching is part of the crisis regarding what makes us human

12.4: A Liquid Crystal Biosensor for Liver Diseases

The urinary concentration level of bile acids is a useful indicator for the diagnosis of liver diseases. Here we present a sensor platform based on the anchoring transition of nematic liquid crystals (LCs) at the surfactant-laden LC/aqueous interfaces for the detection of bile acids in urinary solution