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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Constitutional protections"”.
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The March of Judicial Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Enemy Combatant Case Law
… which judges show a willingness to extend constitutional protections based on a contemporary, functional understanding of sovereign jurisdiction. The purpose of this work is to address the correlation between enemy combatant jurisprudence and the aforementioned understanding of judicial …
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Farewell to arms: a plan for evaluating the 2001 authorization for use of military force and its alternatives
… by analyzing the evolution of terrorist threats, constitutional concerns, the consequences of altering the legal structure upon which national counterterrorism strategies rely, international legality, and precedent. Ultimately, this thesis recommends that Congress both sunset the AUMF and …
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Elderly Offenders: An American Corrections Catch-22?
… impairments, disability accommodations, constitutional protections, and programs and policies addressing the elderly offender population. A review of sentencing policy in Kansas will then be conducted, with specific focus on downward departure sentencing based upon advanced age. …
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Democracy and Spyware: The Case of India
… opposition figures, and activists, disregarding constitutional guarantees. This study uses the Most Similar Systems Design (MSSD) method to compare India's surveillance regime with the European Union's GDPR plus associated frameworks. This comparison aims to find the reasons for differing …
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Genealogies of the Postcolonial State: Insurgency, Emergency, and Democracy in Sri Lanka
… of this rationality has been obscured by liberal constitutionalism's ideological narrative of Sri Lankan constitutional history, and I recover and explore the anticolonial, nationalist contexts of its formation, first in the demand for a constitutional bill of rights, then in the movement toward …
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Affirmative action, higher education, and human rights: a comparison between supreme court rulings in the United States and Brazil
… higher education but with differing results. The constitutional court of Brazil, the Supremo Tribunal Federal, ruled universities could use racial admissions quotas to ameliorate the effects of racial discrimination. The Supreme Court of the United States, however, ruled racial quotas are …
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Moral hyperactivity in corporations: is corporate governance the solution?
… for expanding corporations’ ability to claim Constitutional protections and allow religious beliefs to influence corporate policies. (4) To discuss how existing corporate governance and shareholder primacy facilitates moral hyperactivity and how anti-discrimination laws and labor laws have …
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Rethinking preventative detention from an international human rights perspective: a comparative study of Australia, Malaysia and Singapore
In order to prevent terrorist attacks, in 2005 Australia introduced a new division into the Criminal Code 1995 (Cth). This allows preventative detention of terrorism suspects who have not been charged with any offence and of even non-suspects, for up to 48 hours under federal law, with the …