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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Courtrooms"”.
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Culture, crystallisation and courtrooms: the legal challenges presented by the criminalisation of child soldier recruitment
The text of the Rome Statute leaves many key elements of the crime of child soldier recruitment to judicial interpretation, and this thesis asks how the international legal institutions - namely the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court - have handled the challenges …
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The Use of Neuroscience for Mitigation During Sentencing in Non-Capital Cases
… increasingly used during sentencing in criminal courtrooms to mitigate punishment. However, neuroscience is not presented in a vacuum—it is generally used to describe a defendant’s neuropsychological state in the context of other mitigating circumstances. It is important to explore how …
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Transitions -- Design a Courthouse
… is considered in the façade as well as in the courtrooms themselves.
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Mapping the denial of space : Latinos and United States immigration law
Immigration legal spaces such as courtrooms and national borders are constructed by the geopolitical tensions that exist between U.S. nationalism and foreign bodies traversing its territory. Mexican, Guatemalan, Salvadorian, and Hondurans—referred to as Latinos in this research—constitute nearly …
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Mold fever : how a bizarre life form penetrated popular consciousness and launched a creeping hysteria
… lately: in our homes, newspapers, and courtrooms, and on our minds. In the past few years, mold has gone from a blip on the radar of public consciousness to a major force in home inspections, insurance, litigation, and testing. Never before have people been so concerned over a group of …
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Female victims of domestic violence and their negotiation for safety
… legal outcomes prominent amongst our nation's courtrooms. I will attempt to illustrate those goals victims routinely seek as well as the obstacles they encounter when attempting to free themselves from violence. This research will become a valuable tool for those attempting to make the criminal …
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Confronting the Tree of Life: Three Court Cases in Modern American History
… to common descent was especially virulent. Courtrooms provided the nation's leading critics of common descent an arena in which to protest the theory's most egregious offenses. As common descent garnered increasing support from scientists and educators, however, anthropocentrists modified …
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Deconstructing China's family law for LGBTQ non-traditional families through a comparative lens of sexuality
… and LGBT non-traditional families are heard in courtrooms through case studies. Chapter Six provides several perspectives on the future of China’s family law to meet the needs of modernization.</p>
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Global convergence of tax judgments and principles between South African courts and foreign courts: Assessing evidence of convergence in South African case law and its desirability in a South African context
… tax judgments and principles in South African courtrooms. Besides the practical fact of assessing the general view of South Africa courts to the application of foreign cases and principles, it also explores whether convergence is beneficial to South African in a variety of contexts. The case …
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Judicial Enforcers? Exploring Lower Federal Court Compliance in Regulating the Obscene
… such as the types of litigants within the courtrooms as well as their local political environment. Furthermore, such judges are apt to form their own views about politics and legal policy and are often appointed by presidents who approve of their ideological leanings. Thus, federal courts …
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The Slave South In The Far West: California, The Pacific, And Proslavery Visions Of Empire
… outsized influence within western legislatures, courtrooms, and newspaper offices to effectively transform the Southwest into a political appendage of the slave South. With the fracturing of the Union in 1861, the project of southern expansion moved to the battlefields of a continental civil war, …
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The Press as Constitutional Litigator: Shaping First Amendment Doctrine in the United States Supreme Court
… as in reporters' privilege, cameras in courtrooms, and ride-along cases. While the reasons for these outcomes are many and varied, this dissertation argues that the press itself played a significant, if not necessarily decisive role in the process. Three cases most clearly illustrate how …
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Case Study of the Structures of Criminal and Drug Courts
… participating in both criminal and drug courtrooms. The study uses network analysis as the primary method for analyzing quantitative data. The research site is the Arizona Superior Court in Pima County, located in Tucson, Arizona.I found that the most important central actors across all …
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Exceptional queerness: defining the boundaries of normative U.S. citizenship, 1876-1936
… they circulated from local newspapers and trial courtrooms to the pages of sensational national newspapers and medical journals in the period between 1876 and 1936. Such careful attention to the circulation of narratives is important because it was in this period that sexologists first identified …
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Urban Planning and Religious Practice: Three Challenges
… and examine the actual lived situations (in courtrooms, planning offices, or public meetings) wherein competing conceptions of “lived religion” surround specific substantive planning issues, e.g., zoning or public health deliberations.
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The Right to Control the Land: Law, Heritage and Self-Determination by Native Hawaiians
… indicate that Native Hawaiian use of heritage in courtrooms has contributed to Indigenous identity construction by enhancing collective memory, increasing land control, and protecting group rights. The results also provide insight into how such actions by Indigenous peoples can advance upward …
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Restorative justice and campus sexual harm: A qualitative study of the views of victim advocates
… restorative practices have made their way to courtrooms, diversion programs, schools, and reentry programs. In the United States, restorative practices are increasingly used in primary and secondary schools and universities, but until recently, their usage within the context of higher …
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‘Governing Strangers, Conquering Stigma’: Moderate Islam, Ontological Security, and the Politics of Counter-Terror in Malaysia
… state narratives, mosques, bureaucracies, courtrooms, and prisons, I illustrate a dynamic I call the Islamisation of counter-terror, in which counter-terror is predominantly understood as an issue in need of religious curation instead of socio-political redress. In adopting this eclectic …
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Network Packet Management Optimisation for Business Forensic Readiness
… criterion, digital evidence should not be in courtrooms. In this thesis the relevant literature and conceptual scope of the problem is explored theoretically, and then network tools tested empirically. The thesis is an initial investigation into whether there are error rates above zero when a …
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"""Stories from our people"": immigrants, brokers, and literacy as affinity"
… communities, schools, libraries, and courtrooms—and through the lens of various types of brokers such as the state, community members, and various organizations. Drawing on thirty-two literacy history interviews, textual artifacts (travel documents, personal writings/ notes, …
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