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Showing 1 to 20 of 307 for “"Criminal law"”.
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FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
… coherent object of analysis within international criminal law. Existing legal scholarship has either approached the subject from a wider human rights perspective or tended to focus on specific political, historical or geographical contexts, rather than on displacement as a category of …
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Protection of the environment through criminal law /
… evolving and changing according to objective laws. Human as a biological being is part of the natural environment, interacts with nature and affects it, feels the effect of its laws, uses and consumes its resources. Between people and nature there is a constant exchange of substances. The …
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Corporate criminal liability and international criminal law
… investigates the question of the international criminal liability of corporations. The issue of the involvement of private corporations in international crimes has been a matter of controversy for decades. Over the years, several scholars have commented in favour or against the feasibility of …
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The Criminal Law of the Free Society: A Philosophical Exploration of Overcriminalization and the Limits of the Criminal Law
The criminal law is the most coercive institution of social control in the modern liberal state. It criminalizes conduct, prosecutes individuals, and treats offenders in ways that under other circumstance we would consider as serious violations of individuals’ rights. At a time when this …
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Sexual assault: public debate and criminal law reform
Canada's most recent amendments to the criminal law on sexual assault were developed in consultation with women's groups in response to the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada that existing restrictions on the admission of evidence of the sexual pasts of complainants in sexual offences is …
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Experience on trial: criminal law and the modernist novel
… authority. By taking the primary examples of law and literature, this thesis argues that the criminal trial and realist novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries perfectly conform to this statement. But by the early twentieth-century, experience had, as Walter Benjamin put it, ‘fallen …
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"limits of national amnesty legislation under international criminal law"
International law traditionally refers to the actions of sovereign states as subjects of international law and thus provides no punishment for individuals. 1 It has however been established as a general rule since the Nuremberg trials2 after World War II that international law in certain cases also …
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International criminal law and the African girl child soldier: does the international criminal law framework provide adequate protection to the African girl child soldier?
… to answer the question: does the international criminal law framework provide adequate protection to the African girl child soldier? The motivation for the choice of this question came about in my final year of LLB. I conducted research on crimes against humanity committed by Boko Haram, and …
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Taking Organizations Seriously: Responsible Agency, Organizations and the Criminal Law
In the post-Enlightenment period, Anglo-American criminal law has been applied with increased force, and an ever expanding scope, to collective actors like corporations and other organizations. Recent scholarship has focused on developing “truly organizational” bases of liability that break with …
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Regulation of the Sex Industry from a Criminal Law Perspective
… not be marginalised but integrated within the criminal law and regulated as other Sexual Entertainment Venues. I first establish a framework of analysis needed to illuminate the constraints put upon the different elements of commercial sexual activities. This framework stems from the Sexual …
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Where worlds collide: The English criminal law and religious belief
This thesis considers the interaction of law and religion in the English criminal law. The English criminal law is not well suited to dealing with the special circumstances of the religious defendant. In particular, there is evidence that the criminal law does not consistently meet the core …
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The nature of dolus eventualis in South African criminal law
… form of intention in practice in South African criminal law.
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International criminal law and refugee protection: The interplay between international criminal law and Article 1F(A) of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
… scope of the correlation between international criminal law and the application of Article 1F(a) to asylum determinations, and the extent to which this application upholds the refugee applicant’s right to procedural fairness and natural justice. This analysis is approached from within the …
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