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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Law and Politics"”.
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Absentee Soldier Voting In Civil War Law And Politics
… Civil War, twenty northern states changed their laws to permit absent soldiers to vote. Before enactment of these statutes, state laws had tethered balloting to the voter's community and required in-person participation by voters. Under the new laws, eligible voters - as long as they were …
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The Law and Politics of Judicial Discipline and Removal
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Law and Politics in the Norwegian 'Treason Trials', 1941-1964
… which Norwegian authorities planned, implemented and interpreted the ‘reckoning’ with wartime collaborators between 1941 and 1964. In doing so, it evaluates the broader political purposes the trials served, how these changed over time, and the mechanisms that brought about these changes. The …
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The legality of using the United Nations Security Council to bind third parties to the Rome Statute
… problems emanating from the linkages between law and politics in the international sphere will be examined in this dissertation. In particular, the SC referral mechanism to the ICC and its associated problems will be explored. The primary focus will be an investigation of the procedure used to …
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Tribunals, Trials, and Tribulations: The Impact of Administrative Law on Religious Freedom in the Supreme Court of Canada
… of the Charter in 1982, the interactions between law and politics have become an increasingly important consideration in Canadian political science. The literature has focused primarily on how the Charter has expanded the Supreme Court’s authority to shape the development of legislation, as well …
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Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage
… in the United States is a contemporary topic of law and politics. The Supreme Court will issue a decision on the matter by June 2013. Same-sex marriage, as a state's jurisdiction, has three routes the Supreme Court can choose: strict scrutiny with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth …
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Law, politics, and the creation of public policy: How the two can come together and create better public policy
… policy is so much more than just the passage of laws and legislation; public policy is the government. The creation of public policy is a very long and complicated process. Public policies that start in the Legislature have to go through a complex process of which many lawyers do not understand …
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Pierre'o Manent'o iššūkis Ronaldo Dworkino žmogaus teisių sampratai /
… liberal philosophy of natural human rights and the contemporary science of law and politics, characterized by a positivist or rationalist mindset. The analysis aims to elucidate why the joint critique of modern positivist thought and its moral relativism, as articulated in the works of …
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Against the Backdrop of Sovereignty and Absolutism: The Theology of God's Power and Its Bearing on the Western Legal Tradition, 1100-1600
… God's power. To this end, I explore employments and embodiments of this power over a number of centuries. The mediaeval investigation into God's attributes was originally concerned with the problem of divine almightiness, but underwent a slow but steady displacement from the territory of theology …
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Marine Protected Areas and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
… adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in December 1982, states and international organisations have increasingly utilised the MPAs as a tool for environmental protection. A number of MPAs are now found in the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of states and on the …
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The human right to medicines in sub-Saharan Africa
… man-made deliberations are also consequential, and can to some extent be influenced by regulation. The research question of this thesis therefore is: “can a human right to medicines be utilised to solve the problem of access to medicines in sub-Saharan Africa?”. In effect, in the last decade the …
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What's so private about private property?
… should implement to protect private property, and investigates how individuals and communities operating within those institutions ought to behave. Because the laws produced by such institutions may conflict with community rights, social welfare, and justice, the political authorities—including …
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Izraelio valstybės įsteigimas ir jos teritorinio sureguliavimo problema /
… Thesis 'Establishment of the State of Israel and its Territorial Issues' Blood in Palestine both sharpens hatred between Arabs and Jews and is the best justification to Arab terrorism all over the world. Hatred, slaughter, violence, terror and practically no hope to come to an agreement are …
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The Legal Philosophies of Religious Zionism 1937-1967
This dissertation is an attempt to recover abandoned pathways in religious Zionist thought. It identifies a fundamental shift in the legal philosophy of religious Zionists, demonstrating that around the time of the establishment of the State of Israel, religious Zionists developed a new way of …
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DIM Theory Applied to Law: The Disintegration of American Law
<p>Plato, Aristotle, and Montesquieu each argued the importance of law to political regime and Constitution. The ancients emphasized the law as the rational component of the regime and Montesquieu applied some of the first political science to show how political regimes rely upon law. Still, the …
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Essays on infrastructure, trade, and politics in Developing Countries
… to trade, associated with infrastructure, law, and politics. Chapter 1 begins from the observation that transportation networks worldwide suffer from heavy congestion. To measure this congestion's effect on the production side of the economy, I combine firm survey data with traffic data …
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Lawfare and legitimacy: The wicked problem of judicial resilience at a time of judicialisation of politics in South Africa
… South Africa has witnessed the rise of "lawfare". Lawfare is understood as the judicialisation of politics - turning to the courts and the use of the law to resolve broadly political matters. This thesis explores the unfolding implications of the judicialisation of politics for judicial …
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The development of ideas about communication in European thought from Ancient Greece to the early Modern Age
… theories; no agreed research methods; and poor connection between research, practice and policy. Although theorists recognise fragmentation is a problem and agree that it must be resolved, they do not agree on its causes—ontological, methodological, or institutional—nor how the problem …
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The development of ideas about communication in European thought from Ancient Greece to the early Modern Age
… theories; no agreed research methods; and poor connection between research, practice and policy. Although theorists recognise fragmentation is a problem and agree that it must be resolved, they do not agree on its causes—ontological, methodological, or institutional—nor how the problem …
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