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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Law and science"”.
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Test Cases: Reconfiguring American Law, Technoscience, and Democracy in the Nuclear Pacific
… history of American nuclear weapons testing and contamination in the Marshall Islands. It uses weapons testing as a window into changing patterns of America’s offshore imperialism following World War II. Tracing the legal aspects of testing and contamination, it asks how administrators, …
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Toward an Ecofeminist Environmental Jurisprudence: Nature, Law, and Gender
… legal theory reflecting the insights of feminism and environmental philosophy. I argue that human beings are not ontologically separate, but embedded in webs of relationality with natural others. My primary purposes are to 1) delineate ways in which institutions of modernity (such as law and …
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The attitudes and perceptions of the University of Zululand students towards rape victims
… the attitudes of the University of Zululand students towards rape victims with an aim of designing programmes that would assist in improving their negative attitudes towards rape victims and reinforce positive attitudes. One hundred and fifty students participated in the study. There were …
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Identifying and enhancing forensic science skills in the investigation and prosecution of war criminals within international proceedings
The use of forensic science to establish the truth in domestic criminal investigations has developed considerably over the past century. However, its utilisation in the international context of the investigation of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide is relatively underdeveloped, only …
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The bureaucracy of empathy : vivisection and the question of animal pain in Britain, 1876-1912
… the mutually reinforcing connections between science and law and their construction of pain in British regulation of animal experimentation. It investigates the Home Office's implementation of the Cruelty to Animals Act (1876), the first effort anywhere in the world to impose legal …
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Negotiating nature : expertise and environment in the Klamath River Basin
… Nature" explores resource management in action and the intertwined roles of law and science in environmental conflicts in the Upper Klamath River Basin in southern Oregon. I follow disputes over the management of water and endangered species. I develop several themes: first, how these disputes …
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Science, law and the administration of justice in Irish criminal process: expectations, role and disconnect
… trajectory; yet, concurrently, international scandals have brought the fallibility of forensic science into sharp focus. As such, this thesis explores forensic science’s role in Irish criminal process in the light of expectations thereof. Against a backdrop of academic literature and research …
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SCIENCE ON TRIAL: BRIDGING SCIENTIFIC AND LEGAL EPISTEMOLOGIES IN STRATEGIC CLIMATE LITIGATION
… della crisi climatica? È questa la domanda che guida questa tesi, dedicata a indagare l’incontro, spesso difficile ma imprescindibile, tra diritto e scienza nelle aule di giustizia. Negli ultimi anni il contenzioso climatico è cresciuto in maniera esponenziale, assumendo forme …