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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Legal Agency"”.
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Negotiating women's rights in Togo - with tight belts and long arms: legal agency between everyday life, civil society and the state
… Dafür wird auf das Konzept des „strong legal pluralism“ (John Griffiths 1986) zurückgegriffen, welches Rechtspluralismus als empirischen (statt normativen) Zustand der Koexistenz verschiedener Rechtsordnungen und einer Vielfalt von Rechtsforen innerhalb einer sozialen Gruppe auffasst und …
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Married Women’s Litigation in the English Court of Chancery, 1698-1758
… debates concerning married women’s use of legal agency during the early modern period, it explores the extent to which married women had independent access to justice, could manage their separate property, and could make law in eighteenth-century England. Many historians have shown that the …
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EVIDENCE OF ANXIETY: WOMEN'S AGENCY AND ENGAGEMENT LAW IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND FILM, 1880-1935
… under public scrutiny. The demonization of this legal protection coincided with increased legal agency in other areas of married life for women, but in most historical and critical discussions of this era, breach of promise, also nicknamed Heartbalm, has been overlooked, and the purpose of this …
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Women and Islamic law in Marinid Morocco
… disputes between ordinary people, and the legal opinions (fatwas) issued by the jurists in response. Both the questions and answers indicate norms, assumptions and practices of legal authorities and ordinary people. The fatwa sources are contextualized with additional legal, historical, …
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A Theory of Tort Liability for Autonomous-machine-caused Harm
… principally un-foreseeable, and therefore, not legally attributable to the human agency of designers, manufacturers or users. This thesis assesses which tort doctrines—negligence, strict liability or vicarious liability—are most amenable to developing a theory of liability for …