Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Legal Change"”.
-
Property rights in the coal industry: efficiency and legal change
… approach is employed to determine whether changes in the property rights structure results in greater efficiency for the coal industry. The evidence provided in the study does not support use of the neoclassical model. The model is too constrained and does not allow the inclusion of …
-
Procedural Postures: The Influence of Legal Change on Strategic Litigants and Judges
… their actions to maximize benefits as conditions change. Participants in litigation are faced with a multitude of opportunities to make decisions regarding if and how they will engage the legal system. Despite this fact, the potential for strategic behavior by litigants is often ignored by …
-
From Reified Abstractions to Situated Contexts: Feminist Jurisprudence, Paradigm Shift and Legal Change
… has developed the potential to initiate a legal paradigm shift leading to legal and consequent social change that would alleviate gender inequality. Drawing upon Kuhn's (1970) and Stacey and Thorne's (1985) arguments, I theorized that for a paradigm shift centered upon women and women's …
-
Legal change in an interest-group perspective: the demise of special corporate charters
This dissertation presents a legal and economic history of the change in method of incorporation from special corporate charters via legislative act to general incorporation laws which make corporate privileges available to all who meet certain, minimal procedural requirements. Prior to the …
-
Coalition Networks and Policy Learning: Interest Groups on the Losing Side of Legal Change
… Research with regard to interest groups and legal change has found that interest groups, using arguments that were once accepted as the legal standard for Supreme Court decisions, were unwilling or unable to alter their arguments when the Court reversed its position on these legal standards. …
-
Transforming Gender and Sexuality in-between the Personal and the Professional: The Promise of Legal Change in (Un)Becoming Advocate (Avukat) in Turkey
… became oriented towards realizing extensive legal and constitutional amendments, as well as juridical reforms in restructuring the contemporary body of law and judicial institutions based on the promise of strengthening access to justice mechanisms and improving human rights laws and …
-
Three Essays on Population Studies
… the short- and long-term effects of a recent change in Chinese divorce laws on married women’s and men’s well-being. The 2011 Chinese divorce reform transfers ownership of the family home to the registered buyer, most often the husband, in the event of a divorce. Prior to this legal change, …
-
The Need For Academic Reform In Vietnamese Higher Education (VHE) To Align With Employers’ Expectations
… implementation of VHE’s “Vision 2020” relies on legal change together with macro-policies to support these educational initiatives. For the purposes of this study, however, the author focused on the current state of VHE in providing employable graduates to meet the needs of Vietnam’s knowledge …
-
Centralised Preparation of Medicinal Products for Systemic Treatment of Malignant Diseases in Hospital Pharmacies in Bulgaria – Specifics, Challenges and Prospects // Централизирано разтваряне на лекарствени продукти за системно лечение на злокачествени заболявания в болничните аптеки в България – специфики, предизвикателства и перспективи
A legal change to introduce centralised preparation of medicinal products for systemic treatment of malignant diseases in Bulgaria was made at the end of 2015, and there is no regulatory document that specifies exactly what competencies are required to perform it. The purpose of this thesis is to …
-
Institution: The Control of Social Perception—Toward a Theory of Minority-Directed Institutional Change
… a theory of minority-directed institutional change. It begins with a review of research on urban sociology and how, despite tremendous technological and legal change, the fact of institutional racism remains. It then reviews relevant portions of Original Institutional Economics (OIE) thought …
-
5-0 Is Not Coming To Save You: Examining The Lack Of Police Intervention In LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
… Intimate partner violence laws have seen drastic changes over the past hundred years often coupled with the changes of culture and society. Though intimate partner violence surely warrants that attention, the growing and important issue of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) …
-
Voice and visibility: tackling the ‘invisibility’ of the sexual orientation strand in UK organisation equality and diversity research
… voice, activism and agency in influencing the changes which have been taking place. The covering document provides details of the research projects and the interpretivist case study methodology on which the published outputs draw. It summarises and links the aims and principal findings of each …
-
Governance & Legal Reform in Countries Emerging from Conflict
… gap in the literature concerning the nature of legal and constitutional change in countries emerging from internal conflict. Reformed constitutions, amendments and legislation may offer meaningful benchmarks by which to assess both “thin” and “thick” conceptions of governance and the rule of law …
-
Interpreting Authority: Do States Interpret International Law Differently to Create Legal Authority in Decisions to Intervene for Humanitarian Concerns?
This thesis examines how a state’s domestic legal framework interprets international law to create legal authority when deciding to use force or not for humanitarian reasons. It argues that neoclassical realism, with its emphasis on the domestic level of analysis, can explain the role of legal …
-
Absentee Soldier Voting In Civil War Law And Politics
<p>During the 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 …
-
Why Surrender Sovereignty? Empowering Non-State Actors to Protect the Status Quo
… prosecutor - the authority to initiate legal proceedings against states and state officials. The introduction of transnational and supranational judicial mechanisms is a strategy of the strong, not the weak. Contingent on the mobilization of transnational advocacy networks, powerful …
-
Laivojen tuomaa lakia : Ruotsin ensimmäiset kauppakomppaniat 1600-luvulla
Shipping Legal Norms - Swedish Trading Companies in the Seventeenth century The doctoral dissertation examines the earliest Swedish Trading Companies and their administrative practices during the seventeenth century. The study focuses on two main company types: Copper Companies and Tar Companies, …
-
The experience gay males face in the obtaining and maintaining of their positions in educational leadership
… 2004). Despite these findings, political, legal, and social changes that began in the late 1960s have created a different political and legal landscape in many areas of American society enabling gay men to enter leadership positions with fewer obstacles than might be expected. This …
-
The legal status of African women in Zimbabwe Rhodesia
… of Mashonaland to investigate and report on the legal status of African women in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Superficially, such a task appeared to demand no more than a statement of customary law but it soon became apparent that far more than this was required if a full statement were to be given of the …