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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Legal Culture"”.
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Strategic litigation: Legal culture and daily life in sixteenth-century Normandy
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2020-02-28 without embargo terms
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Clerics, Courts, and Legal Culture in Early Medieval Italy, c. 650 - c. 900
… and explores two core features of the clerical legal culture of the kingdom. The first regards the judicial institutions that clerics exploited. While the late eleventh and twelfth centuries would see the elaboration of a coherent system of ecclesiastical justice centered on the papal court, …
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Constitutional Rights in a Common Law World: The Reconstruction of North Carolina Legal Culture, 1865-1874
… law, but it was up to state and local legal actors to incorporate this change into the law that governed the everyday lives of Americans. The literature of Reconstruction legal history tends to place federal law, federal courts and federal legal actors at the center of the story. But in …
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‘To Restore Peace and Tranquility to the Neighborhood’: Violence, Legal Culture and Community in New York City, 1799-1827
… and Tranquility to the Neighborhood’: Violence, Legal Culture and Community in New York City, 1799-1827” examines the various ways ordinary people, legal officials, lawmakers, and editors negotiated the boundaries between inclusion and exclusion, or what historians call “belonging.” It uses legal …
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Overcoming Divergence in English and French Contract Law: A Common Taxonomy of Commercial Contracts
… a resolution to their disputes beyond the legal realm and respond to calls for collaboration. This nevertheless shows persisting differences in Anglo-French approaches. This thesis however argues that these divergences may nevertheless lead to common results through the lens of a taxonomy …
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Mobilizing, Resisting, and Transforming Title IX: How College Students Experience Sexual Violence and Administrative Justice
… professionals in higher education, I examine the legal consciousness of students and professionals as legal subjects under Title IX. By observing what students and professionals say about sexual violence, justice, and their experiences with Title IX policies, I theorize how their collective and …
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Data Protection Legal Reforms in Africa
… approaches in Africa using an international legal comparative approach. The research uses Tanzania and Senegal as the primary case studies and France, the United Kingdom and Germany as secondary case studies to illustrate how Europe reformed data protection regimes through the transposition …
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Constitución y guerra: Una revisión del sistema de derechos fundamentales de Colombia durante el siglo XX
… terrorism related to drug trafficking. Yet the legal system introduced in 1886 enjoyed great stability. In this study we reconstruct inter-disciplinary Constitutional History of Colombia to incorporate into it the armed confrontations. Through an anthropological and historiographical …
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Criminal Sentencing In the Court Communities of South Carolina: An Examination of offender, Judge, and County Characteristics
… with findings from other jurisdictions: legal characteristics such as the seriousness of the offense and criminal history of the offender were important predictors of whether he or she was sent to prison and for how long. Case processing factors such as whether an offender pled guilty or …
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Impacts of cultural differences on international arbitration based on the example of Iran.
… It then focuses on the effect of social and legal culture on international arbitration. The aim of this research is achieved through a multi-methods study. An extensive review of the relevant literature in both Farsi and English was conducted. A case study from the Iran and the US …
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The Role of Judicial Discourse in Distorting the Public Inquiry Image: Is the Inquiry Becoming an Endangered Species?
… and its persona via judicial decision-making and legal discourses that are utilized to justify the final product of an inquiry. For instance, while the commissioner is generally equipped with extensive coercive and discretionary powers, there is scarcely any research on why these powers are …
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Canon Law Collections in England ca 600-1066: The Manuscript Evidence
… to this particular aspect of early medieval legal culture. This dissertation has been envisioned as primarily descriptive. Here and there, however, attempts are made to venture beyond mere description of the evidence and explore the broader significance of canon law collections to Anglo-Saxon …
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Bail vs remand : what influences the decision-making process?
… a suspect. Through a comprehensive analysis of legal frameworks, case law, and empirical data, the study seeks to identify and understand the determinants within the criminal justice system (CJS). The research employs a mixed-methods approach and allows for the examination of both objective and …
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The effects of culture on attorney preservation of the confidentiality of client information
… research sought to investigate the effect of culture upon the preservation of confidentiality of client information when the interest of the client conflicts with the interests of others. The rules, practices and values of the legal profession in Chile, India and the United States were studied …
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The transformation of the American legal mind: Habeas corpus, federalism, and constitutionalism, 1787-1870
… such as rebellion or invasion. Yet American legal culture valued liberty above all else and interpreted the clause as a restraint on power rather than as a grant of power. States' rights doctrine had a tremendous impact on courts, state and federal, in the antebellum period. The supremacy of …
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Protectors of the Peace: Baptist Church Tribunals and the Construction of American Religious and Civil Authority, 1780-1860
… argues that Baptist churches served as important legal sites in the trans-Appalachian West from the Revolutionary period to the outbreak of the Civil War. By looking at how members and non-members approached their local churches for matters of dispute resolution over time and space, it illuminates …
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Land Health as Culture and Law: A Challenge to the Contemporary Discourse on Private Property
… there is a tension between contemporary American legal and cultural discourses of property and the way land functions ecologically in the real world of nature. In popular and legal culture a land parcel is an owner's separate enclave; in nature a land parcel is fully intertwined with all that …
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The auditor and fraud detection : an interpretation of the Companies Acts from 1844 to 1989.
… It exposed the defining paradox of contemporary legal culture that its ideology is one of consensus and clarity. Overall, this research has provided additive contributions in the form of new or improved methodology, evidence, analysis and concepts.
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Adequacy of the legal safeguards of the patients’ confidentiality right under the Saudi Arabian laws
… a fundamental human right, an ethical duty or a legal duty. Under the Saudi Arabian jurisdiction, the concept of patient confidentiality has evolved around its Shari’ah-based (Islamic) legal culture, its history and the concept of universality of human rights. Patient confidentiality is gaining …
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