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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Legal authority"”.
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Children and Legal Authority: A Study of Role-Learning
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Piers Plowman, Legal Authority and the Law of Subject Status.
This project examines the legal discourses surrounding Langland's Piers Plowman to show that the language of the law courts, and the dilemmas faced there on a daily basis about the authority of the law, are mirrored in the way in which Langland presents Christ's harrowing of hell at one of the …
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The Legal Authority of Non-State Rules: Application in International Commercial Contracts
This thesis examines the legal authority of non-state rules in international commercial contracts and their application in state courts. Non-state rules can be divided in uncodified rules and codified rules. Uncodified non-state rules are general principles of law, practices, trade usages, and …
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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 …
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Takkanot Kandiyah – A collection of legislative statutes as a source for the assessment of laymen’s legal authority in a Jewish community in Venetian Crete
… Takkanot Kandiyah as a specific work of Jewish legal literature, providing a unique opportunity to study the development of leadership of a semi-autonomous Jewish community. The dissertation is divided into an introduction, two parts and a conclusion. In the introduction (chapter one), I outline …
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Limitations on the Precedent Autonomy
… diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease possess the legal authority to reject life-sustaining medical treatment, including, but not limited to, artificial nutrition and hydration, subject only to constitutionally valid limitations on that authority imposed by state legislation, currently in force …
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Tales of Resistance: Combating Legal Power from Italian Shores to London Streets
My dissertation, “Tales of Resistance: Combating Legal Power from Italian Shores to London Streets,” demonstrates how English authors appropriated Italian texts to oppose increasing monarchic power in the legal system. I argue that Italian materials provided a comparative legal viewpoint for …
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An Attempt to Identify Selected Legal Responsibilities in Off-Campus Student Teaching
… of education on the need for identifying the legal responsibilities of the public schools and teacher training institutions during the student teaching experience. There is a need for developing guidelines and regulations. There appears to be general consensus that professional organizations, …
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Las Vegas in an Era of Limits: Urban Water Politics in the Colorado River Basin
… challenges by creating the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), an agency that centralized previously separate water agencies into a single organization, one that possessed legal authority to implement conservation policy throughout the metropolitan region and to engage in interstate political …
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Knowledge and the City: Redefining Islamic Urbanism, 762–1067
… The ʿulamaʾ—those marked by ʿilm—inherited their legal authority from the Prophet via the transmission of hadith and thus did not rely entirely on the political vesting of the caliph or amir to carry out Islamic law on the level of the city. I demonstrate that the ʿulamaʾ, with their independent …
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An Analysis of Processes and Strategies Used by Qualified Nurses in Assessing the Mental Capacity of Acutely and Critically Ill Hospitalised Adult Patients
… or absent capacity gives the healthcare team the legal authority to assess best interests and to make treatment decisions without consent under this justification. Qualified nurses are the everpresent professional group in acute and critical care settings. They may initiate assessments of mental …
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Coordinating science : White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) influence in federal R&D budgets
… perform in budgets is highly constrained by legal authority, bureaucratic resistance, and the epistemic norms of the science policy community itself. The relationship of the President's Science Advisor with the Administration is an important confounder across presidencies
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The role of a transit agency in station area development : a case study of Tren Urbano, Puerto Rico
… the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (PRHTA) submitted a bill in 1998 to authorize the agency to participate in land acquisition and development activities within station areas. This thesis explores how a transit agency such as PRHTA can coordinate with other stakeholders, …
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Assessing the role played by regional organisations in conflict resolution in Africa
… resolution and to what extent and with which legal authority are they allowed to participate in these resolutions taking into the consideration the norms of international law that is to say, the treaties and protocols relating to conflict resolution of the organisations shall also be focused …
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Municipal strategies for affordable housing : incenting an exacting public goods from private developers
… is established by looking at the economic, legal, and political implications of these exactions and incentives. The interplay of the three forces has affected and will continue to shape the policies that cities are able to implement. Two cities, Boston and New York, each with hot real estate …
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The Legal Philosophies of Religious Zionism 1937-1967
… 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 thinking about the relationship between law and the state. Before this shift took …
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The impact of weaknesses in the Urban Councils Act on efficient and effective service delivery in urban local councils in Zimbabwe
… the unfettered powers of the minister, lack of legal certainty on powers and functions of UCs, limited revenue generating powers and lack of autonomy in recruiting senior council administration. First, UCs exercise delegated powers from central government. The minister has powers to give …
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The Use of Force on Humanitarian Grounds: Illegal but Legitimate?
This master’s thesis critically addresses the legality of armed interventions by states, who, for the most part, defend their actions based on authority from the UN in the form of UN Resolutions. This thesis also investigates, in particular, uses of force that lack a clear legal authority. It then …
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African legislatures active in the budget process?! Emerging trends and consequences for legislative identity
… though to varying degrees within each. Formal legal authority was found to be a poor predictor of legislative change, as were emerging technical abilities. A final congruence test found that a combination of external donor influence and regional peer-to peer legislative exchange are best able …
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Empire's Law: A Hartian Critique of the Potential of Fuller's and Radbruch's Theories to Address Legal Colonialism
… of this thesis is to introduce the problem of legal colonialism into the natural law-positivism debate by analyzing the 2019 Huson case, an instance of legal colonialism writ small. In Chapter 2, I test the legality of Huson by applying Fuller’s eight principles to the Court’s decision. I …
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