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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Legal consciousness"”.
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Women's legal consciousness in a poor urban community: finding order in and around the law
… empirical study aimed at understanding the legal consciousness of women in a poor urban community. Through the narratives of women who were interviewed for this study, articles in the media, social media, and film, it explores the predominant problems experienced by women, and their …
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The Fight for Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Parenting Rights in The United States
… that they should obtain an equal amount of legal entitlement instead of being limited or restricted from certain rights. The theoretical approach incorporates the concepts of legal consciousness and the importance of legal recognition. Legal consciousness is a form of legal awareness and …
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Corporate manslaughter and the law: what message to industry?
… concern of this study is the examination of the legal issues surrounding the problem of the large number of deaths caused by corporations with particular emphasis on the need to isolate an effective legal message for industry in relation to safety. This will involve looking at the way the law has …
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Becoming a Side: Legal Mobilization and Environmental Protection in Poland
… presents a human geographic and socio-legal analysis of environmental legal mobilization in contemporary Poland. It examines how administrative law is being used by individuals and societal groups to enforce environmental protection commitments, and what the broader implications of …
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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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Is the Gender Reassignment protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 inclusive of the non-binary community?
… at a greater risk of discrimination and need for legal support. However, despite this recorded vulnerability, there remains a divisive argument over whether or not non-binary people are legally recognised and therefore protected by the Equality Act 2010. This study critically analyses the …
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Child marriage in Afghanistan; a contested human rights concern, or a socially accepted norm?
… norms. Despite the existence of international legal frameworks and the national laws enacted by successive Afghan governments over the past twenty years aimed at eradicating child marriage, this detrimental practice remains widespread, largely fuelled by poverty, tradition, and the impacts of …
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Freedom’s edge: Enslaved people, manumission, and the law in the eighteenth-century South Atlantic world
… with the law to achieve their manumission, or legal freedom. Drawing on freedom letters, petitions, legal suits, and other kinds of evidence from the eighteenth century, my analysis focuses on enslaved peoples’ social experience within the law as well as the judicial knowledge they acquired in …
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Lawyering from Below: Activist Legal Support in Contemporary Canada and the US
… criminalization. This dissertation explores the legal support infrastructure of grassroots protest movements in Canada and the US by tracing the evolution of contemporary activist legal support through two periods. The tactic of jail solidarity and an emerging legal collective model are …
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Canadian Contract Law Teaching and the Failure to Operationalize: Theory Practice, Realism Formalism, and Aspiration Reality in Contemporary Legal Education
… the relationship between theory and practice in legal education. Professors express a widespread aspiration to translate theory into practice – to incorporate theoretical and critical perspectives as a means of producing “better lawyers.” However, an analysis of the substantive theoretical …
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Standing Trans Before the Law
… and confirming whether their marriages were legal. However, it was not until the mid-2000s that courts began recognizing trans discrimination claims. While trans people enjoyed numerous legal inroads under the Obama administration, within its first two years, the Trump administration had …
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ANTROPOLOGIE DEI DIRITTI UMANI. PERCORSI AFRICANI.
… is increasing its relevance in the field of legal studies and in the agenda of inter/transnational actors. The Sociology of Law is deeply engaged in this dialogue, but some of its contributions seem to share a common lack of concern about the dimensions of cultural legitimacy and politics of …
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School expulsion in Ireland: a socio-legal rights-based analysis of expulsion law and practice
This thesis presents a socio-legal analysis of how school expulsion decisions are made in practice and the extent to which they comply with legal and procedural fairness standards. The study is contextualised through an analysis of the legal foundations of the right to education, the right to be …