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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"Rights Act"”.
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Strasbourg Jurisprudence in Domestic Courts under the Human Rights Act
Section 2 of the Human Rights Act 1998 enjoins UK domestic courts to ‘take into account’ Strasbourg jurisprudence but does not bind them to it. Neither does s.2 oblige domestic courts to follow it, imitate it or restrict themselves to it. However, judicial guidance to ‘follow’ the ‘clear and …
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The Human Rights Act 1998: A Bill of Rights for Britain?
… of the coming into force of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), this thesis endeavours to explore the extent to which New Labour’s flagship piece of legislation can be considered a Bill of Rights for Britain. It explores the debate surrounding the characteristics of Bills of Rights in …
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The role of school psychologists regarding the implementation of the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act
… school psychologists in New Jersey were contacted in order to determine the attitudes, roles, and approaches of different school psychologists in relation to the new HIB (Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying) legislation for all New Jersey Public Schools. This study gauged school …
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The Human Rights Act 1998 in Constitutional Context: The Common Law, The Rule of Law, and Human Rights
The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) is seen as a landmark piece of constitutional legislation that brought about many legal and political changes in the United Kingdom’s human rights architecture. Yet the HRA is vulnerable to repeal; successive governments have promised to repeal or otherwise alter the …
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Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act (ABBRA) in New Jersey: a case study of the implementation of regulatory policy
… of the New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act (ABBRA). The environment of accountability has become increasingly prominent through the ongoing development of regulatory policy in the field of education (Anderson, 2011; Fowler, 2009; Limber & Small, 2003; Peterson & West, 2003; …
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The role of school psychologists in bullying interventions in year four of New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act
… HIB roles of school psychologists and (b) the factors that influence their involvement in advocating HIB initiatives after the New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act was passed in 2010. A survey was distributed to about 1,000 school psychologists in New Jersey and asked about demographics, …
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A theoretical analysis of the labor market wage and employment effects of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
… labor market effects of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from practicing wage discrimination and employment dis- crimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin or color. A theoretical model of the equal wage and the equal employment …
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Conversational circles influencing athletic policymaking during development, implementation, litigation, and enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 of the Civil Rights Act of 1965
… of the Education Amendments of 1972 to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the study focused on identifying conversational circles that emerged in legislative, judicial, print media, and educational spheres. These Conversational Circles appeared to influence gender equity policy making in …
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Mixed-Method Analyses of Federal Court Decisions During 1980-2007 Involving Race and Sex Discrimination Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Faculty Tenure Denial Decisions in Higher Education
<p>Purpose</p> <p>The Civil Rights Act of 1964 has become the foundation of modem federal equal employment opportunity law. The application of this law to adverse tenure decisions, however, may differ from other adverse employment decisions because of judicial deference toward institutions of …
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Fight the Power: Protest, Showdown and Civil Rights Activity in Three Southern Cities, 1960-1965.
… describes the significant events of the Civil Rights Movement from 1960 to 1965, examining the campaigns of Albany, Georgia in 1962, Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, and Selma, Alabama in 1965. In the wake of the freedom rides of 1960-61, Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership …
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An Examination Into the Feasibility of Court-Annexed Arbitration of Title Vii Claims
… for the resolution of Title VII (Civil Rights Act of 1964) employment discrimination claims in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Court-annexed arbitration, as it is used here, is arbitration supervised by the courts.
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Bullying in New Jersey: what has been done and what is going on
… legislation as part of the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act for New Jersey public schools in regard to students' perceptions of severity of cyber, relational, physical and non-bulllying scenarios. The study also observed students' ability to identify non-bullying scenarios from bullying scenarios …
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Semiotic Analysis of Workforce Diversity
… set forth by and in consequence of the Civil Rights Act. This Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of sex, race, colour, religion, pregnancy, national origin, age, and disability. These categories emerge from a Western, specifically Anglo-Saxon, perspective and are rooted in a nominalist …
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Affirmative action within the fire service: The background on the law and its effect on the fire service and how fire department policies reflect the affirmative action legislation.
… the citizens in which they serve. Affirmative action has been a polarizing issue since the day the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed. Many thoughts and feelings had been researched but no quantitative studies could be found. This study asked three main questions. Are the fire departments …
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Semiotic Analysis of Workforce Diversity
… set forth by and in consequence of the Civil Rights Act. This Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of sex, race, colour, religion, pregnancy, national origin, age, and disability. These categories emerge from a Western, specifically Anglo-Saxon, perspective and are rooted in a nominalist …
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A critical and comparative analysis of legal provisions regulating privacy aspects of genetic testing within the U.K.
… from the perspective of emerging human rights provisions, those relating to the individual right to confidentiality and rights to privacy, now guaranteed under the Human Rights Act 1998. As the Human Rights Act 1998 came into force fairly recently (October 2000), this research aims to …
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