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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Self-defence"”.
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Battered women: self-defence and provocation
The act of 'being battered' is within the realm of experience of many women and may involve not only actual physical assault but also psychologically debilitating practices, all of which occur in a society which seems to be unable to realise the extent of the problem. 'Wife beating' has always been …
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The use of nuclear weapons under the doctrine of self-defence
The lawful use of nuclear weapons in self-defence sits in a precarious and fraught position amongst lawyers, states and scholars, primarily due to their indiscriminate destructive nature. The use of nuclear weapons is the biggest threat to peace and security yet they exist under obscurity in …
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The Paris Attach - a case for the right to self-defence?
… declared that it was exercising its right to self-defence, Art. 51 of the United Nations Charter (hereinafter: UNC). According to the traditional view in international law, the right to self-defence requires an armed attack by a state or alternatively, if the attack was launched by a non-state …
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The meaning of self-defence under article 51 of the United Nations charter
… of the concept of individual and collective self-defence as expressed in Article 51 of the UN Charter. In doing so, it will analyse the attempts to stretch the scope of the right of self-defence beyond the limits allowed under Article 51 and assess whether such attempts have undermined the …
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Intoxication and self-defence : a comparative study of principles of English law and Shari'ah
… with the problem of intoxication and private defence in society. It suggests that Shari'ah provides a framework in which the complex and sometimes competing needs of an individual and society can be fairly apportioned. The research will demonstrate that there is a well developed system of …
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‘State failure’ and the extraterritorial use of force in self-defence against non-state actors
… sufficient legal basis for the intervention in self-defence against non-state actors in located in failed states. It has been argued that state failure has a profound impact, the extent of which is yet to be fully explored, on the modern landscape of peace and security.
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When may police kill in self-defence? A special moral obligations argument against moral parity
… of police killings of civilians in self-defence. I argue that police officers, at least when acting ex officio, face a special justificatory burden such that the set of conditions under which a police officer may permissibly kill a civilian in self-defence is more tightly constrained …
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Two or more wrongs make a right? – The evolution of the customary right of self-defence in the post 9/11 era, and the effect of ‘unlawful' state behaviour on the formation of custom on the right of self-defence against non-state actors
… crucial point in the development of the right of self-defence against a non-state actor in customary international law. More and more states used force against non-state actors while claiming their right of self-defence in the post-9/11 era. Situations such as the US fight against the Taliban in …
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Valstybių prevencinė savigyna: teisiniai ir politiniai aspektai /
… of veto right, sanctions the usage of preventive self-defence notably rarely. The problem then occurs: because of the ineffectiveness of the UNSC in sanctioning the usage of preventive self-defence, the states implement the preventive self-defence by themselves, in this way violating one of the …
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Title Changes in International Law in response to Terrorist attacks. A comparative study of Israeli and the US state practice
… security as well as the inherent right of self-defence, international society responded to these interventions in different ways. In relation to 1982 Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in order to fight the PLO, international society condemning Israeli actions did not recognise its right to …
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The householder defence in Canada and England and Wales: between proportionality and penal populism
This dissertation investigates the householder defence’s proportionality of force through both theoretical and penal policy lenses. The householder defence deals with a dwelling-house defender’s use of force against an invading aggressor to their own home. The householder defence can be used to …
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The legality of the use of force against Iraq in 2003
… for the use of force; ii) the right of self-defence in pre-emptive action against threats from Iraq; iii) the right of pro-democratic intervention in Iraq in order to relieve the Iraqi people of vast and continuing human rights violations by the despotic regime of Saddam Hussein. The …
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A critical overview of international law with regard to the problem of terrorism in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
… in the last part of the thesis, the issue of self-defence against terrorist attacks will be thoroughly analyzed.
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Does expert evidence pertaining to battered woman syndrome influence juror verdicts?
… juror verdicts the legal requirements of self defence (imminence, proportionality and an attempt to retreat from the situation) are generally not met in cases where battered women kill their partner: The killings do not immediately follow the attack, the force used is not proportionate to …
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The Legality of the USA s Use of Force to Counter Terrorism
… terrorism citing the right to use force in self-defence as the justification for it. A history of the USA's use of force against other states in the name of countering terrorism portrays that the country has often gone too far opening up the narrow exceptions to the prohibition on the use of …
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The material culture of Muay Thai within the linguistic landscapes of selected South African and Thailand gyms.
… worldwide as a martial art, a system of self-defence and a method of fitness. Although it has been around for an extended period of time, Muay Thai has arguably been subjected to constant evolution contingent on the space in which it is found. The linguistic landscape (LL) comes into play …
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Interception : a novel
… Jeremy is a 25 year-old university dropout and self defence instructor who returns to Seymour after the failure of both his martial arts school and his relationship with Ellie Donnelly, the lawyer he lived with for four years in Boston. In Seymour, he confronts his past and attempts to set up a …
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Paranoia, power and male identity in John Buchan's Literary War
… by arguing that Buchan’s ‘Literary War’ can itself be thought of as a kind of ‘paranoid imaginary’ in which cultural fears (particularly fears relating to decadence and degeneration) are projected outwards to return in the romantic guise of hostile foreigners intent on destroying England, and …
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Das außen- und sicherheitspolitische Verhalten der USA nach dem 11. September 2001
… like “democratic interventionism”, “right for self-defence”, “preemptive war” and “spreading of democracy” will have to be actively discussed and redefined. These terms are by no means new, of course, but they were seen and discussed differently during the time of the bipolar world order. In …
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The Protester as Producer: Militant Action and the U.S. Radical Media
… show how actions like vandalism, sabotage, armed self-defence, armed propaganda, and self-immolation circulated as new forms of cultural expression and public discourse in the context of the U.S. war in Vietnam and its concurrent racial crises. The histories I have unearthed through archival …
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