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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"Socio-legal"”.
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Bankruptcy Stigma: A Socio-Legal Study
… as the institution of bankruptcy has existed, legal commentators have debated whether it is appropriate for debtors to experience some social stigma upon filing for personal bankruptcy--that is, whether it serves the goals of bankruptcy law for debtors to feel shame. While this issue has been …
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Domestic Workers and their access to childcare: A Socio-Legal study
… equality. This Constitutionally based legal analysis is used as a means of understanding social transformation through the experiences of the participant group.
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The socio-legal significance of decriminalising sex work in South Africa
… of existing legislative models such as the legalisation model (adopted in the Netherlands), partial criminalisation model (also known as the ‘end-demand' model, which is enforced in Sweden) and the decriminalisation model (applied in New Zealand and Australia), as well as how the …
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A socio-legal approach to the abandonment of infants in Cape Town.
This dissertation considers the impact of the law in its current form on service providers for abandoned infants in Cape Town. It looks at what works, what does not, and possible solutions. The topic is examined through qualitative empirical research in Cape Town with social workers who work with …
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A modern labyrinth: socio-legal insights on migration paths to citizenship in the UK
… skilled non-UK/EU migrants based on general socio-political conditions and specific legal conditions, if so how is it reflected in the legal and political development of migration policy, and what can be done to change this. This project hypothesizes that the UK migration system may be …
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Supporting the contraceptive decision-making of adults with intellectual disabilities: A socio-legal examination
… to exercise them. However, relatively little socio-legal research that draws upon empirical data has been conducted in this domain. In this thesis, the contraceptive decision-making of adults with intellectual disabilities is used as an empirical context for examining support for …
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Indigenous Environmental Rights, Participation and Lithium Mining in Argentina and Bolivia: A Socio-Legal Analysis
… and Chile. This thesis is based on qualitative socio-legal research conducted 2015–2019, including six months of fieldwork in the region in January–June 2017. The research found that little reliable information about lithium mining’s environmental impacts have been made available to indigenous …
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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 …
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The socio-legal response(s) to women who kill : a proposed model for acknowledging their agency
This thesis will explore the socio-legal response(s) to women who kill. Interrogating the constructions of “woman” and “femininity” within criminal legal discourse it will argue that the agency (that is, the ability of an individual to choose to act in a particular way) of women who kill is denied, …
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From fear to fraternity: a socio-legal analysis of doctors' responses to being called to account by patients
… First, to contribute to the development of socio-legal theories of disputes. In particular, the study aimed to enhance understanding of reactions to voiced grievances which tend to be under-theorised. A second aim was to examine how a powerful elite, such as the medical profession, responds …
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Muslim women who veil and Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights: A socio-legal critique
… been the subject of many theological, social and legal debates, which are fluid and their intensity has been further influenced by its contextualised meanings such as religiosity, modesty, identity, resistance, protest, choice and subjugation. Literature on Muslim veiling has either examined its …
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On Indigenous Tax Consciousness: The Socio-Legal History of the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government, 1938-1987
… colonialism. Specifically, it chronicles the socio-legal history of the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government, a Gwich’in tribe from the Alaska interior region. The tribe gained national attention when it attempted to tax a school construction project in the 1980s, triggering a fierce …
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Law and Spatial Planning. Socio-legal Perspectives on the Development of Wind Power and 3G Mobile Infrastructures in Sweden
… of knowledge involved in the process, and the sociolegal tension between formal law and its practical consequences. The thesis deals with problems stemming from the multi-level tensions in the planning and implementation that exist between the national, the regional and the local authorities. …
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Consociationalism and equality within the European Union: a socio-legal study of community identity and gender in Northern Ireland and Belgium
… are rendered as secondary. This thesis takes a socio-legal approach to exploring how the interaction between consociationalism and legislative equality frameworks impacts on experiences of inequalities at the intersection of community identity and gender in two areas within the European Union: …
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Defamation, privacy & the ‘chill:’ A socio-‐legal study of the relationship between media law and journalistic practice in England and Wales, 2008-‐13
… media law in practice through interviews with legal specialists in defamation and privacy, close monitoring of online content, examination of court and policy documents, and surveys among journalists and online writers, and considers how decisions to publish or abandon stories are made in the …
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Faith, hope and charity – a critical review of charity law's socio-legal reconciliation of the advancement of religion as a recognised head of charity
… and this is undertaken through a critical socio-legal review, taking in to consideration, inter alia, historical and contemporary tensions that exist with regard to the legal recognition of religion within charity, and the fundamental need for charity in society, whereby the two principles …
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A socio-legal case study of advocacy and non-advocacy mechanisms established to support the participation of children and young people in non-judicial decision-making processes in Moray.
… and associated 'magistral duties', such as a legal advocate or a safeguarder - the former professionally qualified for the post and the latter appointed. The same cannot always be said of the mechanisms and the role holders employed in non-judicial decision making processes, such as non-legal …
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