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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Socio-legal Studies"”.
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Grassroots Governance: Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice Partnerships in an Immigrant City
… the methodological and theoretical insights of socio-legal studies, postcolonial feminism, and governmentality scholarship, my research explores the governance of domestic violence through the community. Specifically, I examine how the voluntary sector performs the state’s work of prosecuting …
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Conjunctures in Law and Development: Assemblages for Progress in Indian Agricultural Futures
This dissertation asks: how are the legal, political, and social legacies of the Green Revolution and India's incorporation into the global knowledge economy shaping or undermining the emergent discourses, practices, and regulatory rationalities of India's current Climate Smart Agriculture …
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A study of legal aid and advice in England and Wales.
… of this study to examine the social nature of legal aid. The thesis takes as its point of departure the dehates about the problems identified in the administration of the legal aid scheme and the suggestions to improve this scheme. It seeks firstly to provide the reader with an account of the …
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Public dimensions of private contracting: the institutional ordering of trans-sectoral exchange in the NHS
Socio-legal studies of the role of legal institutions in ordering contracting behaviour in both commercial and government sectors are in broad agreement that exchange is effected by a variety of legal, extra-legal and economic norms and modes of enforcement. The present study evaluates the adequacy …
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The human right to medicines in sub-Saharan Africa
… the region. Moreover, the thesis contributes to socio-legal studies identifying the phenomena of autopoiesis, contingency, power and the limits of steering affecting human rights, law and politics.
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Undocuactivism: Latina/o undocuactivists fighting for change in the U.S.
… remaining in the shadows due to their lack of legal status in the U.S. and are fighting for the rights of all immigrants. The guiding research question is, ""How do Latina/o undocuactivists understand and contest illegality?"" Using an intersectional methodological and theoretical approach, I …
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Labour dispute resolution in southern Africa : a study of emerging trends and realities in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland
… necessarily located along the continuum of the socio-legal and historical context of each country. The study asserts that there is an indisputable connection between the past colonial state and the post-colonial state. It contends that the post-colonial elite openly assimilated the regulatory …
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The United Kingdom's Responses to Adverse Strasbourg Judgments: A Look Inside Government
… in different responses. Secondly, I set out the legal, policy and political choices for those involved, examining those related to: the legal obligations following an adverse judgment; the substantive response; and the vehicle for the response. Thirdly, I illustrate the extent of the complexity …
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Law v Algorithmic Governance: China’s Social Credit Systems and other Data Experiments
… accepted or well established forms of text-based legal governance, and code to emerging forms of algorithmic governance, using machine learning and other aspects of artificial intelligence (‘AI’). The dissertation uses China’s Social Credit System (SCS) and other data/code experiments as case …