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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Socio-legal research"”.
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Gender equality in employment in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region
… to the labour market. However, after my initial research it became clear that this approach was unlikely to yield the expected dividends. This was so for a variety of reasons. First, the varying levels of development in the region preclude the divulgence of any hard and fast rules regarding the …
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Any place for Lome trade provisions under the WTO? : Towards the Lome V
The WTO and its forerunner GATT are products of immediate post World War II diplomacy brought about by the demand for the economic reconstruction of war-torn Western Europe. Protectionist attitudes of nations during the pre-war era and other economic misjudgments were partly blamed for the outbreak …
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The South African prosecution service: linchpin of the South African criminal justice system?
The prosecution service is a key role player in the criminal justice system. Its effectiveness and efficiency directly reflect on the performance and service of the whole criminal justice system. The South African prosecution service in its current shape is relatively young. Constitutional and …
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From top to bottom: rhetoric in the hierarchy of focused deterrence stakeholders
Criminological and socio-legal research has frequently focused on the gap between policy and practice that is evident in the "ceremonial rhetoric" guiding criminal justice policies. This thesis examines whether there is a gap between policy and practice in a unique, multi-agency focused deterrence …
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Lawyers, Legal Executives and Competing Claims for Professional Jurisdiction: A Study of Professional Organisations and Occupational Roles within a Legal Marketplace in Transition
… maintain with their auxiliary profession - legal executives, and the strategies the professional associations seek to invoke to enable them to keep abreast of a changing legal marketplace. Recent years have seen considerable changes in the way that legal services are delivered and who …
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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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Organised Food Crime? Analysing harmful and criminal activities in the food supply chain in England and Italy
… supply chain – is an under investigated field of research of extreme importance as modern food systems offer profitable opportunities to criminal actors. By drawing upon documentary analysis of public reports, court decisions and official documents published by relevant authorities, and on …
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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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Ascertainment of the truth in international criminal justice
… Court (ICC). It is not the purpose of this research to review the black letter law adopted and applied by these international tribunals and court, but rather to review the implementation of the legal principles in practice. It is a socio-legal research project which focuses on the practice …
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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 impact of international human rights on women’s rights in the United Arab Emirates: progress towards gender equality
… equality. It is against this background that the research ascertains what impact the ratified human rights conventions have had in the UAE and how the UAE meets its international gender equality obligations. The objective of the research is therefore to critically assess to what extent the UAE has …
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Is the Gender Reassignment protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 inclusive of the non-binary community?
… 7 of the Equality Act 2010, with the overarching research question being whether the Gender Reassignment protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 can offer full protection to the various gender identities of the non-binary community. Over the past decade, social studies into the …
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Judicial Behaviour in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Politics of the Minimum Standard of Treatment under the North American Free Trade Agreement
… literature produced by schools of international legal theory in response to this inquiry diverge. On the one hand, according to classical and positivist approaches to international law, a formalistic and ideal form of the law that is also detached from the world of politics is possible. On the …
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Jual-beli hewan yang belum tertangkap jebakan (jiretan) perspektif fiqih mazhab Syafi'i: Studi kasus di Desa Benjor Kecamatan Tumpang Kabupaten Malang
… adalah non doktrinal atau biasa disebut dengan socio legal research. Dalam penelitian ini metode analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis data kualitatif. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa dalam prakteknya penjual menjual hewan yang belum ada padanya, ia menawarkan beberapa jebakan yang …