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Showing 1 to 20 of 870 for “"disputes"”.
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designing + (dis)assembling disputes: an ethnography of disputes & lawyers in the construction industry
… industry is notorious for the sheer amount of disputes which are likely to arise on each building and engineering project. Despite numerous creative attempts at “dispute avoidance” and “dispute resolution”, this industry is still plagued with these costly disputes. Whilst both academic …
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The Substance of Ontological Disputes
… This field is called ontology. Ontological disputes have sometimes been accused of being merely verbal disputes: that they are concerned only with language and not with facts. Some think that if this accusation is correct, philosophers should give up doing ontology. However, whether the …
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Litigation Finance in Environmental Disputes
… be deployed within the field of environmental disputes as effectively as in traditionally targeted practice areas, in order to further the aims of environmental protection. To substantiate this statement, the mechanism of litigation finance will be scrutinized first, alongside its application …
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TAX DISPUTES IN INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION
This thesis examines tax disputes adjudicated by investor-state tribunals. I argue that the nature of taxation – a compulsory levy – is unlike any other state regulatory measure such as an environmental or a public health measure. I suggest that tax-related investment disputes constitute a unique …
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Border Disputes in Southeast Kansas, 1856-1858
Bleeding Kansas is often mentioned in Civil War histories but usually only in general terms. Discussions of Kansas are usually limited to events that occurred between 1854 and 1857 in the Lawrence region in the northwestern part of the state. John Brown is the most recognized figure from Kansas, …
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Borders: visualizing temporal changes in border disputes
Disputes and changes of international borders have been an area of study for cartographers since long ago. Now, with online maps growing faster than printed maps, the task also transfers to online map creators. Companies like Google and Bing provide personalized maps where disputed international …
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Governmental Intervention in Labor - Management Disputes: 1961-1963
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T17:52:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6500937.pdf: 9645511 bytes, checksum: 8b2b2255ebc87317d58d03f7f0349656 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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Party Wall Disputes: Legal Coherence and Dispute Management
… factual issues linked to party walls and related disputes that, to date, have not been brought and analysed together. The aim is to provide a contextual analysis of these different areas of law and fact and thereby formulate a separate area of party walls and related disputes of its own merit, to …
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Adjudication of child relocation disputes in South Africa
… discusses the adjudication of child relocation disputes (CRDs) in South Africa. The central thesis is that judges require adequate legislative guidance when exercising their discretion in CRDs. At present, judges adopt widely different reasonings when adjudicating CRDs and this has led to …
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Addressing Aboriginal disputes in Canada : a new initiative
… to increase the frequency and complexity of such disputes. Despite these well-recognized dynamics, there are insufficient mechanisms and resources to address Aboriginal disputes, whether between Aboriginal groups and government, Aboriginal groups and non-governmental, non-Aboriginal parties, or …
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Governmental Intervention in Labor Disputes From 1945 to 1952
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:03:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0004420.pdf: 15275752 bytes, checksum: da68a9d512ad4c5cca140e944939e2a9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1952
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Three to tango: explaining expansion of militarized interstate disputes
… on potential joiners to Militarized Interstate Disputes (MIDs) between 1816 and 2001. Empirical tests support many of the theoretical propositions. A potential joiner is highly likely to intervene in disputes when it has asymmetric levels of affinities induced by having common allies and shared …
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Partisan politics and the resolution of international economic disputes
… this partisan theory of international economic disputes by three empirical strategies. First, I examine whether left- or right-leaning governments are more likely to resolve major or minor ISDS claims through settlement, and which governments tend to settle these different types of claims more …
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Beaches of the future: analyzing territorial disputes in South America
Territorial and border disputes have long been a foundation for conflicts in the international arena, but in Latin America, gaps in literature still remain. Analyzing cases in this region can equip the international community to understand sources of conflict, formulate improved foreign policy with …
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Paths to peace: conflict management trajectories in militarized interstate disputes
… behavior within militarized interstate disputes in the 1946-2001 period, this study concludes that third-party intervention efforts inform one another. More specifically, third-parties examine previous efforts and balance their desire to manage conflict with their need to minimize …
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Mediating inequality : mediators' perspectives on power imbalances in public disputes
Mediators of public disputes respond to inequalities among parties in a variety of ways. In order to understand the range of interventions they employ and the reasoning behind these interventions, I interviewed 17 experienced public disputes mediators about their individual practice guidelines. I …
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Inter-union work assignment disputes under the railway labor act.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1967
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