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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"judicial decisions"”.
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Birth and the magistrate: The influence of pregnancy on judicial decisions
… topics, the specific issue of pregnancy and judicial decisions has yet to be examined. The purpose of this particular research study is to heighten awareness of the issues surrounding the topic, and provide evidence indicating the influence, if any, pregnancy has on judicial decisions.
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What's the Public Got to Do With It? The Impact of Public Opinion on Judicial Decisions: An Empirical Analysis of Abortion Case Outcomes
… public opinion and state high court judge case decisions. The primary focus is to determine how public opinion influences these decisions when judges are elected. The first paper examines this question broadly looking at all abortion case decisions by elected judges from 1980-2018. The results …
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The Equal Access Act: “Not the Access for All Students Except Gay Students Act”: Federal Judicial Decisions and Their Implications for School Systemsâ Policies and Practices Regarding Student Requests to Establish Gay Straight Alliance Clubs in Public Schools
… resulting in these students utilizing the judicial system as the venue to assert their rights under the law (Essex, 2005). As it is imperative that educational leaders understand the legal rights of all students under their care, and make informed decisions in order to avoid costly …
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Sexual offending and sentencing: an investigation of the factors affecting sentencing decisions regarding perpetrators of sexual offences against children. In particular an investigation of the impact and usefulness clinical psychology reports have in judicial decisions about sentencing sexual offenders.
… a range of factors that impact and influence decisions about the sentencing of sexual offenders. A mixed methodological approach comprising case-file audit, qualitative interviews and statistical tests of association and prediction of variance was used to investigate the research area from …
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Problémy trestního soudnictví nad mládeží
… and secondly by analyzing not yet published judicial decisions of Municipal Court of Prague, statistics of Police of the Czech Republic and other sources reflecting current trends and professional practice. The presented thesis is divided into four main parts, that are logically connected to …
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Considerações acerca da relativização atípica da coisa julgada no âmbito cível
… since there is no absolute right, final judicial decisions ridden by vice of unconstitutionality may be challenged by autonomous lawsuit called querela nullitatis, derived from technique of balancing values. On the other hand, judicial decisions which do not admit further appeals, but …
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Maritime Delimitation of the Continental Shelf in Europe with special reference to the Mediterranean Sea
… the development of State practice, conventions, judicial decisions, arbitral awards, and settlements on the delimitation of maritime boundaries in a European and Mediterranean context. Conclusions will be expressed on important principles which may be of relevance in future, delimitations, not …
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Decision-Making at the Court of Appeals Level Involving Religious Liberty Cases
… studies have been completed on factors affecting judicial decisions. Studies have focused on civil rights cases, economic cases, criminal cases, sexual discrimination and obscenity cases, but no work has specifically looked at religious liberty cases. This work examines the factors affecting …
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A Study of the Roles of Interest Groups and the Courts in Canadian Educational Policy Development
… investigate whether a new, third level (i.e., a judicial level) of educational policy-making is evolving in Canada More specifically, the thesis examines the contemporary educational policy-making context in order to ascertain if the nature of educational policy-making structures, changes in the …
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An outlaw practice: boxing, governance and western law
… a primary sample of two hundred and one reported judicial decisions canvassing the breadth of recognised legal categories, and an allied range fight lore supporting, opposing or critically reviewing the sport's development since the beginning of the nineteenth century, discernible evolutionary …
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Blackstone's Commentaries: Foothold or Footnote in Louisiana's Antebellum Legal History
… common law, which originated in the customs and judicial decisions of England, and is the legal system followed in the other forty-nine states. A question arises as to the reason the Commentaries was included in the "Course of Studies," since there exist fundamental differences between the two …
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Of mice and missiles: An Austrian School economic appraisal of Lucas v South Carolina Coastal Commission
… economic framework by which various policy and judicial decisions affecting property rights can be considered; Chapter II examines the proper role for a legal system as well as the historical and United States Constitutional respect for property rights. Secondly, the devolution of this earlier …
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Stewarding the earth : rethinking property and the emergence of biocultural rights.
… of multilateral environmental agreements, judicial decisions of regional and domestic courts and community initiatives. The thesis concludes with a description of the new biocultural jurisprudence including its application through innovative, community‐developed instruments such as …
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A teoria da imputação objetiva na jurisprudência brasileira: análise de casos de autocolocação em perigo e de heterocolocação em perigo consentida em crimes contra a vida
… the study offers a critical assessment of four judicial decisions – two from the Superior Court of Justice and two from different State Courts – providing a diagnostic assessment regarding the correct or incorrect application of the concepts of self-endangerment and hetero-endangerment and …
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Sitting in Judgement: Moral Constraints on Judicial Reasoning within the Bounds of Law
… moral constraints which must be taken as guiding judicial discretion in partially regulated cases. I argue that these second-order moral constraints are binding on all judges and that our theories of judicial decision making need to acknowledge both the role and the status of these constraints. …
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Legal Issues in Online Auctions in Germany and the U.S.A.
… of the court. The number of legal procedures and judicial decisions around Internet Auctions is consequentially increasing, because there is more and more business transacted by way of Internet Auction. These judgments were rendered in various fields of law so that one cannot say that there exists …
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Conversational circles influencing athletic policymaking during development, implementation, litigation, and enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 of the Civil Rights Act of 1965
… circles that emerged in legislative, judicial, print media, and educational spheres. These Conversational Circles appeared to influence gender equity policy making in college and university athletics throughout the United States. Specific attention in this dissertation was turned to …
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The convergence of labour and commercial law: executive dismissals in contemporary South Africa
… and labour law is examined along with the judicial decisions which have shaped this particular aspect of the law. A brief overview of comparative labour law is discussed in an attempt to gain a multinational view of the matter. Throughout this dissertation it is of cardinal importance to …
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Nájem bytu
… legal regulation. The text is added by relevant judicial decisions.
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Debt crisis in the local governments of South Africa: a policy and legal analysis.
… legislation, government policy documents, judicial decisions, academic commentary, and official reports. The analysis reveals that while the existing legal and policy frameworks are comprehensive in design, their practical implementation is undermined by systemic governance failures. Key …
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