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Towards climate‐conscious corporate restructuring: A comparative exploration of English and Bhutanese legal frameworks

International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper conducts a comparative legal analysis of corporate restructuring frameworks in England and Bhutan, examining their capacity to integrate climate variability considerations and promote sustainable business practices. It discusses the procedural mechanisms for restructuring financially distressed enterprises available under the law of
Eugenio Vaccari, Migmar Lham
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Subordination of related party claims in insolvency: A suggestive framework for Asian regimes

International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Related party loans, due to their inherent nature, warrant a higher threshold for scrutiny when compared to loans extended by unrelated parties. Why were these monies advanced as loans, carrying higher priority in insolvency, rather than being invested as share capital?
Aditya Jain, Dhanya Jha, Rebecca Parry
wiley   +1 more source

Taking Thy Husband's Name: The Role of Religious Affiliation

Names, 2011
This study examined the influence of religion on women's decision to retain their birth names after marriage. Samples (N = 2575) were derived from wedding announcements in the New York Times, a major US newspaper.
Ernest L Abel, Michael L Kruger
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The Relevance of Apology to Reparations for Historical Injustice

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explains the centrality of apology to an adequate account of reparations. I look in depth at what goes on in apology. As I have previously argued, apology is an expressive action through which we seek to mark adequately the significance of our own wrongdoing. I claim that apology so understood is not merely ornamental.
Christopher Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

The civil sphere and its resilient tribalist discontents: a muslim ban cloaked in sacralized binaries [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo
This article explores how primordial, tribally rooted bonds become sacralized within the Civil Sphere (CS), challenging prevailing assumptions about the sphere’s inertial universal horizon.
Belback Joseph Daniel
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Legacy and the Politics of Racial Terminology

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When a term carries a sordid past, it is tempting to think it should have no future use. Yet the normative life of a word is rarely exhausted by its origins. This article develops legacy analysis as a method for enriching evaluation of what should be done with historically burdened terms. Rather than treating origins as decisive, the framework
Paul‐Mikhail Catapang Podosky
wiley   +1 more source

Estudio de la idiosincrasia estadounidense desde su teología política y ciencias eclesiásticas

Estudios Eclesiásticos, 2018
Este estudio crítico e histórico-comparado, de enfoque teológico-político y eclesiástico, centra su atención en la configuración idiosincrásica estadounidense.
Antonio Sánchez-Bayón
doaj  

The dialectics of trauma and political conscientization: A psychosocial study of activism for supporting sexual and gender minoritized communities in Brazil

Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study examined the dialectical association between psychosocial trauma and political conscientization in the lives of activists advocating for persons with marginalized sexual orientations and gender identities (2SLGBTQIA+) in São José dos Campos, Brazil.
Gab C. Siqueira, Luisa F. Velásquez Vallejo, Antonio Euzebios Filho   +2 more
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The Mexico City Policy in US Development Policy and Its Backlash‐Frontlash‐Logic

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Mexico City Policy provides for the discontinuation of U.S. government funding for foreign non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide legal abortion services. While Republican administrations have repeatedly pushed for the introduction of the Mexico City Policy after their re‐election, those regulations have been rescinded by ...
Thomas Lange
wiley   +1 more source

Auguste Comte and Consensus Formation in American Religious Thought—Part 1: The Creation of Consensus

Religions, 2017
French intellectual Auguste Comte was the most influential sociologist and philosopher of science in the Nineteenth Century. This first of two articles summarizes his complex life’s works and details reactions to them by Transcendentalists and Unitarians,
Kenneth S. Sacks
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