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Abstract Could a trade agreement strengthen the enforcement of domestic environmental laws? This article explores this question in the context of the US–Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA). The article examines, in particular, the potential role of the Secretariat for Submissions on Environmental Enforcement Matters (SEEM) of the TPA.
Pablo Peña
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Structured instruments for insanity defense evaluations: Opportunities and limitations
Abstract Insanity evaluations are often criticized for their—alleged—lack of objectivity, reliability and transparency. Structured tools to guide and support forensic evaluators during these evaluations have been developed—but they are rarely employed in forensic practice.
Giovanna Parmigiani +3 more
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Emergency powers, anti‐corruption, and policy failures during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Puerto Rico
Abstract This paper explores how the use of emergency powers by the US and Puerto Rican governments exacerbated the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic and manufactured the conditions for furthering the multilayered economic, legal, political, and humanitarian crisis affecting Puerto Rico since 2006. The paper discusses three cases.
Jose Atiles
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Poner la cuerpa: The Body as a Site of Reproductive Rights Activism in Peru
The issue of the body is central to feminist theory and activism. This article draws on social movement and performance theory to analyse the role of the body as a site of activism in performances and as a site that is subject to patriarchal and racial oppression.
Phoebe Martin
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Abstract This study examines the cultural concept of grandmothers as caregivers and potential attachment figures for their grandchildren in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Specifically, we examined the influence of the grandmaternal co‐residence with grandchildren on their caregiving involvement and on the dyad's relationship formation.
Wiebke Johanna Schmidt +2 more
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ABSTRACT Police work is obviously a question of pursuing subjects. In postslave societies, one figure dominates; police are always after the young Black man. Meanwhile, another distinctive subject of policing exists. In São Paulo, Brazil, police detectives are also worried about the failing White father.
GRAHAM DENYER WILLIS
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Abstract The negative and corrosive impacts of corruption in the fields of economics, politics, and law are widely discussed. Less understood are the potentially negative impacts of anti‐corruption struggles and strategies themselves. This article presents a case study of Brazil's ‘Car Wash’ (‘Lava Jato’) scandal from a legal and political perspective.
GEORGE MÉSZÁROS
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Gender &History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 286-303, July 2020.
Agata Ignaciuk, Christabelle Sethna
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Informe de derecho sobre "Consecuencias de una posible falsedad de la firma en un escrito de acusación particular y demanda civil" [PDF]
El abogado ...ha solicitado un Informe en Derecho respecto de las consecuencias jurídicas que emanan de una posible falsedad de la firma de una persona que aparece suscribiendo el escrito de acusación y de demanda civil en un proceso penal regido por el ...
Piedrabuena Richard, Guillermo
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Responsabilidad bancaria frente al delito de phishing en Colombia [PDF]
Artículo de investigaciónSe analiza la controversia de hasta dónde las entidades financieras tienen responsabilidad objetiva frente a sus clientes, cuando se comete un delito por un tercero, es decir, por la ciberdelincuencia, una aproximación desde la ...
Zabala, Jhon Alexander
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