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Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 465-472, November 2023., 2023 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
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 41, Issue 5, Page 432-444, September/October 2023., 2023 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
Law &Policy, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 253-272, July 2023., 2023 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
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 21-35, January 2023., 2023 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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Personal Relationships, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 727-750, December 2022., 2022 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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American Ethnologist, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 221-233, May 2022., 2022 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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Revista Interdisciplinar de Direito, 2023 No período colonial, a mutilação e a morte eram tipos punitivos encontrados no Brasil, sobretudo, no âmbito privado, através de um Direito Penal doméstico, as punições eram, então, concentradas nos corpos daqueles que praticavam um crime, sem se falar ...
Lohanna Coser Bitti +1 more
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Revista de las Cortes Generales, 2010 SUMARIO: Introducción. Consideraciones previas en torno a los mecanismos de creación normativa en materia penal durante el siglo XIX: la poca participación de las Cortes en el desarrollo de la Ley penal.
Gabriela Cobo del Rosal
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Sequência: Estudos Juridicos e Politicos, 2014 O presente artigo analisa o processo de formação do primeiro código penal italiano posterior à unificação política do país, o chamado Código Zanardelli de 1889.
Luigi Lacche
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Journal of Law and Society, Volume 47, Issue S1, Page S54-S73, October 2020., 2020 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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