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The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.Exemplary damages are commonly understood as public interest awards. This article explores the logical implications of understanding them in this way for a tort claimant's rights of action and settlement, and for the proper distribution of awards. One implication, it suggests, is that settlements, being compromises of public ends, should require court ...
Kit Barker
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CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris +2 more
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Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal, 2020 This editorial aims to analyze relevant topics related to confiscation and patrimonial restrictions to constrain assets that potentially have illicit origin. That may be implemented in the criminal process itself or in civil claims, like the Mexican “extinción de dominio”.
Estrada Contreras, José Javier +1 more
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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Crime and Sanctions: Beyond Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool
German Law JournalTargeted sanctions, namely asset freezes and travel bans, are no longer the province of foreign policy alone. They are increasingly often used by governments in response to crime, such as corruption, human rights abuse, cybercrime, drug trafficking, and ...
Anton Moiseienko
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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth
Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni +2 more
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Sonic Cartographies of Internationalism
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT How does sound chart a different story of anticolonialism? Sound could perhaps draw out another map of space in history. Mirroring the form of sound waves, this article travels across borders, following the way sound waves themselves move.
Mai Taha, Sara Salem
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Uzhhorod National University Herald. Series: LawThe article is devoted to the discussion of problematic issues of the functioning of the procedural mechanism of civil confiscation of sanctioned assets, in particular, the existing legislative approaches to determining the subject jurisdiction of the relevant category of cases.
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ADJUSTMENT OF THE ECONOMIC NATURE OF LEGAL DISPUTES SINCE 2022
Baltic Journal of Economic StudiesThis article examines the structure, dynamics, and legal nature of court cases involving the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine in 2023–2024, based on official statistical and analytical data.
Oksana Hinda +2 more
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