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PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS
ABSTRACT This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedded in metaphysical truths, and enacted in service of the future. Part 1 assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the “preambular approach to history”
Antoon De Baets
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The conscience clause is an interesting mechanism to study because it arises from the original intersection of the notions of law, morality and justice, falling within a distinct category of refusal of care, issued by a health professional rather than a ...
Guillaume Rousset
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ABSTRACT Aim To explore how the legalisation of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) has shaped the discourse of MAiD and its relationship with hospice palliative care (HPC) in Canada. Background There is perceived tension in the discourse between the goals of MAiD and HPC, but little literature examines this relationship and the effect it has on ...
Jennifer D. Dorman +3 more
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Background In Victoria, Australia, the law regulating abortion was reformed in 2008, and a clause (‘Section 8’) was introduced requiring doctors with a conscientious objection to abortion to refer women to another provider.
Louise Anne Keogh +6 more
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Shall Businesses Profit If Their Owners Lose Their Souls? Examining Whether Closely Held Corporations May Seek Exemptions from the Contraceptive Mandate [PDF]
May for–profit, secular corporations claim the protection of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)? This question is central to numerous lawsuits against the federal government in which business owners argue that certain regulations under the ...
Ross, Christopher S.
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Ontology After Folk Psychology; or, Why Eliminativists Should Be Mental Fictionalists
ABSTRACT Mental fictionalism holds that folk psychology should be regarded as a kind of fiction. The present version gives a Lewisian prefix semantics for mentalistic discourse, where roughly, a mentalistic sentence “p” is true iff “p” is deducible from the folk psychological fiction.
Ted Parent
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Resumen: Se analiza el derecho a la información y su evolución en estos 40 años de vida de nuestra Constitución de 1978. Primero se estudian aquellas normas jurídicas que han desarrollado directamente este derecho para después ver aquéllas que lo han ...
David Ortega Gutiérrez
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The Supreme Court As National School Board [PDF]
A modern industrial robot control system is often only based upon measurements from the motors of the manipulator. To perform good tra-ectory tracking on the arm side of the robot a very accurate description of the system must therefore be used.
Karlsson, Rickard, Norrlöf, Mikael
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