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Trust in Regulation in a Time of Revolution
ABSTRACT This article examines trust in regulation as a core value and precondition of the modern liberal democratic regulatory state. It develops a concept of justified trust in regulation, grounded in regulatory trustworthiness—honesty, competence, and reliability—rather than in proxies such as partisan loyalty, blind faith, obedience, or resignation.
Cristie Ford
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ABSTRACT Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights ...
Susanne Karstedt +4 more
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The experience of some countries show that parliamentary sovereignty creates problems of hegemony of majority which has the potential to ignore minority.
Islami, Muhammad Nur +2 more
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Australian constitutional values: the case for dignity?
In 2018, in a case concerning the constitutional validity of limitations on political communication outside abortion clinics, several members of the Australian High Court identified dignity as an Australian constitutional value.
Barnes, Ashleigh Elizabeth
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Jury trial as a form of direct democracy in Ukraine: challenges and prospects for its development
The purpose of this article is to conduct a comprehensive constitutional and legal analysis of the institution of jury trials as a form of direct participation of the people in the administration of justice in modern Ukraine, as well as the problems and
Vitaliy Kovalchuk
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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon
Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
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ABSTRACT This article explores how documentary film constructs responsibility for environmental harm in response to the Argentine Supreme Court's 2008 ruling on the polluted Matanza‐Riachuelo river basin. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue between socio‐legal, film and cultural studies, the analysis explores how three documentaries envisage ...
Oliver Wilson‐Nunn
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Franklin D. Roosevelt recommended that “like the Bible, [the Constitution] ought to be read again and again.” Gustav Heinemann portrayed the Grundgesetz as a “great offering,” whose words must become flesh.
Ricardo Spindola Diniz
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Many constitutional courts use balancing in constitutional right adjudication. However, critics argue that balancing is an (self-)empowerment of the courts and a tool of judicial activism.
Kilian Lüders
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Abstract The last decade has witnessed a substantial increase in case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereafter: ECJ or Court) concerning the rule of law. This expansion in case law reflects the significant challenges to the rule of law that have arisen in recent years. Several EU member states have implemented measures that severely
Urszula Jaremba, Jasper Krommendijk
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