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Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Northern Ireland's Lough Neagh—the UK and Ireland's largest freshwater lake—recently hit the headlines owing to an ecological crisis caused by the level of pollutants entering its waters. With political attention drawn to the lough, an emerging idea amongst environmental activists—inspired by the global ‘rights of nature’ (RoN) movement—is ...
Laurence Cooley, Elliott Hill
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Changes in Housing Supply and Tenure: Illustrations from Australia and the Netherlands

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Almost regardless of the welfare system and market context, the changing housing landscapes in Western countries show a number of similar trends. Households are confronted with decreasing access to homeownership and social renting, and increased reliance on private renting in combination with growing housing shortages and housing affordability
Marietta Haffner, Kath Hulse
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Constitutional Court, Judicial Independence, and Efforts to Achieve Qualified Justice

Hasanuddin Law Review, 2019
Judicial Corruption is a disgrace to the world of justice and disaster for the justice seeker community. The judiciary is the third branch of state power after the executive and legislature.
Irfan Nur Rachman
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Stop in the Law of the Name! Nominative Lawmaking, Populism and Justice

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Nominative laws—laws named after particular victims of violence or injustice such as Martyn's Law, Sarah's Law and Awaab's Law—have become increasingly prominent in the UK. In this article, we offer the first sustained attempt to explore this phenomenon and its social, political and legal significance. Two contributions are made.
Lee Jarvis, Michael Lister, Alex Powell
wiley   +1 more source

Important, but not Fundamental?

University of Vienna Law Review
This article attempts to shed light on how both the ECtHR and the Austrian VfGH have contributed to the protection of existing social benefits, to the right to equal access to social benefits and perhaps even to the establishment of a right to a ...
Philipp Selim
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(Some) courts are looking for new approaches and principles of Environmental and nature protection [PDF]

Glasnik Advokatske komore Vojvodine
Environmental degradation is escalating at a pace that is outpacing the capacity of traditional legal responses. Drawing on recent jurisprudence, this paper argues that courts are beginning to bridge the gap left by hesitant legislatures and executives ...
Knez Rajko
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Nordic legal overseers and institutional openness in crises: Challenges and adaptation during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We analyze challenges and adaptation strategies of Nordic legal overseers, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen and Chancellors of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, amid the COVID‐19 crisis. We study how the accountability capacities of the legal overseers were affected when standard practices of inclusive decision‐making were severed ...
Tero Erkkilä, Juho Mölsä, Ella Vähäniitty   +2 more
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Women's sense of their hak, divine justice, and economies of divorce in Istanbul Sens du hak des femmes, justice divine et économies du divorce à Istanbul

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Building on life story interviews with Muslim women – divorced and living in Istanbul – this article traces women's evocations of hak (haqq, , right) and other related terms in their narratives about financial arrangements during divorce proceedings. Mainly denoting right, justice, truth and due, the polysemic notion of hak encompasses a complex set of
Burcu Kalpaklıoğlu
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The Constitutional Context of Freedom of Contract – With a Look at the Basic Conditions for the Legislative Organization of the Civil Development of Private Law

Erdélyi Jogélet
A typical example of the achievements of Hungary’s historical constitution is the legal background – referenced in this study – provided by the contemporary Hungarian procedural law, which established the framework for the development of the uncodified ...
Imre Juhász
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DEATH PENALTY IN INDONESIA: WHAT AND WHY? IS IT NOT AGAINST UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHT PRINCIPLE? [PDF]

Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2019
Even though Indonesia has ratified International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 2005 which directly recognizes the right to life, at the same time Indonesia has committed to apply the death penalty in its law system.
Rima Yuwana YUSTIKANINGRUM
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