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Good Chaps and Guardrails: Backstopping Democracy with a Reverse Salisbury Convention for the House of Lords

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘good chaps’ theory of government relies on officeholders understanding and adhering to implicit lines preventing corruption and abuse of power. Boris Johnson's prime ministership showed some weaknesses in this approach. Recent global experience, especially with the re‐election of Donald Trump, suggests the UK may need stronger backstops ...
Tom Nicholls
wiley   +1 more source

(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
doaj   +1 more source

Relaxing electoral constraints in local education funding

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, EarlyView.
Michel Grosz, Ross Milton
wiley   +1 more source

The Recent Civil Disobedience Fidelity to Law

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Generations of citizens have successfully used civil disobedience to enact positive lasting change in their societies. In some places, such as the UK and elsewhere, it is considered a ‘tradition’. But recent instances of civil disobedience—especially in relation to UK climate campaigners—have brought forward numerous challenges, some of which ...
Brian Christopher Jones
wiley   +1 more source

Reforms as the Russian Legislation Development Factor of Social Security in the Light of the RF Constitutional Court Decisions

Сибирское юридическое обозрение, 2013
Based on the legal positions of the RF Constitutional Court, general requirements of social reforms’ realization order and legislative regulation are analyzed in the ...
M. Yu. Fedorova
doaj  

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
doaj  

The Function of Judicial Dissent in Indonesia’s Constitutional Court

Constitutional Review, 2018
Indonesian judges are permitted to issue dissenting opinions. Constitutional Court judges regularly hand them down. However, neither judges nor academics have outlined the purposes of dissenting opinions in Indonesia.
S. Butt
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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 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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Stigma, human rights, testing and treatment – time for action: Ruben Sher Memorial Lecture, 26 November 2009

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2010
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Edwin Cameron
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