Constitutional Proceedings: A New Challenge for Georgian Legal Education [PDF]
Taking into account the Georgian reality, the traditionalism reigning in law, the often excessive reliance on learning/teaching and evaluation methods, the unconscious fear of novelty, significantly hinder the evolution of disciplines.
Dimitry Gegenava, Paata Javakhishvili
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Its Hour Come Round at Last? State Sovereign Immunity and the Great State Debt Crisis of the Early Twenty-first Century [PDF]
State sovereign immunity is a sort of constitutional comet, streaking across the sky once a century to the amazement and consternation of legal commentators. The comet’s appearance has usually coincided with major state debt crises: The Revolutionary War
Young, Ernest A.
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When Heather needs her second mommy
Abstract Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015) appeared to settle certain issues in family law by allowing same gender individuals to marry. Unfortunately, Obergefell left some areas of inequality between same gender and heterogeneous households, including visitation and family support rights and obligations, especially rights outside of and before
Daniel R. Fruit
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The Remedies of Elimination of a Statutory Privilege Incompatible with the Right to Equality And Non-Discrimination by the Constitutional Courts [PDF]
While performing the constitutional review, constitutional courts often have to assess the constitutionality of legal provisions, which grant a privilege concerning social benefits, tax exemptions or similar matters to a certain group of the society ...
Nino Chochia
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Censorship: The Law and the Courts [PDF]
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Fleishman, Stanley
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Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion
ABSTRACT Intergovernmental grants stimulate the diffusion of policy reforms, as the federal government provides states with a financial incentive to adopt policies aligned with federal priorities. Less is known about the extent to which these grants also stimulate horizontal diffusion across states.
NaLette Brodnax, Sarah James
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The Art of Applying IHL: Jus In Bello in The Jurisprudence of Inter-American Human Rights Bodies [PDF]
Due to the ECHR’s decision regarding the request for interim measures lodged by Armenia against Azerbaijan with respect to an armed conflict, the issue of giving international humanitarian law (IHL) relevance through the jurisprudence of regional human ...
Ana Jabauri
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Federal Jurisdiction: The Civil Rights Removal Statute Revisited [PDF]
For the first time in sixty years, the Supreme Court in Georgia v. Rachel and City of Greenwood v. Peacock re-examined the civil rights removal provisions of section 1443 of the Judicial Code, which until recent years have remained dormant because of the
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Scenes From a Sociolegal Career: An Informal Memoir
ABSTRACT This memoir describes the 40‐year unfolding, project by project, of my sociolegal field research on legal and regulatory processes. It provides brief accounts of my interactions and interviews with regulatory officials and with businesspeople responsible for regulatory compliance.
Robert A. Kagan
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The Right Not to be Dominated: The Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights on Migrants’ Destitution [PDF]
The European Court of Human Rights increasingly deals with migrants’ complaints about desti-tution in their host state under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment). This case law has been
Lieneke Slingenberg
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