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Nerd Harder: A Typology of Techno‐Legal Solutionist Logics in Child Online Safety Laws
ABSTRACT As jurisdictions worldwide grapple with regulating social media's effects on youth, US state legislatures have emerged as important laboratories for “techno‐legal solutionism”—the belief that complex social problems can be solved through legally mandated technical fixes.
Amanda Reid, Lorcan Neill, Evan Ringel
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Defference to The Executive in The United States after September 11 [PDF]
The deference thesis is that Congress and the judiciary should defer to the executive’s policy judgments during national emergencies. Criticism of the deference theory draws on the analogy of the emergency room medical protocol to argue that emergencies ...
Eric A. Posner
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Abstract Mentally ill defendants are regularly sentenced to death in Texas, the leading executioner in the United States. In this article, I explore the reasons for this phenomenon by analysing the arguments developed by prosecuting attorneys in capital punishment trials involving defendants who advance insanity or diminished capacity claims but are ...
CHLOÉ DEAMBROGIO
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The beginning of 2020 marked an unexpected turn for the world, the global pandemic of COVID-19 has affected every aspect of life. It has also created an unprecedented opportunity for governments to justify the expansion of their surveillance and ...
Clarisa Long
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Juridification of Politics – Contradictory Results of the Justice Sector Reforms in Georgia [PDF]
The interrelation between the law and politics permeates contemporary discussions of constitutional and statehood issues. Law and legal formalism have penetrated many areas, which were traditionally considered political, which has created a trend of ...
Sopho Verdzeuli
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Using Inherent Judicial Power in a State-Level Budget Dispute [PDF]
State courts are in financial crisis. Since the mid-1990s, state legislatures have allowed funding for their judicial systems to stagnate or dwindle. With diminished resources, state courts have struggled to provide adequate access to justice and dispute
Yates, Andrew W.
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Urgent issues and prospects in guilty plea research and practice
Abstract Criminal legal systems around the world rely heavily on defendants foregoing their right to trial and pleading guilty. However, legal scholars, social scientists, and practitioners have identified and empirically examined numerous problems with pleas, such as the high potential for coercion, innocent defendants falsely pleading guilty, and ...
Allison D. Redlich+12 more
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Permissibility of Holding a Referendum under the Conditions of Occupation of the Territories of Georgia [PDF]
It is acknowledged truth in the sphere of legal hermeneutics, that when interpreting a legal norm, we should not always rely only on grammatical and word-for-word interpretation, and we should also refer to other ways and methods of interpretation ...
George Goradze
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Deceptive Sex: Rethinking Consent from the Gender Margins
This article argues that trans people who choose not to disclose, or who lie about, their gender history prior to sexual intimacy should not be prosecuted for sexual offences, at least not in the absence of a clear and express condition pertaining to cis status or biological sex.
Alex Sharpe
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The Political Role of the Supreme Court of the United States under the Separation of Powers and its Model of Checks and Balances [PDF]
The role of the judicial branch in the US checks and balances model of the separation of powers has never been univocal; An analysis of the epochs reveals that this branch of government has come together in an interesting and complex way of evolution ...
Iviko Khavtasi
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