Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.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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Effectiveness of Individual Constitutional Complaints during Legal Proceedings before The Common Courts [PDF]
Journal of Constitutional Law, 2019 The current Civil Procedure Code of Georgia does not determine the courts’ competency or their obligation to suspend legal proceedings whenever the Constitutional Court is considering the constitutionality of the law applicable to the said legal ...
Salome Samkharadze
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Safeguarding Merit: Citizen Support for Civil Service Protections Against Political Interference
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT President Trump altered the U.S. federal civil service system by reducing merit‐based protections for bureaucratic expertise and expanding the scope of political appointments, shifting the balance long established under the Pendleton Act of 1883. Similar reforms have occurred at the state level with moves to at‐will employment.
Colt Jensen, Jaclyn Piatak
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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]
Journal of Constitutional Law, 2019 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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Constitutional Proceedings: A New Challenge for Georgian Legal Education [PDF]
Journal of Constitutional Law, 2022 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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John F. Sonnett Memorial Lecture Series: Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Proportionality Rule [PDF]
, 1979 Lecture by Judge William Hughes Mulligan of United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1971-1981) and Dean of Fordham University School of Law (1956-1971) regarding the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature in the application
Mulligan, William Hughes
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Powers and Practices in Labor Standards Enforcement
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Wage theft remains a pervasive problem internationally and within the United States. In response, worker advocates have sought stronger laws to deter violations and promote compliance. Yet formal authority alone may be insufficient; labor departments often fail to use the full extent of their legal authority to conduct vigorous enforcement ...
Daniel J. Galvin +4 more
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The Right Not to be Dominated: The Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights on Migrants’ Destitution [PDF]
Journal of Constitutional Law, 2019 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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The Art of Applying IHL: Jus In Bello in The Jurisprudence of Inter-American Human Rights Bodies [PDF]
Journal of Constitutional Law, 2020 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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Unitarianism with Attributes of Regionalism – Certain Aspects and Relevant Georgian Context [PDF]
Journal of Constitutional Law, 2022 The territorial organisation of Georgia in the current context is difficult to describe with complete precision, but it can be defined as unitarianism with regional autonomies. In this respect, the regional autonomies are the Autonomous Republic of Ajara
Tinatin Erkvania
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