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Russia and Human Rights: Incompatible Opposites? [PDF]
The Article raises in his article “Russia and human rights: incompatible opposites?” the question, if the currently complicated relations between Russia and the CoE concerning Russia’s obligations under the ECHR are at breaking-point.
Bowring, Bill
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Compelling private sport speech
Abstract The intermingling of sport and political speech has become increasingly poignant. Although basketball star Michael Jordan has now clarified that his famous statement that “Republicans buy sneakers, too” was made in jest when asked about why he did not make political statements, Michael Jordan was well within his rights to avoid the political ...
Thomas A. Baker III +2 more
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The ISCIP Analyst, Volume XVI, Issue 12 [PDF]
This repository item contains a single issue of The ISCIP Analyst, an analytical review journal published from 1996 to 2010 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and ...
Adami, Fabian +8 more
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African Sovereignty: Constructing Institutional and Structural Changes in the International System
ABSTRACT Can international organizations (IOs) possess sovereignty like modern states? How can IOs obtain sovereignty? Can IOs supersede states as dominant political structures in the world system? Studies on conflicts of sovereignty in Europe conclude that the European Union lacks sovereign status and cannot supplant European states as the dominant ...
Obinna F. Ifediora
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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
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Abstract Accountability mechanisms are often perceived as the Achilles’ heel of human rights practice. As classic human rights institutions rarely provide adequate guarantees of accountability, justice actors are increasingly turning to alternative spaces to advance accountability.
BRIGITTE HERREMANS, TINE DESTROOPER
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Shrinking autonomy for Tatarstan and Gagauzia: the perils of flexible institutional design [PDF]
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Prina, Federica
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The subject of the paper is constituent entities’ powers in federative state concerning the establishment of the administrative responsibility for breach regional and municipal rules.The purpose of the paper is to justify the need for new approaches to ...
O. Kozhevnikov
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Elimination of unauthorized landfills: a vicious circle
Relevance. For many years, a problem of eliminating unauthorized landfills on state-owned lands and lands for which state ownership is not demarcated, remains – despite the repeatedly issued decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation
Olga I. Bazhenova
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REGIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: CURRENT PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTIONS
The article analyzes the relevant problems of the activities of the constitutional (charter) courts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation: their interaction with courts of general jurisdiction; the grounds for their abolition (on the ...
Stepshina Anastasiya
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