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Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
wiley   +1 more source

Global Union Federations and Human Rights Due Diligence: Strategic Repertoires in a Shifting Legal Terrain

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the strategic engagement of global union federations (GUFs) with emerging human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislation as a mechanism of transnational labour governance. Drawing on a multimethod qualitative design—including legal and document analysis and interviews with union officials—the study identifies six ...
Ingrid Landau, Shelley Marshall, Hila Shamir   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Continuity and Rupture of the ‘New Washington Consensus’: From Biden to Trump 2.0

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ‘New Washington Consensus’ (NWC) represents a major intellectual shift in the US approach to global economic governance. However, the NWC has never been subject to systematic academic critique. With Trump's return to the White House ushering in a new era of US trade policy, the NWC is widely considered to be politically irrelevant in the ...
Ming Du
wiley   +1 more source

Does Continuous Disclosure Improve Investment Efficiency? Evidence from a Unique Regulatory Setting

Abacus, EarlyView.
We examine the association between continuous disclosure and investment efficiency within the context of Australia's unique regulatory setting for continuous disclosure. Based on 8,527 firm‐year observations, we find that continuous disclosure is positively associated with investment efficiency and helps to mitigate both over‐investment and under ...
Sudipta Bose, Muhammad Jahangir Ali, Syed Shams, Muhammad Shahin Miah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The law of AI knowledge distillation

American Business Law Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Knowledge distillation—the practice of training a compact student model on the outputs of a larger teacher model—has emerged as the fastest‐growing technique for replicating and disseminating frontier artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Taorui Guan
wiley   +1 more source

Before the budget: Parliamentary appropriations and the limits of government spending in colonial New South Wales, 1787–1832

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How did a British colony, not supplied with coin and with no tax base, establish itself a world away from London? Drawing on the Historical Records of Australia and British parliamentary Appropriation Acts from 1787 to 1832, this paper shows that Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales, spent by issuing promises to pay against the ...
Matthew Crocker
wiley   +1 more source

Surface Rights: Sovereignty, Citizenship and the Question of Mineral Rights in the Woodward Commission

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article retraces the Woodward Commission on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory, focusing on the question of mineral rights. Mineral rights were assumed in the Commission's terms of reference and expected by many Aboriginal people. Why, then, were they not recommended by the Commission?
Laura Rademaker
wiley   +1 more source

Endogenous and Exogenous Drivers of Refugee Policy of the Transit State: The Case of Indonesia

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most studies on transit states emphasise exogenous influences on domestic refugee policymaking, with little consideration of endogenous factors to the state itself. Exploring literature from migration studies, refugee studies and international law studies, we identify and classify nearly identical endogenous and exogenous drivers of refugee ...
Anita Herlina, Kynan Gentry, Kirsten Martinus   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing constitutional courts as centralizers and the impact of supermajority rules: A dataset on the federalism conflicts on the unconstitutionality of Laws in Mexico. [PDF]

Data Brief
Rivera León MA.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1927–1929

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Royal Commission on the Constitution (1927–1929) is a little‐remembered event in Australian political, policy and legal history, which produced—in the words of the constitutional law scholar Geoffrey Sawer—‘a useful student's textbook and a minor alteration in the Judiciary Act’.
Carolyn Holbrook
wiley   +1 more source