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The Charter's Influence Around the World

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2013
Over the past several decades, the influence of the United States Constitution and Supreme Court around the world has waned while that of the Canadian Charter and Supreme Court has increased.
Mark Tushnet
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Accommodating Women: Geographies of Citizenship in the Twentieth‐Century Campaign for Women's Jury Rights

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
wiley   +1 more source

Charter Dialogue Revisited: Or "Much Ado About Metaphors"

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2007
This article is a sequel to the 1997 article "The Charter Dialogue Between Courts and Legislatures (Or Perhaps The Charter of Rights Isn't Such A Bad Thing After All)." In the present article, the authors review various academic critiques of their ...
Peter W. Hogg, Allison A. Bushell Thornton, Wade K. Wright   +2 more
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

The Legalist Paradigm in Moral and Political Thought

Constellations, EarlyView.
Jamie Mayerfeld
wiley   +1 more source

Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
wiley   +1 more source

The Objectives Resolution: An Unfulfilled Objective?: An Analysis of Its Constitutional and Judicial Impact in Pakistan Since 1949

Policy Perspectives
The Objectives Resolution, passed in March 1949 by Liaquat Ali Khan, has served as the symbolic core of Pakistan's constitutional journey. Mired by controversy, some argue was undeserved, it has transformed into a provision of substantive constitutional ...
Syed Muaz Shah
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Liquid Assemblies: An Institutional Design for Liquid Democracy

Constellations, EarlyView.
Chiara Valsangiacomo Balmelli, Christina Isabel Zuber   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
wiley   +1 more source

Constitutional Courts and Economic Crisis

, 2017
It analyses three case studies: 1) sovereignty conflicts in Europe; 2) conflicts concerning the national anti-crisis legislation’s compliance with the Treaty of Nice; 3) internal conflicts over the constitutionality of the national anticrisis legislation.
openaire   +3 more sources