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Increasing the Incentive to Serve: The Effects of a Juror Pay Increase in Texas

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although low juror pay is commonly offered as a reason why jurors do not show up to jury service, there is remarkably little empirical information on how juror pay affects summons response. This study examines four large‐sized counties in Texas before and after pay increased from as little as $6 a day to $40, analyzing patterns of the percent ...
Mary R. Rose, Max Lisch, Faris A. Husain
wiley   +1 more source

Governance Innovation for Coastal Wetlands: Dependencies, Challenges, and Opportunities in the Valencian Community

open access: yesOcean and Society
Coastal wetlands rank among the world’s essential ecosystems, and yet, despite decades of conservation efforts, they continue to face degradation, transformation, and loss.
Irene Luján Climent   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pilot judgments of the European Court of Human Rights on systemic problems in the property rights in Eastern European states

open access: yesActa Scientiarum Polonorum. Administratio Locorum, 2020
The article examines the issues related to the impact of the ECtHR pilot judgments on improving the legal systems of Eastern European states in the field of property rights protection in accordance with Article 1 of Protocol 1 to the European Convention
Elena Safronova, Tigran Oganesian
doaj   +1 more source

Law and the Leap in Being in Voegelin’s Philosophy

open access: yesFilozofia, 2023
The article attempts to present Eric Voegelin's legal-philosophical thought in the context of his lifelong efforts to reconstruct the character of human knowledge through a return to the transcendent dimension of being.
Miroslava Klečková
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond the Adversarial Rivalry: A Developmental Rights‐Based Model for Minor‐on‐Minor Crime, Part 1

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When children harm children, the conventional victim–perpetrator framework is ill‐equipped to address the developmental, relational, and institutional complexities involved. While juvenile justice scholarship increasingly emphasizes rehabilitation, and victims' rights literature has advanced child‐sensitive protection, minor‐on‐minor offending
Tali Gal, Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Adversarial Rivalry: A Developmental Rights‐Based Model for Minor‐on‐Minor Crime, Part 2

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When children harm children, the conventional victim–perpetrator framework is ill‐equipped to address the developmental, relational, and institutional complexities involved. While juvenile justice scholarship increasingly emphasizes rehabilitation, and victims' rights literature has advanced child‐sensitive protections, minor‐on‐minor ...
Tali Gal, Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar
wiley   +1 more source

Constitutional reasoning : a flourishing field of research in comparative law

open access: yes, 2019
Constitutional reasoning has been a flourishing field of research in comparative constitutional law in the past decade. This essay reviews two books that have made a significant contribution to the field.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], Katalin,
core   +1 more source

Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
wiley   +1 more source

Toward Comprehensive Climate Action: Assessing Mitigation Approaches Across Canadian Municipalities

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Local governments are widely regarded as key leaders in the global response to climate change. Understanding if and how municipalities commit to climate mitigation is crucial for assessing their contribution to global emission‐reduction goals and identifying barriers to effective climate transitions.
Aryana Soliz   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intertwined but Different. The Heterologous In Vitro Fertilization Case before the European Court of Human Rights and the Italian Constitutional Court

open access: yesPerspectives on Federalism, 2017
International and constitutional law, originally distinct realms with limited areas of intersection, are getting closer and closer, particularly in the European landscape within the human rights protection field, where these mere contacts between the two
Baraggia Antonia, Gennusa Maria Elena
doaj   +1 more source

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