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Education for Civil Disobedience in the Context of Democratic Decline
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I discuss the educational relevance of civil disobedience as a form of political dissent in contemporary democracies demonstrating signs of significant democratic decline. The article challenges the plausibility of the impactful Rawlsian understanding of civil disobedience in societies in a state of democratic backsliding.
Anniina Leiviskä
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Digging deep the oil world: corporate liability and environmental justice strategies [PDF]
, 2013 The impacts provoked by the expanding oil industry encompass environmental destruction, health impacts and violations of human rights. The increasing contamination jeopardizes safe conditions of life and destroys means of livelihood of vulnerable ...
Certomà, Chiara +4 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Immanuel Kant's The Dispute between the Faculties (1798) contains a footnote referencing four utopian states — Atlantis, Utopia, Oceana, and Severambia. This passage has largely been overlooked in Kantian scholarship. This paper revisits this neglected passage to explore Kant's engagement with utopian literature and its implications for his ...
Karoline Reinhardt
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Biovail v. Hoechst Aktiengesellschaf, Inc: An Analysis Under the Sherman Act and the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine [PDF]
, 2017 The Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984 regulates approval by the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) of generic counterparts to patented drugs. In a series of recent cases, large pharmaceutical companies have been accused of exploiting Hatch-Waxman in violation ...
Resek, John F., Ph.D.
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Union–Member Engagement in Cambodia's Construction Sector
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues for the concept of adaptive unionism as a useful way to explore the pragmatic, often short‐term approach that unions adopt just to survive in many parts of the Global South, exploring the impact of an adaptive approach through a comparative study of the Building and Wood Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia's ...
Michele Ford, Vichhra Mouyly
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A Brook with Legal Rights: The Rights of Nature in Court [PDF]
, 2016 Over two decades ago, Professor Christopher Stone asked what turned out to be a question of enduring interest: should trees have standing? His question was recently answered in the affirmative by a creek in Pennsylvania, which successfully intervened in ...
Babcock, Hope M.
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Striking for a Just Transition? North American Auto Unions and the Electric Vehicle Transition
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Decarbonization heightens risks for workers, but union strategies shape how these risks are managed and whether new jobs offer quality employment. This paper compares U.S. and Canadian auto unions during the 2023 Detroit Three bargaining, focusing on strategic capacities and internal politics to explain their divergent responses to the EV ...
Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer, Dongwoo Park
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Stop and Frisk in Chicago [PDF]
, 2015 This report shows that the Chicago Police Department has a current practice of unlawfully using stop and frisk. Stop and frisk is disproportionately concentrated in the black community.
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How to Diagnose Prisons' Failures: Three Perspectives on Officers' Responsibilities
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prison officers play a vital role in shaping prison conditions. Assessing their responsibility for, and potential role in reforming, the prison's failures is an urgent and important task in corrective justice efforts. This article takes up this task, with a focus on the US prison context, by applying and critically examining two general ...
Candice Delmas
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