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Using the criminal law to protect the environment: Possibilities and problems
Abstract Global biodiversity has declined rapidly in recent decades, and existing laws have proven insufficient to protect the environment from harm. There is no ‘silver bullet’ to remedying species population declines and extinctions and loss of ecosystems, but criminal law could be a crucial tool.
Kellie Toole +5 more
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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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Introduction: Populist constitutionalism: Varieties, complexities, and contradictions
The intense engagement of populists with constitutionalism—a phenomenon originally related to experiences in Latin America—is increasingly evident in some of the new European Union member states.
Paul Blokker +2 more
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Was Emer de Vattel a constitutionalist? To what extent can the Law of Nations be considered a treatise on constitutional theory? To answer these questions, I will refer to several different case studies to illustrate and analyse the use of Vattel for the constitutional debate between the eighteenth and nineteenth century. In fact, as José M.
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Classification Tree Model for Determining Society Unsafety Factors Convicted
The global rise in crime rates is a result of the ineffectiveness of the traditional punishment system and the need to develop new approaches to applying relevant punitive measures to criminals, taking into account their level of danger to society.
Olha Kovalchuk +5 more
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In The Redress of Law, Emilios Christodoulidis explores the philosophical foundations of market constitutionalism and shows how its embedded rationality shapes global governance. The author delves into critical phenomenology to lift the veil of ignorance
Fernanda G. Nicola
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Popular Constitutionalism and the State Attorneys General [PDF]
In her article Dead or Alive: Originalism as Popular Constitutionalism in Heller, Professor Reva Siegel argued that the Supreme Court’s opinion in District of Columbia v.
Blocher, Joseph
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Abstract The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making English devolution the ‘default option’ is set against fifty years of unsuccessful and partial devolution initiatives which have failed to reverse the ...
John Denham, Janice Morphet
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Western and Islamic Constitutionalism
This essay aims to develop the comparison between Western constitutionalism and Islamic constitutionalism. In the Western tradition the term constitutionalism points to the limitation of government through law.
Gustavo Gozzi
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