Abstract A record number of candidates contested parliamentary seats in the 2024 general election in the United Kingdom. This article discusses three key aspects that have garnered attention from both academics and practitioners studying the characteristics, motivations and experiences of candidates: gender representation, security concerns and local ...
Sofia Collignon, Wolfgang Rüdig
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Executable explanation traces for legal LLM predictions via retrieval-augmented codification. [PDF]
Chen H, Tanaka-Ishii K.
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Voter Access under Mandatory Voter ID: The Promise and Limits of the Voter Authority Certificate
Abstract The Elections Act 2022 introduced mandatory photographic voter identification in UK general elections and English devolved elections, marking a decisive shift toward a universal requirement for in‐person voting. To mitigate access barriers in the absence of a national identity system, it also provided for the introduction of a new Voter ...
Petra Schleiter
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Adverse childhood experiences in the context of maternal criminal justice system involvement. [PDF]
Lowenthal G, Font S.
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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity
Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Does paternal criminal legal system involvement increase children's risk of child protective services contact? Evidence from Wisconsin linked administrative data. [PDF]
Font SA, Turney K, Wildeman C.
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The Silence That Could Not Hold: Foreign Policy and the Fall of Keir Starmer
Abstract Keir Starmer's resignation in June 2026 has been narrated almost entirely in domestic terms: the rise of Reform UK, the rout of the May local elections, the winter fuel payment and two‐child benefit cap retreats, the Mandelson appointment. This article argues that such accounts mistake the proximate triggers for the underlying cause.
Tahir Abbas
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Duty to Protect? The Troubling Pattern of Legislative Noncompliance and Missed Police Involvement in Ontario's Long-Term Care Sector. [PDF]
Stamatopoulos V, Vettor S, Hladkowicz E.
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For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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China's criminal incidental civil public interest litigation in food safety: practice review and pathways to improvement. [PDF]
Han X, Li B.
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