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The Presumption of Innocence as a Counterfactual Principle

open access: yesUtrecht Law Review, 2016
This article’s primary aim is to highlight the essentially critical potential of the presumption of innocence, as well as the need for this critical potential to be duly recognized.
Ferry de Jong, Leonie van Lent
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Legal Luck [PDF]

open access: yes
Explaining the notion of legal luck and exploring its justification. Focusing on how legal luck relates to moral luck, legal causation and negligence, and to civil and criminal ...
Herstein, Ori
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Bioethics, Complementarity, and Corporate Criminal Liability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article provides a brief introduction to some contemporary challenges found in the intersection of bioethics and international criminal law involving genetic privacy, organ trafficking, genetic engineering, and cloning.
Long, Ryan
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Quoting from the case file: how intertextual practices shape discourse at various stages in the legal trajectory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Criminal trial hearings are communicative events that are densely intertextually structured. In the course of a trial hearing, written documents such as police records of statements made by suspects, witnesses and experts are extensively referred to ...
D'hondt, Sigurd, van der Houwen, Fleur
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Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden

open access: yesScandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
wiley   +1 more source

On the Mental State of Consciousness of Wrongdoing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Mistake about or ignorance of the law does not exculpate in criminal law, except in limited circumstances. Doctrine and theory cognate to this principle are, by now, well developed and understood.
Buell, Samuel W., Griffin, Lisa Kern
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‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
wiley   +1 more source

Feasibility Assessment of Criminal Liability in Artificial Intelligence based on its Philosophical Foundations [PDF]

open access: yesفلسفه حقوق
When an intelligent machine or an autonomous robot, as the ample examples of artificial intelligence, commits a crime, what first comes to mind is its criminal liability.
Mahdi Zandi, Seyed Ehsan Rafie Alavy
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Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source

TANGGUNG JAWAB PIDANA NOTARIS DALAM KEDUDUKANNYA SEBAGAI PEJABAT PEMBUAT AKTA

open access: yesJurnal Media Hukum, 2016
Notary is a profession which honors moral values so that every act violating the law conducted by the notaries in performing their duty must be legally liable.
Amiruddin Amiruddin
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