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Cicero's Law

, 2016
Why did Roman prosecutors typically accuse the defendant of multiple crimina, when in most standing criminal courts the punishment imposed on a guilty defendant was the same (typically “capital,” that is, a kind of exile), no matter how many charges were

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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Collective Hyping Detection System for Identifying Online Spam Activities [PDF]

, 2017
IEEE Online reviews are extensively utilized by potential buyers to make business decisions. Unfortunately, fraudsters offer to write spam reviews for product promotion or competitor defamation, which drives online business holders to adopt this type of ...
Qinzhe Zhang, ZHANG, P, Zhang, Q, Long, G, Zhang, C, Jia Wu, Wu, J, Chengqi Zhang, Peng Zhang, Guodong Long   +9 more
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Internet defamation and the online intermediary

, 2015
Computer Law and Security Review31168 ...
Ter, Kah Leng
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“… and moreover, he was a sodomite” : homosexual behaviour of medieval rulers between political defamation, discourse of sodomy and modern psychological interpretation

, 2020
Accusing men in power of norm-transgressive sexual behaviour has been a widespread strategy of political defamation since Antiquity. The specific nature of such reproaches, however, depends on cultural norms, which are subject to historical change.
Eickels, Klaus van
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The evolution of rule of law in Cambodia

, 2015
Cambodian leaders have confounded the efforts of the international community to promote rule of law. Over the past decade the Cambodian government has introduced a series of legal reforms and overseen an increase in the use of legal proceedings including
Stephen McCarthy, Un, Kheang, Kheang Un, McCarthy, Stephen   +3 more
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Queering Institutional Milestones in Elite Higher Education: Queer Perspectives on Princeton University and Coeducation (1960–1980)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III, Judy Jarvis, Eric Anglero   +2 more
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Reed -ing the Green: How Patrick Reed\u27s Defamation Lawsuits Point to the Contours and Rifts in Professional Golf

The birth of LIV Golf, coupled with its tentative merger with the PGA Tour, has set the stage for much conversation regarding professional golf, competition, and the ethics of funding sporting events.
Coers, Rachel
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Lies,Damn Lies, and Kamikaze Lies: Protecting Falsehoods in the Name of Truth

, 2023
Despite calls to reverse New York Times v. Sullivan and abandon the reckless disregard standard for public figure defamation cases--calls offered by two Supreme Court Justices, a number of legal scholars and some members of the popular press-- this ...
Brogan, Doris Deltosto
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