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PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS
History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-31, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedded in metaphysical truths, and enacted in service of the future. Part 1 assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the “preambular approach to history”
Antoon De Baets
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EIGENSINN AND DOMINATION IN LIBERAL AND ILLIBERAL SOCIETIES
History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 32-57, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article is a posthumously published text that was written by Alf Lüdtke and Alexandra Oeser but was left unfinished when Lüdtke died in February 2019. It examines two central notions—and their articulations—that Lüdtke and Oeser use differently in their work: domination and Eigensinn. On domination, it focuses on perspectives of Max Weber'
Alf Lüdtke, Alexandra Oeser
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Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2020 Dans cet article, j’identifie la situation juridique des territoires des peuples autochtones dans certains pays d’Amérique latine. Dans ce but, j’essaie de comprendre de quelle manière le discours du droit hégémonique latino-américain s’approprie le ...
Marina Corrêa de Almeida
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KAS African Law Study Library, 2022 Pour assurer le respect des droits de l’homme et du droit international humanitaire et lutter ainsi contre l’impunité, les États doivent mettre en place des mécanismes de coopération judicaire, car les moyens dont dispose chaque pays isolément pour faire
Pacifique Muhindo Magadju
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Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, Volume 70, Issue 1, Spring / printemps 2026.Résumé Dans un contexte régional alimenté par la multiplication des tensions autour de l'accès, de l'usage et du contrôle des ressources naturelles, les mangroves de Douala se révèlent être un terrain emblématique pour apprécier la conflictualité socio‐environnementale à l'échelle urbaine.
Roussel Lalande Teguia Kenmegne +2 more
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Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz: did he deserve his bad reputation?
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 577-617, December 2025.Summary A biography and critique of Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz (1731–1807) – lawyer, physician, mineralogist, naturalist, compiler and publisher – is provided. Often criticised as being a mass‐plagiariser, this is commented on, based on a detailed examination of several of his publications.
Nicholas Hind
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Audio‐Visibility in a Guinean Trial: Sexual Justice and the Procès 28 Septembre
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, November 2025.ABSTRACT What does it mean to be audible and visible before the law and the public? Whose rights are preeminent? Who decides? In this article, I examine two moments of testimony from rape victim–witnesses in a high‐profile criminal trial in the Republic of Guinea.
Nomi Dave
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The managed participation of the criminal accused
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S134-S139, September 2025.Abstract Looking comparatively, the nature and extent of the accused's participation differ across jurisdictions, depending in part on how the roles and responsibilities of other legal actors are shared out. In France, the direct judicial questioning of the defendant ensures multiple opportunities for participation, yet it also compels a response ...
JACQUELINE S. HODGSON
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Educational Engagement: On the Entangled Possibilities of Investments in Education
Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 531-557, June 2025.Abstract In this article, Jan Frode Haugseth discusses a multidimensional model of educational engagement by outlining Laurent Thévenot's regimes of engagement in an educational setting. Haugseth argues that six intertwined regimes of educational engagement could be perceived to exist in tension with each other: formality, justice, familiarity ...
Jan Frode Haugseth
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What is (the) matter with climate litigation? Law, nature, and the limits of legal technique
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 159-180, June 2025.Abstract This article examines how nature is mediated by law in climate cases. In the Federal Court of Australia decision in Minister for the Environment v. Sharma (2022), the court applied a narrow definition of ‘matter of law’ (justiciability), and thereby negated ‘matter in law’ (such as carbon dioxide and ecological destruction).
STEWART MOTHA
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