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LAW-LANGUAGE: THE CHALLENGE OF THE CAVEAT ‘WHENEVER REASONABLY PRACTICABLE’ IN LANGUAGE POLICIES

Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching
The challenge of escape clauses in various policies has been a longstanding issue for policy scholars worldwide. This challenge is also prevalent in South African institutions, particularly in their language policies. This article reports on the findings
Malesela Montle, Tebogo Johannes Kekana
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Partial delegation in a model of currency crisis [PDF]

, 2002
Stressing the inßuence of expected devaluation on currency crises, this paper shows that, in a Þxed exchange-rate system with an escape clause, partial delegation of exchange-rate policy to an inßation-averse central banker reduces the probability of ...
Boinet, V
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
wiley   +1 more source

A Case for Contingent Absurdity

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract A popular view on existential absurdity holds that if life is absurd, it must be inescapably so. In opposition to this view, I argue that the concept of existential absurdity allows for life to be contingently absurd. In Nausea (1938) and Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean‐Paul Sartre puts forward two distinct conceptions of an absurd life ...
Thom Hamer
wiley   +1 more source

El artículo 4.3 del Reglamento Roma I. Una verdadera cláusula de excepción

Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales, 2012
The reach and scope of the escape clause found in article 4.5 of the Rome Convention has been fiercely debated in the last years. The main participants in this debate held either a rigid conception of the escape clause that regarded it as applicable only
William Fernando Martínez Luna
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Evaluation and Meta-Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Victim-Oriented Legal Reform in Europe

Criminologie, 2000
The 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, and the Council of Europe's Recommendation (85) 11 on the Position of the Victim in the Framework of Criminal Law and Procedure are important documents that ...
Marion Brienen, Ernestine Hoegen, Marc Groenhuijsen   +2 more
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Questions Should Have Answers

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Making sense of the world often requires one to come up with new ideas, including ideas one had previously been unable to think of. How and when should this be done? I propose and defend a norm of rationality linking wondering, belief, and abilities to conceive: one must not both wonder a question and reject all answers to it that one can ...
Michael Deigan
wiley   +1 more source

Duration and Term Structure of Trade Agreements [PDF]

, 2010
Why are some trade agreements concluded for a limited period of time while others have the form of evergreen contracts supplemented with an advance termination notice clause?
Guriev, Sergei, Klimenko, Mikhail
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Comments on the European Commission’s Draft Proposal for a Council Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations (Hamburg Group for Private International Law) [PDF]

, 2003
ROYAL INSTITUE OF TECHNOLOGY Abstract Laser Physics Group Department of Applied Physics SA104X Degree Project in Engineering Physics, First Cycle Fiber Bragg Gratings in Temperature and Strain Sensors by Ilian Haggmark Supervisor: Michael Fokine A ...
Michaels, Ralf
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