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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 265-286, September 2026.Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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The Turning Point That Didn't Turn: WTO MC14 and the Future of Global Trade
Global Policy, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 695-702, September 2026.ABSTRACT The fourteenth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference (MC14) in Yaoundé was widely framed as a pivotal moment for restoring momentum to a multilateral trading system in crisis. Drawing on participant observation and interviews conducted during the conference, this article argues that MC14 exposed both the limits of the WTO's ...
Erin Hannah, James Scott
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Would Collective Action Clauses Raise Borrowing Costs? An Update and Additional Results [PDF]
This paper updates earlier findings concerning the impact of collective-action clauses on borrowing costs. It has been argued that only in recent quarters have investors focused on the presence of these provisions, and that, given the international ...
Barry Eichengreen, Ashoka Mody
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Private Land Ownership: Tax or Socialize?
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Volume 85, Issue 4, Page 455-461, September 2026.ABSTRACT This study compares the land reform concepts of Henry George and Silvio Gesell, both of whom rejected private appropriation of land rent as unjust. While George proposed to “hollow out” private land ownership through a comprehensive land value tax, Gesell aimed at full socialization of land combined with lease auctions and compensation of ...
Dirk Loehr
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Do Collective Action Clauses Influence Bond Yields? New Evidence from Emerging Markets [PDF]
This paper provides new empirical evidence relevant to the debate over the desirability of reforms to the way that financial markets and the international community deal with sovereign debt crises. In particular, given the ongoing opposition of investors
Anthony Richards, Mark Gugiatti
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Black Fugitivity in the Sporting Workplace: The Story of Eniola Aluko
Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1914-1926, September 2026.ABSTRACT Being a Black fugitive involves constant movement: to find and cultivate spaces of safety and hope. In this paper, I curate a sporting archive about the UK Black women's elite football player Eniola Aluko to read her as a Black fugitive. I demonstrate how she traversed a racist and anti‐Black sporting workplace—where she was unfairly demonized
Aarti Ratna
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International Migration, Volume 64, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper argues that contemporary United States immigration law and policy construct a hierarchy of personhood for undocumented migrants which better explains their status as opposed to a classic binary framework of citizen/migrant. It develops a four‐layer conceptual framework of personhood including baseline personhood, membership ...
David Niculae
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Clauses sociales: protectionnisme masqué?
, 2021 Une récente étude sur près de 450 accords montre que les clauses sociales ont un effet positif sur les exportations de biens manufacturiers des pays en développement avec une faible protection du travail dans les accords Nord-Sud, écrit Damian Raess ...
Raess, Damian
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Need for Coherence Among the WTO’s Escape Clauses. [PDF]
MANY governments think they could not secure the support of domestic producer interests for the trade-liberalizing agreements they negotiate with other countries without provisions in them that permit a degree of flexibility in implementing the core ...
Messerlin, Patrick
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The Disciplining Impact of Local Fiscal Rules in the EU
Public Budgeting &Finance, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 40-56, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT Although research highlights the discipline‐enhancing effect of fiscal rules at the national level, little is known about their impact on local budgets. We employ a dynamic fiscal reaction function within an LSDVC framework to explore the relevance of different local fiscal rules in the EU using a panel dataset of 26 European countries over a ...
Beate Jochimsen, Christian Raffer
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