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The Guarantees of Freedom [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2002
Hayek (1960) distinguishes the institutions of English freedom, which guarantee the independence of judges from political interference in the administration of justice, from those of American freedom, which allow judges to restrain law-making powers of the sovereign through constitutional review.
Rafael La Porta   +6 more
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Freedom and Viruses [PDF]

open access: yesEthics, 2022
A common argument against lockdowns is that they restrict freedom. On this view, lockdowns might be effective in protecting public health, but their impact on freedom is purely negative. This article challenges that view. It argues that while lockdowns restrict freedom, so too do viruses.
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Freedom Fries [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010
Do firms always choose the cheapest suitable inputs, or can group attitudes affect their choices? To investigate this question, we examine the deterioration of relations between the United States and France from 2002–2003, when France's favorability rating in the US fell by 48 percentage points.
Guy Michaels, Xiaojia Zhi
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Out from the Curtains of Secrecy: Private University Police and State Open Records Laws

open access: yesThe Journal of Civic Information, 2020
The role of police officers on college campuses has grown in the past 40 years from that of “glorified custodians” to full-fledged police officers, often with powers to search, detain, arrest, and even to use deadly force.
Josh Moore
doaj   +1 more source

Building survivor activism: An organisational view

open access: yesTorture, 2018
The purpose of this perspectives paper is to share how different models of survivor activism can be built in a clinical charity with a human rights ethos and to set out the value that has come from growing survivor activism organically, based on ...
Shameem Sadiq-Tang
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Complex Freedom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We have a very strong intuition and a very strong feeling that we, as human beings, generally have freedom of the will and freedom of the action. It seems that in most situations we can do this or that ; namely, we can do action A or we can refrain from doing action A under the same conditions.
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Freedom in nature [PDF]

open access: yesGeneral Relativity and Gravitation, 2009
The paper starts with the proposal that the cause of the apparent insolubility of the free-will problem are several popular but strongly metaphysical notions and hypotheses. To reduce the metaphysics, some ideas are borrowed from physics. A concept of event causality is discussed.
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Freedom of the mind [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2013
Mind wandering, task-independent thought, spontaneous thinking, free associating, creative imagining are some of the terms used to describe what occurs to our mind when we notice its functioning, or when we allow it the freedom to be in its natural condition: open, aware and spontaneously fluid.
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Commentary by Juliet Cohen:

open access: yesTorture, 2020
This is a response to the article debating what are the ethics of providing medico-legal reports for a victim of torture who may also be a perpetrator.
Juliet Cohen
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ARTISTIC FREEDOM AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM

open access: yesLaw and Contemporary Problems, 1990
The Cincinnati, Ohio, jury surely did the right thing by rejecting obscenity charges against Contemporary Arts Center Director Dennis Barrie following the exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs.' Yet a different outcome at that trial might have forced higher courts to consider to what degree the fine arts enjoy protection under the first ...
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