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Thinking Legally about Remedy in Judicial Review: R (on the application of Imam) v London Borough of Croydon

The Modern Law Review, Volume 88, Issue 2, Page 389-403, March 2025.
In R (on the application of Imam) v London Borough of Croydon, the Supreme Court considered the relevance of a local authority's resources on the curial discretion as to remedy in judicial review. This question was addressed in the context of a breach of the authority's duty under section 193(2) of the Housing Act 1996 to secure suitable accommodation ...
Lia Lawton
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The “benign prerogative”: Political theory and executive pardoning

Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 55, Issue 1, Page 19-33, March 2025.
Abstract This article examines pardon to develop a more holistic understanding of prerogative. Executive prerogative, the power to do what is necessary for the public good without the explicit sanction of the law and sometimes against it, is widely seen as an extraordinary power most relevant in times of crisis.
Isabelle Thelen
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Defending the Land: Filipina Activists amidst Authoritarian Rule in the Philippines

Development and Change, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 137-171, January 2025.
ABSTRACT In Southeast Asia, environmental and human rights activists resisting authoritarian rule and extractive development face harassment, intimidation and lethal danger in dramatically different ways. In the Philippines, this atmosphere of violence intensified under former President Rodrigo Duterte, a political ‘strongman’ whose militarized ...
Miriam Zimmermann, Wolfram Dressler, Ana Bibal   +2 more
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The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa

American Anthropologist, Volume 126, Issue 4, Page 622-634, December 2024.
Abstract Drawing from the extensive literature on the anthropology of borders and border death in and beyond Europe, this article ethnographically explores the processes through which irregular migrants and locals at the borderland of Lampedusa (south of Sicily, Italy) are left to live and die in abandonment.
Alessandro Corso, Nayanika Mookherjee
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El caso Suíça y la transformación del estatuto jurídico animal: análisis de un precedente pionero en el derecho comparado

Revista de Bioética y Derecho
En 2005, en Brasil, se interpuso una acción de habeas corpus en favor de la chimpancé Suíça, al considerar sus proponentes que su confinamiento en un zoológico constituía una privación ilegítima y abusiva de libertad.
Joan B. Brull Barco
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The hidden histories of the Pinochet case

Journal of Law and Society, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 459-490, December 2024.
Abstract The world's imagination was caught by the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet on charges of egregious human rights crimes and the 16‐month battle to extradite him to Madrid. For the first time, a former head of state had, while travelling abroad, been arrested on such charges, with his claim to immunity being rejected by a ...
DAVID SUGARMAN
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¿ Hacia una ampliación del hábeas corpus por la Corte Suprema?

Revista de Derecho (Coquimbo), 2015
El hábeas corpus es una acción constitucional establecida para garantizar la libertad personal y la seguridad individual lesionada, perturbada o amenazada ilegalmente.
Miriam Lorena Henríquez Viñas
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The other women's rights movement: ‘Streetwalkers’, habeas corpus and anticarceral activism in New York City, 1830–1860

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 840-858, October 2024.
Abstract This article reconstructs the earliest known movement for sex workers' rights in US history. It interprets collective assertions of due process as a strategy to overturn vagrancy laws, which permitted municipal officials to summarily commit ‘common prostitutes’ to the penitentiary for months.
April Haynes
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Engendering carcerality: An introduction

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 807-823, October 2024.
Abstract Reflecting the carceral turn in scholarship, this introduction to a special issue on engendering carcerality explores the difference that gender makes in the history of the carceral in its various forms over time and space. It considers the multiple meanings and spaces of imprisonment, surveillance, and confinement; incarceration of mothers ...
Eileen Boris, Sara M. Butler, Alex Mireles   +2 more
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Análisis de las garantías constitucionales vigentes en Paraguay

Revista Jurídica, 2023
En este trabajo se realiza un análisis de las garantías constitucionales establecidas en la Constitución Nacional de 1992. Se debe tener presente que en la anterior Constitución de −1967− se encontraba reconocida tres de ellas, a saber: La ...
Idalgo Balletbo
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