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La Propiedad Inmaterial, 2020 Como se esperaba desde hace algunos años, las ventajas del uso de sistemas de información no tardarían en incubar su legado en un sector tan relevante como lo es el de la prestación de servicios de salud y la forma en que se garantiza la eficiencia de ...
Andrés Felipe Contreras P.
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Antipolitical class bias in corruption sentencing
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 701-717, April 2025.Abstract Are corruption trials that involve the highest ranks in the public sphere and large private companies biased against some groups? Existing research predominantly focuses on corruption prosecutions of politicians, leaving unresolved the extent to which judges apply differential treatment when convicting and sentencing the political class ...
Luiz Doria Vilaça +2 more
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The Cost of the Death Penalty in Maryland [PDF]
, 2008 Analyzes 1,136 capital cases between 1978 and 1999 to estimate the total costs to the state's taxpayers (i.e., prison and adjudication costs for the duration of the case) when the death penalty is sought compared to when it is ...
Aaron Chalfin +4 more
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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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Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief [PDF]
, 2018 In December 2013, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a petition for a common law writ of habeas corpus in the New York State Supreme Court on behalf of Tommy, a chimpanzee living alone in a cage in a shed in rural New York (Barlow, 2017).
Andrews, Kristin +12 more
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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 +2 more
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Habeas Corpus and State Sentencing Reform: A Story of Unintended Consequences [PDF]
, 2008 This Article tells the story of how fundamental shifts in state sentencing policy collided with fundamental shifts in federal habeas policy to produce a tangled and costly doctrinal wreck.
King, Nancy J., Sherry, Suzanna
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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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