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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 +2 more
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, 2014 A host of errors can occur at sentencing, but whether a particular sentencing error can be remedied may depend on whether judges characterize errors as involving a miscarriage of justice -- that is, a claim of innocence.
Garrett, Brandon L.
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Obligación de información y asimetrías de información en el mercado bancario colombiano
Revista de Economía Institucional, 2019 Las asimetrías de información requieren la intervención del Estado para regular los contratos. En Colombia se creó la ley de Habeas Data para manejar los conflictos derivados de la asimetría de información entre usuarios y entidades financieras.
Juliana Devis Cantillo +2 more
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LA PROTECCIÓN DE LOS CONSUMIDORES FINANCIEROS. THE PROTECTION OF FINANCIAL CONSUMERS. [PDF]
El Ágora USB, 2013 En este artículo se propone contrastar las diferentes legislaciones de protección a los consumidores financieros, observando el panorama colombiano con relación a otros países.
Mayda Soraya Marín Galeano.
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Iuris Dictio, 2002 El desarrollo tecnológico alcanzado por la humanidad es, sin duda, sorprendente. La humanidad puede hoy disponer de gran cantidad de conocimientos e información, que pueden ser almacenados en sistemas electrónicos que tienen la virtualidad de circular a gran velocidad.
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The Constitutional Regulation of Forensic Evidence [PDF]
, 2016 The Constitution increasingly regulates the use of forensic evidence in criminal cases. This is a remarkable shift. In decades past, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to provide strong due process protection against destruction of forensic evidence or to ...
Garrett, Brandon L.
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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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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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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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