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From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
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BALANCE OF PROCEDURAL FUNCTIONS AND FORM OF PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION

Правовое государство: теория и практика
Currently, in the theory of criminal procedure there are disputes and intensive searches for models of criminal procedure adequate to modern social conditions.
SMIRNOV Alexander Vitalievich
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Professional Deacons?

Diaconia, 2015
The subject of this article is the split between the impartial attitude that we usually associate with professionalism and the personal motives that are associated with diaconal work, which include a desire to relate to individuals beyond generalized ...
Mats J. Hansson
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Calibrated Autonomy: China's 2026 Business Mediation Ordinance and the Reconfiguration of Dispute Resolution

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that China's 2026 Business Mediation Ordinance represents neither progress toward rule of law nor retreat from it. I propose instead that we are witnessing something I call “calibrated autonomy”—the strategic construction of spaces for private ordering that remain tethered to Party‐State oversight through multiple ...
M. Francis Cao
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Toward an integrated ethical review process: an animal-centered research framework for the refinement of research procedures

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
The involvement of animals in research procedures that can harm them and to which they are deemed unable to consent raises fundamental ethical dilemmas.
Eleonora Nannoni, Clara Mancini
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Balancing Impartiality and Advocacy: Observations, Lessons, and Suggestions From a Practicing Ombuds

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Universities increasingly rely on ombuds offices as informal, impartial mechanisms for addressing conflict and strengthening institutional trust. Yet the ombuds role is frequently shaped by tension among impartiality, advocacy, and legal accountability. This paper examines the evolution of the Office of the Ombuds at the University of Maryland,
Brian Godette, Roger Ward, Leandra Cate
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A Social Risk‐Based Approach Supporting Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive Framework

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social sustainability is difficult to measure due to its qualitative and context‐specific nature. However, regulatory pressure and stakeholder expectations increasingly require organisations to disclose robust and verifiable information. In this context, the European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) sets new sustainability ...
Monica Serreli, Manuela D'Eusanio, Luigia Petti   +2 more
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Exploring Sustainability Reporting Practices in an Emerging Market: Insights From Corporate Governance and Disclosure Tone

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study examines how narrative disclosure tones (NDTs) and corporate governance mechanisms (CGMs) affect sustainability reporting practices (SRP) in an emerging economy. Data from 125 non‐financial firms in Pakistan, spanning 2011–2022, are utilized. SRP is measured using both GRI and the novel IFRS S1 standards‐based indices. Three NDTs are
Arshad Hasan, Usman Sufi, Franklin Nakpodia   +2 more
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Assessing Climate Change Disclosure and Its Governance Drivers: Insights From the European Utilities Sector

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to enhance academic understanding of the factors influencing the disclosure practices of climate change among European utility companies, specifically in the context of their sustainability reporting. The primary objective is to explore, through a multi‐theoretical framework, the governance drivers that significantly affect the
Cristina Boţa‐Avram, Adriana Tiron Tudor, Liana Stanca   +2 more
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Seats at the Table, Shifts in the Actions: Board Gender Diversity and Climate Activism

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As regulatory and stakeholder pressures intensify, firms are increasingly expected to move beyond symbolic sustainability commitments towards corporate climate activism. This concept refers to the active institutionalisation of climate‐focused mechanisms such as external assurance, board oversight and climate‐linked incentives.
Md Tanvir Hamim, Rasim Simsek
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