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Public Attitudes Toward Compassionate Release of Older People From Prison: Findings From a National Survey in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid increase in older people in prison populations worldwide is generating significant health, cost, and human rights pressures on custodial systems. Compassionate release for older, frail inmates is a potentially effective response, yet little is known about public support for this approach.
Ye In (Jane) Hwang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
wiley   +1 more source

Harmonizing Values, Not Laws: The CISG and the Benefits of a Neo-Realist Perspective

open access: yesNordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2008
Legal Realism has been deemed as one of the most important jurisprudential movements in Western society during the twentieth century.2 This group, which was by no means coherent, flourished particularly in the 1920s and 1930s at Yale and Columbia law ...
Peter J. Mazzacano
doaj   +2 more sources

Legal framework of multimodal transport

open access: yesArs Iuris Salmanticensis, 2015
The legal regime of multimodal transport is not composed by international uniform rules. It is composed by a multitude of national and supranational systems that respond to different legal approaches.
Antonio ABRIL RUBIO
doaj  

How Humanitarian and Human Rights Law Shape Conflicts Within States

open access: yesBratislava Law Review
This paper explores the legal status of non-international armed conflicts (NIACs) under international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL).
Adnan Mahmutovic
doaj   +1 more source

‘I Used to Be Illegal and Now I'm a Priority’: A Critical Thematic Analysis of LGBTI+ Voices From the Australian Royal Commission Into Aged Care

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Due to historic and anticipated discrimination, engaging aged care services can see LGBTI+ older adults conceal their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Recommendations from the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care claim to have addressed the needs of a range of diversity groups, including the needs of LGBTI+ older
Patricia Cain   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polyurethane Foams From a Triblock Copolymer Polyol With CO2‐Derived, High‐Tg Polycarbonate Segments

open access: yesJournal of Applied Polymer Science, EarlyView.
Polyurethane foam (PUF) properties are tuned by incorporating polyol with 0–15 wt% CO2‐derived poly(cyclohexene carbonate) (PCHC) segments (Tg = 104°C). Network PUFs are synthesized using CO2‐derived triblock copolymer polyol with PCHC hard segments and a polycaprolactone soft segment.
Yen‐Wen Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of the Fragmentation of International Law on the Work of the United Nations

open access: yesЕвразийская интеграция: экономика, право, политика, 2019
The Charter of the United Nations since the foundation of the organization in 1945 is a fundamental document for the legal activities of all the states and international organizations.
Viktor P. Kirilenko   +2 more
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Functions and optimization of soft law in the international governance of synthetic biology: The predicament of hard law vs. the rise of soft law

open access: yesSynthetic and Systems Biotechnology
Synthetic biology, as an emerging field that integrates life sciences and engineering technology, is driving profound transformations in global science, ethics, and legal systems.
Yu Qin, Jiaxiang Hu, Kezhen Su
doaj   +1 more source

Compositionally Engineered Carboxymethyl Cellulose‐Based Optical Fibers With Exceptionally Low Optical Loss and Quantitative Humidity Sensing

open access: yesAdvanced Physics Research, EarlyView.
Carboxymethyl cellulose‐based biopolymer optical fibers are fabricated using aqueous wet spinning. The fibers exhibit record‐low optical attenuation in polysaccharide‐based waveguides while maintaining efficient transmission across the visible‐to‐near‐infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Jani Patrakka   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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