John F. Sonnett Memorial Lecture Series: Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Proportionality Rule [PDF]
Lecture by Judge William Hughes Mulligan of United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1971-1981) and Dean of Fordham University School of Law (1956-1971) regarding the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature in the application
Mulligan, William Hughes
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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“Those with a taste for fairy tales seem to have thought that in some Aladdin's cave there is hidden the Community law in its splendour and that on a judge's appointment there descends on him knowledge of the magic words Open Sesame. Bad decisions are given when the judge has muddled the password and the wrong door opens. But we do not believe in fairy
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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Dissing States?: Invalidation of State Action During the Rehnquist Era [PDF]
Used by permission of the Virginia Law Review ...
Colker, Ruth, Scott, Kevin M.
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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Estimating costs of bedside assessment by a judge in each case of mechanical restraint in Germany after new legislation. [PDF]
Hirsch S, Flammer E, Steinert T.
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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
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Interbranch Accountability in State Government and the Constitutional Requirement of Judicial Independence [PDF]
Shane, Peter M.
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