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Quasi-Expressivism about Statements of Law: A Hartian Theory [PDF]

, 2018
Speech and thought about what the law is commonly function in practical ways, to guide or assess behavior. These functions have often been seen as problematic for legal positivism in the tradition of H.L.A. Hart.
Finlay, Stephen, Plunkett, David
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Mishpat Ivri, Halakhah and Legal Philosophy: Agunah and the Theory of “Legal Sources" [PDF]

, 2001
In this paper, I ask whether mishpat ivri (Jewish Law) is appropriately conceived as a “legal system”. I review Menachem Elon’s use of a “Sources” Theory of Law (based on Salmond) in his account of Mishpat Ivri; the status of religious law from the ...
Jackson, Bernard S.
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Dr. Hans Kohn and the political takeover of the Berlin Medical Society by the National Socialist regime in 1933

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract To solidify their power over society, totalitarian regimes will usually eliminate any dissent, any perceived threats early on. These threats include not only political enemies but also educated and independent segments of society, such as professional associations.
Michael Hortsch
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The rise of informed consent and retreat from dependence upon unclaimed bodies in anatomy: An overview and assessment

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The development of anatomy has been marked by ethically questionable practices. This has been because the dissection of human bodies has always existed on the periphery of conventional society, necessitating a range of dubious ways of obtaining dead bodies for educational and research purposes.
David Gareth Jones
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Evolving Jurisprudence in Clinical Legal Education - A Contemporary Study in Theory and Practice

International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 2019
In concept and practice, clinical legal education is widely affirmed by its global success. As R.J. Wilson puts it, clinical legal education is an “…ongoing and growing revolution that is assaulting the deepest traditions of the legal academy.” It is ...
Kwame Akuffo
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The Reception of Hans Kelsen\u27s Legal Theory in the United States: A Sociological Model [PDF]

, 2008
The Essay explores the reasons underlying opposition to Hans Kelsen\u27s approach to the law within the U.S. legal academy. The vehemence with which legal scholars within the United States rejected Kelsen\u27s philosophy of law is best understood as a ...
Telman, D. A. Jeremy
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“You're this person who's providing light”: Embodied responses to information loss and transition within LGBTQIA+ communities

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
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On two paradigms of legal theory and their relationship [PDF]

, 2012
H. L. A. Hart thought that a theory of law can be purely descriptive and called his theory a “descriptive sociology”. One of his great contributions to modern legal theory is his emphasis on the internal aspect of social rules. According to him, a theory
Chang, Chia-yin
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“Basic human things”: Investigating vehicle residents' continually fractured (information) landscapes

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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