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Grains of Sand or Butterfly Effect: Standing, the Legitimacy of Precedent, and Reflections on \u3cem\u3eHollingsworth\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eWindsor\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2013 One test of whether a scholarly work has achieved canonical status is to ask respected scholars in the field which works, setting aside their own, are essential reads.
Stearns, Maxwell L.
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Global Policy, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 525-540, September 2025.ABSTRACT Climate change impacts are increasing globally. A climate justice perspective highlights that impacts are unevenly felt, with vulnerable groups and future generations facing significantly greater impacts even if current goals are met. Recognition of future generations in policy is attracting increasing attention internationally, with the ...
Edward A. Morgan +4 more
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Back to the Drawing Board: Revisiting the Supreme Court\u27s Stance on Partisan Gerrymandering [PDF]
, 2017 In the United States, state legislatures have drawn voting districts to achieve desired election results for hundreds of years. Dating back to the James Madison presidency, various legislatures and iterations of the U.S. Supreme Court have wrestled with
Colton, Robert
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Measuring the Perceived (In)accessibility of Courts and Lawyers
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 298-317, September 2025.ABSTRACT Although the majority of those who face a civil justice problem will not attend court or seek advice from a lawyer, access to courts and legal services is critical to ensuring equal access to justice. This significance is captured in UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.3 and in efforts to measure progress against this goal by reference to the ...
Catrina Denvir +3 more
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Who needs the law? Multiple consciousness as critique
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S176-S181, September 2025.Abstract This essay offers a response to Dr Lizzy Willimington's article and a reflection on the history of critical and socio‐legal studies. It points to critique as a normative question rather than a methodological one and discusses this idea through the history of legal needs and legal consciousness research.
TARA MULQUEEN
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Raising a claim for (animal) justice: The end(s) of socio‐legal and critical legal studies
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S168-S175, September 2025.Abstract This short essay follows an invitation from this journal to reflect on the relation between socio‐legal and critical legal studies over the past 50 years, a period during which the Journal of Law and Society has been one of the primary conduits for scholarship of both persuasions.
STEWART MOTHA
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Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales, 2012 On 10 December 2008, General Assembly proceeded to adopt the (First) Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which establishes as key procedure the competence of the Committee to receive and review ...
Rosa Riquelme Cortado
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O CONTROLE JURISDICIONAL DO IMPEACHMENT NO BRASIL E NOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DA AMÉRICA
Direito em Debate, 2019 Este ensaio busca comparar os mais relevantes precedentes do Brasil e dos Estados Unidos da América acerca da questão do controle jurisdicional do impeachment, para, então, concluir em que medida é possível falar em uma convergência ou divergência na ...
Luisa Angélica Mendes Mesquita +1 more
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The rights of the dying: the refusal of medical treatments in Argentine courts
Salud Colectiva, 2016 This paper addresses the judicialization of end of life medical decision-making, as part of the advance of the justice system in the regulation of medical practice and the rise of recognition of patient autonomy. The article analyzes, from a sociological
Juan Pedro Alonso
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\u3cem\u3eSpokeo v. Robins\u3c/em\u3e and the Constitutional Foundations of Statutory Standing [PDF]
, 2015 In Spokeo v. Robins, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to address the following question: Does Congress have the power to confer standing upon an individual claiming that a privately owned website violated its federal statutory obligation to take ...
Stearns, Maxwell
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