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Legal Science and Practice: Journal of Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of RussiaThis article examines the problems associated with defining the concept of a justified verdict, its relationship with the properties of legality and motivation of a court decision. The conclusion is formulated that modern judicial practice has actually turned the property of the validity of a sentence into an appendage of legality.
Antonina Rogova, Aleksandr Rogov
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Mercy: A Right and a Privilege
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many accounts of mercy nowadays are morally neutral; agents show mercy when they impose less harm than they might have, whether or not such harm would have been permissible. More morally infused perspectives are often dismissed; for they seem too narrow to capture the full gamut of ordinary usage.
Jessica Isserow
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Narrator, character, other: Kafka’s triangle in Fürsprecher
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Franz Kafka's protagonists are conspicuously featureless, and yet Kafka is persistently read as a fabulist of the plight of the individual before impervious, impersonal, and indifferent legal structures. How can Kafka champion the individual against such forces when his heroes do not have personalities to lose?
Lindsay O’Connor Stern
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Analysis of Discourse Structure of Cases Verdict in The District Court (A Study of Legal Language)
Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2017 <p>The title of this article is the discourse structure of cases verdict in the district court (a study of legal language). This article discusses several elements that compose verdict in a criminal case, such as heading, the identity of the defendant, the attorney’s indictment, witnesses’ testimony, the testimony of the accused, and the verdict ...
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Philanthropy for the Disenfranchised
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philanthropy has an uneasy relationship with democracy. It distributes decision‐making power plutocratically, in proportion to wealth. It allows unelected, unaccountable, and often untrustworthy individuals to shape social outcomes. And it does so in domains where democracy should be authoritative. Yet, at the same time, philanthropy does much
Jacob Barrett
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Journal for Digital Legal HistoryIn 2021 the Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory published the database of the Policeyordnungen der Frühen Neuzeit. It contains information based upon over 200,000 police ordinances (a type of early modern administrative law) in ...
Andreas Wagner +2 more
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Gaps in Russian LegislationLegality. Reasonableness and fairness are prerequisites, to which the verdict of the court in the criminal case must correspond. Otherwise, it is subject to cancellation or, at least, amendment by the courts of appeal and cassation instances in connection with significant violations of criminal or criminal procedure laws.
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Difference‐Making Under Metaphysical Indeterminacy
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many of the most pressing moral problems we face involve collective harms generated by large numbers of individually insignificant actions. Unlike triggering cases—where a threshold exists such that a single act could be decisive—non‐triggering cases lack any such sharp cutoff.
Jessica Li
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Ohio Legal Rights Service annual report; Annual report
Electronic coverage as of Apr. 7, 2009: 2003-; Report year ends Sept.
Ohio Legal Rights Service.
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Marx's Concept of Justice: Disambiguating Capitalist and Communist Justice
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Gregory Slack
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