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Entertainment and Sports Law Journal, 2019 This summary article considers the nature of global sports law. It examines in particular the extent of sport’s autonomous self-governance, its claims to legal immunity from supervision by national courts and legislatures, and how such autonomy can be ...
Ken Foster
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Legal Origins and the Evolution of Institutions: Evidence from American State Courts [PDF]
Several important studies of institutions assume that the quality of institutions is persistent following some formative historic event. The assumption of institutional persistence, however, begs the question of how these institutions persisted.
Daniel Berkowitz, Karen Clay
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Citizen Engagement for Social and Technological Innovation in Sustainable Energy Systems
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This study underscores the potential of citizen participation in the energy transition by providing insights to foster citizen‐driven innovation. An analysis of energy communities, one of the most dynamic innovations in the energy sector, reveals that these models can be citizen‐led initiatives regarding their operational and organizational structure ...
Ana Belén Cristóbal +3 more
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Derecho Animal, 2019 Over the past decade, the fifty state legislatures of the United States have been adopting legislation for the benefit of the group of animals known as companion animals. When considered together as a set, these laws create an initial set of legal rights
David Favre
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Effect Differences of Omega‐3 Fatty Acids From Plant Oil and Fish Oil on Human Health
AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.Omega‐3 fatty acids in plant oil is no less than fish oil on human health. ALA in plant oil takes directly healthy effects without conversion to DHA and EPA. Plant oil can be substitutes for fish oil to support partial ω‐3 fatty acids. For people who cannot afford fish oil, plant oil is also good for public health.
Mengxue Fang +3 more
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, 2002 The purpose of this book is to bridge the gap between the large, systematic body of scholarship on the U.S. Congress and the significant though more scattered scholarship on legislatures outside the United States. Although there is no single paradigm that guides research on Congress, there has been a succession of dominant methodologies.
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Bargaining in Legislatures: An Empirical Investigation [PDF]
While the theoretical literature on non-cooperative legislative bargaining has grown voluminous, there is little empirical work attempting to test a key prediction in this literature: proposal power is valuable.
Brian Knight
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Votes Count: Legislative Action on Pre-K Fiscal Year 2009 [PDF]
, 2008 Provides an overview of changes in state legislatures' budgets for pre-K programs and discusses regional trends in progress toward providing pre-K education for all -- or the lack thereof.
Jennifer V. Doctors
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Legal Control of Municipal Bodies’ Power to Levy Tax: An Indian Perspective
G-Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2014 This piece of research work tries to evaluate and exemplify the importance of the Constitutional scheme of levying the tax by the municipal local bodies for the purposes of the collection of taxes.
Fareed Ahmad Rafiqi, Towseef Ahmad
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Childhood Obesity Task Forces Established by State Legislatures, 2001-2010
Preventing Chronic Disease, 2013 Introduction States and communities are considering policy and environmental strategies, including enacting legislation, to reduce and prevent childhood obesity. One legislative approach has been to create task forces to understand key issues and develop
Ashleigh L. May, MS, PhD +3 more
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