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Same-Sex Marriages: Legal Issues [PDF]
, 2012 [Excerpt] The recognition of same-sex marriages generates debate on both the federal and state levels. Either legislatively or judicially, same-sex marriage is legal in seven states.
Smith, Alison M
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Career Sustainability Profiles of Self‐Initiated Expatriates and Associated Person‐Related Factors
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The increasingly volatile global working environment poses particular challenges for self‐initiated expatriates (SIEs), who often lack formal organizational support and must manage their careers independently. However, research on SIEs has largely focused on single international experiences or specific stages of the expatriation cycle, thereby
Shaofang Zong +2 more
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Colonialism and Malay masculinity: Malay satire as observed in the novel Kawin-Kawin [PDF]
, 2006 This article evaluates the novel Kawin-Kawin as a satire, and as a mode for forming social criticism on Malay society. An assessment of such a genre must consider the target audience and the Islamic cultural context of the novel.
Noritah Omar,
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Temporary Employment and First‐Time Homeownership in Australia
Australian Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research Questions How does temporary employment, that is, fixed‐term contract and casual employment, affect the transition into first‐time homeownership among young people in Australia? Does the effect differ by employment type, gender, relationship situation, or parents' socio‐economic status?
Inga Laß
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Of Wife and the Domestic Servant in the Arab World [PDF]
, 2012 The author asserts to avoid common misunderstandings on the relevance of Sharia to modern women in the Arab World that a) Shari’s relevance to the lives of modern women in the Arab World has been largely confined to the area of family law, b) in the ...
Abu-Odeh, Lama
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, 1998 Why does the law treat engagement rings differently from other gifts? The answer is rooted in a history in which courts generally entertained litigation over broken engagements.
Tushnet, Rebecca
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The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 180-188, January/March 2025.Abstract The forthcoming general election will be the most consequential electoral contest for the Republic of Ireland in a century. The polity is situated in truly novel territory with the potential for an historic first: the incoming of a Sinn Féin‐led, left‐wing government.
Chris Ó Rálaigh
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The Erosion of Constitutionalism via Constitutional Entrepreneurship: Lessons from Slovakia
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The 2023 Slovak general election resulted in an illiberal coalition keen to transform the political regime following its Hungarian neighbour's post‐2010 example. Using the Slovak case, this article shows the key role of political party leaders’ constitutional entrepreneurship in the erosion of constitutionalism. Constitutional entrepreneurship
Darina Malová, Max Steuer
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Promulgating the Marriage Contract
University of Michigan Journal of Law ReformI begin Part I of this Article by positing several logically necessary, but insufficient, conditions that precede a state's decision to promulgate a law more aggressively than usual. I then show that each of these conditions was met with regard to the economic terms of the marriage contract in virtually all states by 1975.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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