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Displacement, Legal Mobilization, and Disasters: Trial Courts and Legal Process

Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 2020
The process of litigation is part of the decentered complex governance structure of risks and disaster. The process highlights problems that other institutions deflect. Courts are also part of defining problems in governing disaster. Scholarship drawing on legal decisions, including concerning environmental decision making, often relies upon the final ...
Susan M. Sterett, Laura K. Mateczun
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Court actions and Boosting Domestic Revenue Mobilization in Uganda

2019
The study analyzed how court actions particularly with respect to the operation of the Tax Appeals Tribunal (TAT), affect domestic revenue mobilisation in Uganda. Based on time series data combined with stakeholder analysis, the study aimed to analyze the performance of TAT in settling tax disputes, examine the source of tax disputes, identify legal ...
Sserunjogi, Brian, Lakuma, Corti Paul, Sserunjogi, Brian, Lakuma, Corti Paul   +3 more
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Intergenerational Mobility in Ottoman Istanbul: Evidence from Court Records

We draw on Istanbul court registers from the 16th-19th centuries to establish long-term trends in intergenerational mobility. The dataset covers more than 270,000 individuals appearing in court in various capacities—litigants, witnesses, representatives, and others—and crucially records honorific titles for both individuals and their fathers.
Metin M. Cosgel, Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez, Emre Özer   +2 more
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“Reverse Discrimination” Cases in the Federal Courts: Legal Mobilization by a Countermovement

The Sociological Quarterly, 1991
This article argues that those opposing affirmative action and reverse discrimination constitute a countermovement, working against the social movement for equal employment opportunity (EEO). Like women and minorities promoting EEO, opponents of reverse discrimination utilize litigation as a social movement tactic, mobilizing federal EEO laws.
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Out of the lab, onto the court: Wheelchair Mobility Performance quantified

2018
Performance in wheelchair court sports is to a large extent determined by the wheelchair mobility performance, the performance measure for the wheelchair-athlete combination. So far, wheelchair mobility performance is mostly utilized as concept, rather than a well quantified measure. However, in order to gain insight in the interaction between athlete,
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Activists as allies of international courts: Assessing the impact of legal mobilization at international courts

2023
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The Case Law of the European Court of Justice on the Mobility of Patients: An Assessment

2011
This means that I shall not deal with other interesting issues such as the free movement of health care providers, with the other free movement rules relevant to health policy (for example, the free movement of pharmaceutical products or the freedom of establishment), and with the influence of the competition rules on health care.
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Legal Mobilization for Migrant Rights

Abstract The European Court of Justice plays a key role in the interpretation and enforcement of EU law. Yet, we still know little about the conditions under which cases arrive at the Court via preliminary reference and why they are so unevenly distributed across the EU Member States.
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A decade-long longitudinal survey shows that the Supreme Court is now much more conservative than the public

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022
Maya Sen, Stephen Jessee, Neil Malhotra   +2 more
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An Energy Efficient Lighting and Mobile Controlled Scoreboard in Smart Badminton Court

2023
N Mahesh
exaly