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Ethnocentrism: Lessons from Richard Rorty to Randy David [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article engages Richard Rorty’s controversial concept of ethnocentrism with the help of Randolf (Randy) S. David’s writings. The first section defines Rorty’s concept of ethnocentrism and responds to the general criticisms of relativism and ...
Llanera, Tracy
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Euroscepticism and penal populism in the British Parliament: Parliamentary debates on the prisoners’ right to vote

open access: yesRevue LISA
The issue of prisoners’ right to vote has been a bone of contention between the UK and the European Court of Human Rights ever since the 2005 Hirst decision when the Court decided that the blanket ban on prisoners voting was a violation of Protocol 1 of ...
Anne Cousson
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Domestic values and the judicial process [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Article by Sir Roger Toulson, Chairman of the Law Commission, considering the relationship between the judicial process and democratic values - taken from his lecture presented to the Society for Advanced Legal Studies and published in Amicus Curiae ...
Toulson, Roger
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Editor's Introduction. [PDF]

open access: yesCrit Criminol, 2021
Brisman A.
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Life Sentences, Penal Populism, and Security Confinement

open access: yesCentral European Journal of Comparative Law
This paper critically reflects on the normative and practical meaning and purpose of life sentences and long-term prison sentences, which essentially resembles life sentences in their effect. The analysis provides in-depth knowledge about current trends in the global abolitionist movement, showcasing the current opinio iuris on the jus cogens status of
Anna-Maria Getoš Kalac, Asea Gašparić
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Mapping the landscapes of the Stalinist mass repressions. [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Res Eur, 2022
Pallot J, Gavrilova S.
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Checks and Balances: an assessment of the institutional separtion of political powers in Colombia [PDF]

open access: yes
: In this chapter, we evaluate the institutional and legal structure of the Colombian government. In particular, we want to assess how a system of institutional checks and balances can be structured to promote the rule of law, preserve property rights ...
Howard Rosental, Maurice Kugler
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