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Hegel and Utopia

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT G.W.F. Hegel is usually held to be anti‐utopian in his political philosophy. I aim to challenge that standard reading, outlining and defending a more positive account of his relation to utopianism. The rational state described in Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1820) is shown to fit an uncontroversial account of utopia without ...
David Leopold
wiley   +1 more source

Do Politically Connected Board Members Influence Firms' Debt Choices? Public Debt Versus Bank Debt

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a unique hand‐collected data set on the political connections of board members of S&P 1500 companies, we find that board members with stronger government ties are positively associated with firms' preference for public debt over bank debt.
Mustapha Douch   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Poglądy Romualda Hubego na karę

open access: yesCzasopismo Prawno-Historyczne, 1974
Romuald Hube (1803-1890) est connu comme auteur de nombreux travaux concernant le droit pénal et en particulier du premier manuel scientifique du droit pénal polonais.
Alicja Grześkowiak
doaj   +1 more source

Czy jesteśmy „społeczeństwem honoru”? Rekonstrukcja pojęcia honoru w wybranych orzeczeniach polskich sądów [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The existence of honour as a particular value is not unique, restricted to the boundaries of certain states, nationalities or ethnicities only. Yet, a distinction can be found in the literature between so-called ‘societies of honour’ and ‘modernised ...
Ptak-Chmiel, Joanna
core   +2 more sources

PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedded in metaphysical truths, and enacted in service of the future. Part 1 assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the “preambular approach to history”
Antoon De Baets
wiley   +1 more source

Mass supervision, misrecognition and the ‘Malopticon’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper aims to contribute to debates about ‘mass supervision’ by exploring its penal character as a lived experience. It begins with a review of recent studies that have used ethnographic methods to explore how supervision is experienced before ...
McNeill, Fergus
core   +1 more source

His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales, the UK National Preventive Mechanism and the UN Optional Protocol for the Prevention of Torture. Prospects for Prison Reform and the Treatment of Prisoners

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales is mandated under domestic law to visit and report on prison conditions and the treatment of prisoners. The Inspectorate's detailed monitoring work provides valuable and authoritative insights into individual prison establishments as well as the overall conditions in prisons and the treatment
Isobel Renzulli
wiley   +1 more source

Recognising the Imminence of Suicide Risk—Reframing Positive Obligations Under the European Convention on Human Rights

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reframes the concept of imminence of suicide risk of mentally ill offenders under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which enshrines the right to life. The proposal is based on Article 2 domestic violence jurisprudence which has built its knowledge of lethal risk by reference to relevant expertise.
Sabina Garahan
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whole life orders (WLOs) represent the power of the state to inflict harm at its most extreme, with such sentences being found to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, very little research has endeavoured to understand the use of WLOs.
Hannah Gilman, Jake Phillips
wiley   +1 more source

The Swedish Penal Code of 1965 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1968
Colombo City is the commercial capital of Sri Lanka with an estimated resident population of over 750,000 spread over 3741 hectares (ha) and has a population density over 1188 per ha.
Panagoda Arachchige Kumara, Omalaka Danushka   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

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