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Proportionality and Margin of Appreciation in the Whaling Case. Reconciling Antithetical Doctrines? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In its decision on the Whaling in the Antarctic case, the International Court of Justice used a sophisticated methodology for assessing the legality of a whaling program allegedly designed to pursue purposes of scientific research.
Cannizzaro, Vincenzo
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THE CONCEPT OF DEGRESSIVE AND PROGRESSIVE PROPORTIONALITY AND ITS NORMATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE APPLICATIONS

open access: yesStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2017
The article discusses the concept of progressive and degressive proportionality of the distribution of parliamentary seats. In the first part are presented axiological sources of the principles of proportionality and progressive and degressive ...
Haman Jacek
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On the source of proportionality in nominal measurement: evidence from Greek

open access: yesGlossa, 2023
A large array of nominal measurement structures can give rise to proportional readings, i.e., readings which specify the proportional relation of two measurements.
Artemis Alexiadou, Giorgos Spathas
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Scaling Evolution of Universal Dark-Matter Halo Density Profiles [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Dark-matter halos show a universal density profile with a scaling such that less massive systems are typically denser. This mass-density relation is well described by a proportionality between the characteristic density of halos and the mean cosmic ...
Andreu Raig   +3 more
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The Metaphor of Proportionality [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, 2016
The idea of proportionality has figured prominently in moral, legal, and political theory. It has been central to the articulation of an ideal of limited punishment in modern legal orders, and to judicial and academic efforts to lay down standards for legitimate state conduct in a range of areas. Setting out from a broad view of the role of metaphor, I
openaire   +3 more sources

Criminal Intelligence and the Privacy of Human Life

open access: yesTeisė, 2019
The article analyzes the problematic aspects of applicating the provisions of the Criminal Intelligence Act to the disclosure criminal offences. The author goes deeper into how much of the means used by criminal intelligence can legitimately penetrate ...
Aurelijus Gutauskas
doaj   +1 more source

The Political Potential of the Return Directive

open access: yesLaws, 2014
This paper demonstrates how the legitimate interests of immigrants are gradually being recognized through judicial application of EU immigration law. A philosophical and theoretical introduction demonstrates how this recognition constitutes a political ...
Andrew Crosby
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The Value of Behavioral Economics for EU Judicial Decision-Making

open access: yesGerman Law Journal, 2020
This Article analyzes the value of behavioral economics for EU judicial decision-making. The first part introduces the foundations of behavioral economics by focusing on cognitive illusions, prospect theory, and the underlying distinction between ...
Christoph K. Winter
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Modeling the Patterns of Civil Confiscation: Balancing Effectiveness, Proportionality and the Right to Be Presumed Innocent

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2020
This article elaborates on recent developments in modelling the advanced measure for prevention of organized and serious criminality and corruption – civil confiscation.
Bikelis Skirmantas
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Freedom of Religion Under the Australian Constitution: Is Proportionality the Answer? [PDF]

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Law & Religion, 2023
Under the current approach set out in the 1997 ‘Stolen Generations’ case of Kruger v Commonwealth, the free exercise clause of s 116 of the Australian Constitution is only violated if a law has the purpose of prohibiting the free exercise of religion. In
Guy Baldwin
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