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Justifying Uncivil Disobedience [PDF]

, 2019
A prominent way of justifying civil disobedience is to postulate a pro tanto duty to obey the law and to argue that the considerations that ground this duty sometimes justify forms of civil disobedience.
Lai, Ten-Herng
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Right to Information and Communication between Government and Citizens: Identifying Continuities and Discontinuities in the Practices of Turkey at the 10th Anniversary of the Law on Right to Information

İletişim Kuram ve Araştırma Dergisi, 2016
The right to information as a form of right to petition is one of the cornerstones in the formation of the modern constitutional state and has important ties with the freedom of thought and expression as well as citizens’ right to ask their ...
Tuğba ASRAK HASDEMİR
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From Bentham to Guadet: ‘auditory visibility’ in nineteenth-century theories on government offices [PDF]

, 2019
Architectural historiography is seldom concerned with the antithetical notions of ‘noise’ and ‘silence’. In this case study, I tentatively explore the theme in the context of nineteenth-century administrative buildings.
Van de Maele, Jens
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Civil Liability of Government Officers: Property Rights and Official Accountability [PDF]

, 1978
The law under which government officials operate permits them to inflict injury on others, under prescribed circumstances, in established ways, and in carefully (and sometimes not so carefully) calibrated amounts.
Mashaw, Jerry L.
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Mandating Disclosure in Municipal Securities Issues: Proposed New York Legislation [PDF]

, 1980
This article surveys the existing mechanisims (primarily stemming from federal law) resulting in financial disclosure in connection with the offering and sale to the public of securities of New York municipal issuers.
Currier, Thomas S.
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Corporate Criminal Liability for Homicide: A Statutory Framework [PDF]

, 2011
Since the nineteenth century, judges, legislators, prosecutors, and academics have grappled with how best to accommodate within the criminal law corporations whose conduct causes the death of others.
Harlow, James W.
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Liberty and Property in the Patent Law [PDF]

, 2002
Patents have seldom troubled civil libertarians. A specialized form of property, patents seemed pertinent to the technologies of traditional industry but little else.
Thomas, John R.
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‘Shell to Sea’ in Ireland: building social movement potency [PDF]

, 2008
In 1996 the Corrib gas field, holding over 1 trillion cubic feet of gas, was discovered by Enterprise Oil 83km off the North West coast of Ireland.
Salter, K., Sullivan, Sian
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Rhetorics of Invitation and Refusal in Terry Tempest Williams\u27s The Open Space of Democracy [PDF]

, 2015
This essay aims to break through an impasse in scholarship about the uses and limits of invitational rhetoric for social change. After analyzing the arguments about invitational approaches to communication, the essay focuses on a case (concerning freedom
Swiencicki, Jill
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Growth and Performance Factors in Polish Manufacturing Firms in 1998-2003 in the Light of Survey Data [PDF]

We investigate possible factors of change in employment between 1998 and 2003 in 220 companies from four industries of Polish manufacturing (food, electronics, automotive and pharmaceuticals), that were subject to an enterprise survey.
: Krzysztof Marczewski, Krzysztof Szczygielski   +1 more
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