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The Environmental Impacts of Overpopulation

Encyclopedia
Overpopulation’s central role in environmental degradation is intermittently challenged. This article assesses the impact of mounting demographic pressures on six critical global sustainability challenges: deforestation, climate change, biodiversity loss,
Alon Tal
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The Rule of Law, Freedom, and Prosperity. [PDF]

After decades of neglect, the rule of law is much on the minds of legal scholars today. In the United States, the Supreme Court's controversial decision in Bush v.
Todd J. Zywicki
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Pleadings and Motions before Trial in Federal Criminal Procedure [PDF]

, 1960
Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure gave the Supreme Court Advisory Committee more drafting problems than any other rule. Professor Orfield, a member of the Advisory Committee, traces the rule\u27s development through its drafting stages,
Orfield, Lester B.
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Qualitative comparative analysis of policies implemented by 26 European countries during the 2020 great lockdown

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionDuring the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, from March 1 to April 15, 2020, significant variations emerged among countries regarding the implementation of lockdown policies.
Zhipeng Wang, Guangyi Qu
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After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the emergence of the rule of law in post-communist societies [PDF]

With the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in 1989-91, many economic reformers supported"Big Bang"privatization-the rapid transfer of state-owned enterprises to private individuals.
Hoff, Karla, Stiglitz, Joseph E.
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The Rule of Law as a Law of Standards: Interpreting the Internal Revenue Code [PDF]

, 2014
This Essay seeks to demonstrate that the interpretive use of standards in applying provisions of the Internal Revenue Code is not inconsistent with the rule of law.
Abreu, Alice G., Greenstein, Richard K.
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Evaluating the Wallet-Based DCEP: Regulatory Innovations and Implementation Strategies in China’s Retail CBDC

Laws
In pursuit of a higher-quality post-pandemic economic recovery, Chinese authorities have accelerated the development of the e-CNY. This study posits that the e-CNY distinguishes itself from other payment instruments through its controlled anonymity ...
Zhenyong Li, Jianxing Li
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Racial, Ethnic, or National Minority? Legal Discourses and Policy Frameworks on the Roma in Hungary and Beyond

Social Inclusion, 2015
Inspired by recent Hungarian legislative developments that, in reference to the Roma minority, exchanged the term “ethnic minority” with “nationality”, by providing a detailed case study of the development and morphology of policy measures and frameworks
Andras L. Pap
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The Rule of Law and Automation of Government Decision‐Making

Modern law review, 2019
Governments around the world are deploying automation tools in making decisions that affect rights and entitlements. The interests affected are very broad, ranging from time spent in detention to the receipt of social security benefits.
Monika Zalnieriute, L. B. Moses, G. Williams   +2 more
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Natural Law as Professional Ethics: A Reading of Fuller [PDF]

, 2000
In Plato\u27s Laws, the Athenian Stranger claims that the gods will smile only on a city where the law is despot over the rulers and the rulers are slaves of the law.
Luban, David
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