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Scenes From a Sociolegal Career: An Informal Memoir

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 1015-1036, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This memoir describes the 40‐year unfolding, project by project, of my sociolegal field research on legal and regulatory processes. It provides brief accounts of my interactions and interviews with regulatory officials and with businesspeople responsible for regulatory compliance.
Robert A. Kagan
wiley   +1 more source

Calling All the Statesmen: The (not) Mubarak Trial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
I read the decision that exonerated ex-Minister of Interior of Egypt and his assistants from the charge of giving orders to kill demonstrators textually.
Abu-Odeh, Lama
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Reassessing the Significance of Firearms in Central Africa: The Case of North-Western Zambia to the 1920s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Based on a close examination of European travelogues and the evidence produced in the wake of the formulation of colonial gun policies, this article contends that the significance of firearms in Central Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth ...
Gann   +5 more
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Guns and Roses: Advocacy in an Emerging Democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Draws on campaigns for gun control and same-sex marriage in South Africa to offer a framework for effective advocacy. Discusses defining issues and goals, research, strategic partnerships, mobilizing, working with the media, lobbying, and other ...
Janet Shapiro, Marian Nell
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Rural crime and law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper discusses the nature and extent of rural crime and suggested solutions to rural crime; providing the author’s opinion on mandatory sentencing, increased penalties, certainty of detection, and reduction of the profit motive.
Bone, Christopher J
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The Failed Experiment: Gun Control and Public Safety in Canada, Australia, England and Wales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Widely televised firearm murders in many countries during the 20th Century have spurred politicians to introduce restrictive gun laws. The politicians then promise that the new restrictions will reduce criminal violence and "create a safer society." It ...
Gary Mauser
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Lethality, Public Carry, and Adequate Alternatives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This Article explores the relationship between lethality and the right to bear arms, and considers how that relationship might be shaped by the availability of non-lethal alternative weapons.
Blocher, Joseph, Miller, Darrell A. H.
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Understanding the Smith & Wesson M&P15: Semiautomatic Assault Rifle Used in the Aurora, Colorado Mass Murder [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This report discusses the history and profit motive behind Smith & Wesson's introduction into the civilian market of its M&P15 semiautomatic assault rifles in 2006. It then explains the history, distinguishing features, and lethal capabilities of assault

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Letter from a Canadian Supporter to Geraldine Ferraro [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
Letter from a Canadian supporter to Geraldine Ferraro. Author is a member of an environmental group. Letter has handwritten notes and a brochure for the International Wildlife Protection Association.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu ...
Ferraro, Geraldine
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The Ottoman Gunpowder Empire and the Composite Bow

open access: yes, 2010
The Ottoman Empire is known today as a major Gunpowder Empire, famous for its prevalent use of this staple of modern warfare as early as the sixteenth century.
Lanan, Nathan
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