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Drawing Goal Lines: Stare Decisis and the U.S. Supreme Court

, 2010
Andrew Hart
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Katrina's Diaspora: Lessons in Black Ambivalence

Antipode, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay examines post‐Katrina New Orleans to challenge overdetermining narratives of Black resistance at the expense of other modes of being, while countering portrayals reducing resistance to demands for inclusion into violent subjectivity.
Jaz Riley
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Slum Evictions through the Lens of Labour: Capture, Value Generation, and Belonging in the Indian City

Antipode, EarlyView.
Abstract Following the lead of labour movements, this article frames slums as labour geographies whose evictions constitute the devaluation of labour in spatial terms. This devaluation occurs in two modes: in the first, through the rendering of workers as “encroachers” or “the urban poor” in policy documents and public discourse, thereby unmooring ...
Priti Narayan
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Semidiaphanam Tremuli Narcissuli Ideam Lacteam1: Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651–1708) and His Determined Search for the Porcelain Principle

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With this contribution, an attempt is being made to chart the timeline of the invention of the European hard‐paste porcelain based on historical documents. They were evaluated to trace the development lines from Tschirnhaus's early experiments with burning mirrors and lenses in the 1680s to finding ‘wax porcelain’ around 1694 to the ...
Robert B. Heimann
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The Supreme Court Forecasting Project: Legal and Political Science Approaches to Predicting Supreme Court Decisionmaking

, 2014
Theodore W. Ruger, Pauline T. Kim, Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn   +3 more
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Are Conscientious Refusal and Conscientious Provision Mutually Exclusive? A Critique of Kelusa and Giubilini's Argument

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article challenges the claim that conscientious refusal and conscientious provision in healthcare are mutually exclusive and thus asymmetrical. While US law protects healthcare providers who refuse to perform medical services on moral or religious grounds, it offers no equivalent protections to those who feel morally compelled to provide ...
Tzofit Ofengenden
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Expecting the Next Coup? The Unchallenged Brazilian Military's Bargaining Power

Bulletin of Latin American Research, EarlyView.
The civil‐military relations in Brazil have faced criticism due to weak political institutions and significant military autonomy, resulting in a regression of democratisation. This article posits that the shortcomings in Brazilian civil‐military relations have historical roots, with military prerogatives established in the early twentieth century and ...
Érico Esteves Duarte
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The Chilean Revolts and the Failure of the Constituent Process

Bulletin of Latin American Research, EarlyView.
This article aims to contextualise the recent constituent process in Chile and its subsequent failure, paying attention not only to the so‐called contingent nature of the revolts inaugurated in October 2019, but also to the reengineering process implemented by the Pinochet dictatorship.
Sergio Villalobos‐Ruminott
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The Limits of a Scientific Jurisprudence: The Supreme Court and Psychology

, 1990
J. Alexander Tanford
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Racial bias in criminal sentencing: Historical evidence from Chinese railway workers in British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract Do discriminatory attitudes held in the public influence public institutions? We study this question within the context of the criminal justice system of historical British Columbia (BC). During the late 1870s and early 1880s, an influx of Chinese immigrant workers employed in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was the catalyst
Kris Inwood, Ian Keay, Blair Long
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