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Environmental protection and seizures in Supreme Court decisions
Lexambiente, 2019 The article offers a general examination of the system of seizures in environmental law with reference to different sectors, analysing the evolution of jurisprudence over the years and the different interpretative solutions adopted in the performance of ...
Luca Ramacci
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The Case for Managed Judges: Learning from Japan after the Political Upheaval of 1993 [PDF]
Although the executive branch appoints Japanese Supreme Court justices as it does in the United States, a personnel office under the control of the Supreme Court rotates lower court Japanese judges through a variety of posts. This creates the possibility
J. Mark Ramseyer
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Conflicts between the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Legislature: Campaign Finance Reform and Same-Sex Marriage [PDF]
, 2006 [Excerpt] This article will examine recent interactions and dialogues between the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (“SJC” or “Supreme Judicial Court”) and the Massachusetts State Legislature.
Miller, Mark C.
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
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Justice for the Marginalized in a Constitutional Democracy
CasteThis article draws attention to the historical context of the Criminal Tribes Act 1871 to throw light on how colonial logic worked with the existing caste structures in India to produce a unique form of legal and social disadvantage for these ...
P.S. Narasimha
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State Capacity and Path Dependence in Cape Verde's Supreme Audit Institution
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines state capacity and path dependence in the Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of Cape Verde, focussing on the performance and governance of the Court of Auditors. Drawing on a mixed‐methods longitudinal design covering the period from 2010 to 2024, the analysis combines international governance indicators, documentary analysis,
Ana Lúcia Romão
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Kansas V. Nebraska & Colorado: Keeping Equity Afloat in the Republican River Dispute [PDF]
, 2014 This commentary previews an upcoming Supreme Court case, Kansas v. Nebraska & Colorado. The Supreme Court will have the opportunity to resolve a decades-old conflict over water rights in the Republican River which flows through Colorado, Nebraska, and ...
Punia, Charles
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Despite longstanding research on human rights and the environment, scholarship has only recently moved towards an explicit connection to the marine environment. At the same time, research on human rights and oceans focuses on people at sea, not environmental protection.
Laura Major, Elaine Webster
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The Young and the Redemptionless? Juvenile Offenders Before Miller v. Alabama [PDF]
, 2016 The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits excessive criminal sanctions, and the Supreme Court has held that this provision has special application in situations dealing with juvenile offenders.
Johnson, Katherine
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Ecological restoration projects with diverse interest groups face the continual challenge of engaging values, goals and cultures that may vary greatly among partners. As part of an eco‐cultural, riparian restoration project led by the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, our research examines the instrumental, relational and intrinsic ...
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