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A Dollar for Your Thoughts: Determining Whether Nominal Damages Prevent an Otherwise Moot Case from Being an Advisory Opinion [PDF]
, 2018 This Note examines whether nominal damages should sustain an otherwise moot constitutional claim. A majority of circuit courts have held that a lone claim for nominal damages is sufficient.
Grealish, Maura B.
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Human Rights Economic Dividends: Estimating the Economic Effects of Preventing Discrimination
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Economies embracing principles like nondiscrimination are presumed to reap significant rewards, while violations incur heavy costs. We call these benefits human rights economic dividends—the economic gains that arise when policymaking is guided by human rights principles.
Jose Cuesta
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Espaço Jurídico, 2012 : The Supreme Court of the Republic of Ghana has given value to gender roles of women (and men) in the home. For too long many courts had relied on the need to establish substantial contribution by spouses to joint property which many women could not ...
Bernice Sam, National Programme Coordinator of Wildaf in Ghana, Africa
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Constitutional courts versus supreme courts [PDF]
International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2007 Constitutional courts exist in most of the civil law countries of Westem Europe, and in almost all the new democracies in Eastem Europe; even France has developed its Conseil Constitutionnel into a genuine constitutional jurisdiction. While their emergence may be regarded as one of the most successful improvements on traditional European concepts of ...
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Lower Courts and Constitutional Comparativism [PDF]
, 2008 The issue of constitutional comparativism has been a topic of significant commentary in recent years. However, there is one aspect of this subject that has been almost completely ignored by scholars: the reception, or lack thereof, of constitutional ...
Alford, Roger P.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change is one of the most profound ethical and existential challenges of the 21st century. Beyond its physical, economic, and environmental consequences, it raises fundamental moral questions about justice, equity, responsibility, and the right to a livable planet.
Jacob Kwakye
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Sądy Królewsko-Polskie (1917-1918)
Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne, 2007 On 1 September 1917 Poland’s King’s Courts became functional at the territory of the Kingdom of Poland, then still under German and Austro-Hungarian rule.
Małgorzata Materniak-Pawłowska
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Avoiding Wrongful Convictions: Re-examining the Wrong-Person Defense [PDF]
, 2009 This Article reviews the history of the right to present a defense and closely examines the United States Supreme Court\u27s modern analysis of that right. Part III analyzes the emergence of the right to present a defense that a third party committed the
Griffin, Lissa
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A Report on Six Seminars About the UK Supreme Court [PDF]
, 2008 During the first half of 2008, a series of six seminars was held in the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London on the United Kingdom Supreme Court.
Le Sueur, A
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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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