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A Comparison of the American Model and French (-Inspired) Appellate Model [PDF]
, 2018 Both the American and the French legal system have a three-tiered structure. However, the respective roles and functions of the courts on each step of the ladder is vastly different in both. Whereas the general system in the U.S.
Blockx, Frederic
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the use of environmental disclosure as a strategic tool to manage legitimacy crises in a mining company, adopting critical discourse analysis (CDA) as the main methodology. Focusing on a case of environmental disaster, this research reveals how corporate narratives can be manipulated to minimize responsibility and reinforce
Renata Luiza de Castilho Rossoni +1 more
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Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2011 This article deals with the great variety of Supreme Courts in the world today and presents some selected courts. Supreme Courts are found in most countries both as only apex courts or in a courts’ system where also supreme administrative courts or ...
Ditlev Tamm
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Why Has a Progressive Court Failed to Protect the Prison Population against COVID-19? Mass Incarceration and Brazil’s Supreme Court [PDF]
Health and Human Rights, 2023 Despite acknowledging the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic for the prison population, Brazil’s Supreme Court declined to issue structural injunctions during the health crisis ordering lower courts to consider these risks when making incarceration-related ...
Daniel Wei Liang Wang +6 more
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Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2023 The commentary essentially endorses the considerations of the Polish Supreme Administrative Court judgment of 4 November 2021 in case no. III FSK 3626/21.
Michał Skwarzyński
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Protean Statutory Interpretation in the Courts of Appeals [PDF]
, 2017 This Article is the first in-depth empirical and doctrinal analysis of differences in statutory interpretation between the courts of appeals and the Supreme Court. It is also among the first to anticipate how the Supreme Court’s interpretive approach may
Baum, Lawrence, Brudney, James J
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Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders +4 more
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Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2012 This article deals with the great variety of Supreme Courts in the world today and presents some selected courts. Supreme Courts are found in most countries both as only apex courts or in a courts’ system where also supreme administrative courts or ...
Ditlev Tamm
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Ahani v. Canada: A Persuasive Dialogue within the Courts
Refuge, 2003 This paper is a comment on Ahani v. Canada (OCA). Canadian courts are presently involved in a dialogue over the role of international law domestically. The courts’ own grappling with various norms of international law, however, has helped to clarify and ...
Adrian di Giovanni
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Gambling and Substance Use: Early Evidence From Sports Betting Laws
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous research documents a strong association between gambling and substance use, suggesting that these seemingly distinct behaviors may share similar environmental, neurobiological, and genetic causes. However, there is a dearth of credible empirical evidence on whether gambling has a causal impact on substance use or vice versa.
Kabir Dasgupta, Keshar Ghimire
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