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The law-making role of judges has always been the subject of much controversy. For a good many a year and especially during the apartheid regime, the approach to statutory interpretation that dominated the South African courts was the orthodox textual ...
Annie Singh, Moreblessing Zaryl Bhero
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This study examines the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) use of the canonical interpretation techniques (textual, systematic, historical, teleological) based on a novel comprehensive dataset of 8,436 judgments.
Tilmann Altwicker +3 more
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The melodramatic genre gestures towards the expression of a morally and emotionally legible world (Peter Brooks). Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Gladiator (1831) and Robert Conrad’s Jack Cade (1841)—two plays that were awarded the Edwin Forrest Prize—are ...
Ronan Ludot-Vlasak
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Human as the infinite end: Elaborating on the theoretical and practical end in itself formula and the consequential interpretation of David Cummiskey [PDF]
Human is an end in itself; this is Kant’s second formulation of categorical imperative, which has proved to be the most practical one for him. What is meant by "end in itself" as opposed to being "merely as a means"?
Ali Akbar Ahmadi Aframjani +1 more
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What should a robot learn from an infant? Mechanisms of action interpretation and observational learning in infancy [PDF]
The paper provides a summary of our recent research on preverbal infants (using violation-of-expectation and observational learning paradigms) demonstrating that one-year-olds interpret and draw systematic inferences about other’s goal-directed actions ...
Gergely, György
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This Article advocates for conceptualizing law as a design science, with a comprehensive approach that integrates formal, explanatory, and design dimensions of legal knowledge.
Antonio-Martín Porras-Gómez
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Fractured Narratives in Novel and Film
Our contribution points to the strategic split operated by Ian McEwan’s narrative and, comparatively, by Joe Wright’s film Atonement. This split allows them to craft two diverging narrative discourses which overtly compete to dominate the interpretation ...
Monica Spiridon
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Why did Kant conclude the Critique of Pure Reason with "the history of pure reason"? [PDF]
In this paper I examine Kant's conception of the history of pure reason and its relation to his metaphilosophy as it is presented in the Critique of Pure Reason [Kritik der reinen Vernunft] (KrV).
Nabolsy, Zeyad El
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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy
ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
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The role of judicial acts in promoting the legitimacy of legal policy and authority of power [PDF]
Introduction. The judiciary plays an important role in the formation and promotion of legal policy and its legitimate vector of development. This is manifested not only in the educational potential of judicial acts and the disciplinary impact of justice ...
Toguzaeva, Ekaterina Nikolaevna
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