Law and Nonlegal Norms in Government Lawyers\u27 Ethics: Discretion Meets Legitimacy [PDF]
, 2019 This Essay is about the role of unwritten norms in the ethical decisionmaking of government lawyers. Because the ethical obligations of lawyers, including government lawyers, are closely tied to the legal rights and obligations of clients, this analysis ...
BÜYÜKKILIÇ BEYZİ, SELMA +4 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos +2 more
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The Supreme Courts: Did September 11th Accelerate Their Sanctioning the Constitutionality of Criminalizing Suspicion? [PDF]
, 2008 “This article evaluates whether the nation‘s highest appellate courts have, on balance, been more willing to acquiesce to criminalization based on suspicion since the attacks on the World Trade Center seven years ago. The article seeks to accomplish this
Holley, Dannye
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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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Post legal positivism: new paradigm of legal science (jurisprudence) and practice in Brazil [PDF]
, 2012 The relation between law, moral, society and science is shifting in Brazil as it is changing in democratic contemporary societies. This paper proposes to reflect about this change in the Brazilian legal and social context.
Malheiros da Cunha Frota, Pablo +1 more
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The Role of Entscheider in the Asylum Procedure: A Legal and Ethical Analysis [PDF]
, 2019 In this article we examine the role of Entscheider (decision-makers) in the German asylum procedure, both legally and ethical. As the responsibility for deciding on asylum applications lies exclusively with them, their significance for the German asylum ...
Kleinschmidt, Nicolas, Krüger, Jessica
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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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The Rule of Law in a State of Disaster: Evaluating Standards for the Promulgation, Administration and Enforcement of Emergency Regulations in South Africa. [PDF]
Hague J Rule Law, 2023 Dube F.
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Defending Korematsu?: Reflections on Civil Liberties in Wartime [PDF]
, 2003 According to Justice William J. Brennan, After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.
Tushnet, Mark V.
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Collateral Challenges in Criminal Proceedings: Mayday for Citizens Radio [PDF]
, 2009 Analysispublished_or_final_versio
Yap, PJ
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