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Voter Access under Mandatory Voter ID: The Promise and Limits of the Voter Authority Certificate

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Elections Act 2022 introduced mandatory photographic voter identification in UK general elections and English devolved elections, marking a decisive shift toward a universal requirement for in‐person voting. To mitigate access barriers in the absence of a national identity system, it also provided for the introduction of a new Voter ...
Petra Schleiter
wiley   +1 more source

Nordic legal overseers and institutional openness in crises: Challenges and adaptation during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We analyze challenges and adaptation strategies of Nordic legal overseers, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen and Chancellors of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, amid the COVID‐19 crisis. We study how the accountability capacities of the legal overseers were affected when standard practices of inclusive decision‐making were severed ...
Tero Erkkilä, Juho Mölsä, Ella Vähäniitty   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
wiley   +1 more source

Penal rule of law (principle of specificity) principle of legal certainty; constitutionality of a rule that considers as a breach the violation of compulsory rules laid down by electoral act that is not a criminal offence : Commentary on the Constitutional Court Judgment 14/2021, of january 28. Concerning the question of unconstitutionality num. 1478-2020. (BOE num. 46, of february 23, 2021)

, 2021
The judgement rejects a question of unconstitutionality brought by the Supreme Court. It declares that limitations laid down in the electoral act for the so called “meditation day” are fully consistent with the Constitution. It does the same with the punishing rules of the same act which states that are suitable to legal certainty and penal specifity ...
openaire   +1 more source

Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

Constitutional Reform by Legal Transplantation: The United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020. [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud, 2022
Horsley T.
europepmc   +1 more source

The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
wiley   +1 more source

Killing me Softly? Scrutinising the Role of Soft Law in Greece's Response to COVID-19. [PDF]

Eur J Risk Regul, 2021
Tsourdi EL, Vavoula N.
europepmc   +1 more source

The End of Self‐Regulation: Will the Football Governance Act 2025 Fix the National Game?

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The Football Governance Act 2025 is a watershed. It upends the model of self‐regulation that has defined how the game has been run in England and Wales for over a century‐and‐a‐half. The newly created Independent Football Regulator will exercise control over clubs, owners, and competition organisers.
Jan Zglinski
wiley   +1 more source

The Unethical Texas Heartbeat Law. [PDF]

Prenat Diagn, 2022
Haining CM, Keogh LA, Savulescu J.
europepmc   +1 more source