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"Protecting the Public Welfare and Morals": Political Institutions, Federalism, and Prohibition, 1834-1934 [PDF]

, 2001
Social Scientists have developed a research agenda that seeks to explain prohibition policy adoption through the theory of collective action or the economic theory of regulation.
Roberts, Reginald Eric
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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The Supreme Court and EU Law: Reshuffling the Institutional Balance

, 2021
Irish Courts are not exclusively national courts. They form an integral part of a pan-European Union legal network where domestic courts are increasingly viewed by the Court of Justice of the European Union as European Courts.
Riordan, Ronan, Maher, Imelda
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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THE CONCEPT OF “DIGNITY” IN JURISPRUDENCE OF THE CROATIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Pravni Vjesnik, 2020
The paper examines the normative substance and functional roles of the legal concept of (human) dignity in the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Croatia.
Davor Petrić
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The Politics of Constitutional Memory

, 2022
Those who sought votes for women made claims for liberty and equality in the family on which constitutional law might now draw-but there is no trace of their voices or claims in constitutional law.
Siegel, Reva
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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)
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Constitutional Law around the globe: judicial review in Canada and the “leave to appeal” to the Supreme Court

Revista de Investigações Constitucionais
This paper exploring the leave to appeal in Canadian Constitutional Law is the third of the series “Constitutional Law Around the Globe”. This section of the series focuses on “Judicial Review and the Filters to Access Supreme and Constitutional Courts”.
Luiz Henrique Diniz Araujo
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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
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The High Court on constitutional law: the 2013 statistics [PDF]

, 2014
Introduction: This article presents statistical information about the High Court’s decision making for 2013 at both an institutional and individual level, with an emphasis on constitutional cases as a subset of the total.
George Williams, Andrew Lynch
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