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PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedded in metaphysical truths, and enacted in service of the future. Part 1 assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the “preambular approach to history”
Antoon De Baets
wiley   +1 more source

D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover: The Changing Perspectives on Obscenity and Censorship in England and the USA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
First published in 1928, D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover was banned for thirty years because of its use of until-then taboo sexual terms. This study aims to analyze the novel’s obscenity and censorship in England and the United States of America.
Nurulhady, Eta Farmacelia
core  

Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

Do Human Rights Work? Evidence From Prison Death Investigations in Scotland

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It seems self‐evident that countries which have embraced human rights would have better human rights compliance. This article examines this assumption in prison death investigations in Scotland (called fatal accident inquiries or FAIs). The right to life (Article 2 ECHR) includes a procedural right to an effective investigation of deaths ...
Sarah Armstrong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explicit Methodologies for Normative Evaluation in Public Policy, as Applied to Carbon Budgets

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What could philosophical or justice perspectives contribute to climate (and other applied philosophy) policy discussions? This question is important for philosophers on government policy committees. This article identifies two novel concerns about such contexts (which I call ‘contingent selection’ and ‘committee deference’) and systematizes ...
Kian Mintz‐Woo
wiley   +1 more source

A VERDICT WITHOUT HEARING

open access: yesPravo, 2013
In the paper the author analyses a verdict without oral hearing, as a special kind of verdict which can, according to the regulations of the Law on Legal Proceedings of Republic of Serbia (2011), be brought by the court of first instance during the ...
Gordana Stanković
doaj  

The Last Line

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Beci Carver
wiley   +1 more source

No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A trend has recently emerged among climate activists of attacking artworks as a means of registering protest. I analyse this mode of protest, which I term political iconoclasm, and offer a novel partial defence of political iconoclasm as a protest strategy for environmental activists. I focus on Just Stop Oil's attack on van Gogh's Sunflowers.
Alice Madeleine Hilder Jarvis
wiley   +1 more source

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