(Dis)passionate law stories: the emotional processes of encoding narratives in court. [PDF]
Abstract In this conceptual article, we propose that legal professional decision makers’ transformation of narratives in court (encoding) influences their emotional attunement to the stories at hand. First, we argue that the process of encoding is linked to the strict demand for dispassion in legal settings.
Bergman Blix S, Minissale A.
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Multi‐level Implementation of International Law: The Role of Vertical Epistemic Communities
Abstract Subnational entities in federal states typically retain a degree of sovereignty and enjoy leeway in implementation, raising questions such as whether—and how—international law is actually implemented at the subnational level. This article sheds light on these questions, using two contrasted case studies in Switzerland: The Istanbul Convention ...
Matthieu Niederhauser, Martino Maggetti
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Abstract Faced with the alarming rates of disappearances and murders of Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people in Canada and in response to the demands of victims' families and Indigenous women's associations, the Canadian government set up the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (2016–2019).
Audrey Rousseau, Louis Chartrand
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A Fatherland of Free Men. Virility and ‘Frailty’ in Spanish Liberalism (1808–1814)
Abstract The ideal of the patriotic citizen‐soldier familiar from civic humanism re‐emerged in Spain in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. Spaniards were required to uphold a model of masculinity that was continually threatened by ‘effeminacy’. The study of this model is approached through an analysis of literary texts: the main neoclassical tragedies
Xavier Andreu‐Miralles
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Abandonment, Agency, Control: Migrants’ Camps in Ventimiglia
Abstract This article examines the governance mechanisms regulating migrants’ presence in Ventimiglia—an Italian city on the north‐west border—and migrants’ agency, following the reintroduction of French border controls in 2015. The study looks at different kinds of camps: the formal one run by the Red Cross and the makeshift camps and settlements that
Silvia Aru
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A Flight Back to Ground: Jung’s Recalcitrant Fourth as Rape into Consciousness. Symbolic Rape and Literal Rape in Persephone’s Myth [PDF]
Abstract Patricia Berry’s interpretation of the Demeter/Persephone myth, and her concept of rape into consciousness, illuminate intrapsychic dynamics. However, this symbolic lens may inadvertently distance us from the devastating nature of literal rape—a reality the Homeric Hymn encapsulates.
Barbara Cerminara
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Intra-Family Torts: From Immunity to Special Rules in Criminal and Civil Law [PDF]
Intra-Family Torts: From Immunity to Special Rules in Criminal and Civil ...
Patti, Salvatore
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Troubling coalitions. Some remarks on the (hardly audible) voice of pro-equality men’s groups in gender equality advocacy [PDF]
This paper sets off to outline some reflections on the subject position occupied by pro-equality men’s groups within overarching discourses of gender equality. Discussion makes reference to the cases of Men Engage Europe and Maschile Plurale, two loosely
Trillò, Tommaso
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Mafia violence. Practices, meanings, consequences
L’articolo ripercorre il dibattito scientifico sulla violenza delle mafie a partire dallo studio di Umberto Santino e Giorgio Chinnici (1989) che analizzava gli omicidi e le guerre di mafia avvenute a Palermo dagli anni Sessanta fino alla seconda metà ...
Ombretta Ingrascì
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The UltraS: an emerging social movement [PDF]
In recent years, there has been a rise in the conflict between the Italian police forces and football fans. This situation is a result of the resurgence of the UltraS (the S capital is a neologism of this study to suggest neo-fascist oriented fans' and ...
Armstrong, Gary, Testa, Alberto
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