Law topic list of research papers
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Drinking game participation, gender performance and normalization of intoxication among Nigerian university students
Abstract Background Most research on drinking games (DGs) and the associated risks focuses on Western countries. In the Nigerian context, DGs activity has not attracted scholarly attention but growing media reports indicate that...
2016 / Emeka Dumbili, Clare Williams -
“We Ask You to Put an End to Lawlessness…”: Soviet Believers’ Letters of 1960-1980s as a Form of Communication with the Government
Abstract The article focuses on letters written by believers to representatives of bureaucratic structures as a form of communication between the population and officials of atheistic creed. Religious people use this legitimate medium and fill it...
2016 / Nadezhda Beliakova -
A SNAPSHOT OF THE MEXICAN CLEAN ENERGY OBLIGATIONS SYSTEM
ABSTRACT This article explains the main features of the Clean Energy Obligations Market (‘CEOM’) and the relevance of the brand new Energy Transition Act (the ‘Act’), both enacted as part of the Mexican Energy Reform of 2013. The CEOM is designed to ...
2016 / Carlos del Razo -
The Role of Public Communication in Establishing the Theological Educational System in Russia in XVIII – Early XIX Century
Abstract The emergence of special Church schools, colleges and seminaries as part of the formation of higher education in Russia in the XVIII century is considered in the article. Creation of a separate linked structure of theological educational...
2016 / Alexei A. Larionov -
Interaction of cultures and diplomacy of states
Abstract The process of intercultural interaction is described using the theory of civilizations from which two mutually exclusive conclusions rise. The first one states that civilizations will inevitably clash, with one culture becoming universal...
2016 / Vladimir Ivanovich Fokin, Sergey Sergeevich Shirin, Julia Vadimovna Nikolaeva, Natalia Mikhailovna Bogolubova, Elena Eduardovna Elts, et al. -
Praying Practices in Pentecostal Environment: A Universal Multicultural Model
Abstract The paper examines religious communication vertically as having a universal character, regarding believers’ multi-ethnic affiliation and potential situational applications, by the example of praying practices among Russian Pentecostals. The ...
2016 / Vera Kliueva, Svetlana Ryazanova -
Fighting alcoholism among railway workers in the light of early 20th Century Polish-language temperance publications
Abstract Introduction The temperance magazines issued between 1843 and 1914 in Polish lands and among the Polish diaspora in Germany and USA constitute a barely known, and thus rarely used, research source on the history of...
2016 / Izabela Krasińska -
‘I was with my wife the entire time.’ Polish men’s narratives of IVF treatment
Abstract This paper is an ethnography of Polish fathers whose children were conceived with the use of IVF. Due to the strong position of the Catholic Church in Poland, much hostility is voiced in public debate towards women undergoing this treatment ...
2016 / Maria Reimann -
A fuel too far? Technology, innovation, and transition in failed biofuel development in Norway
Abstract This article explores whether old, incumbent industries can prevent new, green industries from emerging by studying the rise and fall of the Norwegian advanced biofuel sector. It investigates three competing explanations that have been...
2016 / Arne Martin Fevolden, Antje Klitkou -
THE RIGHT TO THE TRUTH AS AN AUTONOMOUS RIGHT UNDER THE INTER-AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM
ABSTRACT The evolution of Inter-American Court case law and the advances made by international bodies and instruments, as well as those in domestic legislation, clearly reveal that the right to the truth is now recognized as an autonomous and...
2016 / Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor -
Leniency programs and socially beneficial cooperation: Effects of type I errors
Abstract This study operationalizes the concept of hostility tradition in antitrust as mentioned by Oliver Williamson and Ronald Coase through erroneous law enforcement effects. The antitrust agency may commit type I, not just type II, errors when...
2016 / Natalia Pavlova, Andrey Shastitko -
Common methods of measuring ‘informed choice’ in screening participation: Challenges and future directions
Abstract There is general agreement among public health practitioners, academics, and policymakers that people offered health screening tests should be able to make informed choices about whether to accept. Robust measures are necessary in order to...
2016 / Alex Ghanouni, Cristina Renzi, Susanne F Meisel, Jo Waller -
WHAT IS “CONSTITUTIONAL EFFICACY”?: CONCEPTUAL OBSTACLES FOR RESEARCH ON THE EFFECTS OF CONSTITUTIONS
ABSTRACT When and why are codified constitutions efficacious? Answering these key and apparently straightforward questions turns out to be extremely challenging. The road to responding to them is paved with conceptual, theoretical, and empirical...
2016 / Andrea Pozas Loyo -
The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush
Summary Rural populations around the world rely on small-scale farming and other uses of land and natural resources, which are often governed by customary, traditional, and indigenous systems of common property. In recent years, large-scale land...
2016 / Jampel Dell’Angelo, Paolo D’Odorico, Maria Cristina Rulli, Philippe Marchand -
Posthumous conception by presumed consent. A pragmatic position for a rare but ethically challenging dilemma
Abstract The prevailing legal position and opinion of professional societies such as the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine is that posthumous sperm conception should only occur...
2016 / Kelton Tremellen, Julian Savulescu -
THE EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE BY MEXICO CITY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES: CORRUPTION, NORMAL ABUSE AND OTHER MOTIVES
ABSTRACT Although several factors have been cited to explain the excessive use of police force, its relation to corruption has yet been little explored. This is a serious omission when dealing with law enforcement agencies in which corrupt practices ...
2016 / Carlos Silva Forné -
Freedom with what? Interpretations of “responsibility” in Swedish forestry practice
Abstract Responsibility is a key aspect of all regulation, and forest regulation is no exception. How should responsibility be understood and used in a time characterized by complexity and uncertainty? This paper develops a typology that...
2016 / Erik Löfmarck, Ylva Uggla, Rolf Lidskog -
The New Spanish Self-consumption Regulation
Abstract The new Spanish Power Sector Law (Ley del Sector Eléctrico, LSE) 24/2013 regulates self-consumption facilities for the first time, and in particular domestic PV panels. The paper analyzes the approved regulation. It is concluded that energy ...
2016 / Vanessa Aragonés, Julián Barquín, Juan Alba -
Risk assessment tools in criminal justice and forensic psychiatry: The need for better data
Abstract Violence risk assessment tools are increasingly used within criminal justice and forensic psychiatry, however there is little relevant, reliable and unbiased data regarding their predictive accuracy. We argue that such data are needed to...
2016 / T. Douglas, J. Pugh, I. Singh, J. Savulescu, S. Fazel -
Policing, crime and ‘big data’; towards a critique of the moral economy of stochastic governance2017 / Carrie B. Sanders, James Sheptycki