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The International Legal Regime For Fisheries Management, Ben M. Tsamenyi, Shilpa Rajkumar, Lara Manarangi-Trott

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The Myth Of Homogeneity And The 'Others': Foreign Labour Migration And Globalization In The Case Of Japan, Hironori Onuki

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This essay will examine the multi-dimensional dynamics of global labor migrations participating in and facilitated by globalization, by analyzing Japan's contemporary experience of rapidly intensified foreign labor immigration. Japan has not considered itself as a country of immigration until recently. Since Japan's prewar self-modernization period, conservative political discourse has conceptualized the modern nation-state as a racially homogeneous entity. This discourse established the cultural and political foundation for Japanese identity, and Japan's relationship with the outside world. Consequently, the incorporation of culturally and ethnically different Others has been deemed a threat to the harmony of Japan's homogeneous society. Yet, beginning in …

El Anatocismo, Cinco Años Después (O La Resaca Del Banquero Anarquista), Luis Gomez Romero

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RESUMEN: El autor expone el impacto que ha tenido el concepto de anatocismo en el derecho mexicano, al dar a conocer, primero, las distintas posturas adoptadas en torno del anatocismo, y al presentar, después, la exposición de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación. El autor considera que la interpretación de la Suprema Corte de Justicia es equívoca, pues limita sobremanera la función de interpretación jurisdiccional de las cortes, y porque se adhiere a la tesis económica sobre el anatocismo, protegiendo intereses de clase, cuando debió de haber fallado en contra del anatocismo y a favor de un régimen …

La Gastritis De Kant: Vuelta Al Problema Del Estatuto Epistemológico De La Jurisprudencia, Luis Gomez Romero

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Para comenzar un diálogo con el breve y sustancioso trabajo sobre el estatuto epistemológico de la jurisprudencia (en el sentido amplio del término, esto es, entendido como “conocimiento del Derecho”, y no como “sentencias de los tribunales”) que Alejandro Nieto y Agustín Gordillo han presentado bajo el título de Las limitaciones del conocimiento jurídico (2003), parece pertinente recordar la (relativamente) reciente polémica entre el escritor y semiólogo Umberto Eco, y el novelista Antonio Tabucchi, sobre el papel del intelectual frente a la cotidianeidad del poder.

English: To start a dialogue with the brief and substantial work on the epistemological status …

¿Jueces Guerrilleros? La Interpretación Judicial Vista Desde La Izquierda, Luis Gomez Romero

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Nota introductoria. Interpretacionjudicial y politica

Los jueces hacen politica.' "Hasta ahora", sefiala Alf Ross sobre el particular, "Ia politica juridica ha sido principalmente considerada como politica legislativa. Pero el derecho no es creado unicamente por ellegislador [ ... ] toda administracion de justicia contiene un punto de decision que va mas alia de la actividad intelectual" (Ross, 1994: 321). En otras palabras, ]a administracion de justicia (y, consecnentemente, la interpretacion judicial del derecho que es presupuesto de esta) no es una labor meramente intelectual 0 cognoscitiva, sino que se caracteriza por un elemento volitivo que ]a vincula en fonna definitiva …

Indigenous Courts And Justice Practices In Australia, E Marchetti, Kathleen Daly

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Indigenous participation in sentencing procedures has been occurring informally in remote communities for some time. During the late 1990s, formalisation of this practice began in urban areas with the advent of Indigenous sentencing and Circle Courts. Formalisation has also occurred in remote areas. The aim has been to make court processes more culturally appropriate, to engender greater trust between Indigenous communities and judicial officers, and to permit a more informal and open exchange of information about defendants and their cases. Indigenous people, organisations, elders, family and kin group members are encouraged to participate in the sentencing process and to provide …

Constitutionalism And Shari'a, Nadirsyah Hosen

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Constitutionalism is the idea that government can and should be legally limited in its powers, and that its authority depends on enforcing these limitations. Lane explains that two ideas are basic to constitutionalism: (a) the limitation of the state versus society in the form of respect for a set of human rights covering not only civic rights but also political and economic rights; and (b) the implementation of separation of powers within the state.

Changing The Channel: What To Do With The Critical Abilities Of Law Students As Viewers?, Cassandra Sharp

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It is now generally acknowledged within the cultural studies tradition that media can actually be consumed in a mediated sense - that is, oppositionally and not hegemonically. The viewer is no longer seen as powerless and 'vulnerable to the agencies of commerce and ideology', but rather as both selective and active. Law students, as viewers, are constantly interpreting, transforming and producing meaning in relation to the images of law presented to them. They are utilising this process to not only make sense of the law, but also to analyse and reflect on their personal ideas and values in light of …

Australia's Regulation Of Genetically Modified Crops: Are We Risking Sustainability?, Fern Wickson

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The commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) crops is being accompanied by a debate with scientific, social, ethical, legal and metaphysical dimensions. In the face of this complex debate, governments need to regulate GM crops in a way that minimises negative impacts on biological and social environments. This paper is a critical examination of Australia's regulatory framework for the deliberate environmental release of GM crops, specifically in terms of its ability to advance ecologically and socially sustainable agriculture. Following a description of the novel nature of GM crops, I discuss how the approach selected, the definition of key terms and the …

Lord Slaughter, John Hawke

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John Hawke reviews In the Year of Our Lord Slaughter's Children by Philip Hammial 80pp. Island Press 0 909771 66 9

Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture And Japanese Transnationalism, Matthew Allen

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Book review of: Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. By Iwabuchi Koichi. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. 288 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Famine And Fanaticism: A Response To Kekes, Keith Horton

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In this paper, I critically discuss a number of arguments made by John Kekes, in a recent article, against the claim that those of us who are relatively affluent ought to do something for those living in absolute poverty in developing countries. There are, I argue, a variety of problems with Kekes' arguments, but one common thread stems from Kekes' failure to take account of the empirical research that has been conducted on the issues which he discusses.

From The Varens Obsession, Shady Cosgrove

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This is an excerpt from the fourth chapter of Shady Cosgrove's The Varens Obsession. Set in the 1830s, the novel responds to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre in a Rhysian tradition by exploring the life of Edward Rochester's mistress, Celine Varens. Celine was an opera dancer/courtesan and mother to Adele Varens (the child who inspired Jane's arrival at Thornfield)...

Bodies On The Line: Physical Protest, Wendy Varney

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The usefulness of organised protest is often called into question in this electronic media-dominated age, when to bring bodies together around a demand or set of demands can seem somewhat archaic. So many of the occasions where we previously had to turn up personally have been superseded as we connect frequently but briefly, spontaneously but not necessarily simultaneously. Slogans have become eclipsed by SMS texts. So many of our messages are in cyberspace rather than on calico banners. Is there the need for physical protest? I will argue that there is, but that we need to understand how our protests …

Hydrographic Surveying In Exclusive Economic Zones: Jurisdictional Issues, Walter S. Bateman

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