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2004

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Bandipora Redux: A Tale From Two Insurgencies, Ashok Agrwaal Feb 2004

Bandipora Redux: A Tale From Two Insurgencies, Ashok Agrwaal

Ashok Agrwaal

This artixcle is based upon my work on State impunity in the context of the guaranteed right to life, in Punjab and Kashmir. The Indian state has fought insurgencies almost throughout its independent history: from Nagaland to Punjab, Andhra Pradesh to Kashmir, from the early 1950s to date. Among the many different kinds of human rights violations that the Indian security forces have been charged with, is the recurring charge that they force local people to act as 'human shields' \with a view to minimising uniformed casualties. These reports have been denied by the authorities who routinely provide other reasons, …

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Latvia: History, Steven R. Morrison, J. Michael Lyons Jan 2004

Latvia: History, Steven R. Morrison, J. Michael Lyons

Steven R Morrison

No abstract provided.

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Latvia: The Economy, Steven R. Morrison Jan 2004

Latvia: The Economy, Steven R. Morrison

Steven R Morrison

No abstract provided.

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Running Backs, Wolves, And Other Fatalities: How Manipulations Of Coherence In Legal Opinions Marginalize Violent Death, Jonathan Yovel Jan 2004

Running Backs, Wolves, And Other Fatalities: How Manipulations Of Coherence In Legal Opinions Marginalize Violent Death, Jonathan Yovel

Jonathan Yovel

By examining legal cases that involve violent death and its marginalization by the courts, this essay looks into the relations between narrative coherence and narrative absurd in judicial opinions. Coherence, rather than a static, unequivocal characteristic of legal narratives, is studied here as a highly manipulable narrative and rhetorical performance. Giving a performative twist to reader-response approaches I do not really ask what is the meaning of this text (as construed by its reading)? but rather, working from the position of the text's discursive community, what does this text do? The reading of these cases explores how judicial narration and …

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Acquisition Of Living Things By Specification, Ernest Metzger Jan 2004

Acquisition Of Living Things By Specification, Ernest Metzger

Ernest Metzger

Ownership of the product of living things, such as human tissue or cultures developed from human cells, is difficult for the law to determine. Civilian jurisdictions, with their legal heritage grounded in Roman law, offer one solution. Civilian jurisdictions would resolve such cases under the rules of specification. A recent case from the Outer House of the Scottish Court of Session (Kinloch Damph Ltd v Nordvik Salmon Farms Ltd) addresses the problem. The case was properly decided, though the grounds of the decision could be improved. Specifically, on civil law principles, civilian courts ought to award ownership of a living …

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Roman Judges, Case Law, And Principles Of Procedure, Ernest Metzger Jan 2004

Roman Judges, Case Law, And Principles Of Procedure, Ernest Metzger

Ernest Metzger

Roman law has been admired for a long time. Its admirers, in their enthusiasm, have sometimes borrowed ideas from their own time and attributed them to the Romans, thereby filling some gap or fixing some anomaly. Roman private law is a well known victim of this. Roman civil procedure has been a victim as well, and the way Roman judges are treated in the older literature provides an example. For a long time it has been accepted, and rightly so, that the decision of a Roman judge did not make law. But the related, empirical question, whether Roman judges ever …

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A New Image In The Looking Glass: Faculty Mentoring, Invitational Rhetoric, And The Second-Class Status Of Women In U.S. Academia, Carlo A. Pedrioli Jan 2004

A New Image In The Looking Glass: Faculty Mentoring, Invitational Rhetoric, And The Second-Class Status Of Women In U.S. Academia, Carlo A. Pedrioli

Carlo A. Pedrioli

This article maintains that because Title VII alone does not have the ability to further the progress women have made in academic hiring, retention, and promotion, looking to remedies in addition to Title VII will be advantageous in helping to improve the status of women in U.S. academia. The article suggests as an additional remedy the implementation of faculty mentoring opportunities for junior female faculty members. A key way of initiating and furthering such mentoring opportunities is a type of discourse called invitational rhetoric, which is “an invitation to understanding as a means to create...relationship[s] rooted in equality, immanent value, …

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Vergelding: Een Kernbegrip Van Het Strafrecht ?’, [Retribution: A Fundamental Concept Of Criminal Law ?], Serge Gutwirth, Paul De Hert Jan 2004

Vergelding: Een Kernbegrip Van Het Strafrecht ?’, [Retribution: A Fundamental Concept Of Criminal Law ?], Serge Gutwirth, Paul De Hert

Serge Gutwirth

Waarom zou vergelding evident zijn als grondslag voor het strafrecht ?

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Droit Et Cosmopolitique. Notes Sur La Contribution De Bruno Latour À La Pensée Du Droit, Laurent De Sutter, Serge Gutwirth Jan 2004

Droit Et Cosmopolitique. Notes Sur La Contribution De Bruno Latour À La Pensée Du Droit, Laurent De Sutter, Serge Gutwirth

Serge Gutwirth

Dans La fabrique du droit, l’anthropologue et philosophe Bruno Latour opère un déplacement considérable des catégories de la pensée juridique, lequel entraîne aussi une révision importante de la place qu’occupe le droit au sein de la philosophie politique des démocraties occidentales. Rendu à son constructivisme et à la modestie des petits liens qu’il tisse dans la multiplication des passages qui construisent une affaire, le droit devient une pratique capable de mettre de côté les questions de norme et de justice, de morale et de deuil pour prendre en charge la construction de ce par quoi il est ordinairement expliqué : …

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