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Full-Text Articles in Law
Competency And Common Law: Why And How Decision-Making Capacity Criteria Should Be Drawn From The Capacity-Determination Process, Charles Baron
Competency And Common Law: Why And How Decision-Making Capacity Criteria Should Be Drawn From The Capacity-Determination Process, Charles Baron
Charles H. Baron
Determining competence to request physician-assisted suicide should be no more difficult than determining competence to refuse life-prolonging treatment. In both cases, criteria and procedures should be developed out of the process of actually making capacity determinations; they should not be promulgated a priori. Because patient demeanor plays a critical role in capacity determinations, it should be made part of the record of such determinations through greater use of video- and audiotapes.
Open Heart Surgery: Reform Of Labour Mediation Regime In Sweden, Reinhold Fahlbeck
Open Heart Surgery: Reform Of Labour Mediation Regime In Sweden, Reinhold Fahlbeck
Reinhold Fahlbeck
No abstract provided.
Kyrkans Sociallära - En Lära För Vår Tid? [Social Teaching Of The Catholic Church – A Teaching For Our Time?], Reinhold Fahlbeck
Kyrkans Sociallära - En Lära För Vår Tid? [Social Teaching Of The Catholic Church – A Teaching For Our Time?], Reinhold Fahlbeck
Reinhold Fahlbeck
No abstract provided.
"Culturing" Survival : Afro-Caribbean Migrant Culture And The Human Rights Of Women Under Globalization, Hope Lewis
"Culturing" Survival : Afro-Caribbean Migrant Culture And The Human Rights Of Women Under Globalization, Hope Lewis
Hope Lewis
These remarks were delivered at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (24-27 March 1999, Washington, DC) for a panel on the rule of law vs. cultural authority. The reality for working-class Afro-Caribbean women migrants (called "lionheart gals" by one Caribbean feminist organization) is that both "the rule of law" and "cultural authority" can enhance, or undermine, the protection of fundamental human rights. For lionheart gals, the choice is not between a liberating rule of law and a static, cocoonlike cultural authority. For them, the primary imperative is to use law and culture in a creative …
Sweden. National Monograph, Reinhold Fahlbeck
Employee Loyalty In Sweden, Reinhold Fahlbeck
"Franco's Spain, Queer Nation?", Gema Pérez-Sánchez
"Franco's Spain, Queer Nation?", Gema Pérez-Sánchez
Gema Pérez-Sánchez
This Article discusses how, through its juridical apparatus, the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco sought to define and to contain homosexuality, followed by examples of how underground queer activism contested homophobic laws. ... Part III illustrates the social and cultural legacy of queer activism against Francoist laws on homosexuality through an analysis of Eduardo Mendicutti's novel Una mala noche la tiene cualquiera Anyone Can Have A Bad Night and the young, urban culture, post-Franco context of supposed historical amnesia in which it was produced. ... As the power of Francoism and its institutions waned during the last years of the …
Humanitarian Intervention At A Crossroads, Bartram Brown
Humanitarian Intervention At A Crossroads, Bartram Brown
Bartram Brown
No abstract provided.