Law Commons^™

Regulatory Impact Assessment Issues Of Legal Acts On Entrepreneurial Activity, Каkhramon Abdullayev

Review of law sciences

the article considers the concepts of assessing the effectiveness of legislation, its impact on the entrepreneurial activity, issues of its evaluation, ongoing works in our country in this direction, practice of assessing the impact of legislation in foreign countries and proposals in this regard.

Argentine Legislation And Climate Change - Legislación Argentina Y Cambio Climático, Luis Gabriel Escobar Blanco

Luis Gabriel Escobar Blanco

This presentation was exposed in two different events, in preparation for de COP 2014 in Lima. First how panelist in "Encuentro de Cambio Climatico", organized by Ministerio de Tierras Ambiente y Recursos Naturales of Mendoza's Estate. Later in the EFICI (III Congreso de Educación en Ciencia Empírica en Facultades de Ingeniería) in UTN (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Regional Cuyo)

The objective this dissertation is diffusion and knowledge the argentinian legislation on climate change.

And evaluate domestic legislation by criteria Globe International Institute

Battering The Poor: How Georgia’S Mandatory Family Violence Classes Deny Indigent Defendants Equal Protection Of The Law, Whitney Scherck

Whitney Scherck

Thirty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court in Bearden v. Georgia held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents a court from incarcerating an individual for failure to pay a fine unless it first inquires into their reasons for failing to do so and determines that the defendant willfully failed to make bona fide efforts to pay. However, recently, a new kind of legal debt has emerged. As states’ budgets tighten, so-called user fees are becoming an increasingly common way for legislatures to toughen the criminal justice system without having to come up with funding for it. …

Kill-Lists And Accountability, Gregory S. Mcneal

Gregory S. McNeal

This article is a comprehensive examination of the U.S. practice of targeted killings. It is based in part on field research, interviews, and previously unexamined government documents. The article fills a gap in the literature, which to date lacks sustained scholarly analysis of the accountability mechanisms associated with the targeted killing process. The article makes two major contributions: 1) it provides the first qualitative empirical accounting of the targeted killing process, beginning with the creation of kill-lists extending through the execution of targeted strikes; 2) it provides a robust analytical framework for assessing the accountability mechanisms associated with those processes. …

Defining American: The Dream Act, Immigration Reform, And Citizenship, Elizabeth Keyes

Elizabeth Keyes

The DREAM Act and the grassroots movement propelling the legislation forward reveal how the definition of citizenship is undergoing a dramatic transformation, in ways both inspiring and troubling. The DREAM movement depends upon the compelling but exceptional stories of passionate, high-achieving, law-abiding youth who already define themselves as being American, and worthy of legal status. Situating this narrative in the rich literature of citizenship, the article shows how the DREAM movement effectively exposes the disjuncture between the DREAMers' identity as Americans and their lack of legal immigration status. The article celebrates how this narrative succeeds as a contrast to the …

How The Global Crime Syndicates Fuel Planet Destruction, Global Alliance

Global Alliance

since 1945 more environmental planet destruction has been fuelled and financed with ever more leveraged debt than in the previous 60 million years - it's applied terrorism against the global life support system under the protection racket of a corrupt law profession

Red Rocks, Tom Grillo, John Sipple, Ethan Weitzman

Student Environmental Law Films/Golden Tree Films

This film explores the background and issues surrounding Senate bill 799 - A bill to designate as wilderness certain Federal portions of the red rock canyons of the Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin Deserts in the State of Utah for the benefit of present and future generations of people in the United States.