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Full-Text Articles in Law
Anti-Sprawl Initiatives: How Complete Is The Convergence Of Environmental, Desegregationist And Fair Housing Interests?, Zoë Prebble
Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal
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Statistical Criticism Of Jury Selection Methods In The Western District Of Oklahoma, R. Darcy, Brett M. Stingley
Statistical Criticism Of Jury Selection Methods In The Western District Of Oklahoma, R. Darcy, Brett M. Stingley
Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal
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"Catch-22": The Role Of Development Institutions In Promoting Gender Equality In Land Law – Lessons Learned In Post-Conflict Pluralist Africa, Amrita Kapur
Buffalo Human Rights Law Review
This article explores the contours of development policies as they have been applied to pluralistic legal systems, with a specific focus on their effects on women in post-conflict African countries. Drawing on research that firmly establishes the importance of women's social, economic and political participation in post-conflict development, it identifies the flaws in gender-neutral land titling initiatives introduced and encouraged by development institutions. It then describes the gender-sensitive laws enacted as a response to continuing gender discriminatory practices in Rwanda, Mozambique and Uganda. While taking into account the existence of customary law, these laws explicitly affirm women's rights with respect …
Uprooted Justice: Transformations Of Law And Everyday Life In Northern Thailand, David M. Engel
Uprooted Justice: Transformations Of Law And Everyday Life In Northern Thailand, David M. Engel
Journal Articles
Studies of law in everyday life tend to view law either as instrumental in shaping specific decisions and practices or as constitutive of the cultural categories through which humans apprehend their world and perceive law as relevant to a greater or lesser extent. This article, however, suggests that circumstances may arise in which law’s role in relation to everyday life is neither instrumental nor constitutive but instead becomes one of radical dissociation. Based on an analysis of injuries in northern Thailand, it examines two transformational episodes in Thai legal and political history. The first occurred at the turn of the …
From The Welfare State To The Militarized Market: Losing Choices, Controlling Losers, Martha T. Mccluskey
From The Welfare State To The Militarized Market: Losing Choices, Controlling Losers, Martha T. Mccluskey
Contributions to Books
Published as Chapter 1 in Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life, Shelley Feldman, Charles Geisler & Gayatri A. Menon, eds.
Beneath a libertarian surface, free market economic ideas and policies have helped rationalize the strengthening of anti-democratic moral and political fundamentalism. The triumph of market freedom has been accompanied by increasing authoritarian government control in many spheres.
This chapter explains how a two-step rhetorical move in prevailing economic ideology turns authoritarianism and austerity into the route to freedom and growth. First, free market ideology constructs the increasingly limited and bad economic choices of a declining …