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Três Pilares Da Política E Do Direito, Paulo Ferreira da Cunha 2011 Universidade do Porto

Três Pilares Da Política E Do Direito, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Três grandes temas ocupam a reflexão de Carlos Leone no seu anunciado novo livro: a democracia, a república e a soberania. Não poderia haver questões políticas e jurídicas de fundo mais oportunas.


Looking Backward From The Year 2099: Ecozoic Reflections On The Future, Samuel Alexander 2011 Melbourne Law School

Looking Backward From The Year 2099: Ecozoic Reflections On The Future, Samuel Alexander

Environmental and Earth Law Journal (EELJ)

Looking Backward from the Year 2099: Ecozoic Reflections on the Future

Abstract by Samuel Alexander

Story, myth, and narrative played a central role in Thomas Berry’s writings. He told new stories about the Universe and our place in it, stories not only about where we have been and where we seem to be going, but also stories about where we could go, if only we exercised our freedom in different ways. Inspired by Berry, in this paper I have dared to experiment with story, by attempting to look back on the 21st century from the vantage point of the year …


Referenda And The District Of Columbia's Human Rights Act: Voting On Same-Sex Marriage In The Nation's Capital, Jacob Stewart 2011 George Mason University

Referenda And The District Of Columbia's Human Rights Act: Voting On Same-Sex Marriage In The Nation's Capital, Jacob Stewart

Legislation and Policy Brief

Beginning with Massachusetts in 2003, the courts and legislatures of many states have had to decide whether same-sex marriage is or should be a fundamental right under their respective constitutions. Although only five states and the District of Columbia legally perform same-sex marriages, a few other jurisdictions are in the process of proposing laws moving in that direction. However, the vast majority of states are holding fast to the traditional heterosexual definition of marriage. Thirty-eight states have adopted some sort of Defense of Marriage Act, constitutional amendment, or similar measure that defines marriage as the union between one man and …


The Brady Act: Shot Down By The Tenth Amendment, Patricia Rooney 2011 Touro Law Center

The Brady Act: Shot Down By The Tenth Amendment, Patricia Rooney

Patricia Rooney

No abstract provided.


Cultivating Justice For The Working Poor: Clinical Representation Of Unemployment Claimants, Colleen F. Shanahan 2011 Georgetown University Law Center

Cultivating Justice For The Working Poor: Clinical Representation Of Unemployment Claimants, Colleen F. Shanahan

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The combination of current economic conditions and recent changes in the United States’ welfare system makes representation of unemployment insurance claimants by clinic students a timely learning opportunity. While unemployment insurance claimants often share similarities with student attorneys, they are unable to access justice as easily as student attorneys, and as a result, face the risk of severe poverty. Clinical representation of unemployment claimants is a rich opportunity for students to experience making a difference for a client, and to understand the issues of poverty and justice that these clients experience along the way. These cases reveal that larger lessons …


Biblioteca Aberta, Jornal Positivo, Paulo Ferreira da Cunha 2011 Universidade do Porto

Biblioteca Aberta, Jornal Positivo, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Se o jornalismo quotidiano nos conta desgraças em cima de desgraças, e com o relato da intriga e dos ataques entre políticos nos deixa irritados ou sem esperança, o jornalismo cultural, quando não é pretexto para os mesmos sectarismos, não só nos descansa como edifica, além de instruir. No II Aniversário de "As Artes entre as Letras" editamos um pequeno texto sobre essa publicação em que regularmente colaboramos, mas de que também somos assíduo e entusiástico leitor: pelo descanso e pela formação que propicia, qual museu imaginário e biblioteca ideal em permanente reconstrução.


'Pior Não Fica', Paulo Ferreira da Cunha 2011 Universidade do Porto

'Pior Não Fica', Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Normalmente, somos crítico do Presidencialismo. Mas o nosso sistema parlamentarista tem um problema também: o da qualidade dos nossos representantes. O texto ficcional proposto encena as angústias de um parlamentarista que entende a política como um clubismo, mas que mesmo assim precisa de ir digerindo as escolhas das máquinas partidárias para candidatos a deputados. Obviamente tal não pretende levar água nem ao moinho dos que pretendem reduzir o seu número, tornando o parlamento numa sensaboria bicolor, nem dos que gostariam de círculos uninominais, em que seria eleitos candidatos mediáticos ou caciques locais.


Behind The Wedding Veil: Child Marriage As A Form Of Trafficking In Girls, Elizabeth Warner 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Behind The Wedding Veil: Child Marriage As A Form Of Trafficking In Girls, Elizabeth Warner

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Filosofia E Constituição. Simbolismo Das Origens. A Lição De Brotero, Paulo Ferreira da Cunha 2011 Universidade do Porto

Filosofia E Constituição. Simbolismo Das Origens. A Lição De Brotero, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Afinal, parece que a primeira aula de Direito Constitucional no mundo foi dada em português, em São Paulo. Mas o seu autor tinha uma sensibilidade e um programa também jurisfilosófico. O que prova o casamento perfeito de Filosofia Jurídica e Constituição.


"On The Take": The Black Box Of Credit Scoring And Mortgage Discrimination, Cassandra Jones Havard 2011 University of Baltimore School of Law

"On The Take": The Black Box Of Credit Scoring And Mortgage Discrimination, Cassandra Jones Havard

All Faculty Scholarship

Subprime credit, a relatively new method of risk-based pricing, has been hailed as a way to open up markets and provide access to credit to those who would otherwise be excluded. Evidence suggests that subprime mortgage segmentation increases rather than reduces exclusionary practices in lending. Furthermore, what is unclear is how lenders determine who qualifies as a subprime borrower. This concern became manifested when studies demonstrated that minority borrowers, regardless of creditworthiness, are more likely to receive expensive, sub-prime loans. The disparity is properly attributed to lenders’ credit pricing policies which included discretionary increases despite the objectively-determined risk-based interest rate …


Preemption & The Regulatory Paradigm In The Roberts Court, Christina E. Wells, William E. Marcantel, Dave Winters 2011 University of Missouri School of Law

Preemption & The Regulatory Paradigm In The Roberts Court, Christina E. Wells, William E. Marcantel, Dave Winters

Faculty Publications

This short article first examines the Court's general preemption doctrine, including relevant criticisms. It then details the rise of the regulatory paradigm in the Supreme Court's cases, especially as it culminates in the Roberts Court's reliance on it. Finally, it examines potential implications of increasing reliance on that paradigm, including manipulation of preemption doctrine by judges, continued deference to agency officials' decisions to preempt, and adverse effects on individual tort plaintiffs.


Unclaimed Financial Assets And The Promotion Of Microfinance, Andrew W. Hartlage 2011 University of Michigan Law School

Unclaimed Financial Assets And The Promotion Of Microfinance, Andrew W. Hartlage

Michigan Law Review First Impressions

State governments can effectively promote domestic entrepreneurship in low-income communities and simultaneously fulfill their duties as conservator s of unclaimed property, by lending unclai med financial assets-in-trust at preferential interest rates to in-state microfinance providers. This plan presents an alternative to charitable contributions, though it does not resolve the tension between for-profit and not-for-profit microfinance providers. Such a scheme could be a significant funding source for many microfinance operations in the United States today. Even a small portion of the yearly intake of unclaimed assets would be substantial enough to support fully most microfinance loan portfolios. Also, reinvestment of unclaimed …


Narrative Preferences And Administrative Due Process, Jason A. Cade 2011 University of Georgia School of Law

Narrative Preferences And Administrative Due Process, Jason A. Cade

Scholarly Works

This Article illustrates, through sociolinguistic analysis, how an adjudicator’s biases against certain narrative styles can influence his or her assessments of credibility, treatment of parties, and decision-making in the administrative law setting. Poverty lawyers have long observed that many claimants in the administrative state continue to face procedural and discursive obstacles. Applying insights from a growing field of inter-disciplinary research, including conversation analysis, linguistics, and cognitive studies, this Article builds upon those observations by more precisely exploring through a case study of an unemployment insurance benefits hearing how structural and narrative biases can work to deny an applicant due process …


7 (Hipó)Teses Sobre O Facebook, Paulo Ferreira da Cunha 2011 Universidade do Porto

7 (Hipó)Teses Sobre O Facebook, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Muitas pessoas desocupadas, e muitas pessoas ocupadíssimas ocupam muito do seu tempo em redes sociais, entre as quais o facebook. O autor, que confessa de vez em quando sacrificar a essa nova divindade, faz um balanço provisório da sua experiência nesse meio.


Sebastianismo E Constituição, Paulo Ferreira da Cunha 2011 Universidade do Porto

Sebastianismo E Constituição, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Começam a aparecer de novo vozes e grupos cuja essência do respectivo programa político é a defesa do presidencialismo. Além de politicamente ser uma solução sem tradição em Portugal, com manifestações sempre autoritárias e ditatoriais (mesmo na versão de "presidencialismo do "Primeiro-ministro": Salazar), é importante que se saiba que uma tal solução carece, ou de outra Constituição (= golpe de Estado), ou de uma votação no Parlamento de 2/3 dos deputados (em revisão normal, agora já fora de tempo para esta matéria), ou 4/5 (extraordinária). Sem essa maioria excepcionalmente vasta, só um golpe de Estado permitiria adoptar o Presidencialismo. A …


Entrelinhas Políticas, Paulo Ferreira da Cunha 2011 Universidade do Porto

Entrelinhas Políticas, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

É preciso saber interpretar. Os sinais e as palavras. E em momentos de crise, mais ainda. Há sinais de demagogia crescente. Bodes expiatórios são reencontrados, e as consabidas receitas de salvadores providenciais. O período eleitoral que certamente se avizinha (não era preciso ser profeta para o esperar neste artigo, escrito antes da demissão do Primeiro-ministro) será fértil em palavras. Mas as coisas são simples. E é preciso sobretudo traduzir o que será dito... É tão simples, afinal. Basta ver onde cada um quer chegar... E isso depende dos seus interesses e dos que defenda. Altruístas ou não.


The Forgotten Students: The Implications Of Federal Homeless Education Policy For Children In Hawaii, Clifton S. Tanabe, Ian Hippensteele Mobley 2011 Brigham Young University Law School

The Forgotten Students: The Implications Of Federal Homeless Education Policy For Children In Hawaii, Clifton S. Tanabe, Ian Hippensteele Mobley

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.


En Busca Del Eslabón Perdido: La Inexistencia De Una Política De Seguridad Social En Pensiones, Fernando Castillo Cadena 2011 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

En Busca Del Eslabón Perdido: La Inexistencia De Una Política De Seguridad Social En Pensiones, Fernando Castillo Cadena

Fernando Castillo Cadena

No abstract provided.


Pledge Your Body For Your Bread: Welfare, Drug Testing, And The Inferior Fourth Amendment, Jordan C. Budd 2011 William & Mary Law School

Pledge Your Body For Your Bread: Welfare, Drug Testing, And The Inferior Fourth Amendment, Jordan C. Budd

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Proposals to subject welfare recipients to periodic drug testing have emerged over the last three years as a significant legislative trend across the United States. Since 2007, over half of the states have considered bills requiring aid recipients to submit to invasive extraction procedures as an ongoing condition of public assistance. The vast majority of the legislation imposes testing without regard to suspected drug use, reflecting the implicit assumption that the poor are inherently predisposed to culpable conduct and thus may be subject to class-based intrusions that would be inarguably impermissible if inflicted on the less destitute. These proposals are …


Direito Pensado, Sentido E Vivido Em L. A. Warat, Paulo Ferreira da Cunha 2011 Universidade do Porto

Direito Pensado, Sentido E Vivido Em L. A. Warat, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Em 16 de Dezembro de 2010 faleceu o jurista argentino que o Brasil sobretudo adoptou, Luis Alberto Warat. Era um iconoclasta, um heterodoxo. Este artigo é uma primeira evocação do seu pensamento, inseparável da sua própria vivência do Direito. Se crescermos na nossa cultura jurisfilosófica, um dia será considerado analfabeto em Direito quem não conhecer bem Warat. Se estagnarmos ou regredirmos, será um desconhecido, e nem sequer ilustre.


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