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The Public Trust: Administrative Legitimacy and Democratic Lawmaking.
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Connecticut Law Review. Dec2023, Vol. 56 Issue 1, p1-85. 85p.
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JACKSON, KATHARINE
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The Public Trust: Administrative Legitimacy and Democratic Lawmaking.
Connecticut Law Review. Dec2023, Vol. 56 Issue 1, p1-85. 85p.
This Article argues that recent United States Supreme Court decisions invalidating agency policymaking rely on a normatively unattractive and empirically mistaken notion of democratic popular sovereignty. Namely, they rely upon a transmission belt model that runs like this: democracy is vindicated by first translating and aggregating voter preferences through elections. Then, the popular will is transposed by members of Congress into the statute books. Finally, the popular will (now codified), is applied mechanically by administrative agencies who should merely "fill in the details" using their neutral, technical expertise. So long as statutes lay down sufficiently "intelligible principle[s ]" that permit their application without significant discretionary remainder, regulation will carry democratic legitimacy because they who will the ends--the people--will the means. Although the transmission belt model comes in procedural, deliberative, and populist varieties, each occludes the inescapable facts of political intermediation and social conflict. No matter how participatory and rational, governance will involve some officials somewhere making decisions that some citizens will dislike. Even after citizen preferences are massaged by public reason or netted out through compromise, it is impossible to speak of a single, identifiable popular will that is capable of translation into legislative codes and regulations. Collectively, voters do not behave in a way that makes them a plausible principle to a government agent. Given these empirical problems, the transmission belt model carries several unsavory undemocratic implications. For example, it can lead to a Schmittian repression of social difference, should a demagogic leader claim to speak with the (fictional) voice of the (fictional) people. It may lead to juristocracy, as judges and technocrats claim unique insight into the substantive contents of public reason. The Article suggests instead that models of democratic political representation serve as better criteria to assess agency legitimacy. Theories of representation recognize and take advantage of the institutional mediation of democratic input. They protect and accommodate social conflict. They recognize, unlike pluralist, deliberative, and transmission belt theories of democracy, that there will always be a gap between ruler and ruled and that there will always be officials making decisions that people may not like. Drawing from theories of political representation within political science and political theory, the Article argues that administrative agencies themselves can serve as democratic representatives because they (1) incorporate citizen presence in their decision-making while (2) preserving the normative priority of the citizen. The Article concludes by offering some modifications to the legal doctrine used by courts to assess the legitimacy of agency action, to interpret agencies' organic statutes, and to shape the presidential removal power. If we demand that administration provide good trustee representation, we will not expect it to mechanically carry out the orders of elected representatives. Rather, we will give them sufficient autonomy to carry out their authorized mandates diligently, loyally, and in good faith. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Caregiver Accommodation.
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Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law. 2023, Vol. 44 Issue 2, p207-280. 74p.
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Perdue, Abigail L.
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Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law. 2023, Vol. 44 Issue 2, p207-280. 74p.
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Caregiver Accommodation.
Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law. 2023, Vol. 44 Issue 2, p207-280. 74p.
In 2020, there were approximately 53 million Americans caring for a family member with a disability. Each day, many of these American caregivers face an incredibly difficult dilemma: lose their livelihood (and the health insurance and financial benefits that it provides) or sacrifice their loved one's care. Low-income individuals and single parents are particularly vulnerable. Unfortunately, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), as amended, does not currently provide robust protection for these individuals. This is because it prohibits associational discrimination, which means that the ADA forbids covered employers from discriminating against employees or applicants due to their known association, familial or not, with a person with a disability. However, it does not require employers to engage nondisabled employees and applicants in a good faith interactive process to find a reasonable accommodation that would enable them to continue their employment while caring for their disabled loved ones. To the contrary, the ADA currently permits employers to reject caregivers' requests for reasonable accommodation out of hand. This troubling divergence between what the ADA should do and what it actually does prompts the narrow question that this Article explores: whether the ADA's associational discrimination provision should be amended to require covered employers, under certain limited circumstances, to at least engage in a good faith interactive process with employee-caregivers of people with disabilities regarding their requests for reasonable accommodation where those requests directly relate to the frequent, substantive, and continual care they must provide to family members with disabilities. Because caregivers should not be forced to choose between their jobs and their loved ones, this Article contends that Title I of the ADA should be amended to require covered employers to at least engage in a good faith interactive process with caregivers of people with disabilities to determine whether a reasonable accommodation may be provided that will enable caregivers to effectively perform the essential functions of their jobs while still providing adequate care for their disabled loved ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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CAREGIVERS - AMERICANS with Disabilities Act of 1990 - EMPLOYMENT discrimination - GOOD faith (Law) - JOB performanceContent provider:
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Sexual harassment on the job : what it is & how to stop it
Petrocelli, William;Repa, Barbara Kate;Petrocelli, William;Repa, Barbara Ka...
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Sexual harassment on the job : what it is & how to stop it
1999
Includes index.
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REFORMING MILITARY JUSTICE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE MILITARY JUSTICE ACT OF 2016.
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St. Mary's Law Journal. 2017, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p1-117. 158p.
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SCHLUETER, DAVID A.
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St. Mary's Law Journal. 2017, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p1-117. 158p.
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REFORMING MILITARY JUSTICE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE MILITARY JUSTICE ACT OF 2016.
St. Mary's Law Journal. 2017, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p1-117. 158p.
The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), 10 USC §§ 801-946, is the statutory template for the United States ' military justice system. The UCMJ addresses topics such as court-martial jurisdiction, and pretrial, trial, and appellate procedures. It also includes punitive articles which proscribe not only common law offenses but also offenses unique to the military. Congress made significant changes to the UCMJ in the 2016 Military Justice Act . The legislation not only amended a significant number of existing articles, but also added many new articles. In addition, Congress completely reorganized the punitive articles. In this article, Professor Schlueter addresses the Military Justice Act and provides an analysis of those changes, noting that not since its enactment in 1950, has the UCMJ been amended in such a dramatic fashion. The article includes a chart as an appendix which lists the amended and new provisions to the UCMJ, the substance of each change, the legislative source for those changes, and comments about the changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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COURTS-martial & courts of inquiry - JUDICIAL restraint - PERSONAL jurisdiction - JUDGES - DEFENSE attorneys - UNITED StatesContent provider:
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Tracey, William R.;Tracey, William R.
1994
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Civil Democracy Protection : Success Conditions of Non-Governmental Organisations in Comparison
Uwe Backes;Thomas Lindenberger;Uwe Backes;Thomas Lindenberger
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Civil Democracy Protection : Success Conditions of Non-Governmental Organisations in Comparison
2024
Civil Democracy Protection is an overview of attempts by organisations to oppose groups that are perceived to threaten democracy. The book traces the history of civil democracy protection actors from the establishment of democratic constitutional states up to the present day and develops a set of systematic and comparative approaches. The central question it explores is: What significance do civil actors have for the establishment and consolidation of democratic constitutional states , especially in relation to the protection of democracy by state institutions? The volume includes contributions from historians and social scientists, who combine idiographic approaches that focus on the specifics of individual cases with nomothetic approaches that aim to provide generalisable insights, incorporating historical experiences from various European countries and the USA in the 20th and early 21st century. This book will be of interest to scholars of democracy protection, civil society, consolidation of democracy, and anti- extremism. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International license.
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Rule of law - Human rights--Societies, etc - Democracy - Non-governmental organizations - Internal security - Subversive activities--PreventionContent provider:
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The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice
Chris Cunneen;Antje Deckert;Amanda Porter;Juan Tauri;Robert Webb;Chris Cunn...
The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice focuses on the growing wo...
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The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice
2023
The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice focuses on the growing worldwide movement aimed at decolonizing state policies and practices, and various disciplinary knowledges including criminology, social work and law. The collection of original chapters brings together cutting-edge, politically engaged work from a diverse group of writers who take as a starting point an analysis founded in a decolonizing, decolonial and/or Indigenous standpoint. Centering the perspectives of Black, First Nations and other racialized and minoritized peoples, the book makes an internationally significant contribution to the literature. The chapters include analyses of specific decolonization policies and interventions instigated by communities to enhance jurisdictional self-determination; theoretical approaches to decolonization; the importance of research and research ethics as a key foundation of the decolonization process; crucial contemporary issues including deaths in custody, state crime, reparations, and transitional justice; and critical analysis of key institutions of control, including police, courts, corrections, child protection systems and other forms of carcerality. The handbook is divided into five sections which reflect the breadth of the decolonizing literature: • Why decolonization? From the personal to the global • State terror and violence • Abolishing the carceral • Transforming and decolonizing justice • Disrupting epistemic violence This book offers a comprehensive and timely resource for activists, students, academics, and those with an interest in Indigenous studies, decolonial and post-colonial studies, criminal legal institutions and criminology. It provides critical commentary and analyses of the major issues for enhancing social justice internationally. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc - Restorative justice - Decolonization - Self-determination, National - Decolonization--Research - Criminal justice, Administration ofContent provider:
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Social Workers' Desk Reference
Lisa Rapp-McCall;Al Roberts;Kevin Corcoran;Lisa Rapp-McCall;Al Roberts;Kevi...
People all over the world are confronted daily by issues such as poverty, a lack of ac...
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Social Workers' Desk Reference
2022
People all over the world are confronted daily by issues such as poverty, a lack of access to quality education, unaffordable and or inadequate housing, and a lack of needed health and mental services. These issues are dynamic and varied, and social workers need to have access to relevant and timely evidence-based materials to meet the needs of those facing them. The Social Workers'Desk Reference is a comprehensive resource for practicing social workers. This essential reference is extraordinarily comprehensive and provides updated information in 15 parts covering the profession and its overarching themes; values, ethics, licensure; theoretical constructs; assessment; treatment plans; techniques; individual, family, and group Interventions; evidence-based practice; case management; community practice; vulnerable populations; behavioral and mental health; school social work; military social work; and forensic social work. All 163 chapters, written by experts in the field, are focused, practical, and contain critical content in addition to websites and updated references. The fourth edition follows in the tradition of the first three editions and updates previous topics but fearlessly addresses current salient subjects such as white nationalism, gaming disorder, substance abuse , LGBTQ+ populations, suicide, sexual violence in the military, smart decarceration, the legacy of racism, neurobiology, technology and social work practice, Islamophobia, pseudoscientific behavioral and mental health treatments , emerging fields of practice, and more. It has greatly expanded its section on vulnerable populations to address the wide variety of diversity in the U.S .
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Trade Unions in the European Union
Jeremy Waddington;Torsten Müller;Kurt Vandaele;Jeremy Waddington;Torsten Mü...
Trade unions have repeatedly been challenged by neoliberal programmes implemented with...
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Trade Unions in the European Union
2023; Vol. 00086
Trade unions have repeatedly been challenged by neoliberal programmes implemented within Member States of theEuropean Union (EU) and at the European level. The twentyseven country chapters at the core of this book chart the features of the neoliberal challenge in the EU Member States and the measures implemented by unions in their attempts to adapt to changed circumstances since 2000. It is clear that union activity, either independently or in conjunction with allies, will be at the centre of revitalization campaigns if the pieces left from the neoliberal challenges are to be picked up and wielded into a coherent response.This book offers a comprehensive comparative overview of the development, structure, and policies of national trade union movements in the EU. It presents an in-depth analysis of the challenges facing these organizations and their strategic and policy responses from 2000 to 2020.
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Collective bargaining--European Union countries--History - Labor unions--European Union countries--HistoryContent provider:
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Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity : The Nexus Approaches
Harry Lehmann;Harry Lehmann
The fourth Factor X publication from the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, U...
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Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity : The Nexus Approaches
2020
The fourth Factor X publication from the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity: The Nexus Approaches explores the interdependencies of sustainable development paths and associated resource requirements, describing and analysing the necessities for a more resource efficient world. The use of and competition for increasingly scarce resources are growing worldwide with current production and consumption patterns of industrialised economies soon to reach the point where the ecosphere will be overtaxed far beyond its limits. Against this background, this volume examines the important initiatives to monitor resource use at the international, EU and national level. The current trends and challenges related to sustainable resource use are discussed, including international challenges for a resource efficient world, megatrends, justice and equitable access to resources . In the second part of the book, contributions examine implementation strategies. They assess the concept known as circular economy and discuss the theory of growth and the role of the financial and education systems. The final section places special emphasis on practical examples. Overall, the book presents concrete ways and examples of achieving more sustainability in practice. Discussing solutions for a more sustainable use of natural resources , this book is essential reading for scholars and students of natural resources and sustainable development and decision-makers and experts from the fields of policy development, industry and civil society. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003000365, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Sustainable development - Natural resources--ManagementContent provider:
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Diversity, Cultural Humility, and the Helping Professions : Building Bridges Across Difference
Sana Loue;Sana Loue
Too often, cultural competence training has led to the inadvertent marginalization of ...
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Diversity, Cultural Humility, and the Helping Professions : Building Bridges Across Difference
2022
Too often, cultural competence training has led to the inadvertent marginalization of some individuals and groups and the reinforcement of existing stereotypes. This text explores the concept of cultural humility, which offers an exciting way forward for those engaged in the helping professions. In contrast to cultural competence, cultural humility challenges individuals to embark on a lifelong course of self-examination and transformational learning that will enable them to engage more authentically with clients, patients, colleagues, and others. The book traces our understanding of and responses to diversity and inclusion over time with a focus on the United States .Topics explored include:Us and Them: The Construction of CategoriesCultural Competence as an Approach to Understanding DifferenceTransformational Learning Through Cultural HumilityFostering Cultural Humility in the Institutional/Organizational ContextCultural Humility and the Helping ProfessionalThe book presents examples that illustrate how the concept of cultural humility can be implemented on an institutional level and in the context of individual-level interactions, such as those between a healthcare provider or therapist and a client.Diversity, Cultural Humility, and the Helping Professions: Building Bridges Across Difference is essential reading for the health professions (nursing, medicine), social work, psychology, art therapy, and other helping professions.
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Human services--Psychological aspects - Human services personnel--Psychology - Intercultural communicationContent provider:
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PRAYING FOR CLARITY: LUND, BORMUTH, AND THE SPLIT OVER LEGISLATOR-LED PRAYER.
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Boston College Law Review. 2018 Supplement, Vol. 59 Issue 9, preceding p104-104. 16p.
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GAVIN, JOHN
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Boston College Law Review. 2018 Supplement, Vol. 59 Issue 9, preceding p104-104. 16p.
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PRAYING FOR CLARITY: LUND, BORMUTH, AND THE SPLIT OVER LEGISLATOR-LED PRAYER.
Boston College Law Review. 2018 Supplement, Vol. 59 Issue 9, preceding p104-104. 16p.
On September 6, 2017, the en banc U.S . Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit released its opinion in Bormuth v. County of Jackson, finding prayers offered by the Jackson County Board of Commissioners constitutional under the Establishment Clause. That decision involved detailed factual analysis, which varied greatly from the analysis used by the en banc U.S . Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to find nearly identical prayers by the Rowan County Board of Commissioners unconstitutional in Lund v. Rowan County on July 14, 2017. This Comment argues that the method of analysis conducted by the en banc Fourth Circuit in Lund is the more comprehensive and, therefore proper, method of factual analysis contemplated by the U.S . Supreme Court in Town of Greece v. Galloway. In contrast, the analysis employed by the en banc Sixth Circuit's decision in Bormuth fails to fully consider the challenged practice, and is therefore flawed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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UNITED States. Court of Appeals (6th Circuit) - EN banc hearings - ESTABLISHMENT clause (Constitutional law) - FREEDOM of religion - PRAYERContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Virology: New Research (6 Volume Set)
Nicolai S. Bech;Nicolai S. Bech
This six volume set presents important research on virology. Some of the topics addres...
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Encyclopedia of Virology: New Research (6 Volume Set)
2020
This six volume set presents important research on virology. Some of the topics addressed include: the fundamentals of Zika virus; preparation for pandemic diseases; West Nile virus; the management of the spread of Ebola virus disease; human papillomaviruses; viral hemorrhagic fevers; the treatment of avian influenza virus; bronchiolitis.
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Virology--ResearchContent provider:
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A State-by-State History of Race and Racism in the United States : [2 Volumes]
Patricia Reid-Merritt;Patricia Reid-Merritt
Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settl...
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A State-by-State History of Race and Racism in the United States : [2 Volumes]
2019
Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settlement to the present, and biographies of major figures, this work offers readers an unseen look at the history of racism from the perspective of individual states .From the initial impact of European settlement on indigenous populations to the racial divides caused by immigration and police shootings in the 21st century, each American state has imposed some form of racial restriction on its residents. The United States proclaims a belief in freedom and justice for all, but members of various minority racial groups have often faced a different reality, as seen in such examples as the forcible dispossession of indigenous peoples during the Trail of Tears, Jim Crow laws'crushing discrimination of blacks, and the manifest unfairness of the Chinese Exclusion Act .Including the District of Columbia, the 51 entries in these two volumes cover the state-specific histories of all of the major minority and immigrant groups in the United States , including African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. Every state has had a unique experience in attempting to build a community comprising multiple racial groups, and the chronologies, narratives, and biographies that compose the entries in this collection explore the consequences of racism from states 'perspectives, revealing distinct new insights into their respective racial histories.
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Racism--United States--States--History--ChronologyContent provider:
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Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) : Private and Criminal Law Aspects
Maciej Domański;Bogusław Lackoroński;Maciej Domański;Bogusław Lackoroński
This book examines the implications of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights o...
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Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) : Private and Criminal Law Aspects
2023
This book examines the implications of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), its resulting standard of protection for persons with disabilities and the way it is understood and implemented in its diverse signatory states . Its overarching theme is to assess the impact of CRPD Article 12 on the private law concept of legal capacity and its limitations, the significance of which carries over into the realm of penal law regulations. Its impact is analysed primarily from the legal point of view, but with due regard for its psychological and psychiatric ramifications. Recognising the importance of these disciplines is important when implementing CRPD Article 12 into domestic law, as they contribute to the determinants in creating a qualificatory legal framework for all, persons with disabilities in particular, to exercise their rights to legal capacity without let or hindrance. As active legal capacity is a notion rooted in and coming from private law, this forms the main research perspective. The first section discusses the foundational concepts constituting the CRPD Article 12 standard from domestic private law and international law perspectives. The work shows that the concepts adopted in private law interact with the protection of persons with disabilities as victims provided for in criminal law. In addition, where relevant, authors also look at public law institutions that are connected with the private law solutions. The volume will be an essential reference for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of private law, criminal law, mental health law, human rights, discrimination law as well as psychology and psychiatry.
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People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.--EuropeContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2021
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995 . Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19 : 1991–1995 (A–Z)
Melanie Nolan;Melanie Nolan
Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies...
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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19 : 1991–1995 (A–Z)
2021; Vol. 00019
Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995 . The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and representative Australians.The volume is still in the shadow of World War II with servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are dimming and there are now increasing numbers of non-white, non-male, non-privileged and non-straight subjects.The 680 individuals recorded in volume 19 of the ADB include Wiradjuri midwife and Ngunnawal Elder Violet Bulger; Aboriginal rights activist, poet, playwright and artist Kevin Gilbert; and Torres Strait Islander community leader and land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo. HIV/AIDS child activists Tony Lovegrove and Eve Van Grafhorst have entries, as does conductor Stuart Challender,'the first Australian celebrity to go public'about his HIV/AIDS condition in 1991.The arts are, as always, well-represented, including writers Frank Hardy, Mary Durack and Nene Gare, actors Frank Thring and Leonard Teale and arts patron Ian Potter. We are beginning to see the effects of the steep rise in postwar immigration flow through to the ADB. Artist Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski was born in Poland. Pilar Moreno de Otaegui, co-founded the Spanish Club of Sydney. Chinese restaurateur and community leader Ming Poon (Dick) Low migrated to Victoria in 1953.Often we have a dearth of information about the domestic lives of our subjects; politician Olive Zakharov, however, bravely disclosed at the Victorian launch of the federal government's campaign to Stop Violence Against Women in 1993 that she was a survivor of domestic violence in her second marriage.Take a dip into the many fascinating lives of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
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Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World : Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities
Melani Budianta;Manneke Budiman;Abidin Kusno;Mikihiro Moriyama;Melani Budia...
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and...
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Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World : Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities
2020
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area studies. Asia and the Pacifi c are the particular regions that the conference focuses on as they have become new centers of knowledge production in arts and humanities and, in the future, seem to be able to grow signifi cantly as a major contributor of culture, science and arts to the globalized world. The book will help shed light on what arts and humanities scholars in Asia and the Pacifi c have done in terms of research and knowledge development, as well as the new frontiers of research that have been explored and opening up, which can connect the two regions with the rest of the globe.
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Humanities--Congresses - Globalization--Congresses - Arts and society--CongressesContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2020
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995 . Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Biography--DictionariesContent provider:
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AMA Manual of Style : A Guide for Authors and Editors
The JAMA Network Editors;The JAMA Network Editors
The AMA Manual of Style is a must-have resource for anyone involved in medical, health...
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AMA Manual of Style : A Guide for Authors and Editors
2020
The AMA Manual of Style is a must-have resource for anyone involved in medical, health, and scientific publishing. Written by an expert committee of JAMA Network editors, this latest edition addresses issues that face authors, editors, and publishers in the digital age. Extensive updates are included in the References chapter, with examples of how to cite digital publications, preprints, databases, data repositories, podcasts, apps and interactive games, and social media. Full-color examples grace the chapter on data display, with newer types of graphic presentations and updated guidance on formatting tables and figures. The manual thoroughly covers ethical and legal issues such as authorship, conflicts of interest, scientific misconduct, intellectual property, open access and public access, and corrections. The Usage chapter has been revised to bring the manual up-to-date on word choice, especially in writing about individuals with diseases or conditions and from various socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and sexual orientation populations. Specific nomenclature entries in many disciplines are presented to guide users in issues of diction, formatting, and preferred terminology. Guidance on numbers, SI units, and math has been updated, and the section on statistics and study design has undergone a major expansion. In sum, the answer to nearly any issue facing a writer or editor in medicine, health care, and related disciplines can be found in the 11th edition of the AMA Manual of Style. Available for institutional purchase or subscription or individual subscription. Visit AMAManualofStyle.com or contact your sales rep for more details.
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Encyclopedia of Bullying (7 Volume Set)
Silje C. Vestergaard;Silje C. Vestergaard
This 7-volume set is a compilation of important research on bullying. Some of the topi...
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Encyclopedia of Bullying (7 Volume Set)
2020
This 7-volume set is a compilation of important research on bullying. Some of the topics addressed include: cyberbullying, a form of bullying carried out using electronic communication; violent behavior; homophobia and its role in bullying; bullying prevention programs; predictors of school bullying; coping strategies and efforts to counter bullying behavior.
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Capital and Ideology
Thomas Piketty;Thomas Piketty
A New York Times BestsellerAn NPR Best Book of the YearThe epic successor to one of th...
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Capital and Ideology
2020
A New York Times BestsellerAn NPR Best Book of the YearThe epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system.Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices. Piketty explores the material and ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, shaping the lives of billions. He concludes that the great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality and education and not, as often argued, the assertion of property rights or the pursuit of stability. The new era of extreme inequality that has derailed that progress since the 1980s, he shows, is partly a reaction against communism, but it is also the fruit of ignorance, intellectual specialization, and our drift toward the dead-end politics of identity.Once we understand this, we can begin to envision a more balanced approach to economics and politics. Piketty argues for a new “participatory” socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, and the sharing of knowledge and power. Capital and Ideology is destined to be one of the indispensable books of our time, a work that will not only help us understand the world, but that will change it.
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Gluck, Abbe R.
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University of Chicago Law Review. Winter2017, Vol. 84 Issue 1, p177-212. 36p.
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University of Chicago Law Review. Winter2017, Vol. 84 Issue 1, p177-212. 36p.
The formalist project in statutory interpretation, as it has defined itself, has been a failure. That project--typified by but not limited to Justice Antonin Scalia's brand of textualism--has been doomed because even its staunchest supporters have been unwilling to carry it out. The rules that judges employ are too numerous to be predictably chosen. There is no ranking among them. They are not treated as blackletter, precedential law. Even formalist-textualist judges, it turns out, crave interpretive flexibility, do not want to be controlled by other courts or Congress , and feel the need to show their interpretive actions are democratically linked to Congress . What we actually have instead is an approach whose legitimacy depends, in large part, on understanding how Congress works. Establishing the incomplete execution of formalism is a crucial first step in this argument, because the fiction that textualism has been successful in achieving its goals has prevented us from seeing what judges actually want and, in fact, are actually doing. With that understanding, it becomes clear that better judicial understanding of the realities of congressional drafting practice will not only make statutory interpretation practice more legitimate, but also advance the enterprise of what most judges--even formalists--already see their job to be. If formalism originally began as a second-best alternative to understanding Congress , understanding Congress has emerged as a second-best alternative to carrying out the formalist project. After laying this groundwork, this Essay offers ten new rules of statutory interpretation--objective, formalism-compatible rules, but rules grounded in congressional practice. It especially highlights one new rule--the CBO Canon--and then offers nine more, including an anticonsistency presumption and presumptions about different legislative vehicles, multiple agency delegations, dictionaries, and special legislative history. Judges of all interpretive stripes have shown new interest in applying this kind of real-world understanding of the legislative process to statutory interpretation doctrine. The goals here are to explore why that might be the case; to meet some of the objections that have been raised about the use of such evidence; and to offer examples to illustrate the very possibility of what might be, and in some cases already is. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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The Schoolhouse Gate : Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
Justin Driver;Justin Driver
A Washington Post Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors'ChoiceA...
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The Schoolhouse Gate : Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
2018
A Washington Post Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors'ChoiceAn award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school students, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades. Judicial decisions assessing the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to unauthorized immigration, from antiwar protests to compulsory flag salutes, from economic inequality to teacher-led prayer—these are but a few of the cultural anxieties dividing American society that the Supreme Court has addressed in elementary and secondary schools. The Schoolhouse Gate gives a fresh, lucid, and provocative account of the historic legal battles waged over education and illuminates contemporary disputes that continue to fracture the nation. Justin Driver maintains that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has regularly abdicated its responsibility for protecting students'constitutional rights and risked transforming public schools into Constitution-free zones. Students deriving lessons about citizenship from the Court's decisions in recent decades would conclude that the following actions taken by educators pass constitutional muster: inflicting severe corporal punishment on students without any procedural protections, searching students and their possessions without probable cause in bids to uncover violations of school rules, random drug testing of students who are not suspected of wrongdoing, and suppressing student speech for the viewpoint it espouses. Taking their cue from such decisions, lower courts have upheld a wide array of dubious school actions, including degrading strip searches, repressive dress codes, draconian “zero tolerance” disciplinary policies, and severe restrictions on off-campus speech. Driver surveys this legal landscape with eloquence, highlights the gripping personal narratives behind landmark clashes, and warns that the repeated failure to honor students'rights threatens our basic constitutional order. This magisterial book will make it impossible to view American schools—or America itself—in the same way again.
