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On the Place of Self-Defense in Public Life: A Hobbesian Critique of the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment

. This line of cases thus attempts one of the most challenging feats of modern political philosophy: squaring popular sovereignty with natural rights, and particularly the right to use violence in self ... Bruen (2022), relies on an implicit political theory. This article uncovers and critiques that theory. I argue that the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment jurisprudence positions interpersonal self-defense

Political Fragmentation in the Democracies of the West

leaders who promise to cut through the dysfunctions of democratic governments. A major reason for this decline in effective government is that democracies have become more politically fragmented. Political ... Levinson, and participants in the NYU Legal and Political Philosophy Colloquium, particularly Liam Murphy and Sam Scheffler. For terrific research assistance, thanks go to NYU students Will Goncher, Pieter

Curtailing political short-termism in legislatures: a trade-off between influence and institutionalization?

to MPs without endangering the existing division of power. Finding this balance enhances the consolidation of legislative future organs, but it simultaneously limits their conventional political impact. ... -level policymaking, political executives have carried out most of this activity, and expert-driven governmental foresight units can now be found on all continents [ 43, 46 ]. However, as scholars of

Criminals behind the Veil: Political Philosophy and Punishment

Digital Commons. For more information , please contact Part of the Criminal Law Commons; Criminology and Criminal Justice Commons; and the Law - Criminals Behind the Veil: Political Philosophy and ... wrong, and how to fix it. And the way to begin a comprehensive diagnosis is to turn to political philosophy and its relative neglect of problems of criminal law and criminal punishment. Political theory

Reclaiming Humphrey’s Executor: Expertise and Impartiality in the FTC

government politics, and they must take care to ensure that their rhetoric and other actions do not ruin the perception of political impartiality that the founding Congress sought to create. By reclaiming ... As part of that federal response, the FTC was born. Congress sought to establish an agency that would be “free from ‘political domination or control’ or the ‘probability or possibility of such a thing

“Autonomous weapons” as a geopolitical signifier in a national power play: analysing AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policies

“Autonomous weapon systems” (AWS) have been subject to intense discussions for years. Numerous political, academic and legal actors are debating their consequences, with many calling for strict ... widely used in philosophy, psychology, human cognition and other disciplines and carries (often contested and contradictory) meanings that range from anthropocentric understandings to political contexts or

The Mammoth prophecies: a role-playing game on controversies around a socio-technical innovation and its effects on students’ capacities to think about the future

This article reports on a political game played between November 2021 and February 2022 at a European university in the frame of an elective course open to students from all disciplines. It started ... discuss whether the Mammoth game had a positive effect on students' abilities to think about the future. Introduction Political games are simulations of political processes that have as their primary

BYU Journal of Public Law Volume 37 Number 2

- Volume 37 ARTICLES 2023 Race, Ethnicity, and Fair Housing Enforcement: A Regional Analysis Charles S. Bullock, III; Charles M. Lamb; & Eric M. Wilk Political Fragmentation in the Democracies of the ... Political Science, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260 or . ** Charles S. Bullock, III is Distinguished University Professor of Public and International Affairs, Richard B. Russell Chair in

The Territorial and District Representation Amendment: A Proposal

This article will propose and explain a draft amendment to the United States Constitution that would secure an intermediate degree of political representation for Americans living in U.S. territories ... alternate dimension of constitutionality. Some of the structure of this alternate reality comes from the U.S. Constitution itself— its allocation of political representation in Congress and the electoral

Politicizing the future: on lithium exploration in Portugal

proposes that political action that involves large sociotechnical ventures with the potential of contamination needs to consider the local collective perceptions of the future. ... . Javiera Barandiarán [ 8 ] explains that governments need to legitimize political programs based on science and technologies. Therefore, new totalizing imaginaries around the undertakings can emerge

Freedom of Association, Extreme Partisan Gerrymandering, Justiciability and the Unmistakable Political Question Controversy

editor of BYU Law Digital Commons. For more information , please contact Unmistakable Political Question Controversy, 34 BYU J. Pub. L. 75 (2019). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/jpl ... be addressed is whether partisan gerrymandering is a political question not capable of judicial resolution by federal courts, or whether partisan gerrymandering is instead a politicized issue that

Dissent and the Rule of Law

the police killing of George Floyd and others and a strong backlash against protestors by some political leaders, has deeply challenged the compatibility of those values. This tension raises deep ... the two positions. While the concept of the rule of law may not necessarily incorporate the entire spectrum of civil and political rights, the very logic of the rule of law demands respect for and

Race, Ethnicity, and Fair Housing Enforcement: A Regional Analysis

of this article. Direct correspondence to Charles M. Lamb, Department of Political Science, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260 or . ** Charles S. Bullock, III is Distinguished University ... Professor of Public and International Affairs, Richard B. Russell Chair in Political Science, and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. . *** Charles M

COVID’s Counterpunch: State Legislative Assaults on PublicHealth Emergency Powers

. It is an incredulous movement facially supported by a need to appropriately balance economic interests and rights with communal health objectives. At its political core, however, is a “power grab” by ... objectives. At its core, however, are political, denialist ploys by legislators to free voters from PHE powers perceived as unwarranted despite saving countless lives and significantly reducing morbidity

The Political Economy of China’s Regulatory State: A Reappraisal

economists, legal scholars, organization theorists, and political scientists for the shifts from regulation to deregulation and vice versa including the simultaneous pursuit of both strategies.20 Concepts such

The Best Interest Is the Child: A Historical Philosophy for Modern Issues

interestingly resulted in state policies that are retributive in nature and disproportionately affect minority communities. The disconnect between theory and practice is the product of decades of socio-political ... Philosophy for Modern Issues Lahny R. Silva∗ A little over a century after the creation of the first juvenile court in America, the states and the federal government continue to try to find an effective

Transformation through (re-)politicisation of socio-technical futures: how cultural semiotics can improve transformative vision assessment

meanings ascribed to technologies in terms of their potential and future implications as “game changers” are often contested, and driven by contradictory political, economic, and other interests (e.g. [ 1–3 ... technologies. By opening up such dialogues, vision assessment serves as an actor in politicisation processes, as it makes the technology and its futures an issue of political negotiation in society. The

Futures literacy in collaborative foresight networks: advancing sustainable shipbuilding

level dence that fosters the shaping of the industry’s future Coordination of interorganizational collaboration at the network level Finding opportunities to create a type of momentum or political will is ... . Midgley G ( 2003 ) Science as systemic intervention: some implications of systems thinking and complexity for the philosophy of science . Systemic Practice and Action Research 16 ( 2 ): 77 - 97 41. Miller R

On Criminalizing Violent Speech

first introduces the social philosophy of liberal communitarianism. In Section II, the article reviews the existing federal statutes governing the making of threats. Section III examines major, relevant ... conceptions of the role of moral reasoning in public spaces and political bodies, and, therefore, these two theoretical frameworks oftentimes produce opposing political prescriptions. Liberalism, with its

The future of European education: A political strategy & four action areas

solutions could emerge from the retrieval of the idea of including a European Dimension in Education, as a joint political strategy of the European Union and the Council of Europe, given that two separate ... by the economical crisis, the political programmes of only one way and the political disaffection of the citizens with the European project, it is a matter of urgency to find new proposals, also for