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, despite the slow rate of progress, reigniting conversations about diversity may seem unwise in the current political moment, raising the question of whether those seeking to achieve a truly diverse ... they’re the only woman on a given bench.12 I would write about how from the outset women judges have relied on and worked together within networks of family, friends and political allies. About how for
by all political parties that, in the modern digital world, the Gambling Act regulatory regime is inadequate, and, in December 2020 the government called for it to be reviewed.48 The subsequent White ... lawyer, this debate is not precisely on point. Whether a particular industry or activity is heavily regulated by the state, or whether it has an individualist, laissez-faire philosophy, does not affect the
‘Modernisation’ is an idea often espoused by politicians in campaign rhetoric: there have been political studies of New Labour communication around modernisation.36 Ideas and ideals of modernisation as a social ... avoided projects which have at their heart major issues of social policy, morality or political controversy’.40 What ‘lawyers’ law’ means can vary over time,41 just as what is deemed political or non
social and political rights at their core’.83 In particular, questions arise about how much the focus should be for lawyers on the (thinner) formal and/or procedural aspects of the rule of law and how much ... rule of law which he thought went hand-in-hand with political neutrality85; he saw the rule of law ‘as a threshold condition for a valid legal system, while nevertheless remaining neutral on the
Wahad presently works in New York with Freedom Now, a Chicago based organization which lobbies for the release of political prisoners being held throughout the U.S. The following text was extracted from a ... Scholarship Repository. For moer information , please contact - Article 5 POLITICAL PRISONERS IN THE UNITED STATES By Dhoruba Bin Wahad* We are all told when we are young that America is a nation of
The Special International Tribunal on the Human Rights Violations of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in the United States was held in New York City from the 7th to the 10th of December, 1990
‘undertakings’ engaged in economic activity.160 Data protection regulators must regulate, amongst others, the activities of individuals, charities, political parties, public authorities and commercial actors ... processing of ‘special category’ personal data found in Article 9(1) GDPR. This provision reads as follows: Processing of personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or
The rise in militancy among Black American youth was one of the most seminal and significant phenomena of the late 1960's, because of the decisive social and political changes it engendered in the ... white students in the social unrest of that era.' The review of Black student involvement is centrally relevant to the appraisal of past, and prediction of future, United States social and political
-examination. This internal process is valid and important in and of itself, but when it is present in the political/ideological struggle for liberation, it becomes crucial and qualitatively determinant. ... , writer, and political activist in the movement for an independent and socialist Puerto Rico. He was sentenced to 68 years imprisonment for his participation in the clandestine armed struggle for the
For more than four years the United States government tried to deport feminist author Margaret Randall for the political content of her publications. The legal basis for the government's case against ... person poses a concrete threat or would harm the community in any particular manner. The law turns explicitly and solely on political advocacy and association. The statute provides that all of the
incarcerated as we await court dates because we can't pay exorbitant ransom (bond). We see thousands of Afrikan political prisoners and prisoners of war. So - is this liberty and justice for all? Not for the ... notoriety. This scenario continues to hold true today as many North American attorneys get involved in "political"cases for notoriety while the victim is engaged in a fight for his/her existence. On December
officials may impose restrictions tailored to meet real threats to security, but may not impose restrictions based on a prisoner's political beliefs or associations, or based merely on speculation and ... subterranean unit housing a small population of political and social prisoners in a segregated and highly restricted setting of small group isolation. The combination of public pressure and Congressional inquiry
pursuit of justice, contrary to the entrenched and formal legal system, emerged from community, political, or academic initiatives? What have been the social costs of the legal system's failure to deliver ... collective. In recent years, she has been active in support of political prisoners in the U.S., the campaign and lawsuit to close the Lexington Control Unit, and the defense of the Resistance Conspiracy case
14(5) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).84 (iii) The demanding nature of the s 31 decision Section 31 is heavily amended and currently runs to over 600 words. At its
(non-)voter, except perhaps as the frustration of his camp having suffered a political defeat on the night (but then, save in the most extraordinary of circumstances, this would not have been caused by
approach to this question is socio-legal; I am interested in what this form of claims making reveals about how political power is legitimated in the contemporary global world. I argue that the goal of ... rights by courts to interpret the scope of freedom of association exacerbates or ameliorates the displacement of - democracy and constituent power as a basis of political legitimacy in global
inquiry.1 Terms like ‘legitimacy’ and indeed ‘justice’ are used with varying connotations in ordinary language and in the language of normative disciplines like jurisprudence and political philosophy. I do ... , ‘Moral Conflict and Political Legitimacy’ (1987) 16 Philosophy and Public Affairs 215–40. Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/clp/article-abstract/65/1/59/356902 by guest on 21 April 2018 will all
political action. And women's rights activists, who have been even more legalistic in their activities, apparently are committed to a positive role for law in their struggle for liberation. But these groups ... boundaries. On the one hand, my writing has been staked out as the exclusive interdisciplinary property of constitutional law, contract, black history, jurisprudence, political science and rhetoric. At the
and counseling runaways and kidnap victims.Patricia McFadden is a member of the African National Congress who fled South Africa because of her political activities, and hopes to go home soon. She did ... my college years, I had experience organizing Luther Leagues on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. (Those of you who know the political geography of the Eastern Shore will know that that experience gave me
, public officials and judicial authorities were co-conspirators in the campaign to suppress the organization's political and religious rights. "This is supposed to be a Court room of justice," said Conrad ... "systematic harassment" for its expression of constitutionally protected political and social views. The city's answer asserted MOVE was not interested in expressing legitimate political and social * Linn