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a legal, political, and public upheaval. Indeed, the element of the human rights discourse in the context of the abortion debate has been among the most prevalent, dominant, and polarizing in the ... , Globalization, and Family Law, 13 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES L. 1 (2012); POLITICAL AND LEGAL OBLIGATION (James Roland Pennock & John William eds., 2017). agreement to perform some act [ . . . ] a person or thing to
crisis. These include practices to prepare for data visualization, enhanced resources devoted to public health communication, and the management of legal and political issues surrounding publicizing health ... political issues surrounding publicizing health information. Contents 1. Introduction ........................................................... 395 2. Background
. Conscience also provides an obvious connection between religious dissent and political rebellion, which is why it must be central to any future account of Lollardy’s relationship to class struggle or sedition ... of political revolution—were thus clearly by no means unfounded. Indeed, as the Marxist historian Rodney Hilton notes: “Although the Lollards were usually quietist rather than politically militant
philosophy of postcolonial settler societies “marked by the death and/or dispossession of their original inhabitants.”2 In his fifth book, After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene,3 Duke Law Professor ... the environment, Purdy finds an inextricable link between environmental imagination and political expression.11 He then classifies the evolution of American attitudes towards nature into four categories
it also deterministically brought about Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Its conception is a direct result of the diplomatic and political relations between France and the Ottoman Empire. The alliance that ... “Louis XIV had inherited a ticklish friendship with the Ottoman sultans from his royal predecessors; he had to balance its upkeep against the offence it gave to his European allies and the political
different object. This strikes a chord with how Beckett’s characters embody his poetics of ‘senility,’ and leads to the political implications of freedom without hope or meaning, which is the infinite task of ... “the Real is defined as the impossible qua discursive formalization” (142), and argues that the play assumes a political implication of its own by revealing this very inoperativity of the master’s
control any vestigial queenly status or authority, and guard against the exiled queen becoming a locus for alternative political factions. These queens-in-exile form the focus of this article, which seeks ... within it certain customary roles and an invested authority that could take on something akin to political office, dependent upon the individual. Yet along with such prerogatives, authority, and office
in levels of timber harvesting, generating intense political controversy. For a definitive account of the Northwest's timber wars, see STEVEN YAFFEE, THE WISDOM OF THE SPOTTED OWL (1994). 3. Herger
possible the sources of resistance. These sources, in my view, lie in the fragmented political structure of the United States, and in a political culture that includes a large dose of distrust of government ... , both on the political left and on the political right. Consider first the fragmentation of land-use governance. Among economically advanced democracies, historian Kenneth Jackson points out, "Only in
0 Copyright © 2013 Regents of the University of California , USA 1 Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School. J.D. & Ph.D. (Political Science), University of California, Berkeley. I am ... the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. I also the American Political Science Association. Finally, thanks to Matthew Purcell and Philomena Meluch for their excellent research assistance, and to
. Analyzing the potential legal implications of the Undertaking requires an appreciation of the environmental and political problems threatening the conservation of plant genetic resources. In Section I, this ... political conflict surrounding plant breeding by multinational agribusinesses. In Section II, the international efforts to preserve plant genetic resources are analyzed. After discussing the circumstances of
individuals and entities currently engaged in a race to exploit a commons may dominate political institutions designed to combat overexploitation. Because a substantial number of those individuals and entities ... , in other words, may be captured by those with a vested interest in continuing overexploitation. That is the "tragedy" in what I term "the political tragedy of the commons." Regulation of American
and more complex aspects of natural law, Christian doctrine, and natural philosophy. Indeed, it is possible that one question, like the one proposed by Pharaoh, results in a multi-layered answer that ... from the book of Baruch and including other political authorities and influential figures, including emperors and kings, and anyone deemed worthy of renown. The opportunity for variation and
The article argues that male minors have a moral anticipatory right-in-trust not to be circumcised without a medical indication. Topics discussed include ethical, political, and intellectual ... , political, and legal philosophy. It concentrates heavily on moral philosophy. But it also tackles issues of political philosophy, such as freedom of religion, tolerance and 1. Circumcision thus understood is
amendment, as opposed to a statute, protects policy judgments from the ebb and flow of the political tide."3 One would predict, based on this, that the public trust doctrine in Wisconsin is fairly insulated ... from political pressure. Given its history and constitutional basis, the development and implementation of Wisconsin's public trust doctrine is fertile ground for study. In Wisconsin, three state
this subject is also charted. The following study investigates the ways in which encyclopaedic texts on the six ages were adapted, expanded and transmitted, and the religious and political motivations ... , its longer form is noteworthy in terms of its treatment of the six ages, its bilingualism and its potential relationship to contemporary political and theological concerns.13 The substance of the three
fate and wild animals, depersonalized forces without malevolence. In Death of Alfred these are replaced by Earl Godwine, the consummate political player whose cruelty to the returning exiles is not to be ... rationalized in philosophical terms, but understood as the political exercise of violence by those in the kingdom “who wielded great power”. Alfred himself was taken to the island monastery of Ely, blinded on
. failed to establish any federal PTD rights, the - case served a valuable role by garnering public attention and contributing legal and political momentum to the movement to address climate change. I ... trust litigation by attracting national media attention.37 This raises the prospect that, with continued legal and political pressure, state courts could expand the PTD to include atmospheric resources
overcome Idealism and Romanticism, but above all as a reaction to the political, scientific, philosophical and, ultimately, social situation under the Second Empire. This most influential reorientation of ... century (Caudet, 1995) . Especially relevant in this transition is the positivist philosophy championed by Auguste Comte, who claims that there is a connection between single phenomena and some general
addition, the selection of texts in miscellanies is indicative of the general preferences of certain milieux—which makes them fruitful for a reassessment of the literary canon—and may even bear political ... against limiting their critical editions to printed sources, those texts being relatively corrupt (1967:xiii). 9 Marotti has noted that manuscript miscellanies and anthologies may even indicate political
