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Throwing Tomato Soup at a Van Gogh: How Climate Activists Leveraged Legal Theory, Criminal Law, and Moral Outrage to Conduct a Radical Protest Campaign in the World's Most Famous Museums

Charles Widger School of Law Digital Repository 1 Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Criminal Law Commons , Cultural Heritage Law 2 International Law Commons, Law and Philosophy Commons ... Economics and Political Science (LL.M. in Human Rights Law). t Able of c ontents 64 65 68 69 71 74 75 78 80 81 85 86 90 91 i . i ntrod Uction Throughout the summer and fall of 2022, an audacious climate

Gray Areas in Green Claims: Why Greenwashing Regulation Needs an Overhaul

. Candidate , May 2024 , Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law; B.S. , Political Science , Philosophy, 2019 , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To my family, friends, and my boyfriend ... political speech, which refers to constitutionally protected speech and generally cannot be regulated in most instances.74 Second, even if speech is commercial, assertions of fact are separate from assertions

Pest or Guest, Friend or Foe? Reframing the "Hard Look" Doctrine's Role in Environmental Pesticide Policy

the advent of a federal regulatory scheme.10 This legal watershed moment represented a compromise between opposing political forces — Republicans and conservative Democrats, and New Deal Democrats ... rule.119 This proposal came after public comment and hearings reflected changing political sentiments and backlash from the motor vehicle industry cited economic difficulties.120 Subsequently, the agency

Conditional Cash Transfers, Resources, and Political Participation in Latin America

Do conditional cash transfers (CCTs) lead to increased participation in multiple political activities in Latin America? If CCTs contribute to broad political participation, how do CCTs increase

Can We Really Be the Change We Wish to See? The Inherent Limitations of Citizen Suits in Remedying Environmental Injustice Under the Clean Air Act

issue, companies have historically taken advantage of communities with limited political power, leveraging their authority to secure necessary permits with lower transaction costs, thereby exerting ... case of the few permits it issues or indirectly through comments and political pressure for state-issued permits.180 The guidance provides a set of principles for regional air permitting staff to apply

Change We Can Believe In: The Seventh Circuit's Exposure of Inadequate Environmental Review in Protect Our Parks v. Buttigieg

Commons , Law and Philosophy Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Law and Race Commons, Law 3 Commons, State and Local Government Law Commons, Supreme Court of the United States Commons 4 Other Law Commons ... , Michelle, in Chicago and began his political career there. Id. (delving into Obama’s link to Chicago). Other competing areas included Hawaii, where President Obama was born, and New York City, where Obama

Crisis naturales y textos de emergencia: Cómo leer el sismo del 19 de septiembre de 2017 en la Ciudad de México

one to read not only the seismic event itself but also the tensions and debates surrounding the political context in which it occurred. I propose analyzing the narratives that follow a natural disaster ... conifgurations. I suggest that the physical collapse revealed a new visibility of urban space that simultaneously implied a new legibility of the political space that contains it. - Solo unos días después del

Assessing Evo’s Bolivia: Inclusion, Ethnicity, and Class

Performance in Plurinational Bolivia. By Nancy Postero. Oakland: University of California Press. Pp. xii + 228. $34.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780520294035.   Along the Bolivian Highway: Social Mobility and Political ... Political Arena in Latin America: From Resisting Neoliberalism to the Second Incorporation. Edited by Eduardo Silva and Federico M. Rossi. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press , 2018. Pp. xi 1 Coca Yes

Comparative Orientalism in Latin American Revolutions: Antichinismo of Mexico and El Salvador

subject of continuous debate in Latin American studies. The field of Asian American studies offers a different approach that highlights the political and cultural function of anti-Chinese politics beyond ... ideological formations of Asia and Asians have contributed to the political and cultural life of race in Latin America even when actual populations remained small or nonexistent. By understanding racial

Self-Governance in Bolivia’s First Indigenous Autonomy: Charagua

novel institutions of self-government to assess how local Guaraní leaders are negotiating autonomy, both externally and internally. The result of those negotiations is a hybrid political system in which ... the assembly expresses a significant form of autonomy that promotes intercultural political participation and enacts Indigenous self-government in ways that are important to Guaraní people. Yet, because

La sub representación de mujeres en gabinetes ministeriales: El caso ecuatoriano en perspectiva comparada, 1979–2015

article shows that the increasing number of legislators and size of the government legislative bloc had a positive effect on the presence of women ministers. In addition, the article discusses the political ... article discusses the political importance of the ministries assigned to women during the period. The main empirical finding is that, despite the drastic increase in women ministers during Rafael Correa's

Blood, Nation, Science, and Language: Essentializing Race from the Sixteenth Century to the Present

changed over time, the use of race for political and scientific ends, and the persistence of racial essentialism in the present. The books all pay very close attention to language, and they emphasize ... and Sor Juana to Linnaeus and the US Civil War. They cast new light on the concept of limpieza de sangre and lay out some of the ways that blood was referenced to denote political affiliation with

On the Fence About Immigration and Overpopulation: "Environmentalists

Employment Law Commons, Law and Economics Commons, Law and Philosophy Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Law and Psychology Commons, Law and Race Commons, Law and Society Commons, Law Enforcement and ... , laws focused on conserving natural resources rather than encouraging general sustainable behavior. See id. (summarizing expansion of political understandings of environment). 57. Luther, supra note 55

The Politics of the Criminal Enforcement of the U.S. Clean Water Act, 1983-2021

two decades indicate financial underinvestment across political parties and primarily stagnating outcomes. I. INTRODUCTION Notable environmental disasters, such as the Santa Barbara Oil Spill and the ... Cuyahoga River Fire in 1969, prompted Congress to move forward with a variety of new laws to protect the environ* Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science and Public Service

Investment Treaty Arbitration in Latin America

. First, by focusing on the balance of incentives and opportunities facing political leaders and foreign investors, the study establishes a new basis for understanding the reasons actors opt for the risks ... the analysis of relatively time-invariant structural and institutional conditions and crude indicators to address the role played by the preferences of political actors. Third, by disaggregating

Latin America’s “Great Divergence”: New Research on the Age of Revolution

: 9780190494889.   The Ideology of Creole Revolution: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought. By Joshua Simon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 284. $32.00 ... Press , 2016. Pp. xvi , USA 2 The Ideology of Creole Revolution: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought. By Joshua Simon. New York: Cambridge University Press , 2016

Cultures of Authoritarianism and Resistance in Mexico and Brazil

. $28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822353126.   Rebel Mexico: Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture during the Long Sixties. By Jaime M. Pensado. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. xi ... , public housing, and universities. Young people’s political expectations were further informed by the popularization of Marxist thought, the inspiration of the Cuban Revolution, and the hemispheric

What a Waste! An Evaluation of Federal and State Medical and Biohazard Waste Regulations During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Their Impact on Environmental Justice

Policy Commons, Human Rights Law Commons , Judges Commons, Jurisdiction Commons, Jurisprudence Commons, Law and Philosophy Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Law and Psychology Commons, Law and Race ... environmentally-just future.218 The United States’ leadership must also play a more active and diligent role in implementing guidance.219 Presidents, regardless of political affiliations, should commit to improving

Cartas desde Buenos Aires: El movimiento homosexual argentino desde una perspectiva transnacional

transnational sexual dissidence movement emanated from and highlighted the political potential of these subjectivities. At the same time, the repressive context of the mid-1970s strengthened the role of ... studying philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, but above all I’m gay”.32 Oller se crió en Villa Devoto, que había sido uno de los barrios predilectos de la colonia británica en Buenos Aires, y

The Politics of Social Policies in Latin America

Venezuela (2000–2010). By Augusto De Venanzi. Almagro: Editorial Biblioteca Nueva, 2015. Pp. 238. $22.99 paperback. ISBN: 9788416345144.   The Political Logic of Poverty Relief: Electoral Strategies and ... Alisha C. Holland. New York: Cambridge University Press , 2017. Pp. 398. $35.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781316626351 , USA 2 University of Miami , US 3 The Political Logic of Poverty Relief: Electoral Strategies