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Of Corpses and Persons: Examining a Cadaver as an Object and Subject of Rights

. Tim Mulgan , The Place of the Dead in Liberal Political Philosophy , 7 J . POL. PHIL . 52 , 61 - 62 ( 1999 ) (assuming that some of a person's interests may 21 AM. PHIL . Q. 183 , 184 ( 1984 ) ; ALLEN E ... . This approach is referred to as “legalism”. See NGAIRE NAFFINE, LAW’S MEANING OF LIFE: PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, DARWIN AND THE LEGAL PERSON 21 (2009) (asserting that for legalists “anything or anyone can be

The Lost Ark of a Social Covenant: Progressing M&A Social Covenants from Moral Commitments to Binding Agreements

is synonymous with that cause.4 This could be a devotion to environmentalism, racial equality, gun rights, or staunch political activism—anything rooted in ideals of corporate social responsibility ... seek out brands that are socially aware.26 Data illustrates that upwards of 70% of consumers believe it is important for brands to take a public stance on socio-political challenges.27 In the years to

Public Accommodations Laws, Free Speech Challenges, and Limiting Principles in the Wake of 303 Creative

political left to attack the Court’s legitimacy). 67. See Statement from President Joe Biden on Supreme Court Decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, WHITE HOUSE (June 30, 2023), https://www.whitehouse .gov ... American regardless of their religious, political, or ideological views” that upheld “a great constitutional tradition of valuing and protecting speech not for its content but because individual freedom of

Parliamentary Supremacy versus Judicial SupremacyHow can adversarial judicial, public, and political dialogue be institutionalised?

The battles between proponents and opponents of judicial supremacy have recently intensified in the US and also in Europe. I summarise the debates in political philosophy, legal theory and ... Social and Political Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities) and of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences) at the University from anonymous reviewers and from Leonard Besselink, Nik de Boer, Bas Schotel, Marcel

Congress, Tear Down this Educational Wall: The Biden Administration’s Unconstitutional Student Loan Cancellation Plans & Congress’s Responsibility to Address the Root Cause of the Student Loan Crisis

framework can be traced back to Europe in the 18th century.38 Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (Montesquieu), an 18th century French social and political philosopher, invented ... economic or political implications only when there is clear congressional authorization.109 In Alabama Association of Realtors v. HHS, the Court addressed the issue of whether the Public Health Service Act

Fundamental Rights and the EU Internal Market: Just how Fundamental are the EU Treaty Freedoms?A Normative Enquiry Based on John Rawls’ Political Philosophy

fundamental rights. It uses the political philosophy of John Rawls to assess why we should attach priority to certain rights and which rights should therefore be considered fundamental rights. On this basis it ... important, and be very careful in allowing restrictions on fundamental rights for the purpose of protecting this market access. This article uses the political philosophy of John Rawls and his philosophical

Constructing Clearer Policy: Reconsidering Louisiana’s Anti-Indemnity Regime for Additional Insured Agreements in Public Construction Contracts

limit or provide for the extent of liability of the state, a state agency, or a political subdivision in all cases, including the circumstances giving rise to liability and the kinds and amounts of ... legislature’s ability to “limit” liability, not the ability to transfer the risk and responsibility of compensating for the state or its political subdivision’s liability. This language in the Louisiana

The Wealth Tax—Egalitarian Dream or Utilitarian Nightmare?

the late 1970s). 13. Bank, supra note 10, at 337–38. 14. See JOHN STUART MILL, PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY WITH SOME OF THEIR APPLICATIONS TO SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY 804 (Sir William J. Ashley ed ... ., Longmans, Green & Co. 1923) (1848) [hereinafter MILL, PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY] (holding that the true principle of taxation is that each person “shall feel neither more nor less inconvenience from

Online Political Microtargeting: Promises and Threats for Democracy

Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people’s online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements ... . Introduction Political campaigns are increasingly combining data-driven voter research with personalised political advertising: online political microtargeting.1 Through political microtargeting, a political

McConnell’s Gamble

political, legal, and institutional significance of Scalia’s death could hardly be overstated. . . . The ground began to shift—and not in a good way—beneath conservative centers of power like Washington think ... Scalia in 2016 and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020 amounted to a political gamble. McConnell bet that having the Senate play a greater role in determining who sits on the Supreme Court—up to and

McConnell’s Gamble

political, legal, and institutional significance of Scalia’s death could hardly be overstated. . . . The ground began to shift—and not in a good way—beneath conservative centers of power like Washington think ... Scalia in 2016 and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020 amounted to a political gamble. McConnell bet that having the Senate play a greater role in determining who sits on the Supreme Court—up to and

Robot Job Destroyers

skepticism that widespread adoption in the future will result in a net loss of employment. Nevertheless, political and legal systems respond to public opinion and intergenic movements; not to engineers ... , perceived crises over technological unemployment are not a new phenomenon. As the problems periodically are pushed into political prominence, demands intensify that the government do something about it

The Nature of the Right in a Dead Body Revisited: A Study in Comparative Legal Ideas

BODY: PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE 67, 69 (Henk A.M.J. Ten Have & Jos V.M. Welie eds. 1998) (examining the moral and philosophical premises of this concept); JEAN GAUDEMET & EMMANUELLE CHEVREAU, DROIT PRIVÉ ... 499, 510 (Eng.) (“slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political”). the indispensable precondition from which it was deduced that a body, which

The Law of Defamation, the First Amendment, and Justice William H. Rehnquist’s Attempts to “Hold the Balance True”: A Framework for Assessing the Continuing Viability of New York Times v. Sullivan

all, as the civic, social, and political territory covered by the free speech clause grows, the amount shrinks that is governed democratically and experimentally by the people and their representatives ... to surmount the barrier of . . . [New York Times] . . . .”). 57. Id. at 342–43. For a discussion of Justice Rehnquist’s general philosophy thereon, see infra text accompanying notes 70–161. For his

The Surprising Views of Montesquieu and Tocqueville about Juries: Juries Empower Judges

center of his political ideas for protecting liberty.15 He also had seen that Montesquieu recommended using lay juries in order to mask the power of the judges.16 Carrese studies political philosophy. He ... about law and the place of judges in government. He has drawn important connections between Montesquieu, Blackstone, Hamilton, and Tocqueville. But Carrese’s training in political philosophy also means

Death in the City: Gorman’s Flawed Application of the Direct Action Statute to Insured Political Subdivisions

. City of Opelousas .......................................................592 3. Political Subdivisions Are More Likely to Mistakenly Fail to Report Claims to Their Insurers than Individuals or

Determining Constitutional Extraterritoriality

example arose in the D.C. Circuit in 2002’s 32 County Sovereignty Committee v. Department of State.183 There, three Irish political organizations challenged their designations as “foreign terrorist

The (Political) Pursuit of Victim Voice:(Comparative) Observations on the Dutch Draft on the Adviesrecht

? needs used within the political debate may be featured as a homogeneous concept, the legal traditions that need to host victim-oriented arrangements differ. Indeed, the apparent political consensus with ... Victim Support was, however, felt to be beneficial.41 Nevertheless, the expansion of the oral VIS remained a contentious issue within the Dutch debate. In the wake of the political debate with regard to

“To This Tribunal the Freedman Has Turned”: The Freedmen’sBureau’s Judicial Powers and the Origins of the FourteenthAmendment

political effects. ... from Kentucky, strikingly expressed the singular place given to this entity as a paramount symbol of evil for postwar White Southerners: advocating for the prompt restoration of political rights to