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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

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

Radicalism and Haitian Political History

in post-occupation Haiti. The complexity of the political changes in post-occupation Haiti from 1934-1957 led Smith to interrogate new sources in order to provide a more complete history of this period

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

Erotic Power and Political Subjectivity in Citizenship from Below

/vol11/iss1/13 Thi s Review is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarly Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies - Below Erotic Power and Political ... class […] but active inter-embodiments that bring different bodies to the social (and political) surface through their intimate relations to each other in both private and public encounters’ (17). As

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

Drastic Prose, Gnostic Readers: On Buck-Morss and the Antinomies of Writing the Political

highest distinction. What gives her Frantz Fanon Prize-winning book a particular resonance is its unambiguous, political timbre. Indeed, this brave and beautiful book has become something of a benchmark for

"A History of the Ancient States’ Political Systems. Rome", Tomasz Palmirski, Kraków 2011 : [recenzja]

they found the farms completely damaged, albo na s. 17: Besides literary sources, a precise reconstruction of the republican political order and the his tory of its development is possible also by dint ... ` Political Systems. Rome stanowi cenną pomoc dydaktyczną dla obcokrajowców studiujących w Polsce, a tytuł kryjący w sobie zapowiedź serii pozwala mieć nadzieję na wartościowe uzupełnienie niewątpliwego braku

Smoke and Mirrors: Generic Manipulation and Doubling in Dancing to “Almendra”

figures and cinematic personas alike into an otherwise fictional detective narrative—serves the novel’s socially committed, political critique. The doubling and smoke and mirrors that structure the novel ... , the novel’s Cuba is on the brink of revolution and Castro’s rise to power. The uncertainty of the political landscape is underscored by the novel’s series of mysteries, beginning with how the death of a

The Virtuality of Territorial Borders

If architecture is politics, then the rise of data-driven computing systems will transform the course, if not the conditions of possibility for the political. Provoked by the work of artists Ruti ... Toronto Law Journal, no. 2, pp. 196-224. R. Sela & M. Amir (eds.), Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds (2016). The distinction between 'politics' and 'the political' stems from C. Lefort, The Political

To Be Dragon and Man: The Cultural Politics of Carnival in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance

carnival practices in formal, social and political development, from European and African origins, through the colonial era, to independence in 1962 and beyond. To be able to identify how Lovelace relates ... steelband might have become, if fellars had sense, if they had vision,” (57)). Historical contexts show that the rhetoric of Williams’s political nationalism in many ways matches Fisheye’s philosophy, of the

The ‘Social Market Economy’ in a (Heterogeneous) Social Europe: Does it Make a Difference?

financial and migration crises, serves only to highlight the gap between rhetoric and reality. We identify two main reasons for this, namely a lack of legal competence and a lack of political will. We then ... greater calls for the EU to respond to these challenges, at the very time when there is a lack of significant political will to act. These problems are exacerbated by the fact that some perceive the EU to

protection and Regulation of Children's Non-Property Right in Lithuania and Poland

: Parental Rights and Societal Interests. «The Journal of Political Philosophy» 13 (4)/2005, p. 377-398 Cirtautienė S., Non-Pecuniary Damages as a Remedy of Moral Val,u«eJsurisprudencija. LTU» 71 (63)/2005, p ...  Child's Views, « The International Journal of Children's Rights» 17/2009 , p. 1 - 21 . 13 D.W. Brock, Shaping Future Children: Parental Rights and Societal I-nte rests .« The Journal of Political Philosophy

Pan-Caribbean Synecdoche: Coloniality and the Haitian Revolution

categorizes Figueroa’s work will shape how literary scholars of the Haitian Revolution engage Haiti’s importance to Palés Matos’ revolutionary poetics, Césaire’s political philosophy, Carpentier’s anticolonial ... ” and seeks instead to understand “the multiplicity of readings [as] the best reflection of the multiplicity of cultural, political and social questions raised by the often violent encounters of peoples

Between the Dog and the Divine: Resistance and conventionalism in cosmopolitanism

a plan for overcoming them; but in Diogenes a political programme that cannot attain its own ends, and in Zeno a political solution that comes unmoored from its foundations. Today, the International ... defines the cosmopolitanism position as follows: ?The nebulous core shared by all cosmopolitan views is the idea that all human beings, regardless of their political affiliation, are (or can and should be

“And that is not how Jamaica is”: Cultural Creolization, Optimism, and National Identity in Kerry Young's Pao

, alongside theories and critiques of creolization and creole nationalism in Jamaica. I argue that, while Pao's own political beliefs perpetuate the ideal of a creole Jamaica in which different cultural groups ... , Pao is also a novel of ideas, and Young grapples prominently with concerns about Jamaican national identity. Pao tracks Jamaican political evolution from the turbulent 1930s to independence and the

“How You Mean?” Speech, Resistance, and the Contemporary Relevance of Paule Marshall

African American Vernacular English, I show how Marshall preserves the intricate tapestry and potency of black speech as a political instrument. Her embrace of the “beautiful/ugly” offers a framework for ... (and other Vernacular Speakers) in the Courtroom and Beyond.” (2016) A NOTE ON LANGUAGE As “language” is a loaded term that is wrought with tension in political/juridical spaces as well as academic

“A Cloak That Looks like Help”: US Intervention and the Neoliberal Turn in Kerry Young’s Pao

In this article, I analyze how Kerry Young’s novel Pao negotiates the Jamaican political economy from the inception of Jamaica’s political parties, through the Manley period in the 1970s, and into ... - Article 6 Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/anthurium The history of political violence in Jamaica dates at least as far back as the 1944 election, shortly after

Problem-Solving Criminal Justice: Developments in England and Wales

essential. The barriers and obstacles preventing a more extensive application of problem-solving criminal justice is also discussed, drawing on points connected to sentencing parameters, ‘political will’ and ... considerations of legal principle and sentencing parameters, issues of politics and ?political will? and on aspects of legal culture. It is argued there are legal cultural impediments to advancing this approach

Trust Law in the Process of Reunifying East and West GermanyHow a legal concept foreign to German law was the solution to merge a socialist and a capitalist economy between 1989 and the present

In the run-up to the Re-Unification of the East and West Germany in the 1990's the governments faced a problem, how do we integrate two political systems without causing a collapse of the economy and ... the communist political system and his teachings shaped the concept of ownership throughout the USSR. Furthermore, as the study of the pre-1990s East German law will show, it was strongly influenced by