The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which abuse that occurred during marriage/relationship continued within divorce and custody-related legal proceedings. Twenty-seven women participated in semistructured interviews. Interviews were analyzed utilizing a grounded theory approach in order to inductively arrive at a theory explaining how abuse dynamics may continue during legal pr...

In my reply to critics I address a raft of issues raised by the commentators to Fault Lines of Globalization. These issues include: the radicalization of the Husserlian concept of intentionality as differance; the irreducibility of a-legality to (il)legality; the relation between legal orders and society; legal pluralism; the relation between power and place; contingency and modernity; fear and...

The historic background of algorithmic processing with regard to etymology and methodology is translated into terms of mathematical logic and Computer Science. A formal logic structure is introduced by exemplary questions posed to Fiqh-chapters to define a logic query language. As a foundation, a generic algorithm for deciding Fiqhrulings is designed to enable and further leverage rule of law (...

The adversarial structure of the American judicial system encourages critical reviews and challenges of forensic evidence. As a result, the discriminatory power of friction ridge skin impression evidence has been a prime target of debate among critics of the latent print discipline for years, the primary argument being friction ridge skin examination is neither scientif ically reliable nor lega...

This paper examines ways in which the legal concepts of duty and power might be used for the benefit of the public health, and the role of public health ethics in relation to these duties and powers. The discussion is placed within a framework of risk regulation. Risk is a notion which has been much examined in social science and epidemiology but until recently, has not been a concept which law...

2 Abstract Recent research on financial market development has focused on the nature of the legal system. The law and finance literature, however, exclusively focuses on the abuse of management power as a major cause of shareholder expropriation. We examine the role of the administrative capability of the state in providing and guaranteeing the institutional foundations for securities developme...

The law of information platforms has blurred numerous doctrinal categories within the law and has begun to assimilate a widening array of nonlegal disciplines.2 Communications law alone has become “so vast that fully to comprehend it would require an almost universal knowledge ranging from” engineering, economics, and management science “to the niceties of the legislative, judicial, and adminis...

1.. HARD CASES 5. Legal Rights A. Legislation . . . We might therefore do well to consider how a philosophical judge might develop, in appropriate cases, theories of what legislative purpose and legal principles require. We shall find that he would construct these theories in the same manner as a philosophical referee would construct the character of a game. I have invented, for this purpose, a...

Following the Russian intervention in Georgia and Ukraine, much of the international community characterized Russia as a revisionist power that gives no heed to international law. The Russian invasion provided a flashback to the Westphalian system in its fullfledged military assault on Georgia and swift annexation of Crimea. The times have changed since the creation of the United Nations (UN), ...

Safe injection facilities (SIFs) have shown promise in reducing harms and social costs associated with injection drug use. Favorable evaluations elsewhere have raised the issue of their implementation in the United States. Recognizing that laws shape health interventions targeting drug users, we analyzed the legal environment for publicly authorized SIFs in the United States. Although states an...