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29 Oct 2011, 11:58 am by NL
See here and here.Maybe something more 19th Century might be appropriate to finish with. [read post]
29 Oct 2011, 11:58 am by NL
See here and here.Maybe something more 19th Century might be appropriate to finish with. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 6:56 am by Ezra Rosser
  Abstract below: For over a century, philosophers, politicians, and sociologists have bemoaned philanthropy’s inherent antidemocratic, paternalistic, and amateuristic aspects. [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 8:32 am by Lex-Warrier
It is a policy which aims to mitigate the use of fossil fuels. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 1:32 pm by WIMS
Scientists say that keeping to the 2-degrees Celsius limit over the course of the 21st century is crucial to avert widespread disasters, from the disappearances of low-lying island nations under rising seas and searing droughts, famines, extreme storms and flooding, to the extinction of species. [read post]
The report urges further action to mitigate potentially catastrophic consequences across the country. [read post]
15 Apr 2008, 3:48 pm
” For over a half-century, the Washington-based economics think tank Resources for the Future has tried to overcome some of the melancholy aspects of federal policy-making by proposing realistic, more efficient solutions to the economic burdens that environmental regulation imposes. [read post]
21 Jul 2017, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
The vast majority of these cases continued, however, to resemble ‘sentencing hearings’, focusing less on an adversarial contest over guilt or innocence than on mitigating circumstances and the character of defendants, witnesses and victims. [read post]
3 Oct 2016, 6:32 am by Dan Ernst
Much of popular and academic debate revolves around two competing approaches to these fundamental questions: laissez-faire defenses of self-correcting and welfare-enhancing markets on the one hand, and managerialist turns to the role of insulated, expert regulation in mitigating risks and promoting growth on the other. [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 8:00 am by Karen Tani
Evans’ essay offers a compelling account of a deeply eerie incident in the late nineteenth-century Canadian Northwest Territory, the killing of an older woman believed to be a wendigo (malevolent spirit) by three Cree men who were acting in accordance with Cree law, their subsequent criminal trial, and the balance struck between Cree and colonial law by colonial officials in mitigation. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
However, the prerogative of mercy served a vital role during this period in mitigating the effects of capital punishment. [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 10:03 am by Abbott & Kindermann
The Project includes a new station that will be located in Century City, at Constellation Boulevard and Avenue of the Stars (the “Constellation Station”). [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 7:11 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
The author discusses the sorry state of climate change mitigation measures and several other geoengineering proposals. [read post]
18 Sep 2010, 4:42 pm by Eugene Volokh
Nor is there reason to think that anyone would laugh the word out of existence, given its non-laughed-at acceptance for centuries. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 5:14 pm
Alexander's sentencing judge seems to have given him the maximum under the Three Strikes Law, despite some mitigating factors. [read post]
9 Jul 2008, 6:21 pm
Though the Sentencing Reform Act 1984 abolished parole for the federal system nearly a quarter century ago, there are still some folks in federal prison serving parole-eligible sentences. [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 5:05 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Mitigate spread through expanding masking, testing, data, treatments, health care workforce, and clear public health standards. 4. [read post]