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20 Oct 2014, 9:02 am by Sarah Hiatt
Even if that fight was with the single most powerful government in the world, the United States. [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 12:46 pm by Lovechilde
Global grain production is already down several percent thanks to climate change, says a terrifying new United Nations report. [read post]
16 Sep 2014, 11:40 am
  Those changes challenged the traditional bases of law to continue to order society in a way responsive to the needs of the new institutions, cultures and activities of the emerging national economic market and to hold together the fabric of a state increasingly transformed by waves of immigration. [read post]
10 Sep 2014, 8:35 am
On the other are states, for the most part developed states, for which a central element of social, political and economic organization are centered on civil and political rights, from out of which social, economic and cultural rights may be attained. [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 11:32 am by Jamison Koehler
  And, because he is absolutely committed to the effective representation of indigent defendants nationwide, he recently left PDS to set up, along with his friend and former classmate Phil Telfeyan, a non-profit organization called Equal Justice Under Law. [read post]
15 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
After all, churches and other religious non-profit organizations typically use the corporate form. [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 11:00 am
Yesterday, after the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision in the case of Burwell v. [read post]
30 Jun 2014, 7:20 pm by Travis Weber
Crown Kosher Super Market of Mass, Inc. featured a for-profit corporate free exercise claim – the fact remains that on a broader level, profit makers certainly had been previously shown to exercise religion in the United States, and the absence of explicit case law specifically stating as much does not detract from this point. [read post]
29 Jun 2014, 8:05 pm by Michelle N. Meyer
Someone who is already internally grumbling about how United Statesians are, like, such total posers during the World Cup may feel more free to voice that complaint on Facebook than when his feed was more densely concentrated with posts of the “human beings are so great and I feel so lucky to know you all—group hug! [read post]
13 Jun 2014, 7:00 pm
He chairs two non-profit boards, New York-based Shift: Putting Principles into Practice, and the London-based Institute for Human Rights and Business. [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 10:26 am
Secretary General on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises.[20] One of its core underlying premises is that both state’s in the fulfillment of their duty to protect individuals resident in their territories and enterprises in their “social” responsibilities ought to be guided by developing international and transnational norms and standards.[21] Most of these developments have occurred in and around the cluster of critical… [read post]
9 Jun 2014, 6:50 am
  But even this decision has human rights consequences--abandoning a human rights non compliant state make make it easier for those states to continue their detrimental activities.Beyond the balancing, in these cases enterprises face a human rights related risk. [read post]
22 May 2014, 7:16 pm
Second, as discourse, Greimas states, it has to be perceived as a linear manifestation of language comprising a form of organization, which includes, in addition to lexemes, syntagms, utterances, all in all phrastic units, also clearly transphrastic units such as paragraphs, chapters, or fragments of actual discourses. [read post]
An incorporated church or a religious non-profit organization satisfies this criterion. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 11:36 pm by Andrew Langille
 From the early labour activism of the Tailors' Society in Halifax, the Antigonish Cooperative Movement, the Halifax Advisory Committee on Human Relations, and the Black United Front - Nova Scotia certainly has examples of groups coming together to respond to social, cultural, and economic problems. [read post]
12 Mar 2014, 8:57 am
And in the process, I also suggested the way in which that political work was an important contributor to the shaping of transnational standards within which globally engaged business could operate with some confidence, not as a hierarchically ordered space (Backer, Larry Catá, Collisions of Societal Constitutions: Hierarchical Power Arrangements and Horizontal Effects in the Management of Human Rights Regimes Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 20(2):805-879 (2013)), but… [read post]
11 Mar 2014, 7:56 pm by Guest Blogger
First, it is not clear that IPR to promote commercial experimentation has a strong historic basis in patent and intellectual property law at all – at least not as it developed in the United States circa 1787. [read post]