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30 Nov 2021, 11:54 am
’” But Roe and Casey concluded that the Constitution protected abortion in the teeth of a several-hundred years’ tradition of colonial, state, and territorial laws banning most abortions beginning when medical science concluded that human life was present. [read post]
29 Nov 2021, 4:08 am
The term ‘folklore’, Jaszi observes, becomes increasingly controversial in discussions of songs, stories, dances in the post-colonial context. [read post]
29 Nov 2021, 4:00 am
" Using a variant on the term "quickening" 27 times, the Roe opinion traces the concept's role in English, colonial, and U.S. law. [read post]
27 Nov 2021, 8:17 am
The issue is not whether any of this is good or bad--African states have been undertaking quite risky financial relationships with outsiders since the current era of post colonial independence. [read post]
26 Nov 2021, 6:30 am
Further, this convention is grounded in solid, principled rationales: (1) Democracy – During presidential election times, it is important to enable the people to have their say on such a critical, irreversible, act in the life of the nation, unless both parties endorse the appointment as legitimate. (2) Agency – The incentive to dictate the public’s life, even after Presidents leave office, is the greatest during presidential election years. [read post]
24 Nov 2021, 12:25 pm
It did not solve the problem of their need for a new patent for their colony. [read post]
21 Nov 2021, 6:39 pm
Staying committed to communist ideals and socialist convictions, it has united and led Chinese people of all ethnic groups in working tirelessly to achieve national independence and liberation, and then to make our country prosperous and strong and pursue a better life. [read post]
15 Nov 2021, 6:30 am
The book builds on a series of recent revelations about Wong’s life. [read post]
14 Nov 2021, 9:30 pm
” This ambitious dissertation covers a century spanning the late colonial period through the early republic while homing in on specific localities to reveal the myriad ways the Anglican church stood at the center of civic life. [read post]
11 Nov 2021, 9:30 am
Transported to these colonial spaces, the reader finds free and freed women playing critical roles as proprietors and managers of plantations and businesses as well as households, forging links in imperial commercial networks and structuring everyday life in the colony’s ports and backcountry. [read post]
7 Nov 2021, 6:30 am
Others whose academic life is as focused may have similar concerns about their bailiwick. [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 6:30 am
Here in Colley’s book we have global constitutional history that is not only embracing of so many historical strands of society and life, but also deeply alive to the significance of law, the reality of politics and the power of culture. [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 12:26 am
Many but not all colonies required arms carrying to church. [read post]
1 Nov 2021, 8:52 am
While undoubtedly a very heterogeneous category that unavoidably escapes reductionist attempts at homogenisation, it argues that those places where colonial powers institutionalized plural legal orders as explicit strategies for the consolidation of their rule constitute a privileged site for the investigation of entangled legalities. [read post]
31 Oct 2021, 7:30 am
But though wars may well have been central to the 18th and 19thcenturies, it is less certain that they fully capture the dramatic post-colonial constitutional experiments of the 20th century. [read post]
29 Oct 2021, 1:01 am
The French also were concerned because of their colonies in North Africa. [read post]
20 Oct 2021, 1:01 am
Think of bees: they form a colony of organisms each of which has a specialized function, and whose members cannot survive independently. [read post]
11 Oct 2021, 10:30 pm
Since 2017, the international reach of the #MeToomovement (first developed by African-American activist Tamara Burke in 2006) has broughtnew attention to the widespread sexual harassment and assault of women, children, and men.Conversely, however, the successes of this movement have also been met by what have oftenbeen overtly misogynistic denials that such a continuum of sexual violence is a widespreadand disturbingly ‘normalised’ part of many women’s life experiences. [read post]
9 Oct 2021, 7:59 am
Boswell’s life in his final years is rather a sad tale; the conviviality that was such a part of his friendship with Johnson and of his life in The Club was ill-suited to the life of Scottish barrister, and, eventually, as a Scottish Laird. [read post]
8 Oct 2021, 8:31 am
To see why, consider that in ordinary life we typically think the opposite. [read post]
