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21 Jan 2016, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Vanderford’s book will prove valuable not only for students and researchers of political theory, but also of southern intellectual life and the political worlds of the Colonial, Early National, and Old South. [read post]
16 Feb 2021, 10:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
As a leader, lawyer, and parliamentarian, Chelvanayakam’s life bears witness to significant political events in the island from the 1950s to the 1970s. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 9:30 am by Unknown
News:Historic UN Human Rights Case Opens Door to Climate Change Asylum Claims (OHCHR, 21 Jan. 2020) [text]- "In its first ruling on a complaint by an individual seeking asylum from the effects of climate change, the UN Human Rights Committee has stated that countries may not deport individuals who face climate change-induced conditions that violate the right to life. [read post]
22 Mar 2013, 4:00 am by Karen Tani
The essays collected here analyze the legal sphere as a site of struggle, both in debate and in everyday life, from the level of universal aspirations to particular local practices. [read post]
2 Apr 2017, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In response to popular outrage all over the world, the group instead were sentenced to exile for life in Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) in Australia, where Britain had established some notoriously bad penal colonies, sending some 162,000 convicts there between 1788 and 1868. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 10:12 am by John Floyd
He was sentenced to a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole. [read post]
28 Jun 2007, 10:39 am
Most people in Australia, when asked, can tell stories of being bullied as a child, and research shows that when victimization has no other outlets, it often can cause its targets to victimize others later in life. [read post]
26 Apr 2007, 6:33 pm
In spite of my three years of deconstructivist, post-colonial, race-conscious legal education, I hardly write about the stuff anymore. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 4:00 am by Arun Thiruvengadam
Kannabiran was a strong critic of the fact that colonial rule still continued in post independence India. [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 1:00 pm by Karen Tani
Their experience reflected that of countless couples across America since colonial times. [read post]
24 May 2016, 7:47 am
"There’s no proof that executions prevent crime," Robertson told AFP.After Kho was sentenced to death in 2010, Singapore amended its mandatory death penalty for murder, giving judges the discretion to impose life imprisonment under certain circumstances.Kho’s case was reviewed and he was re-sentenced to a life term in 2013. [read post]
2 Apr 2013, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Armani Whitfield, ‘Slave Life and Slave Law in Colonial Prince Edward Island, 1769-1825,’ Acadiensis, Volume 38, 2009, pp. 29-51.10) The Burden of History: Race, Culture, ; African Canadian Subjectivity and Canadian Law in R v. [read post]
4 Jan 2014, 9:30 pm by Emily Prifogle
Thanks to some fancy footwork on the part of a translator, the line quickly turned into “life is full of steam. [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
His current book, ‘A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1940' is a legal history of economic life in the western Indian Ocean during the 19th century. [read post]
15 Oct 2022, 12:34 pm
  Its management cannot be left to its members, but like all other aspects of collective life, culture must be husbanded (and I note the gendered origins of the term here with some irony) as it morphs in its expression and forms. [read post]
16 May 2013, 12:30 am by Dan Ernst
It is a nuanced and intriguing insight into some of the people who contributed centrally to the development of that  distinctive Irish institution and an exploration of the impact of some of its key judgments on the ways in which everyday life might be organised in Ireland.Dr. [read post]
17 Apr 2013, 11:21 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Indeed, if government-imposed religion were no big deal, the earliest colonial settlers would not have risked life and limb to migrate to this land where religious freedom now thrives. [read post]
6 Jul 2008, 9:30 pm
In this one day conference scheduled for March 20th, 2009, we seek to explore all facets of James' complex life from anti-colonial struggles to racism and Black Nationalism to cricket and beyond. [read post]