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16 Sep 2013, 3:19 am
Sirleaf (Univ. of Pennsylvania - Law) has posted The Truth About Truth Commissions: Why They Do Not Function Optimally in Post-Conflict Societies. [read post]
1 Apr 2024, 2:44 am by Immigration Prof
The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers by Zeke Henrnandez, forthcoming June 2024 Here is the blurb for the book by a Wharton professor: "The go-to book on immigration: fact-based, comprehensive, and nonpartisan. [read post]
13 Sep 2013, 11:16 am by InternationalLaw Blogger
While “truth commissions” – independent panels set up in the aftermath of conflict to resolve tensions and promote reconciliation – are vital to many countries trying to rebuild their societies, a United Nations independent expert today warned that the mechanisms... [read post]
25 Apr 2022, 9:30 pm by ernst
The latest podcast of The Champlain Society is an interview by the Society's Greg Marchildon of Lyndsay Campbell about her book, Truth and Privilege: Libel Law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840.Published by Cambridge University Press in 2022, this is the first book ever to be co-sponsored by the American Society for Legal History and the Osgood Society for Canadian Legal History. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 12:45 pm by Monroe Freedman
I realize that this is not 100% on topic, but I can report that Truth and Justice have triumphed. [read post]
23 Sep 2022, 4:21 am by Brian Leiter
This is shocking: [M]y main professional association — the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) — recently asked me to violate my quasi-fiduciary duty to the truth. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 7:18 am by lpcprof
But figuring out whether someone is telling "the truth" if that person believes he is being truthful, has always been a problem, since such witnesses are credible. [read post]
4 May 2016, 3:02 am
Even when commissions produce only modest change as a result of political constraints, Bakiner contends, they open up new avenues for human rights activism by triggering the creation of new victims' organizations, facilitating public debates over social memory, and inducing civil society actors to monitor the country's human rights policy.Bakiner demonstrates how truth commissions have recovered basic facts about human rights violations, forced societies to… [read post]
15 Mar 2020, 4:00 pm by Gerry W. Beyer
Reid K Weisbord recently published an Article entitled, Postmortem Defamation in a Society Without Truth for the Living, Wills, Trusts, & Estates Law eJournal (2019). [read post]
24 Jul 2017, 3:11 pm by Michel-Adrien
Last week, the University of Winnipeg, the University of Manitoba, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR), and Library and Archives Canada (LAC) launched the Truth and Reconciliation Web Archive that will document the work of and responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC):"For six years the TRC documented one of the most vicious components of settler society’s colonial legacy of Indigenous erasure: the … [read post]
14 May 2020, 8:45 am by D Daniel Sokol
ABSTRACT: The Covid-19 outbreak is putting societies, institutions, companies, families, and individuals to the test. [read post]
13 Dec 2023, 7:16 am
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) was established in 2008 to document the history and legacy of residential schools, which were operated between the late 1800s and the late 1990s by the federal government and Christian churches as part of a federal policy to assimilate Indigenous people into Canadian society. [read post]
10 Feb 2009, 5:14 am
It has made our government less productive and our society less civil. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 6:19 am by Gary L. Francione
It is because those of us who claim to agree with the moral point as a fundamental moral truth have done an inadequate job of educating people about that moral truth. [read post]
24 Apr 2023, 12:40 pm by Lesley Fraser
She calls on local institutions and funders to be co-conspirators in engaging artists to play a bigger role in shaping Canadian society. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 4:28 pm by John Lande
A companion post discusses a great need for truth, reconciliation, and justice about past injustices in our society. [read post]
27 Apr 2018, 1:00 pm by Emma Zack
Even the innocent are thrown in because society believes an accusation caries some type of truth. [read post]