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  • Leadership in Local Government

    Literature Review on Leadership in Local Government In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] James H. Svara offers the following summary about the topic of Leadership in Local Government: City managers are executives and city administrators are partial executives […]

  • Economic Diplomacy

    Economic Diplomacy Resources See Also international relations, diplomacy, state actors, nonstate actors, international political economy, globalization, commercial diplomacy, trade diplomacy, finance diplomacy, consular visa services Further Reading Antkiewicz, A., and Whalley, J. (2005) BRICSAM and the Non-WTO. Centre for International Governance Innovation Working Paper No. 3, Waterloo, Canada. Baldwin, D.A. (1985) Economic Statecraft. Princeton: Princeton…

  • Environmentalism

    Literature Review on Environmentalism in Brazil In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Rebecca Neaera Abers offers the following summary about the topic of Environmentalism and Environmental Policy in Brazil: This entry argues that since the origin of […]

  • Global Governance

    Embracing mainstream international law, this section on so-called right to democratic governance explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here. Resources Further Reading The entry "democratic governance, so-called right to" in the Parry and Grant […]

  • Immigration Detention

    Immigration Detention Governments increasingly rely upon detention to control the movement of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. The right to personal liberty is one of the oldest recognized rights in liberal democracies, which raises fundamental constitutional questions about the use of detention as an immigration measure. However, in common law countries (and in many civil…

  • Immigration Detention

    Immigration Detention Governments increasingly rely upon detention to control the movement of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. The right to personal liberty is one of the oldest recognized rights in liberal democracies, which raises fundamental constitutional questions about the use of detention as an immigration measure. However, in common law countries (and in many civil…

  • Immigration Punishment

    Immigration Punishment The Historical Development of Immigration Punishment Understanding Immigration Punishment and Deportation Immigration Detention There is not agreement on the question as to whether immigration detention is or is not punishment. Not all all coercive forms of state power are punishment, but, in fact, immigration detainees senses their experiences of detention as punishment. Specially…

  • Records Retention

    Resources See Also Further Reading Information about Records Retention in the Encyclopedia of World Trade: from Ancient Times to the Present (Cynthia Clark Northrup)

  • Common Law Systems

    Common Law Systems Common law systems can be found in many nations that were former colonies or territories of England. The common law originated with the unification of England and the institutional stability provided by William the Conqueror (c. 1027-1087) after 1066. In 1215 King John (1167-1216) elevated the importance of the common law at…

  • Censorship Problems

    Censorship Current Problems and TrendsIn the 20th century, as in all previous history, freedom from censorship has been the exception in the world. The rule has been, and continues to be, repression, suppression, and oppression. It may, however, be considered a sign of political and social …

  • Semantic Web and Law

    Semantic Web and Law Legal Ontologies have been studied in workshops and conferences on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Law, by the AI&LAW community, for years but its results have not generated enough connections with the Semantic Web community. The legal field, which had early adopters of ontologies and semantic web technology, offers a hugue demand…

  • Litigation towards Regulating Climate Change

    Civil Litigation for Regulating Climate Change There are interlinked policy, science, legal and political questions of utilizing the American litigation system, and particularly its tort theories of liability, to regulate climate change. Attempts to employ the courts as a tool for regulation are exemplified by cases such as Comer v. Murphy Oil, Connecticut v. American…

  • Laws of war Part 1

    Laws of war Part 1   1 The Necessity Procedure: Laws of Torture in Israel and Beyond, 1987 2009 Itamar Mann and Omer Shatz Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left Volume 6, Winter 2010 p.59 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW This article traces the history of the regulation of torture in Israel, and shows…

  • Florida Agency Databases

    Florida State Agency Databases This is an annotated list of databases produced by Florida State Agencies listed by producing agency. To add a database to this list or to fix a broken link, either do it yourself as this is a wiki, editable by anybody or send an e-mail to Rich Gause – rgause@mail.ucf.edu .…

  • Market Access

    Summary of Market Access The degree of participation in the domestic market that a nation allows to foreign suppliers. Tariffs, quotas, and similar protective devices are devices imposed to limit market access. (Main Author: William J. Miller) Market Access and National Treatment in the […]