June Releases from Cambridge Aspire
Book XXIII of the Iliad deals with the Funeral Games of Patroclus, whose death Achilles has avenged in Book XXII with his slaying of Hector.…
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May Releases from Cambridge Aspire
Fully revised and updated, the new edition of Engineering Dynamics provides a comprehensive, self-contained and accessible treatment of classical dynamics. All chapters have been reworked to enhance student understanding, and new features include a stronger emphasis on computational methods, including rich examples using both Matlab and Python; new capstone computational examples extend student understanding, including modelling the flight of a rocket and the unsteady rolling of a disk.…
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April Releases from Cambridge Aspire
Written for students working in a range of disciplines, this textbook provides an accessible, balanced, and nuanced introduction to the field of public international law.…
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Framing Corruption: The Discourse in Operation Lava Jato and the Judicial Activism in Brazil
For years, Operation Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash) was the “spectacle” of Latin American politics. From 2014 to 2021, the world watched as a group of Brazilian prosecutors and a provincial judge dismantled a seemingly untouchable web of corruption involving the state oil giant Petrobras and the country’s largest construction firms.…
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When Justice Becomes Code: Rebuilding Trust when AI enters Courts
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into courtrooms worldwide, promising efficiency and consistency in judicial decision-making. From predicting case outcomes to drafting legal documents, AI tools are reshaping the way courts operate.
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Journal of African Law Special Issue on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa
The African Union (AU) declared 2019 the Year of Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Towards Durable Solutions to Forced Displacement in Africa.…
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The China Quarterly at 60: A Special Anniversary Issue
Founded in 1960, The China Quarterly is on the eve of entering its seventh decade of publishing world-class research on China.…
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German Law Journal: pioneering open and digital scholarship for legal research
This Open Access week, we profile the German Law Journal (GLJ), which has been a pioneer of open scholarly publishing in law since its foundation in 2000.…
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Why inadequate laws might slow down access to the coronavirus vaccine
The first United States (US) human trials of a coronavirus vaccine began in March. These trials are being conducted by a research organisation in Seattle. …
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We will not survive pandemics and climate change without a shift from ‘corporate capture’ to ‘circular responsibility’
A wild animal displaced from its natural environment enters into contact with other animals in a crowded market. It becomes the vector of a virus, previously unknown to the human body, which is later passed on to humans and starts spreading from person to person.…
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Coronavirus, human dignity and the new normality
The global pandemic has shaken up our societies and global economy. It will run deep in every society worldwide for months and years to come.…
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The Facebook Oversight Board as Operational-Level Grievance Mechanism
Should Facebook users be treated equally? In late 2018, Mark Zuckerberg announced the creation of the Facebook Oversight Board (FOB), a purportedly independent global body that would adjudicate hard cases of content moderation on the platform.…
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‘Access to Remedy in Global Supply Chains’ – Challenges , opportunities and future pathways
amfori is a global business association bringing together over 2,400 retailers, brands and associations from more than 40 countries. Our membership contains organizations of all sizes and sectors with a combined turnover of more than one trillion euros.…
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The politics of Islamic family law reform
In particular since the 2000s, family laws – the laws regulating marriage, divorce, custody, polygyny and guardianship among other matters – have been reformed across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).…
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Copyright, Books and Progress: Charles Clark Memorial Lecture 2019
This year’s Charles Clark Memorial Lecture, entitled Copyright, Books and Progress, was delivered by Professor Daniel Gervais, Milton R Underwood Chair in Law and Director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program at Vanderbilt Law School.…
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Why Publish in Law & Social Inquiry?
The American Bar Foundation and Law & Social Inquiry (LSI) are thrilled to begin our new partnership with Cambridge University Press and encourage you to read our first issue published together here.…
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Reassessing the Hu–Wen Era: A Golden Era or a Lost Decade for Social Policy?
Journalists, China-watchers and academics have fiercely debated the legacy of China’s leaders, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. Some see the Hu–Wen period (2002–2012) as a “golden era” of rapid growth, while others portray it as a “lost decade” for economic and political reform.…
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News from Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société
Hot off the presses: The CJLS editorial team is excited to announce the release of its most recent annual special issue: “Decolonizing Labour Law — Contributions to an Emergent Transnational Labour Law,” guest edited by Canada’s leading expert on transnational labour law Adelle Blackett.…
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Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law: Rethinking Assumptions in China and Indonesia
You can access Chapter 1 ‘Understanding Legal Regimes’ of Ruling Before the Law for free until the 3rd September 2018. Many people have long assumed that several good things go together. …
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World Refugee Day – The Voting Rights of Refugees
In recognition of World Refugee Day 2018 you can access the chapter Enfranchisement of Recognised CSR1951 Refugees in Elections of Their States of Asylum from Ruvi Ziegler’s new book, Voting Rights of Refugees until the 20th July 2018.…
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Judicial Leadership, Lady Hale and the UK Supreme Court
It has been a busy nine months since Lady Hale assumed formal leadership of the UK Supreme Court. During this time she has sworn-in three new colleagues, lead the court on a historic sitting in Northern Ireland, delivered or contributed to judgments in relation to police investigations of violent crime, cohabitee’s pension rights, the treatment of Alfie Evans and smoking bans, spoken to university students, school pupils and west London law clinic volunteers, travelled overseas, delivered speeches on marriage reform, legal aid, religious dress, and the upcoming anniversary of women’s entry into the legal profession, overseen a senior appointments round, and – of course – made an appearance on BBC’s Masterchef.…
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Introducing the new Editors-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law
Professors Curtis Bradley and Laurence Helfer began their four-year tenures as co-Editors-in-Chief of the prestigious American Journal of International Law (AJIL) on April 5. Their election was approved by the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) on October 27, 2017 after an earlier unanimous vote of the AJIL Board of Editors.
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The Gendered Dark Side of Family Life
On March 8th, all over the world, we celebrate the International Women’s Day. This important day was initiated by socialist women in the beginning of the 20th century, and in 1975 was adopted by the UN “to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities”.…
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Protecting and respecting those who speak up against business impacts on human rights – takeaways from the UN Forum and the way forward
The rash of increased attacks on human rights defenders (HRDs) who speak up against business-related impacts on people and the environment was a key issue on the agenda of the 2017 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (27-29 November 2017).…
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The Right to Decide
Liberty and autonomy are cornerstones of modern society. They are also core to personhood and human flourishing. However, a large portion of the population is denied the right to make decisions on the basis of cognitive disability.…
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The emerging health-security nexus in the European Union
The emerging interaction between public health and security policies in the EU raises a number of important questions of effectiveness and legitimacy.…
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ASEAN Interoperability: A New Model for International Intellectual Property Relations?
BREXIT. Multinational intellectual property agreements painfully difficult to negotiate and finalize. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement languishing, with only one signatory. Suspension of most of the IP provisions in the revamped Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement.…
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EU Law Stories: Contextual and Critical Histories of European Jurisprudence
EU Law Stories provides its readers with a “behind the scenes” look at how various actors influence legal decision-making within the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).…
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UN Forum on Business and Human Rights – Day One Recap
In late November, members of Freshfields’ Global Business and Human Rights team attended and presented at the sixth UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva.…
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Remedy to Children Toiling in Global Supply Chains
The only daughter in a family of poor farmers, 10-year-old Nirmala was desperate enough to run away to the city to seek work.…
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International Investment Law and the UNGP
Several recent developments highlight the precarious relationship between international investment law (“IIL”), the law that protects foreign corporations (and other foreign investors) when they enter a new state, and international human rights law (“IHRL”), particularly the human rights of communities and individuals affected by foreign businesses.…
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Emerging into Focus: The Neglected Right and the Forgotten Pillar
Mental health considerations and remediation in cases of corporate-related human rights harm Reflecting on the theme of “Realizing Access to Remedy” at the upcoming UN Annual Forum, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights asserts that Pillar III of the UN Guiding Principles (UNGPs) is losing the epithet ‘forgotten pillar.’…
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Failures of redress, or when is a grievance mechanism not a grievance mechanism?
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights expect companies to establish operational-level grievance mechanisms for individuals and communities adversely impacted by company operations (Guiding Principle 29).…
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Obligations to respect and protect human rights are meaningless without access to remedy in states where the rule of law is weak: The example of Myanmar
The right to effective remedy – the ‘third pillar’ of the United Nations Guiding Principles on business and human rights (UNGPS) – is already a fundamental human right.…
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A Jedi Approach for Companies to Manage Grievances and Land-Related Risk
Doing business in the Global South can be a risky proposition. Unfortunately, no matter how much planning a company does in advance of launching an investment, unforeseen challenges such as competing land claims or other investment-related disputes or trends can occur, causing negative impact on the operation.…
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Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization – Exciting “Mini Book-Tour” in the US
I just came back from a hectic 10 days in the US, presenting my new book at 5 universities – it was a very intense, yet very satisfying, trip.…
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Regulation of Marketing Food to Children
In May 2010, the 63rd World Health Assembly unanimously adopted WHO recommendations urging Member States to reduce the impact on children of the marketing of unhealthy food.…
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Wissen und Lomdus: Idealism, Modernity, and History in some Nineteenth-Century Rabbinic and Philosophical responses to the Wissenschaft des Judentums
This article examines the parallel strategies taken by Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) and contemporaries in the Eastern European Lithuanian Talmudic academies to develop modernizing interpretations of Jewish text, tradition, and law.…
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Informalising Innovation: Is anything happening below the radar?
Author of this blog post, Raphael Kaplinsky, is Professorial Fellow, Science Policy Research Unit, and Emeritus Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.…
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Call for Papers: Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability
The emerging field of corporate law, corporate governance and sustainability represents one of the most dynamic and significant areas of law in light of the convergence of crises that we as a global society face.…
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‘”The Big Bang”: Analysing the EU Enlargements’ Impact on National Labour Law’
In 2004, then President of the European Union’s European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, declared that “from fifteen – suddenly there were twenty-five, and finally, Europe had become ‘Europe’ again.”…
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Forgotten Lives and Universal Lessons
My book, Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel, emerged out of an interest I had, as a tax law teacher, in the history of tax avoidance doctrines.…
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Antitrust, Intellectual Property and High Tech – your one-stop reference for the most important questions
Read headlines around the world and it seems as if most of the important high tech companies are actively engaged in antitrust investigations or litigation. …
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Filtering out people from public space
Donald Trump’s election has brought the ‘filter bubble’ to the attention of a wider public: As a result of personalised search results and news-streams, Internet users get less and less exposed to conflicting viewpoints and are isolated intellectually in their own informational bubble.…
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India and Pakistan: Beyond the Cricket Field
The Jadhav case The Jadhav case between India and Pakistan, recently-entered on the docket of the International Court of Justice following India’s application, raises an interesting treaty conflict issue.…
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Can the Charity Commission remove the Charitable Status of Alternative Health Charities?
You might have read in the press recently that the Charity Commission has commenced a consultation about the continued registration as charities of complementary and alternative health charities.…
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Compassion and Law?
Compassion might seem an unusual topic to consider alongside law. Compassion is sometimes seen as a subjective, emotional, and capricious reaction to suffering that is incompatible with law’s objectivity, impartiality, reason, and public-oriented balancing of interests. …
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For what purposes should the government be able to take private property?
For what purposes should the government be able to take private property? When I first started writing about that question, I thought there was little chance anyone outside the United States would ever be interested in my work.…
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The Use of Economics in International Trade and Investment Disputes
We started to work on this book when the world still seemed to be okay for those looking at it through the lens of international economics or international economic law.…
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TEL Fifth Anniversary Lecture: A Celebration in REDD
Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) was launched in 2012. Its emphasis on the contribution of non-state actors and recognition of the multilevel governance context in which law and regulatory developments now occur was path breaking.…
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Criminal Justice: The DNA Revolution and the Evolution of Innocence
For centuries, scholars, judges and lawyers speculated about the error rate in the criminal justice system, many of them searching for absolute proof of the innocent person wrongfully convicted and imprisoned. …
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The Italian Connection and the German Constitutional Court
On April 3, 2014, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the leading German daily newspapers, published a small note. The journalist reported from a meeting of the German Federal Minister of the Interior with a few selected public law professors at an Italian restaurant in Berlin.…
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A Chip of Controlling Free Expression: Why China Wants to “Trade” its Copyright Protection?
Last Friday, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published its annual National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers.…
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ICLQ Annual Lecture 2017: ‘The Right to Life and the International Law Framework Regulating the Use of Armed Drones’
There has been increased controversy in recent years surrounding the use of armed drones and their implication on the right to life.…
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Behind the scenes: Updated commentary on the First Geneva Convention
Updating the commentaries on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols is a task that resembles more a marathon than a sprint. This is hardly a surprise, as it is now more than 60 years since the first set of Pictet Commentaries appeared, giving practical guidance on how the conventions should be implemented.
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Privacy and Power in the Trump Era
For several years transatlantic relations have been dogged by very different perspectives on privacy and intelligence-gathering held by many on the opposite sides of the Atlantic.
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Making the case; marine biology, law and human health
In this blog Thomas Appleby discusses his recent co-authored paper The marine biology of law and human health which features in the Oceans and Human Health special issue of Journal of the Marine Biological Association.…
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Business and Human Rights in the American legal academy
Until recently, the U.S. legal academy has taken a relatively narrow approach to to business and human rights scholarship...
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Breaking the taboo: The case for a greenhouse gas tax on meat consumption
The April 2015 issue (4:1) of Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) includes a contribution by Cordelia Bähr, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich examining the taboo of a greenhouse gas tax on meat consumption, she comments further on this issue in the blog post below.…
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Corporate Responsibility: All Eyes on Human Rights
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is losing steam. Many – perhaps too many? – corporations have embraced it, but too often they seem to look at it merely as a new source for growth and profits or as an act of charity, rather than as a philosophy that transforms the way they do business.…
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Introducing Cambridge Law Reports Online
Cambridge Law Reports (CLR) is a brand new online resource from Cambridge, incorporating both International Law Reports and the International Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Reports.…
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4th Annual International & Comparative Law Quarterly Lecture
In this post, my colleague Natalia Spyridaki at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), looks forward to 2014’s ICLQ lecture.…
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Acceptable Wars and the Rise of Sovereign Power
Events of the past decade, from the military engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq to the more recent civil war in Syria, have renewed interest in questions of law and war.…
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2014: A Big Year for Law and Society Scholarship
2014 marks 50 years of the Law and Society Association, the largest society for socio-legal scholarship. Attendance of the Association’s annual conference has grown from less than 100 scholars in the 1960s to more than 2000 in recent years, demonstrating the massive growth in this subject area.…
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REACH hardly reaching into US chemicals regulation reform
In ‘Influence of the EU Chemicals Regulation on the US Policy Reform Debate: Is a ‘California Effect’ Within REACH?’, published in Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) in April 2013, I investigated whether the demanding EU chemicals regulation (REACH) had led the exporting US chemicals sector to lobby its government to follow suit. …
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Habeas Porpoise: The Strange Case of Morgan the Orca
The current issue of Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) includes a contribution by Arie Trouwborst, Richard Caddell and Ed Couzens, examining the legal position of a rescued whale subsequently retained in captivity. …
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Discussing the ban on the Burqa: Third Annual ICLQ Lecture 2013
In September 2010 the French Senate approved a ban on the wearing of face-covering headgear and in April 2011 it became illegal to wear a face-covering veil or other mask in public places.…
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Why we need a World Energy Health Organisation
The global energy outlook today easily matches the toughest challenges of the 1970’s oil crises. We face growing energy demands from developing nations, higher projected electricity use in developed countries, unprecedented pressure on global oil supplies, an uncomfortable dependence in Western Europe on Russian gas and an on-going debate about emissions and pollution caused by growing energy use.…
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LJIL marks 25 years
On Friday 30 March 2012, Leiden Journal of International Law celebrated its 25th anniversary at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) in Washington DC.…
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60 Years of ICLQ
On the eve of the Annual Conference of the American Society of International Law is an opportunity to reflect upon another bastion of international legal scholarship: the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, which has been published for 60 years.…
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How the Digital Curation Crisis is endangering archaeology
Archaeology and cultural heritage work have fully entered the digital age. Today, researchers rely on tools like 3D scanners, a variety of GIS software, and Lidar equipped drones to document the past in ways that were unimaginable just a few decades ago.…
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Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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The National Archaeology Plan and the future of Spanish archaeology
A critical milestone for the archaeological ecosystem has been the publication this April of the National Archaeology Plan (NAP), part of a larger framework for cultural heritage that the Spanish Ministry of Culture has been developing for almost 40 years.…
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How did Down syndrome get its name?
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
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Challenging neoliberalism through archaeological practice
A few months ago, we responded to a call for papers for a themed issue for Advances in Archaeological Practice entitled “Advances in Archaeological Labor Management.”…
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The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
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The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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