Browsing by Subject "Law"
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A Data-Intensive Framework for Analyzing Dynamic Supreme Court Behavior
(2012)Many law professors and scholars think of the Supreme Court as a black box--issues and arguments go in to the Court, and decisions come out. The almost mystical nature that these researchers impute to the Court seems to ... -
A Dilemma for Criminal Justice Under Social Injustice
(2019)A moral dilemma confronts criminal justice in unjust states. If the state punishes marginalized citizens whose crimes are connected to conditions of systemic injustice the state has failed to alleviate, it perpetuates a ... -
A Sea of Debt: Histories of Commerce and Obligation in the Indian Ocean, c. 1850-1940
(2012)This dissertation is a legal history of debt and economic life in the Indian Ocean during the nineteenth and early-twentieth century. It draws on materials from Bahrain, Muscat, Bombay, Zanzibar and London to examine how ... -
A systems engineering approach to regulating autonomous systems
(2017)Autonomous systems are emerging across many industries. From unmanned aircraft to self-driving cars to closed-loop medical devices, these systems offer great benefits but also pose new risks. Regulators must grapple with ... -
Adaptation and Tradition in Hellenistic Sacred Laws
(2012)This dissertation examines the adaptability of civic cults during the Hellenistic period. Faced with shifting populations, increasing social tensions, economic changes, and political pressures, Hellenistic communities devised ... -
An Exploration of the Implementation and Effects of the North Carolina HIV Control Measures
(2012)Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, governmental authorities across the country have attempted to legislate the behavior of HIV-positive individuals. North Carolina's HIV Control Measures--administrative regulations ... -
Athenian Democracy on Paper
(2018)Thousands of public records survive from democratic Athens. Nearly all of them are inscribed on stone (or more rarely metal). A century and more of study has revealed that these inscriptions were the tip of the iceberg. ... -
Between Fraud Heaven and Tort Hell: The Business, Politics, and Law of Lawsuits
(2018)In the 1970s, consumer advocates worried that Alabama's weak regulatory structure around consumer fraud made it a kind of "con man's heaven." But by the 1990s, the battle cry of regulatory reformers had reversed, ... -
Bulletin of Duke University. School of Law
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Bureaucrats in Black Robes
(2020)At the time of its formation, the Supreme Court was noted to have, “…neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment” (Hamilton 1788). For decades, political science research has explored how the Supreme Court achieves compliance ... -
Divorcing the Rake: Male Chastity and the Rise of the Novel, 1753-1857
(2020)Loose understandings of naturalized sexual difference have worked for hundreds of years to bolster both the legal and social oppression of women. This dissertation, Divorcing the Rake: Male Chastity and the Rise of the Novel, ... -
Domestic Courts and Global Governance: the Politics of Private International Law
(2007-12-04)Since the mid-1980s, U.S. and foreign parties have filed more than 100,000 lawsuits in U.S. federal courts asking for adjudication of disputes arising from transnational activity. These lawsuits raise a fundamental question ... -
Forms of Empire: Law, Violence, and the Poetics of Victorian Power
(2009)Victorian England was the first empire in history to imagine itself as liberal, believing that its own power could bring law to the darkest and most unruly corners of the world. But despite covering nearly the entire period ... -
Hermeneutics of Desire: Ontologies of Gender and Desire in Early Ḥanafī Law
(2016)This dissertation examines the construction of gendered legal subjects in the influential legal works of the eleventh century Ḥanafī jurist, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Sarakhsī (d. 483 A.H./1090 C.E.). In particular, I explore ... -
Increasing R&D Incentives for Neglected Diseases: Lessons from the Orphan Drug Act
(International Public Goods And Transfer Of Technology Under A Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, 2005) -
Increasing R&D incentives for neglected diseases: Lessons from the Orphan Drug Act
(International Public Goods And Transfer Of Technology Under A Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, 2005)Distinguished economists, political scientists, and legal experts discuss the implications of the increasingly globalized protection of intellectual property rights for the ability of countries to provide their citizens ... -
'It is So Ordered'? The Judicial Enforcement of Land Restitution Rulings and the Politics of Compliance in Colombia (2011-2021)
(2022)This dissertation explains how land courts enforce their rulings in Colombia’s ongoing land restitution program, and, in turn, why politicians and bureaucrats comply with these judicial decisions protecting property rights, ... -
Law and Order: Monastic Formation, Episcopal Authority, and Conceptions of Justice in Late Antiquity
(2013)Among the numerous commitments late ancient Christians throughout the Roman Empire shared with their non-Christian neighbors was a preoccupation with justice. Not only was the latter one of the celebrated characteristics ... -
Police is Dead: On the Birth of Economism
(2016)Police is Dead is an historiographic analysis whose objective is to change the terms by which contemporary humanist scholarship assesses the phenomenon currently termed neoliberalism. It proceeds by building an archeology ...
