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Democracy in Times of Pandemic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Democracy in Times of Pandemic

Examines the most important democratic challenges of today, using the Covid-19 pandemic as a case study.

Hollywood Shutdown
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 134

Hollywood Shutdown

By March 2020, the spread of COVID-19 had reached pandemic proportions, forcing widespread shutdowns across industries, including Hollywood. Studios, networks, production companies, and the thousands of workers who make film and television possible were forced to adjust their time-honored business and labor practices. In this book, Kate Fortmueller asks what happened when the coronavirus closed Hollywood. Hollywood Shutdown examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected film and television production, influenced trends in distribution, reshaped theatrical exhibition, and altered labor practices. From January movie theater closures in China to the bumpy September release of Mulan on the Disney+ streaming platform, Fortmueller probes various choices made by studios, networks, unions and guilds, distributors, and exhibitors during the evolving crisis. In seeking to explain what happened in the first nine months of 2020, this book also considers how the pandemic will transform Hollywood practices in the twenty-first century.

Power and Legitimacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

Power and Legitimacy

  • Categories: Law

A succession of crises has marked the last decade of European integration, leading to disorientation among integration scholars. Older frameworks for understanding have been challenged, while the outlines of new ones are only now beginning to emerge. This book looks to history to provide a more durable explanation of the nature and legitimacy of European governance going forward. Through detailed examination of certain fundamental but often overlooked elements in EU history, Peter Lindseth describes the convergence of European integration around the 'postwar constitutional settlement of administrative governance.' 'Administrative' here does not mean 'non-political' or 'technical'-it means th...

The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 921

The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law

This volume tells the story of the interaction between Christianity and law-historically and today, in the traditional heartlands of Christianity and around the globe. Sixty new chapters by leading scholars provide authoritative and accessible accounts of foundational Christian teachings on law and legal thought over the past two millennia; the current interaction and contestation of law and Christianity on all continents; how Christianity shaped and was shaped by core public, private, penal, and procedural laws; various old and new forms of Christian canon law, natural law theory, and religious freedom norms; Christian teachings on fundamental principles of law and legal order; and Christia...

Democracy in Our America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Democracy in Our America

One of America’s most distinguished political theorists examines what happens when national politics enters a small New England town After the election of 2016 and, even more urgently, after the election of 2020, many citizens looked at the economic and cultural divisions that were causing deep disruptions in American politics and asked, “What is happening to us?” Paul W. Kahn explores these fundamental changes as they show themselves in a small New England town—his home of twenty-five years, Killingworth, Connecticut. His inquiry grounds a democratic theory that puts volunteering, not voting, at its center. Absent active participation, citizens lose the capacity for judgment that co...

Putting Liberalism in Its Place
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Putting Liberalism in Its Place

In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary work, Paul W. Kahn argues that political order is founded not on contract but on sacrifice. Because liberalism is blind to sacrifice, it is unable to explain how the modern state has brought us to both the rule of law and the edge of nuclear annihilation. We can understand this modern condition only by recognizing that any political community, even a liberal one, is bound together by faith, love, and identity. Putting Liberalism in Its Place draws on philosophy, cultural theory, American constitutional law, religious and literary studies, and political psychology to advance political theory. It makes original contributions in all these fields. Not since...

European Constitutional Imaginaries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

European Constitutional Imaginaries

  • Categories: Law

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. How can the EU be made legitimate and sustainable through (constitutional) law - and what is the role of constitutional lawyers and their ideas in creating this "sense of legitimacy"? This book seeks to answer these questions through the concept of the "constitutional imaginary": sets of ideas and beliefs that motivate and justify the practice of government and collective self-rule. Constitutional imaginaries are as important as institutions and office- holders, as ...

The Rhetoric of Judging Well
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

The Rhetoric of Judging Well

Known as the “swing justice,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy provided the key vote determining which way the Supreme Court would decide on some of the most controversial cases in US history. Though criticized for his unpredictable rulings, Kennedy also gained a reputation for his opinion writing and, more so, for his legal rhetoric. This book examines Justice Kennedy’s legacy through the lenses of rhetoric, linguistics, and constitutional law. Essays analyze Kennedy’s opinion writing in landmark cases such as Romer v. Evans, Obergefell v. Hodges, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Using the Justice’s rhetoric as an entry point into his legal philosophy, this volume reveals Kennedy as a j...

Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Fernando Alves Correia - Vol. I
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 1068

Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Fernando Alves Correia - Vol. I

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-10-09
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  • Publisher: Leya

Fernando Alves Correia contribuiu, indubitavelmente, para o prestígio da sua Faculdade, enquanto Investigador e Professor de Direito Público, dedicado e generoso, que a serviu como docente durante cerca de 45 anos. A par de uma apuradíssima formação jurídica e cultural, por todos reconhecida, Fernando Alves Correia, em vários cargos relevantes de gestão da Faculdade de Direito, demonstrou continuamente um inexcedível sentido de lealdade pessoal e institucional, bem como uma lúcida capacidade de liderança, moldada pela dimensão humana, quase fraterna, que nele amiúde lampejava. É autor de uma valiosa obra, que, no essencial, versa sobre as áreas do Direito Administrativo, do Direito do Urbanismo e do Direito Constitucional - com especial destaque para a Justiça Constitucional -, a qual teve uma vasta repercussão na legislação, na jurisprudência e na doutrina nacional.

Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-05-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The COVID-19 pandemic not only ravaged human bodies but also had profound and possibly enduring effects on the health of political and legal systems, economies and societies. Almost overnight, governments imposed the severest restrictions in modern times on rights and freedoms, elections, parliaments and courts. Legal and political institutions struggled to adapt, creating a catalyst for democratic decline and catastrophic increases in poverty and inequality. This handbook analyses the global pandemic response through five themes: governance and democracy; human rights; the rule of law; science, public trust and decision making; and states of emergency and exception. Containing 12 thematic c...