Fighting Words: Pro-Choice Cause Lawyering, Legal-Framing Innovations, and Hostile Political-Legal Contexts

The changing demographic, legal, and technological contexts of political representation.

Three developments have created challenges for political representation in the U.S. and particularly for the use of territorially based representation (election by district). First, the demographic complexity of the U.S. population has grown both in absolute terms and in terms of residential patterns. Second, legal developments since the 1960s have recognized an increasing number of groups as e...

Which Institutions , Legal and Economic , Allow Innovations ?

S | 103 Which Institutions, Legal and Economic, Allow Innovations? Thami Piaia Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois College of Law Champaign, IL The following work has as its main goal to explain the asymetric paths of technological innovation in Brazil and United States and to show how the "Lei da Inovação Brasileira" (Lei 10.973/04 Brazilian Innovation Act) can contribute to ameliorate th...

Words from Bononia Legal Corpus

The analysis of special multilingual corpora is still in its infancy, but it may serve a particularly important role for the directions it offers both in cross-linguistic investigation and in the selection of the most typical features of text types and genres. To exemplify the information which can be obtained from corpus evidence, the paper reports on an on-going corpus-driven research project...

Abortion in legal, social, and healthcare contexts

Worldwide, abortion is one of the commonest gynaecological procedures (Sedgh et al., 2012). The common occurrence of abortion around the globe, however, belies considerable diversity in the social, political, and ethical meanings of terminating a pregnancy, as well as the practices surrounding abortion. All of these vary from locale to locale, from one historical time to another, and among soci...

Unification of Political and Legal Theory