GROUNDING PROCEDURAL RIGHTS

Procedural Rights in the Juvenile Court: Incorporation or Due Process?

Advancing climate justice and the right to health through procedural rights.

Scholars have increasingly recognized the ways in which climate change threatens the human rights of people around the world, with a disproportionate burden on the rights of already vulnerable persons. At particular risk to these populations is the right to health, as well as to interconnected human rights. Yet, scholars have generally not provided a thorough assessment of precisely how human r...

Ontology Grounding

An ontology is a structured semantic model, composed of concepts, relations and instances. Data is a more primitive but concrete assembly of instances described by their attributes. An example of topic ontology is Open Directory of Web documents used in Google organizing documents into topics and subtopics, such as “Science”, “Arts”, etc. However, many ontologies are originally manually develop...

Grounding Concepts

mentators might still devise a plausible Schopenhauerian answer to these worries, but until one is given, I remain dubious about the ‘tremendous practical and spiritual value’ of Schopenhauer’s view. My reservations, however, do not mitigate what I see as the tremendous success and the usefulness of this guidebook. Wicks’s text, like Jacquette’s provides an engaging, well-argued and insightful ...

Grounding Explanations

Consider some facts: water contains hydrogen, my colleague’s cat is alive, diamond is harder than granite, I prefer oatmeal to brussels sprouts, Beijing has over 14 million inhabitants, interest rates are low. These chemical, biological, geological, psychological, sociological, and economic facts all appear to rest on further facts. Facts involving cities, e.g., the fact that Beijing has over 1...