International Legal Encounters with Democracy

Editor's Introduction to "Legal Worlds and Legal Encounters" -- OPEN ACCESS

This introduction presents and draws together the articles and themesfeatured in this special issue of The Medieval Globe, “Legal Worlds and LegalEncounters.”

Physician Encounters with Human Trafficking: Legal Consequences and Ethical Considerations.

There is growing recognition and evidence that health care professionals regularly encounter-though they may not identify-victims of human trafficking in a variety of health care settings. Identifying and responding appropriately to trafficking victims or survivors requires not only training in trauma-informed care but also consideration of the legal and ethical issues that arise when serving t...

hayek and the legal democracy

in the end of twentieth. century and •the .beginning of the third millennium, all political regimes' practically for acquiring legitimacy want to introduce themselves as a democratic system. today there is no question about the truth of the democracy, ;whether that is . fundamentally good or bad? but the question 'is a bout the most efficient and the best form of democracy. nowadays, ...

Democracy, Development, and the International System

Resolving a controversy on the relationship of development to democratization, this article expands the time period under study with panel data running from the early nineteenth century (a time where hardly any country was democratic) to the end of the twentieth century, and shows a positive and significant effect of income on the likelihood of democratic transitions and democratic consolidatio...

deaf-same and Difference in International Deaf Spaces and Encounters