Abstract This article traces the emergence of a new politics jurisdiction in legal abortion debates Mexico. It analyzes how jurisdictional claims work as kind lawfare from “above” and “below” examining: 1) Mexican Supreme Court invoked technicalities to settle constitutional conflict over decriminalization Mexico City, 2) feminist litigator reappropriated court's formal principles legality towa...

This article describes the harms caused by criminalization of cannabis in Jamaica and outcomes decriminalization legalization processes that started 2015. It argues current framework does not promote social justice for actors historically engaged trade suggests it should be revised aligned with policies geared towards reparations. focuses on historical entanglements between Rastafarians, law en...

Though California is recognized for protecting women’s right to choose today, this was not always the case. Abortion illegal in California, as it all other states late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; over time, however, witnessed a series of legal amendments cases that pressed on its nineteenth-century statute—culminating decriminalization abortion years before Roe v. Wade. This artic...

This paper presents a numerical method based on quasilinearization and rationalized Haar functions for solving nonlinear optimal control problems including terminal state constraints, state and control inequality constraints. The optimal control problem is converted into a sequence of quadratic programming problems. The rationalized Haar functions with unknown coefficients are used to approxima...

the crime of worthless cheque has been changed-over chiefly since the first criminalization under public criminal law 1304. sometimes legislator in consequence of social and economic conditions has taken sever criminal attitude. however, he has often taken gentle criminal attitude. the last modifications of the cheque issuance crime, which was ratified in 1372, had been improved in 1382. some o...

INTRODUCTION Globally, there is a considerable burden of HCV and HIV infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) and transmission of both infections continues. Needle and syringe programme (NSP) and opioid substitution therapy (OST) coverage remains low, despite evidence demonstrating their prevention benefit. Direct-acting antiviral therapies (DAA) with HCV cure >95% among PWID provide an ...

I n the article " Substance abuse and developments in harm reduction " (page 1697 of this issue 1) Dr. Yuet Cheung concludes that in the 21st century harm reduction should be welcomed as an important player in addressing the use of currently illicit drugs, alongside prohibition and legalization. Other strategies that have become part of the discourse on how to resolve the drug problem include m...