Objective. Currently, Latinos and African Americans constitute more than one-quarter of the U.S. population. The sheer size of these groups suggests an opportunity for increased political influence, with this opportunity providing the incentive for greater social and political interaction between them. The objective of this article is to determine the role of Latino group consciousness in the f...

This paper reports in summary the main points that emerged in a Russian Academy of Sciences workshop on regional charters which took place in Mosco w on March 13-17, 1995 . The author concludes : Relations between Russia's federal subjects and Moscow remain largely a power struggle, flavored by varied interpretations of constitutionality interpretations that the powers that be in Moscow are onl...

Important progresses in logic are leading to interactive and dynamical models. Geometry of Interaction and Games Semantics are two major examples. Ludics, initiated by Girard, is a further step in this direction. The objects of Ludics which correspond to proofs are designs. A design can be described as the skeleton of a sequent calculus derivation, where we do not manipulate formulas, but their...

a r t i c l e i n f o The use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to solve environmental disputes is expected to increase in the near future. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the effectiveness of environmental ADR empirically. However, the majority of empirical literature of environmental ADR provides merely descriptive case studies. Using a large micro-level database from Japan, this...

WTO dispute settlement continues to be the subject of extensive scrutiny by both trade practitioners and academics. Not surprisingly, most of this analysis is legal in nature, touching upon the various arguments that have been put forward by parties to disputes and the legal foundations upon which these disputes are adjudicated. While legal and procedural issues remain the domain of trade lawye...

Many existing studies focus on disputes and resolutions but often overlook the transformation of disputes. Based on an analysis of case filing, this article explains how various factors of daily life enter the legal world through dispute formatting. When disputes are developed into lawsuits, the systematic logic of law and the logic of daily life constantly interact with each other. Dispute for...

This research focuses on the topical issues of meaningful disconnection concept 'cultural values' and pluralism in definition this concept. Cultural criminal law system are unified homogeneous, which leads to scientific disputes contradictions. The aim work is develop interpretative field system, with prospect further rethinking legal related specifics national cultures, problems spirituality, ...

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) allows each autonomous system (AS) to select routes to destinations based on semantically-rich and locally-determined policies. This autonomously exercised policy-freedom can cause instability, where unresolvable policy-based disputes in the network result in interdomain route oscillations. Moreover, several recent works have established that such instabilities...