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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (2): 397–406.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., emphasizing its contributions for thinking about progressive reform in highly conservative environments: the importance of taking advantage of political opportunities, the appropriation of legal reform, and incremental change. Three different moments are discussed: political mobilization and the construction...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (2): 386–396.
Published: 01 April 2023
... after that period (rape or risk to the health or life of the pregnant person). Importantly, before legal reform was achieved, activists had patiently worked to advance the “social decriminalization” of abortion. References Bellucci Mabel 2014 . “ Cartografías del aborto ” [“Cartographies...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2014) 113 (3): 621–628.
Published: 01 July 2014
... detention from the legal scrutiny generally applied to comparable deprivations of liberty in the context of criminal punishment. The article also evaluates recent immigration detention reform efforts and their limitations, assessing the potential impact of current immigration reform proposals on immigration...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2014) 113 (3): 579–611.
Published: 01 July 2014
... sustained media attention, correctional reeval- uation and revision of SHU policies, a renewal of legal reform efforts, and the initiation of a national dialogue about the ethics of solitary confinement. Notes The author would like to thank the former prisoners and prison officials who participated...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (2): 378–385.
Published: 01 April 2023
... rights has been a central piece in moving toward legal reform and influencing public opinion and feelings: it includes the woman or trans man sharing their abortion experiences; the actress making a statement for abortion decriminalization in the media; and the artist exposing hidden dimensions...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1919) 18 (1): 75–79.
Published: 01 January 1919
... and sociological background of these rules or to the scientific study of legal reform. Few lawyers or gov­ ernment officials are interested in criminology or in any other branch of theoretical jurisprudence. It is safe to go still further and to say that teachers and students of law, and legislators and judges...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2012) 111 (3): 608–615.
Published: 01 July 2012
..., education, law and legal reform, and energy, equity, and environment, as well as an international commission. ...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 711–730.
Published: 01 October 2024
... research, analyses, and artistic creations. Women's rights organizations in the Kurdistan region have worked to address women's immediate needs through providing services, pushing for legal reform, and promoting women's participation (Al-Ali and Pratt 2011 ; Alinia 2013 ; Hardi 2013 , 2021...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2022) 121 (2): 223–237.
Published: 01 April 2022
... from the courts and toward stories, strategies, and histories of social movements (Akbar, Ashar, and Simonson 2021: 821).10 Whether focused on policy or social movements, LPE scholars offer alternative visions for law s role and concrete legal reforms with recognition that power and movement building...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (2): 430–438.
Published: 01 April 2018
... successfully passed Conven- tion 189, also known as the Convention on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Insisting upon the global recognition of domestic work, this convention sought to establish a standard of employment. Indeed, it led to the enactment of legal reforms for the greater protection...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (2-3): 283–292.
Published: 01 July 2003
..., a predominantly right-wing coalition government includ- ing the radical nationalist MHP (Nationalist Movement Party) recently sur- prised both the Turkish public and the European authorities with a speedy enactment of a number of significant legal reforms required by the EU. Soon after, in October the EU...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1949) 48 (3): 401–420.
Published: 01 July 1949
... legal reform; what they were getting seemed to be a kind of debtors revolution. Perhaps it was time for Honestus to heed advice and pull in his horns. There were signs in his Chronicle letter of June 15 that he was mulling the problem over. If an abolition was still considered by some as tending...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1924) 23 (4): 310–318.
Published: 01 October 1924
... cities were given aqueducts, handsome pub­ lic buildings, and beautiful streets. In his message of 1876 the president listed 158 works of public improvement which he had instituted. The legal reforms were far-reaching and salutary, while the forms of democratic and republican government were pre­ served...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (1): 157–178.
Published: 01 January 2018
... symbolic nature. In the Philippines, for instance, such a struggle resulted in a legal reform in the country’s laws of landownership (Molintas 2004). In Ecuador, they contributed to general land reforms and changes in human and civil rights agendas (Peña 2015). Not surprisingly, the willingness...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (3): 515–532.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., antitrafficking advocacy in India has recently borne fruit in Shah Impossible Migrants 521 the passage of the 2018 Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection, and Rehabilitation) ill (Tandon 2018). The passage of this law, promoted as legal reform, is an example of the trend toward criminalizing sex work...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2014) 113 (1): 109–128.
Published: 01 January 2014
... the reality of its actual practice. Similarly, 122  The South Atlantic Quarterly • Winter 2014 Mrinalini Sinha’s work illustrates how the contest over the scriptural basis of a tradition was central to the legal reform of women’s rights (Sinha 1995: 138–80). The nineteenth-century colonial...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1924) 23 (2): 113–123.
Published: 01 April 1924
... a religious reformer, 2 musical composers, one a financer, one a pope, one a theologian, 2 novelists, one a Girondist, 7 clergy­ men, one a revolutionist, one a jurisconsult, one an archeologist, one a legal reformer and one a monk. But rarely, it seems, in our statistics, does the son pursue the father s...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2022) 121 (2): 359–375.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., can fully imagine what justice looks like and expertly point legal reforms in its direction (Schlag 1990). And still inadequately reckoned with in legal pedagogy is the fictiveness of all legal subjectivity, given both that the self is a process of enactment, not an object, and that enacted selves...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2022) 121 (4): 865–871.
Published: 01 October 2022
... to be generally unconscionable, every bail debtor will be included. But we do not see the work done by this tool as reform. Instead it hovers between direct action and legal mutual aid. Using a novel legal precedent to demand that your bail debt be abolished is not so much an appeal to authority as it is acting...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2022) 121 (2): 261–284.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Amna A. Akbar Today’s left movements are rejecting neoliberalism and pivoting toward mass politics through an array of strategies and tactics. Struggles for reforms—or nonreformist reforms—loom large. This essay examines Occupy Wall Street, defund the police, and relations between the Green New...