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Kaminka, Gal A., Rachel Spokoini-Stern, Yaniv Amir, Noa Agmon, and Ido Bachelet. "Molecular Robots Obeying Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics." Artificial Life 23, no. 3 (August 2017): 343–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00235.
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Asimov's three laws of robotics, which were shaped in the literary work of Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) and others, define a crucial code of behavior that fictional autonomous robots must obey as a condition for their integration into human society. While, general implementation of these laws in robots is widely considered impractical, limited-scope versions have been demonstrated and have proven useful in spurring scientific debate on aspects of safety and autonomy in robots and intelligent systems. In this work, we use Asimov's laws to examine these notions in molecular robots fabricated from DNA origami. We successfully programmed these robots to obey, by means of interactions between individual robots in a large population, an appropriately scoped variant of Asimov's laws, and even emulate the key scenario from Asimov's story “Runaround,” in which a fictional robot gets into trouble despite adhering to the laws. Our findings show that abstract, complex notions can be encoded and implemented at the molecular scale, when we understand robots on this scale on the basis of their interactions.
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Shindo, Reiko. "Resistance beyond sovereign politics: Petty sovereigns’ disappearance into the world of fiction in post-Fukushima Japan." Security Dialogue 49, no. 3 (January 24, 2018): 183–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010617751994.
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What happens to sovereign power when petty sovereigns refuse to exploit discretionary power to suspend the rule of law, the very power that is delegated to them and makes them who they are? How might such a refusal contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between resistance and sovereign power? This article revisits Judith Butler’s notion of petty sovereigns to explore the possibility that petty sovereigns establish a distinctive relationship with law. This article draws on a case involving one nameless petty sovereign and his published writings. He writes novels to expose how law is used by some officials to realize a particular policy goal with regards to nuclear energy. His novels blur the line between fiction and non-fiction: it contains classified information only available to bureaucrats, discusses actual energy policies and related laws, and introduces fictional characters who resemble non-fictional characters. I argue that this example suggests that petty sovereigns are not necessarily tied to the node between governmentality and sovereignty. Shifting between the worlds of fiction and non-fiction, petty sovereigns slip away from sovereign power, which controls the subject-making process, and quietly resist sovereign politics through the contingency of subjectivity.
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Belsey, Catherine. "Narrative magic: Stories and the ways of desire." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 23, no. 1 (February 2014): 77–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947013510645.
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Fictions that include an account of how stories are received show narrative as enlisting the desire of the reader or hearer. While fiction demonstrates what the magic of the signifier can do to allay desire when language is set free from reality, in the end narratives withhold satisfaction of the desire they engender, since the worlds they create must eventually be relinquished. To that degree, narrative fiction brings to light the condition of the speaking being as Lacanian psychoanalysis conceives it, at once empowered and deprived by access to language, and in quest of a presence language cannot deliver. In so far as they are ungrounded, stories are able to exceed cultural orthodoxies, conjuring into being desired possibilities, aspirations, and corollary fears. Supplementary in that sense and dangerous, in consequence, to the orthodoxies they supplement, fictional narratives can therefore bring to light the inadequacy of customary assumptions. Located in time, stories offer a knowledge – of cultural difference, as well as of the laws of desire that underlie it.
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Khorob, S. S. "OPINION JOURNALISM: THE GENRE OF LITERATURE OR JOURNALISM?" PRECARPATHIAN BULLETIN OF THE SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY Word, no. 2(54) (January 22, 2019): 364–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.31471/2304-7402-2019-2(54)-364-370.
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The article raises the problem of genre and type definition of opinion journalism, its belonging to fiction and journalism. It proves that this creation, coming out of laws of creative work, characterizes activities of both writers and journalists to an equal extent, being on the border in works of belles-lettres and mass media. In addition, the analysis of manifestations of opinion journalism gives grounds to affirm that opinion journalism is not a separate type of literature and not a separate genre of journalism. It is rather the system of genres among major forms that are inherent in literary-fictional and journalistic creative work.
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F. Barsky, Robert. "Activist Translation in an Era of Fictional Law1." TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction 18, no. 2 (May 17, 2007): 17–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/015745ar.
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This article proposes that activist translators be involved and engaged in those legal realms, such as the treatment of “illegals” or undocumented migrants, because this is an area in which translators can act as true intermediaries, over and above the act of substituting one lexical item for another; however, this form of activism, like other discretionary activities, needs to be directed to lofty causes, such as upholding the human rights of those most excluded by our society. In other words, alongside of the activism must come good faith, because “activism” could also actively hurt the person for whom the translator is doing his or her task. In other words, when the “translator” decides to become an “interpreter,” there is the danger that the subjectivity of the latter will trump the “objectivity” of the former, with negative consequences. This article advocates activism over machine-like fidelity because the abuses in certain realms of law are so egregious and the stories so horrendous that most translators who are given the right to speak out will take the road towards humanity and basic decency. The examples to which I will be referring emanate from the realm of immigrant incarceration in the Southern US, so for the purposes of this article positive activism points to efforts that help people who are arrested in the United States (or anywhere else) for violations of immigration laws. Regrettably, the kind of activism for which this article advocates is not likely to occur, not only because translators are not “supposed to be” activists, but also because the realm of law that deals with immigration violation is so unevenly applied, so internally inconsistent across local, regional, state, federal and national lines, and so variously construed depending upon the person doing the construing, that it does not really deserve the nomenclature of “law.” Keywords: translation, interpretation, incarceration, administrative law, undocumented migrants.
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Moreira, James. "Fictional Landscapes And Social Relations In Nineteenth-Century Broadside Ballads." Ethnologies 30, no. 2 (February 16, 2009): 93–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/019947ar.
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The broadside ballad constitutes one of the oldest forms of popular culture in Europe and America. Even though our understanding of the genre, especially in North America, has been shaped by texts drawn from oral tradition, many of its thematic and stylistic traits reveal its origins in the modern popular press. The article examines the fictional landscapes of “whiteletter” ballads as represented in G. Malcom Laws catalog, especially categories “M” through “P.” These ballads all have love relationships as their central theme, and yet the spaces occupied by the principal characters and the manner in which the relationships unfold show a marked concern for larger social issues, such as separation through emigration, interclass tensions, and the influence of bureaucratic institutions.
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Koval, Oxana A., and Ekaterina B. Kriukova. "Ludwig Wittgenstein As a Fictional Character. Part I." Voprosy Filosofii, no. 3 (2021): 196–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2021-3-196-207.
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In these latter days, there is a clear tendency towards convergence in the complex relationship between the two language practices – fiction and philosophy. On the one hand, philosophy increasingly turns to the interpretation of important literary texts. On the other hand, literature responds to the challenges of modern thought. This paper focuses on the creative heritage and personality of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the main initiator of “linguistic turn”, from the point of view not of philosophical, but of literary reception. The art of the word in the 20th century was strongly charged due to the language problems. That is why it could not pass over in silence the philosopher, who showed that language activity is one of the fundamental factors in understanding the world. Different authors, such as Terry Eagleton, Bruce Duffy, Winfried G. Sebald, Umberto Eco, Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, brought out in their works – directly or indirectly – a character undoubtedly similar to Wittgenstein. Eventually, the combination of different aspects creates an integral portrait of the Austrian thinker, representing an adequate alternative to philosophical approaches. The fictitious space of literature allows us to show something that philosophy is unable to say – because of its disciplinary limits and its need to stay inside the facts and laws of logic. This confirms the well-known thesis of “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”: “What can be shown, cannot be said” (4.1212).
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Trento, Giovanna. "The Italian “Race Laws” and the Representations of Africans: Questioning “Madamato” and Italian Colonial Fictional Literature." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review 3, no. 9 (2008): 137–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1882/cgp/v03i09/52668.
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Sowa, Rochus. "Wesen und Wesensgesetze in der deskriptiven Eidetik Edmund Husserls." Phänomenologische Forschungen 2007, no. 1 (2007): 5–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.28937/1000107933.
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Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology which he characterized as an eidetic science of transcendentally reduced phenomena aims at least at material-apriori laws of a special kind, namely eidetic descriptive laws built up from pure descriptive concepts. The paper explicates Husserl’s notion of essence in the broad sense as a state-of-affairs-function (Sachverhaltsfunktion); this noematic function is the objective „correlate“ of the propositional function which we call a „concept“ and which is part of the proposition, i.e. the state-of-affairs-meaning (Sachverhaltsmeinung), in which a state of affairs is projected. Essences in the narrow or pregnant sense are pure essences which Husserl named „Eidé“. The concept of pure essence relevant for the phenomenological descriptive eidetics is elucidated through the explication of Husserl’s notion of a pure descriptive concept, so as to show how these concepts, which are pure type concepts, differ from impure descriptive concepts, especially from concepts denoting natural kinds. Grounded exclusively in pure descriptive concepts, the eidetic descriptive laws (Wesensgesetze) have special truth conditions and a need for special ways of examination. The proper place of the method called „eidetic variation“ is the examination, falsification or justification of presumed eidetic descriptive laws. Starting from familiar exemplary cases of states of affairs which confirm the presumed law, the free variation, which operates in pure fantasy, has the task of constructing possible counterexamples to falsify the presumed eidetic law. The property of being falsifiable by counterexamples constructed in pure fantasy allows for a distinction between empirical laws and the eidetic descriptive laws of Husserlian eidetics. The falsifiability by fictional and factual counterexamples shows that Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology is a scientific enterprise open to intersubjective examination precisely due to its eidetic character.
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Burnaby, Priscilla, Susan Hass, and Anthony O'Reilly. "Generic Health Care Hospital: The Road to an Integrated Risk Management System." Issues in Accounting Education 26, no. 2 (May 1, 2011): 305–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/iace-10019.
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ABSTRACT Three related areas—Sarbanes-Oxley's requirements for control reports, COSO's Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) suggested control structure, and the enterprise risk management process—need more classroom materials to demonstrate to students the importance of a cohesive risk analysis process and control system for an organization to be successful and competitive. This case requires students to understand the importance of risk management, the implementation of an internal control structure, and a controls review in a hospital setting for compliance and administration of Medicare and Medicaid costs. Although the facts of the case are based on professionals' consulting experiences, the hospital in the case is fictional and is a composite of many client engagements. This case is appropriate for an analysis for potential fraud, a Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) review of risks and internal controls, assessment of compliance with laws and regulations, and implementation of an enterprise-wide risk management system.
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Stetz, Margaret D. "“BALLADS IN PROSE”: GENRE CROSSING IN LATE-VICTORIAN WOMEN'S WRITING." Victorian Literature and Culture 34, no. 2 (August 25, 2006): 619–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150306051345.
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“Oh, it is indeed a burning shame that there would be one law for men and another law for women. I think that there should be no law for anybody” (Beckson, I Can Resist 100). So said Oscar Wilde to a journalist interviewing him in January 1895. And for the first five years of the 1890s, it looked as though the British literary and publishing worlds, at least, were increasingly in accord with this Wildean perspective. Texts challenging the double standard of heterosexual conduct proliferated, even as bold articulations of same-sex desire appeared. At the same time, laws of all sorts that governed the production and consumption of literature seemed to be struck down daily. The three-volume novel declined and, with it, the circulating libraries' law of conforming to Mudie's definition of the reading public's tastes. New Women and other new realists gleefully violated the laws that required fictional narratives to end with marriage or, indeed, to provide some version of closure. In the sphere of periodical publishing, the law demanding that the visual arts be subordinate to words vanished in April 1894 with the first issue of the Yellow Book. The Bodley Head's new quarterly proudly stated that “The pictures will in no case serve as illustrations to the letter-press, but each will stand by itself as an independent contribution” (Stetz and Lasner 8).
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Helfand, Michael Todd. "When Mickey Mouse Is as Strong as Superman: The Convergence of Intellectual Property Laws to Protect Fictional Literary and Pictorial Characters." Stanford Law Review 44, no. 3 (February 1992): 623. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1228977.
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Boister, Neil. "The ‘Bad Global Citizen’, ‘Naked’, in the ‘Transnational Penal Space’." Brill Research Perspectives in Transnational Crime 1, no. 2-3 (March 1, 2017): 12–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24680931-12340003.
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Abstract This article explores how transnational criminal law is used as a tool to create a legal space within the state where the fugitive resides or is acting, in order in effect to re-set the border inside that jurisdiction and to make it possible, by proxy, to enforce another state’s law. It argues that transnational criminal law is used to establish a kind of fictional transnational legal space, created by changing domestic laws and practices of both the state exercising its jurisdiction and the state in which that jurisdiction is being exercised, so that restrictions on cooperative action are minimalized. It explores how that space is created and how it shapes the structure of transnational criminal law through the building of normative structures—both legal and administrative—to suppress the activities of alleged criminals in this space. But its specific focus is on how this purely functional relationship impacts on individuals caught within that space.
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Rizkhan, Aulia. "Winnie’s personality in Natalie Babbit’s tuck everlasting a scientific publication." COMMICAST 1, no. 2 (November 2, 2020): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/commicast.v1i2.2729.
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This research is entitled” Winnie’s Personality In Natalie Babbit’s Tuck Everlasting.” The object of this study is to see the personalities of the character in the novel. This research is based on the awareness psychological approach to the type study and laws of psychology are applied to literary works. In this research, the researcher applied psychological approach and Individual psychological theory. Through the objective approach the researcher see the personalities of the character in the novel. The method of the research is descriptive qualitative method. The main data are taken from words, phrases, and sentences of the novel. The supporting data are taken from some books, articles, and internet. The results of this study are clearly explained as follows. The researcher found six personalities in the novel: fictional finalism, social interest, inferiority feeling, striving superiority, style of life, and creative power. From the six analysis of Adler’s individual psychological is connected to each other and builds a unity from the main character’s personality.
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Alves, Sirlene Siqueira, Armando Paulo da Silva, and Eduardo Filgueiras Damasceno. "UMA ABORDAGEM DE JOGOS DE TABULEIRO NO ENSINO EM CIÊNCIAS CONTÁBEIS." Cadernos de Educação Tecnologia e Sociedade 12, no. 4 (December 29, 2019): 398. http://dx.doi.org/10.14571/brajets.v12.n4.398-409.
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The accounting higher education has techniques of knowledge transfer for the professional formation of the academic, therefore, most of the teaching techniques are focused on the disclosure of the laws due to the financial movement of the organizations. Knowing this, much of the advancement in teaching is due to the transmission of the experience of the accounting professor and the student facing the labor market operations. There are other methods of teaching accounting such as lecture, case study, seminars, discussion and debate, however they are still focused on the transmission of experiences or the fictional representation of teaching. This article aims to highlight the use of board games in the Accounting Science course, the teaching based on game fiction, as a way of fixing the content in the teaching of cost accounting, compared to traditional teaching methods. To prove the hypothesis, a board game was created, focused on promoting student engagement and favored the transmission of course content. For research observation and control, questionnaires based research methods were used before and after the use of the game in specific classes of the Accounting Science course. The results were demonstrated through graphs for better visualization. Thus, it was possible to conclude that there was a significant difference in the results before and after the application of this teaching method. In addition, students interacted and became cooperatively involved, which proved the effectiveness of the method in motivating and engaging students in the teaching-learning process.
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Björk, Ulf Jonas. "Tricky Film: The Critical and Legal Reception of I Am Curious (Yellow) in America." American Studies in Scandinavia 44, no. 2 (September 1, 2012): 113–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v44i2.4919.
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This study examines the reception of the Swedish film I am Curious (Yellow) in America. As a mixture of political satire and a chronicle of a sexual affair, with fictional and documentary material, the film was referred to by a U.S. government official as “the most explicit movie ever imported” when it arrived in America in 1968 and was released only after a federal appeals court reversed a lower-court verdict that had found it legally obscene. Although cleared for importation, I am Curious (Yellow) continued to be dogged by whether its sex scenes violated local and state obscenity laws. While the legal actions at times impeded distribution of the film, they also generated publicity for it, eventually making it one of the most profitable foreign-language films in U.S. motionpicture history. This paper discusses several court cases where the film’s social value—or lack thereof—was the factor deciding whether it could be shown, and it also looks at critical reaction to the film. Noting that all popular-culture products are products of the societies they spring from, the paper also looks at how the film was received in Sweden.
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George, Shilpa. "Cultural Dilemma of The Arab Woman Expressed through Nature Imagery: An Ecocritical Study of Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 10 (October 29, 2020): 175–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i10.10813.
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The Arab community is essentially a patriarchal one with a history of women being subjected to various kinds of afflictions and oppression under cultural, religious and societal laws. Though there is a collective consciousness now regarding the position of the Arab woman in the Arab world, with significant progress being made to emancipate and empower them, much needs to be done still. Set in the mid-20th century Jordan, Arab Anglophone author Fadia Faqir’sPillars of Salt portrays the tragic plight of Arab women at the hands of the traditional patriarchal Arab communities of Jordan. Nature plays a significant role in Faqir’s narrative wherein much of the miseries faced by the women characters are conveyed through rich nature imageries and analogies. This renders the novel the identity of an eco-fictional work and provides scope for analysis based on the ecological approaches as perceived in Emerson’s Nature to the more recent theory of Ecocriticism formulated by William Rueckert. This paper explores an ecocritical approach towards the position of women in the Arab society as expressed through profound eco-comparisons, imageries and analogies in Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt.
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Derkachova, Olga, and Solomia Ushnevych. "The Trickster in Appalachian and Hutsulian Tales." Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University 1, no. 2-3 (December 22, 2014): 45–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.15330/jpnu.1.2-3.45-49.
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The fairytales of Hutsuls and Appalachians are analyzed in the article. Mountainousdwellers have an indissoluble connection with the nature and metaphysics of mountains that iswhy there are so many sacred objects and special places there. Megaliths and sanctuaries, lifegiving places, miraculous springs, natural metaphysics of the mountains and tales which aregrasped like true stories about creation and objective reality of the world, - all these attract not onlytourists but also scientists and researchers to the mountainous region. The tale is one of thepermanent attributes of people`s life. It gives the opportunity to make the process of emotional andmoral development more controlled and determined. The common feature of the tale is identified:it is the presence of a hero-trickster - Jack (the Appalachians) and Ivan (the Carpathians). In tales,most of the fictional characters can be described by the term “duality”. It is a certain state ofconsciousness when the hero-character reproduces his double that lives an imaginary life andperforms an intended role. It is a hero who is often hidden behind the mask of a jester and a foolishman. He does not live according to the rules. He breaks both laws and rules, but achieves positiveresults. The common and different features of the Trickster in the fairytales of Indians and Hutsulsare defined.
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McLelland, Mark. "Young people, online fandom and the perils of child pornography legislation in Australia." International Journal of Cultural Studies 22, no. 1 (April 23, 2017): 102–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877917704927.
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In 1971 the editors of Oz magazine were prosecuted for obscenity in a London courtroom for their infamous ‘School Kids Issue’, almost the entire contents of which had been created by a team of young people. In today’s Web 2.0 environment, similar kinds of content to that featured in the magazine is created by young people and made ubiquitous on fan websites. In particular ‘manips’ (manipulated images) of all kinds of pop culture heroes from boy band members to characters from Harry Potter are inserted into pornographic contexts. Whereas in the 1970s it was obscenity legislation that was used to restrict this form of cultural commentary, today child pornography legislation can be used to capture this content. I argue that changes to child pornography laws across the western world in the last two decades have resulted in the capture of even fictional images that are or may only ‘appear to be’ a person under the age of 18, rendering some aspects of online youth culture problematic. The ‘juridicial discourse’ that increasingly collapses a complex range of cultural representations into the category of child pornography is a cause for concern for all academics working on online youth cultures and for the young people involved.
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French, Joseph J., Michael Martin, and Garth Allen. "Mongolian mining mayhem." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 5, no. 6 (October 29, 2015): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-09-2014-0232.
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Subject area International Business, Ethics, International Legal Issues/Law, Environmental Management. Study level/applicability Upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. The case is appropriate for courses in International Law, Ethics, International Business and Strategy. Case overview This case is inspired by current ethical, legal, social and environmental issues that have plagued the multinational mining industry in frontier markets. The case focuses on a multitude of legal, ethical and strategic issues involving the multinational mining industry. This case describes a hypothetical assignment facing an operations manager at the fictional Minera, Inc. The assignment revolves around several dilemmas a manager must confront as he attempts to secure valuable mining licenses from the Mongolian Government while simultaneously attempting to harmonize seemingly detrimental operating practices with the organizations' stated beliefs. The case provides detailed background information on the social, economic and political climate in Mongolia, as well as the applicable laws, ethical frameworks and competitive market considerations facing multinational mining organizations. Expected learning outcomes This case will help students understand the complexity of international business in frontier markets; identify key international legal issues such as the foreign corrupt practices act; and recognize ethical issues and formulate economically, strategically, ethically and legally sound courses of action in complex environments. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes.
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rodríguez freire, raúl, and Paco Brito Núñez. "Of Goats, Theorems, and Laws." Critical Times 3, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 68–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8189857.
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Abstract Joseph Townsend’s Dissertation on the Poor Laws (1786) advances the thesis that aid to the poor generates more poverty. It is a work that twists and traduces a number of bibliographic sources in order to produce its famous theorem about goats and dogs, an idea that would have tremendous influence on public policy on overpopulation. The sources of Townsend's Dissertation are based on the figure of Alexander Selkirk, who lived as a castaway on an island of the Juan Fernández Archipelago. This essay analyzes Townsend's sources and takes note of the spread of his proposals, the Robinsonades, and their validation by ostensibly scientific discourses which have asserted their truth value over and above that of literary fictions. In closing, it demonstrates Townsend's own grounding in fiction, and considers the role the shaping power of literature might play in the reimagination of a world out of joint.
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Dunne, John, John Banville, Jane Urquhart, Colum McCann, Patrick Quigley, Nina FitzPatrick, and Ferdia Mac Anna. "Fiction's Own Laws." Books Ireland, no. 179 (1994): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20626923.
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Maclean, Ian. "Legal Fictions and Fictional Entites in Renaissance Jurisprudence." Journal of Legal History 20, no. 3 (December 1999): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440362008539595.
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Gordon, Randy D. "Fictitious fraud: economics and the presumption of reliance." International Journal of Law in Context 9, no. 4 (December 2013): 506–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s174455231300027x.
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AbstractIn the popular imagination, legal proceedings and their rules of law are thought of as paths to unalloyed truth. Both practitioners and scholars know this is often not the case because the law is, as are other domains, riddled with fictions. Indeed, the law sometimes borrows fictions from other domains to help it achieve results that would otherwise be unobtainable. One such place is securities law, in which courts in the United States have borrowed the concept of the ‘efficient market’ from economics to make fraud class actions possible. But that concept is – if not wholly – at least in good measure fictional.
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Schneck, Peter. "The laws of fiction:." European Journal of English Studies 11, no. 1 (April 2007): 47–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13825570601183344.
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Yerrick, Randy, and Tiffany Simons. "The Affordances of Fiction for Teaching Chemistry." Science Education International 28, no. 3 (October 5, 2017): 232–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.33828/sei.v28.i3.7.
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As science fiction has a way of capturing the human imagination that few other genres can rival, this study sought to investigate the effects of using science fiction on the performance and interest of high school chemistry students. An action research approach was used to guide the first author’s practice as she studied two college preparatory chemistry classrooms. One class was used as a control group and received traditional chemistry instruction through lecture and labs. The second class was provided with supplemental excerpts of science fictional reading and film. Student scores on a pre-assessment and post-assessment achievement test items were analyzed and supplemented with student interviews and field note observations, and a teacher reflective journal was used to complement achievement data and inform findings regarding the effectiveness of including fiction as a pedagogical choice. Implications for this study on teaching tools, methodologies, and curriculum development are discussed.
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Vorobiev, Valery P., and Roman L. Iliev. "Politics and State: Two Sides of the Same Phenomenon." Journal of Law and Administration 15, no. 3 (December 2, 2019): 55–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2073-8420-2019-3-52-55-63.
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Introduction. The centuries-old history of the state and political protest movements as their driving force highlights an interesting pattern. Participants, initiators, and leaders are not interested in the underlying causes of protests. The forms and content of management, socio-political systems are changing but in all situations a narrow circle of people continues to make all important decisions.Materials and methods. The study used comparative legal and systemic methods, various materials.The results of the study. Political decisions overtly or covertly threaten performers of these decisions with punishment for non-compliance. However, as a rule only they always bear suffering and losses for erroneous decisions.Discussion and conclusion. According to Hegel a political decision is based “on subjective goals and opinions, on subjective feeling and private conviction that lead to the destruction of internal morality, integrity and conscience, love and law in relations between individuals, on the one hand, and public order and state laws not limited by legal norms and not restrained by public institutions, on the other”. The well-known scientists Weber, Duverger, Bentham and many others also held the same opinion that politics expresses “the desire of those in power to possess it, which provides them with control over society and personal benefits”. The term “politics” in its modern sense has arisen due to a misunderstanding. The prestige of Aristotle was used to give the befitting justification to the right of the sovereign to make decisions according to his preference and whim. In the 3rd century A.D. Aristotle used in his work the word “politics”, which at that time meant “state” (“polity” is the rule of the majority; Aristotle used it as the name of a specific form of state republic). Now, in many contexts, the word “politics” is used along with the terms “political system” or “state”, and the lack of knowledge about patterns is replaced by describing past or fictional events in the lives of the mighty people and fortunetelling about future events.
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Bennett, Kristen Abbott. "Red Herrings and the “Stench of Fish”: Subverting “Praise” in Thomas Nashe’s Lenten Stuffe." Renaissance and Reformation 37, no. 1 (May 16, 2014): 87–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v37i1.21283.
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In Lenten Stuffe, “praise” emerges as a red herring diverting readers from recognizing how Thomas Nashe telescopes his chorography of Yarmouth into a catalogue of arbitrary Crown rule from William the Conqueror’s rule through the English Reformation. So too is Nashe’s apology for contributing to the seditious play, Ile of Dogs. Historical circumstances surrounding the Swan Theatre and a stolen diamond complicate conventional readings of this incident, Nashe’s exile, and subsequently, the sincerity of Nashe’s encomium. Lastly, this essay examines Nashe’s projection of the Butcher and Fishmonger’s debate surrounding the arbitrariness of Lenten laws from Erasmus’s colloquy “A Fish Diet” into the red herring’s fictional ascent to human and divine monarchy. Erasmus’s joke in “Fish Diet” is at the expense of the Fishmonger, but Nashe elides his geographical and political targets to generate a subtext of outrage directed at Crown rule and English Reform.
Dans Lenten Stuffe, la louange apparait comme un leurre empêchant les lecteurs de reconnaitre la façon dont Thomas Nashe condense sa chorographie de Yarmouth en un catalogue des lois arbitraires de la Couronne pendant le règne de William le Conquérant et la Réforme anglaise. Il en est de même pour les excuses de Nashe quant à sa contribution à la pièce de théâtre séditieuse, Ile of Dogs. Les circonstances historiques entourant le Théâtre du cygne et un diamant volé compliquent la lecture conventionnelle de cet incident, l’exil de Nashe, et, par la suite, la sincérité de son panégyrique. En dernier lieu, cet essai examine la projection par Nashe du débat entre le boucher et le poissonnier, concernant le caractère arbitraire des lois du carême et provenant du colloque d’Erasmus « Un régime de poisson », sur l’ascen- sion fictive du hareng saur à la monarchie humaine et divine. La blague d’Erasmus dans « Un régime de poisson » est au détriment du poissonnier, mais Nashe omet ses cibles géographiques et politiques pour générer un discours sous-entendant l’indignation dirigée à la Couronne et à la Réforme anglaise.
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Quinn, Michael. "Fuller on legal fictions: a Benthamic perspective." International Journal of Law in Context 9, no. 4 (December 2013): 466–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744552313000256.
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AbstractThis paper attempts first to explain Bentham's distinction between a fiction and the name of a fictitious entity, and to relate that distinction to his rationale for the critique of legal fictions. A second goal of the paper is to investigate the tensions involved in Bentham's ontology and epistemology, and more specifically the tension between the objectivist and subjectivist Bentham. It is argued that Bentham's objections to legal fictions were traceable to their use in deceptive or fallacious argument, whilst his logic provided a means of rehabilitating the use of the names of those fictitious entities which could be explicated through his technique of paraphrasis (that is, explained in terms of real entities), in relation to which both meaning and truth might be exchanged. This realist perspective differs markedly from that of Fuller, who, following Vaihinger, rejects the attempt to replace fiction with truth. There are significant areas of agreement between Bentham and Fuller, on the figurative nature of much language, and even, in certain contexts, on the utility of the self-conscious deployment of fictions. However, in the context of law and morality, it appears that his development of a route to truth through paraphrasis makes Bentham the enemy of fictions, since, in this field at least, truth and utility stand or fall together.
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Skinner, Stephen. "‘As a glow brings out a haze’: understanding violence in jurisprudence and Joseph Conrad’s fiction." Legal Studies 27, no. 3 (September 2007): 465–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121x.2007.00063.x.
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This paper explores connections between jurisprudential discussion of pain and violence and the methodology of law and literature. Starting with Robert Cover’s work on law’s ‘field of pain and death’, it argues that the theory on which he relied in rejecting literary approaches to law can equally justify a turn to fiction in understanding violence. It then considers the experiential dimension of Austin Sarat’s and Thomas Kearns’s jurisprudence of violence and argues that interdisciplinary perspectives, including relevant fiction, can assist in engaging with the challenges of capturing such experience in textual form. Situating the argument in relation to broader law and literature rationales, the paper finds relevant illustrations in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. It argues that Conrad’s stories represent dimensions of pain and violence that might otherwise be irreducible to non-fictional textual discourse, whilst also expressing the limits of that representation.
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Petroski, Karen. "Legal fictions and the limits of legal language." International Journal of Law in Context 9, no. 4 (December 2013): 485–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744552313000268.
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AbstractSince Lon Fuller published his 1930 trilogy of essays on the topic, students of the legal fiction have focused on identifying additional examples of fictions or challenging Fuller's classic taxonomy. But Fuller did more in these essays than propose a definition and a classification system; he also argued that legal fictions are examples of a more general phenomenon found in many systems of specialised language usage. Drawing on work done in the intervening decades on related issues outside the law, this paper develops this insight in new directions, seeking to understand in more detail one of Fuller's principal concerns: the points at which legal language stops communicating, points that may shift over time but will never completely disappear. The analysis indicates that the currently prevailing understanding of legal fictions as, in essence, consciously counterfactual propositions is historically contingent and incomplete; that legal writers have generally used the ‘legal fiction’ label to signal those writers' sense of the futility of further justification to a non-legal audience (even when they are using the term in a justification likely to be read only by a legal audience); and, contrary to the assumptions of many post-Fuller theorists, that the boundaries of the legal vocabularies recognised as self-justifying may have become less distinct over the past century.
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Abrego, Leisy, Mat Coleman, Daniel E. Martínez, Cecilia Menjívar, and Jeremy Slack. "Making Immigrants into Criminals: Legal Processes of Criminalization in the Post-IIRIRA Era." Journal on Migration and Human Security 5, no. 3 (September 2017): 694–715. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/233150241700500308.
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During a post-election TV interview that aired mid-November 2016, then President-Elect Donald Trump claimed that there are millions of so-called “criminal aliens” living in the United States: “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, we have a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate.” This claim is a blatant misrepresentation of the facts. A recent report by the Migration Policy Institute suggests that just over 800,000 (or 7 percent) of the 11 million undocumented individuals in the United States have criminal records.1 Of this population, 300,000 individuals are felony offenders and 390,000 are serious misdemeanor offenders — tallies which exclude more than 93 percent of the resident undocumented population (Rosenblum 2015, 22–24). Moreover, the Congressional Research Service found that 140,000 undocumented migrants — or slightly more than 1 percent of the undocumented population — are currently serving time in prison in the United States (Kandel 2016). The facts, therefore, are closer to what Doris Meissner, former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Commissioner, argues: that the number of “criminal aliens” arrested as a percentage of all fugitive immigration cases is “modest” (Meissner et al. 2013, 102–03). The facts notwithstanding, President Trump's fictional tally is important to consider because it conveys an intent to produce at least this many people who — through discourse and policy — can be criminalized and incarcerated or deported as “criminal aliens.” In this article, we critically review the literature on immigrant criminalization and trace the specific laws that first linked and then solidified the association between undocumented immigrants and criminality. To move beyond a legal, abstract context, we also draw on our quantitative and qualitative research to underscore ways immigrants experience criminalization in their family, school, and work lives. The first half of our analysis is focused on immigrant criminalization from the late 1980s through the Obama administration, with an emphasis on immigration enforcement practices first engineered in the 1990s. Most significant, we argue, are the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) and the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA). The second section of our analysis explores the social impacts of immigrant criminalization, as people's experiences bring the consequences of immigrant criminalization most clearly into focus. We approach our analysis of the production of criminality of immigrants through the lens of legal violence (Menjívar and Abrego 2012), a concept designed to understand the immediate and long-term harmful effects that the immigration regime makes possible. Instead of narrowly focusing only on the physical injury of intentional acts to cause harm, this concept broadens the lens to include less visible sources of violence that reside in institutions and structures and without identifiable perpetrators or incidents to be tabulated. This violence comes from structures, laws, institutions, and practices that, similar to acts of physical violence, leave indelible marks on individuals and produce social suffering. In examining the effects of today's ramped up immigration enforcement, we turn to this concept to capture the violence that this regime produces in the lives of immigrants. Immigrant criminalization has underpinned US immigration policy over the last several decades. The year 1996, in particular, was a signal year in the process of criminalizing immigrants. Having 20 years to trace the connections, it becomes evident that the policies of 1996 used the term “criminal alien” as a strategic sleight of hand. These laws established the concept of “criminal alienhood” that has slowly but purposefully redefined what it means to be unauthorized in the United States such that criminality and unauthorized status are too often considered synonymous (Ewing, Martínez, and Rumbaut 2015). Policies that followed in the 2000s, moreover, cast an increasingly wider net which continually re-determined who could be classified as a “criminal alien,” such that the term is now a mostly incoherent grab bag. Simultaneously and in contrast, the practices that produce “criminal aliens” are coherent insofar as they condition immigrant life in the United States in now predictable ways. This solidity allows us to turn in our conclusion to some thoughts about the likely future of US immigration policy and practice under President Trump.
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Witteveen, Willem. "How Do Fictions Construe Our Laws for Us?" International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique 27, no. 3 (January 31, 2014): 495–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11196-014-9365-x.
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Berlin, Adele. "Legal Fiction: Levirate cum Land Redemption in Ruth." Journal of Ancient Judaism 1, no. 1 (May 6, 2010): 3–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/21967954-00101002.
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The article focuses on the use of the levirate and the land redemption in Ruth. It argues that Ruth, drawing on Torah texts, has fictionalized these laws. Ruth’s portrayal of these laws does not depict actual practice in the postexilic era, nor was it intended as a midrash per se on Torah laws. The book of Ruth, a story of return from exile, joined together the levirate and land redemption because these laws address the continuity of family and of inherited property. The story of the Judean family who long ago underwent “exile” and almost lost its family line and its ancestral land, but whose continuity was restored by means of Torah laws, is a metaphor for the exilic or postexilic community, which is being encouraged to see in the Torah the vehicle for its own continuity of people and land. The article also examines possible inner biblical interpretations of the go’el law in Ruth and in Jeremiah 32.
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Carter, Lief. ""Supreme Fictions": L. H. LaRue's Constitutional Law as Fiction." Law & Social Inquiry 21, no. 4 (1996): 1061. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/492575.
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Carter, Lief. "“Supreme Fictions”: L. H. LaRue's Constitutional Law as Fiction." Law & Social Inquiry 21, no. 04 (1996): 1061–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.1996.tb00109.x.
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Rozali, Reza, Mulyono Mu, and Maharani Intan Andalas IRP. "FENOMENA PERILAKU PSIKOPAT DALAM NOVEL KATARSIS KARYA ANASTASIA AEMILIA: KAJIAN PSIKOLOGI SASTRA." Jurnal Sastra Indonesia 7, no. 3 (April 16, 2019): 173–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/jsi.v7i3.29841.
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Kasus kriminalitas di Indonesia beberapa tahun terakhir menunjukkan peningkatan yang begitu memprihatinkan, serta pada beberapa kasus dikaitkan dengan gangguan gejala psikopat. Psikopat ialah bentuk kekalutan mental yang ditandai dengan tidak adanya pengorganisasian dan pengintegrasian pribadi, tidak bisa bertanggung jawab secara moral, selalu konflik dengan norma sosial dan hukum yang diciptakkan oleh angan-angannya sendiri. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan fenomena perilaku psikopat pada novel Katarsis karya Anastasia Aemilia dengan pendekatan psikologi sastra, khususnya menggunakan teori gangguan kepribadian psikopat Sigmund Freud. Pada dasarnya psikologi sastra memberikan perhatian pada masalah kejiwaan para tokoh fiksional yang terkandung dalam karya sastra. Sasaran dalam penelitian ini adalah fenomena perilaku psikopat yang dialami oleh tokoh dengan mengkaji bentuk perilaku, dan faktor penyebabnya. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah teknik deskriptif kualitatif. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat diketahui bahwa (1) bentuk perilaku psikopat tokoh dalam novel Katarsis karya Anastasia Aemilia diketahui berdasarkan ciri perilaku khusus pada psikopat yaitu berperilaku antisoasial, suka memanipulasi, berperilaku agresif, berperilaku sadistis, serta tidak menyesal dan tidak merasa bersalah sehingga dapat ditentukan bentuk perilaku psikopat yang terbagi ke dalam tiga bentuk, yaitu ringan, sedang, dan berat. (2) Faktor yang menyebabkan tokoh dalam novel Katarsis berperilaku psikopat yaitu faktor biologis dan faktor lingkungan.
Cases of criminality in Indonesia in recent years have shown such an alarming increase, and in some cases linked to psychopathic symptoms disorder. Psychopaths are forms of mental disorder that is characterized by lack of organization and personal integration, can not be morally responsible, always conflict with social norms and laws created by wishful thinking alone. This study aims to describe the phenomenon of psychopathic behavior in the novel Katarsis by Anastasia Aemilia with the approach of literature psychology, in particular using the theory of psychopath personality disorder from Sigmund Freud. Basically, literature psychology gives attention to the psychological problems of the fictional characters contained in the literary work. Target in this research is phenomenon of psychopathic behavior experienced by the character by studying the form of behavior, and the cause factor. Data analysis technique used is descriptive qualitative technique. Based on the results of the research can be seen that (1) the form of psychopathic behavior of characters in the novel Katarsis by Anastasia Aemilia is known based on specific behavior on the psychopath that is behaving antisoasial, like to manipulate, behave aggressively, behave sadistis, and not regret and not feel guilty, so it can be determined form psychopathic behavior is divided into three forms, a light, medium, and heavy. (2) Factors that cause characters in the novel Katarsis behave psychopaths namely biological factors and environmental factors.
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Selmini, Rossella. "Exploring cultural criminology: The police world in fiction." European Journal of Criminology 17, no. 5 (July 6, 2020): 501–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477370820939362.
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In my 2017 presidential address to the European Society of Criminology (ESC) in Cardiff, I explored the representation of the police and police work in contemporary European novels, and compared and contrasted how the police and policing are dealt with in popular fiction and in the relevant scholarly literature. I selected unusually literate works that provide insights into policing in diverse countries and cultures, in which the main characters are middle-aged male policemen who share some characteristics: cynical but idealistic, empathetic rather than taciturn, restrained not aggressive, resistant to authority but dedicated to their mission. My main arguments are that contemporary fiction depicts police work with a greater verisimilitude than occurred in the past and in ways that parallel scholarly work on police culture. Police scholars’ assumptions about differences between real police work and fictional accounts are challenged, particularly when we look at how the police do their work and live their lives rather than at the types of crime they deal with. These characterizations of European police work and culture may particularly address and appeal to a specific sector of readers, a liberal and progressive public, and interrogate whether and how this kind of representation relates to contemporary theoretical models of procedural justice. Distinctively European models of police and policing emerge, despite some national peculiarities.
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Bagan-Kurluta, Katarzyna. "Language in the Conflict of Laws: Qualification, Meaning of Concepts. The Case of Marriage." Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 58, no. 1 (June 1, 2019): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2019-0014.
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Abstract According to E. G. Lorenzen, the international theory of the conflict of laws rests almost wholly on fiction. The discipline of conflict of laws is created by a huge number of national internal laws and quite a large number of international instruments. Concepts used there are interpreted in many ways illustrating the variety of legal solutions and values. Some of the instruments facilitating the correct application of law are unregulated. One of them is qualification, which starts the process of indication and application of the proper law and assists in its completion.
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Strawhacker, MaryAnn Tapper. "Medical Cannabis and School: Separating Fact From Fiction." NASN School Nurse 35, no. 1 (October 29, 2019): 43–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1942602x19877561.
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The majority of states have legalized medical marijuana (MM) despite its Federal Schedule 1 designation as an illegal substance. Public schools must comply with Drug Free Workplace laws or risk the loss of federal funding. To address the conflict between state and federal laws regulating MM, the National Association of School Nurses issued a position brief in January 2019. The accompanying article introduces the Cannabis/Marijuana Position Brief and provides guidance for school nurses who encounter a student treated with MM. Topics addressed include background implications of federal marijuana and hemp law, mechanism of action for MM, Epidiolex overview, current research regarding efficacy of MM for common qualifying conditions, and implications for school nursing practice.
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Pugh, Meryl. "‘You canna change the laws of fiction, Jim!’: a personal account of reading science fiction." Changing English 6, no. 1 (March 1999): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1358684990060103.
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Carlson, Matthew Paul. "‘All the Laws in the Book’: The Transgressive Impulse of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon." Crime Fiction Studies 2, no. 1 (March 2021): 96–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2021.0036.
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Scholars of detective fiction have long acknowledged Dashiell Hammett's crucial role in the formation of the American hard-boiled style. However, a closer look at his third novel, The Maltese Falcon (1930), reveals the extent to which Hammett self-consciously engaged with the generic conventions of the Golden Age mysteries that had dominated the previous decade. By partially following the rules, Hammett continually toys with the reader's expectations, charting a new course for detective fiction while simultaneously offering a self-reflexive commentary on the genre's history. In addition to providing a fresh reading of The Maltese Falcon, this essay contextualises Hammett's efforts by showing how he responds to contemporary crime novelists, especially the American Willard Huntington Wright (better known by his pseudonym S. S. Van Dine). In 1928, Wright published his famous ‘Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories’ in an attempt to define the genre's specific appeal, creating a pact between author and audience. The Maltese Falcon explores the nature of that pact and ultimately violates it through a series of reversed expectations. By showing just how deeply embedded this transgressive impulse is in The Maltese Falcon, this essay sheds new light on a pivotal moment in both Hammett's career and in the evolution of detective fiction.
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Gallagher, Catherine. "Facts, Fictions, Counterfactuals." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 134, no. 5 (October 2019): 1129–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2019.134.5.1129.
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The facts of history have long been thought of as Contingent:Not determined by unchanging laws of nature or by divine will but instead produced by human beings, who are limited by circumstances yet capable of agency. The belief in the contingency of historical facts is an invitation to speculate about what might have happened instead, and the thought experiments we call counterfactual history accept that invitation by imagining alternative historical events. Before the scientific revolution, contingency was thought to be a characteristic of facts in general: the word fact was used mainly to describe the time-bound and particular deeds of humankind as opposed to the eternal and general truths of nature. The scientific revolution marked the beginning of a long process in which modern thinkers gradually developed the concept of the fact to mean any observable, freestanding, particular occurrence in history or nature. The idea that there were natural, as well as historical, facts became acceptable, whereas earlier it would have seemed self-contradictory (Shapiro).
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Solove, Daniel J., and L. H. LaRue. "Fictions about Fictions." Yale Law Journal 105, no. 5 (March 1996): 1439. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/797184.
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Al-Hariol, Zaki. "Laws of Syntactic Structure and Speech Creation." Humanities and Management Sciences - Scientific Journal of King Faisal University 22, no. 2 (2021): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.37575/h/lng/0100.
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This research aims to clarify the syntactic level in linguistic construction and study its effect on both language creativity in general and literary creativity in particular. We show this by highlighting the most important aspects of objection and consent in which the language originator interacts with the systems and laws of language structure. Therefore, we can reach the systemic, compositional features that enrich linguistic creativity by containing and organising the syntactic system for the generators of linguistic creativity and taking into account the grammatical system for the specificity of literary genres and the nature of their formation. The creativity of language, in its ability as a constructor, is the binding of a system. Every language has manifestations that raise the levels of rhetoric, for example, manifestations of fiction, metaphors, images of brevity, or the suggestion of utterance. The overall laws that guide the system have distinct goals. They aim to vary the creative levels as appropriate for the different parts of speech. Language has reached a level of maturity in reasoning, and this is what motivates the creative aspect of the laws of the system to be an essential material that deserves study and circulation.
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Burkhardt, Julia. "Frictions and Fictions of Community." Medieval History Journal 19, no. 2 (September 16, 2016): 191–228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971945816651029.
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This article analyses structures and representations of power in late medieval Central Europe between 1350 and 1500. Using the examples of the medieval kingdoms of Poland, Bohemia, Hungary and Germany, the study describes and compares social structures and their political implementation, fora of political discourse, achievements in constitutional and theoretical writing as well as codification of laws and privileges. The focus on “community” as a key term in the political discourse allows shedding light on modes of distributing political powers, the reciprocity and interconnections of political players and the development of notions of political representation. Against this background, the article presents the formation of structures and representations of power in late medieval Central Europe as a highly dynamic process, revealing both fictions and frictions of community.
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Moran, Stacey. "Designing Quantum Bodies: A New Calculus of Responsibility." Somatechnics 10, no. 3 (December 2020): 306–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2020.0325.
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Critical Design has embraced Karen Barad's theory of agential realism for rethinking design as a discipline, an artifact, and a profession. This article meditates on an exploratory question: what if we consider Barad to be in some way ‘doing design’? The article draws attention to the fact that Barad's 2007 book, Meeting the Universe Halfway, does not begin with physics or feminism, but rather, with a close reading of a play. I suggest that Barad situates literature and fiction as central features in her analysis of historical experiments in physics, that she doesn't treat these experiments as historical events or even conceptual questions, but entangles them with a type of ‘experimental’ physics. Barad confronts the unsatisfactory ethical conclusions in the play, and thereby isolates a pressing design problem: how to loosen the hold of individualism on feminist ethics? This article proposes a provocation: that Barad engages in a project to ‘design away’ the classical body that stands in the way of more ethical quantum futures. The article highlights the need for speculative design methods because they transcend disciplinary divisions and help to overcome design problems as enduring as individualism. Engaging with fictional worlds that touch upon our contemporary technoscientific present, Barad's science fictional story, I argue, asks us to ponder our relations, imagine new ones, and open pathways to more ethical and equitable futures.
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Gardiner, Mark Q. "Truth-Conditions and Religious Language: Introduction." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 30, no. 4-5 (October 10, 2018): 321–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341427.
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AbstractIntroduction to the following set of papers: Lars Albinus, “A grammar of religious ‘truth’—pragmatic considerations on the nature of religious truth”; Terry F. Godlove, “Truth, meaning, and the study of religion”; G. Scott Davis, “Semantics and the study of religion”; Mark Q. Gardiner, “Why truth matters for the study of religion; a defense of a truth-conditional semantics”; Gabriel Levy, “Can fictional superhuman agents have mental states?”.
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McCarthy, Eugene. "Book Review: Fictions Inc.: The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture." Law, Culture and the Humanities 13, no. 1 (January 9, 2017): 173–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872116672597b.
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Banks, Martin, Vivek Labhishetty, and Steven Cholewiak. "Lags and leads of accommodation: Fact or fiction?" Journal of Vision 20, no. 11 (October 20, 2020): 1650. http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.11.1650.
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