Invasive seaweeds: global and regional law and policy responses

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (5/6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meinhard Doelle ◽  
Moira L. McConnell ◽  
David L. VanderZwaag
Keyword(s):  
Policy Responses ◽  
Law And Policy

A Short History and Thematic Overview

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
Victor V. Ramraj ◽  
Matthew Little
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Complex Environment ◽  
Short History ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Emergency Powers ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Containment Measures ◽  
Sheer Size

This chapter provides a short history and epidemiological overview of the Covid-19 pandemic, from its origin in Wuhan, China, to its spread across Asia and around the world. It identifies the five law and policy themes discussed in this book—first wave containment measures; emergency powers; technology, science, and expertise; politics, religion, and governance; and economy, climate, and sustainability—and concludes with some reflections and questions on Asia’s role in formulating responses to a pandemic in particular, and global crises more generally. Although Covid-19 quickly became a global pandemic, a focus on responses in Asia is both practical and intellectually defensible for three main reasons. First, China was the epicentre of the pandemic, which spread throughout January and February to other parts of the region. Second, Asia’s legal and political diversity provides a complex environment in which to study the challenges of policy responses and inter-governmental coordination, even without shifting to the global scale. Finally, Asia’s sheer size complicates matters even further.

scholarly journals Failing to See the Wood for the Trees: Chronic Sexual Violation and Criminal Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 573-595
Author(s):  
Tanya Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Sexual Autonomy ◽  
Abusive Relationship ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Sexual Violation ◽  
Legal Responses ◽  
Original Concept

This article argues that sexual violation can take both ‘chronic’ and ‘acute’ forms. The latter, encapsulated by the offences of rape and sexual assault, refers to a discrete incident in which a victim’s sexual autonomy is violated. By contrast, the article articulates an original concept of ‘chronic sexual violation’, in which the victim’s autonomy is gradually eroded over a longer period of time, for example in an abusive relationship. In such a case it may be difficult to identify specific sexual encounters as non-consensual, and yet the victim is left with little or no control over whether and on what terms they engage in sexual activity. This conceptualisation builds on Evan Stark’s theory of coercive control, and is grounded in survivor accounts of the lived experience of sexual violation within ongoing relationships drawn from existing studies of abusive relationships, my own empirical interview data, and case law. The article contends that the limitations of law and policy responses to sexual violation within relationships can be partly explained by the illegibility of chronic sexual violation within a legal framework premised on the notion that a crime is a discrete incident. The concept of chronic sexual violation offers a way forward for crafting legal responses to this specific and pervasive form of harm, while resisting hierarchical constructions of sexual violation within intimate relationships as less serious than ‘real rape’.

Transnational Sex Trafficking of Women

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Dewey
Keyword(s):  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Concern ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Transnational Law ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Rights Issue ◽  
Economic Considerations

The transnational sex trafficking of women is an enduring social concern across a strikingly vast array of policy realms, activisms, and academic disciplines, including criminology, sociology, criminal justice, social work, political science, psychology, medicine, gender studies, and anthropology, among others. There are five prevailing themes across this vast body of multidisciplinary work: (a) transnational law and policy responses, (b) antecedents, (c) social organization and politico-economic considerations, (d) representations, and (e) interventions and carceral logics. The analysis featured is keenly attuned to each cited study’s unique disciplinary frameworks and methods, and it concludes with recommendations for future research on this critical human rights issue.

scholarly journals Innovative Law and Policy Responses to the Opioid Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-176
Author(s):  
James G. Hodge ◽  
Chelsea L. Gulinson ◽  
Leila Barraza ◽  
Haley R. Augur ◽  
Michelle Castagne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Policy Responses ◽  
Opioid Crisis ◽  
Law And Policy
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