scholarly journals Radiance in Reclamation

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
Ali Javeed
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Depth Of Field ◽  
East Side ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Activist Group ◽  
Don River ◽  
Photo Essay ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
The City

In the sharp frosty winds of the morning of January 9th, 2019, Indigenous activist group Idle no More and their allies shut down the Bloor Viaduct, a well-used truss arch bridge in Tkaronto, Ontario, Kanata (Three Fire Territories) that connects the city’s east-side to its downtown core. The action took place during rush hour in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. The Canadian government was once again violating unceded land by mobilizing armed federal law enforcement to forcibly remove the nation from their land in order to build a gas pipeline. In response to this violence, allies throughout the city, myself among them, decided to show Tkaronto that it was not business as usual by bringing traffic on the Viaduct to a halt. Importantly, the bridge looms over the Don River. Reclamation of this space was therefore a reminder of the sanctity of water, gesturing to the fact that it is a privilege to be able to access clean water, while also reminding us of the threat of contamination posed by the pipelines’ development. As the day came to an end and the sun retreated, cycling through its farewell hues of yellow and orange, the elders began to sing. We round danced, our bodies flowing as one like the river beneath us. Our melodic voices of hope and mourning, joining the gusts of wind that whistled between the bridge supports. After the protest, we continued to chant as we walked back, fists raised with the awareness that, although this action was over, our spirits had been rekindled for the next one. This photo essay seeks to echo the calls of resistance of that day. I capture the warm hopeful tones of the sunset in an otherwise frigid colour scheme, while using wide angles to capture the scope of attendance, and a low depth of field to center the role of femme-identifying water protectors in the movement.

scholarly journals The Role of Biophilic Agents in Building a Green Resilient City; the Case of Birmingham, UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5033
Author(s):  
Linda Novosadová ◽  
Wim van der Knaap
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
Natural Land ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Community Projects ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
The City

The present research offers an exploration into the biophilic approach and the role of its agents in urban planning in questions of building a green, resilient urban environment. Biophilia, the innate need of humans to connect with nature, coined by Edgar O. Wilson in 1984, is a concept that has been used in urban governance through institutions, agents’ behaviours, activities and systems to make the environment nature-inclusive. Therefore, it leads to green, resilient environments and to making cities more sustainable. Due to an increasing population, space within and around cities keeps on being urbanised, replacing natural land cover with concrete surfaces. These changes to land use influence and stress the environment, its components, and consequently impact the overall resilience of the space. To understand the interactions and address the adverse impacts these changes might have, it is necessary to identify and define the environment’s components: the institutions, systems, and agents. This paper exemplifies the biophilic approach through a case study in the city of Birmingham, United Kingdom and its biophilic agents. Using the categorisation of agents, the data obtained through in-situ interviews with local professionals provided details on the agent fabric and their dynamics with the other two environments’ components within the climate resilience framework. The qualitative analysis demonstrates the ways biophilic agents act upon and interact within the environment in the realm of urban planning and influence building a climate-resilient city. Their activities range from small-scale community projects for improving their neighbourhood to public administration programs focusing on regenerating and regreening the city. From individuals advocating for and educating on biophilic approach, to private organisations challenging the business-as-usual regulations, it appeared that in Birmingham the biophilic approach has found its representatives in every agent category. Overall, the activities they perform in the environment define their role in building resilience. Nonetheless, the role of biophilic agents appears to be one of the major challengers to the urban design’s status quo and the business-as-usual of urban governance. Researching the environment, focused on agents and their behaviour and activities based on nature as inspiration in addressing climate change on a city level, is an opposite approach to searching and addressing the negative impacts of human activity on the environment. This focus can provide visibility of the local human activities that enhance resilience, while these are becoming a valuable input to city governance and planning, with the potential of scaling it up to other cities and on to regional, national, and global levels.

scholarly journals The Interior Appeal of the FAS of Russia: the Role of Legal Positions in the Development of Uniformity of Law Enforcement Practice

2019 ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
O. A. Moskvitin ◽  
I. P. Bochinin
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Antimonopoly Law ◽  
Uniform Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
Compliance With The Law ◽  
The Right

The article discusses some problems of the formation of a uniform law enforcement practice on the example of specific decisions of the FAS Russia Board of Appeals on issues related to: the application of the rules for the qualification of antitrust violations provided for in part 1 of art. 10 of the Federal Law «On Protection of Competition»; the need to prove the fulfillment of an agreement prohibited by art.16 of the same Law; the exercise of the right of the FAS Russia collegial bodies to refer the matter for a new consideration to the territorial antimonopoly body. It is concluded that the legal positions of the Appeal Board of FAS Russia, being based on the law and applied only in compliance with the law, help to effectively resolve controversial problems of pre-trial Antimonopoly law enforcement and to develop uniform approaches to the interpretation of the rules of competition law.

The role of people’s squads in improving the crime prevention system in an urban environment on the territory of Tambov Region

2020 ◽  
pp. 390-398
Author(s):  
Andrey Paramonov ◽  
Vadim Kharin
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Effective Activity ◽  
Prevention System

In modern conditions of the growth of unlawful acts, the volume of functional load of law enforcement agencies and their insufficiency on the population for effective activity, people’s squads are an interesting and rele-vant tool for ensuring public security. This study examines the formation and development of this institution, as well as the dawn of this civil association during the Soviet era. Currently, we can see the “rebirth” of this institution. The most problematic issues on the organization and legal status of the squads were resolved in 2014 with the adoption of Federal Law no. 44 “On the participation of citizens in the protection of public order.” One of the main activities of modern squads is the crimes prevention among the population. This activity is quite relevant. The people’s squad institute attaches great importance to ensuring regional security. In particular, there are 24 people’s squads in Tambov region, with a total number of more than 750 people. The people’s squad “Derzhava” effectively implements its activities on the territory of Tambov region. This squad remains a pioneer and leader in this activity in Tambov region.

scholarly journals The Role Of Chinese Social Organization In The Community Of Singkawang City

Al-Albab ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samsul Hidayat et al. ◽  
Reviewed by: Suhardiman
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
Regular Army ◽  
Gold Miners ◽  
Trading Activities ◽  
Time Served ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The City

Singkawang is one of the municipalities and part of the Sambas district, second largest after the city of Pontianak in West Kalimantan. Based on the historical records presented in this book, at the end of the 18th century, 40,000 Chinese people mostly of Hakka surnames from Fujian and Guangdong areas migrated to West Kalimantan. They worked as gold miners and paid taxes to the Kingdom of Sambas, until they set up their own kongsi (clan association) as a confederation, where every partnership or association had its own territory, leaders, regulations and legislation as well as law enforcement and regular army. Singkawang city at the time served as a settlement or a village for Chinese immigrants, and here people conducted trading activities, such as selling daily staples, farming and working in the mines. Trading activities in Singkawang were also closely associated with the gold mining business, so Singkawang served as a port for trade.

scholarly journals Self-Employed Law – in the Context of Automation of Law Enforcement and Mechanization of Law

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-49
Author(s):  
Natalia Fedorovna Poryvaeva
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The Self ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Machine Readable ◽  
The City

The paper considers the federal law of November 27, 2018 No. 422-FZ “On conducting an experiment to establish a special tax regime” Tax on professional income” in the city of federal significance, Moscow, in the Moscow and Kaluga regions, as well as in the Republic of Tatarstan (Tatarstan)”, or shortly – the self-employed law, as a prototype of machine-readable law in Russia. The author draws conclu-sions about the role and influence of machine-readable law on the legal system as a whole, such as changes in the legal status of an individual, the so-cio-technical nature of machine-readable legal norms, the status of machine-readable legal norms, double interpretation, ways of developing machine-readable law in the Russian Federation, as well as simplifying procedures and requirements for sub-jects legal relations in the automation of law en-forcement.

scholarly journals The Prosecutor as a Coordinator of the Law Enforcement Activities in the Fight Against Crime

Legal Concept ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Anatoly Kruglikov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
National Guard ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Presidential Decree ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Law

Introduction: the paper analyzes some problems of coordinating the activities of the law enforcement agencies in the fight against crime, and the role of the prosecutor in this activity. The author notes that the achievement of significant positive results in the fight against crime is only possible with a clear coordination of the actions of the law enforcement agencies carried out in accordance with the law. These bodies are named in the Regulation on the coordination of the activities of law enforcement agencies in the fight against crime approved by Presidential Decree No. 567 of April 18, 1996, with the subsequent amendments by other Decrees of the President of the Russian Federation, the latest of which is Decree No. 640 of December 31, 2019. Such bodies are: the bodies of internal affairs of the Russian Federation, bodies of the Federal Security Service, troops of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, bodies of the criminal executive system of the Russian Federation, bodies of compulsory enforcement of the Russian Federation, customs bodies of the Russian Federation, investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and some other bodies. In accordance with Part 1 of Article 8 of the Federal Law “On the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation”, the activities of the law enforcement agencies to combat crime are coordinated by the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, the prosecutors of the subjects of the Russian Federation, cities, districts and other territorial prosecutors, as well as military and other specialized prosecutors equated to them. In accordance with the above-mentioned Provision, the objectives of coordination are to increase the efficiency of fight against crime by developing and implementing coordinated measures by these bodies for the timely detection, solving, suppression and prevention of crimes, eliminating the causes and conditions that contribute to their commission. When writing the work, various methods of scientific knowledge were used: systematicity, analysis, synthesis, the formal-legal one, etc. Results: the author considers the basic principles of coordination of the activities of the law enforcement agencies, its main directions and forms. Conclusions: the practice of coordinating the activities of the law enforcement agencies should be constantly analyzed to study the best practices in the prevention and detection of crimes, the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens in criminal proceedings, and to take into account the essence of court decisions made based on the results of the reviewed activities.

PROBLEMS OF STRAY ANIMALS IN NOVOSIBIRSK

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-91
Author(s):  
Elena E. Rinchinova ◽  
Diyara A. Takumova ◽  
Irina I. Bochkareva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Population ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Quantitative Indicators ◽  
The City

The article discusses main issues of organizing activities for the treatment of stray and street animals in the city of Novosibirsk. The important role of successful solving the problem of stray animals in ensuring environmental comfort and safety of the urban population is noted. Definitions of the concepts “stray animals” and “street animals” are given, the differences between them are emphasized. The main regulatory and legal documents governing the handling of stray and street animals are listed. The ways in which domestic animals get into a stray state are described briefly. The results of the collection and analysis of information on the activities of shelters for stray animals in Novosibirsk are described. The information on the quantitative indicators of the shelters are given. Conclusions on how to solve the problem of stray animals, relying on the latest regulations are drawn.

A Good Sentencing Precedent is Hard to Find

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-144
Author(s):  
Brian A. Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
College Admissions ◽  
The Body ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Federal Sentencing

In federal criminal cases, federal law requires that judges consider the sentences other courts have imposed in factually similar matters. Courts and parties, however, face significant challenges in finding applicable sentencing precedents because judges do not typically issue written sentencing opinions, and transcripts of sentencings are not readily available in advanced searchable databases. At the same time, particularly since the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in United States v. Booker, sentencing precedent has come to play a significant role in federal sentencing proceedings. By way of example, this article discusses recent cases involving defendants with gambling addictions, and recent cases involving college admissions or testing fraud. The article explores the ways the parties in those cases have used sentencing precedent in their advocacy, as well as the ways the courts involved have used sentencing precedent to justify their decisions. Given the important role of sentencing precedent in federal criminal cases, the article finally looks at ways in which the body of sentencing law could be made more readily available to parties and courts alike.

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