Kareem Khubchandani. Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife.

Modern Drama ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 506-508
Author(s):  
Aparna Dharwadker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Indian American

This study creates a distinctive vocabulary for its ethnography of gay nightlife in India and the Indian American diaspora. The chapters on India read gay sociality in relation to repressive social-legal norms, while those on the United States address the emergence of a resistant, nostalgic “desi” style in the queer diasporic pursuit of community and pleasure.

scholarly journals Diasporic Foreign Policy Interest Groups in the United States: Democracy, Conflict, and Political Entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Shubha Kamala Prasad ◽  
Filip Savatic
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
The United States ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Indian American ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Political Entrepreneurs ◽  
Do So ◽  
Policy Interest

Why do some immigrant diasporas in the United States (U.S.) establish foreign policy interest groups while others do not? While scholars have demonstrated that diasporic interest groups often successfully influence U.S. foreign policy, we take a step back to ask why only certain diasporas attempt to do so in the first place. We argue that two factors increase the likelihood of diaspora mobilization: a community’s experience with democratic governance and conflict in its country of origin. We posit that these conditions make it more likely that political entrepreneurs emerge to serve as catalysts for top-down mobilization. To test our hypotheses, we collect and analyze novel data on diasporic interest groups as well as the characteristics of their respective countries of origin. In turn, we conduct the first in-depth case studies of the historical and contemporary Indian-American lobbies, using original archival and interview evidence.

scholarly journals Public Library in the United States: Sanctuary of Sciences or Social Shelter?

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Y. Neshcheret
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Home Visiting ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Permanent Home ◽  
The Unemployed

Based on local normative acts regulating the rules of conduct in public libraries in the United States, the author analyses the most acute problems associated with non-observance of public order and violation of legal norms by people without definite occupation and permanent home visiting reading rooms. Personnel of the American libraries is concerned with the problem of relationship with the specified category of users representing a quite significant part of the total number of visitors. Of particular concern are the incidents of drug use. Libraries are very vulnerable, as open to everyone, and users can spend there as much time as they would wish. In order to solve the problems associated with stay in library of the unemployed and homeless visitors, libraries actively cooperate with the city’s social institutions and with local police departments. Libraries have always been the guardians of humanistic values; however, today they are vulnerable to the challenges of time; they are trying to find a compromise between their duty to serve all users (regardless of their social status) and the need to maintain public order. There is required serious and responsible work on the rules governing user behaviour for solving this challenging problem. Introduction of rules for readers is dictated primarily by the objective to provide the ability for libraries to fully fulfil their mission. Created to ensure the protection of rights, interests and safety of users and library staff, the rules should be based on the current legislation to avoid ambiguity and, at the same time, to be humane, “flexible” and focused on contemporary realities.

scholarly journals How Gifted Indian American Students and Their Families Perceive Factors of Success

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 424
Author(s):  
Karen J. Micko
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Indian American ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
American Students ◽  
Asian Indian American

<p>There is a sparsity of research focusing on the experiences of Asian-Indian American students. This<br />study describes how gifted Indian American students and their families perceived factors contributing<br />to students’ academic success. Specifically, this study used a qualitative case study design to describe<br />the perceptions of four families. The data collection of open-ended interviews, observations of students<br />during school, and student-selected artifacts were utilized for an in-depth understanding of their<br />perspectives on home, school, culture, and self. Through analysis, the following themes emerged:<br />academic home climate, parents push—in a good way, planning for the future, the gifted label,<br />participants’ schools in the United States, teachers matter, values of Indian culture, challenges of living<br />in the United States, the model minority stereotype, parents’ educational backgrounds, competition,<br />motivation, and mindset: intelligence results from work ethic. Results indicated that participants<br />believed a confluence of these factors contributed to the students’ academic success.</p>

LEGAL PROTECTION OF “KNOW-HOW” IN certain FOREIGN COUNTRIES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladislav Kipriyanov ◽  
Elnur Baharov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Intellectual Property Organization ◽  
Trade Secrets ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Know How ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
The Eu

The article considers approaches to understanding “know-how” in certain foreign countries. The provisions of international documents regulating production secrets are described. The author describes several theories of understanding trade secrets, considers some features of the protection of production secrets in the United States, France, and Switzerland. It is concluded that the legal protection of “know-how” in the EU countries is very effective, and the legislation of these countries regulating this issue is quite developed. The legal norms meet all the criteria established by the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Medical immunity, international law and just war theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 165 (4) ◽  
pp. 256-265
Author(s):  
Fritz Allhoff ◽  
K Potts
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Law ◽  
Geneva Convention ◽  
Just War Theory ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
The United States ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Control Centre ◽  
Intentional Attack

Under customary international law, the First Geneva Convention and Additional Protocol I, medical personnel are protected against intentional attack. In § 1 of this paper, we survey these legal norms and situate them within the broader international humanitarian law framework. In § 2, we explore the historical and philosophical basis of medical immunity, both of which have been underexplored in the academic literature. In § 3, we analyse these norms as applied to an attack in Afghanistan (2015) by the United States; the United States was attempting to target a Taliban command-and-control centre but inadvertently destroyed a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital instead, killing 42 people. In § 4, we consider forfeiture of medical immunity and, more sceptically, whether supreme emergency could justify infringement of non-forfeited protected status.

scholarly journals The Long View on Kiobel: A muted Victory for International Legal norms in the United States?

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Marco Basile
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Majority Opinion ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Federal Jurisdiction

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. may be a Trojan horse. Observers who are sympathetic to the adjudication in U.S. courts of international legal norms—such as those against torture— have criticized the decision for limiting federal jurisdiction over human rights abuses abroad. Yet, despite this price, Kiobel might ultimately strengthen the foundation of international legal norms in U.S. courts. Chief Justice John Roberts's majority opinion, limiting the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) from reaching overseas, rested on the principle that one sovereign state should not usually apply its laws within the borders of another sovereign state, and that idea is a bedrock principle of international law. The majority avoided the connection to international law by dressing up the presumption against extraterritoriality in a foreign-policy rationale, but its argument does not square with the historical record, especially when it comes to piracy.

Liberalism and the Limits of Inclusion: Race and Immigration Law in the Americas, 1850–2000

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cook-Martín ◽  
David FitzGerald
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Racial Exclusion

Most scholars argue that the global triumph of liberal norms within the last 150 years ended discriminatory immigration policy. Yet, the United States was a leader in the spread of policy restrictions aimed at Asian migrants during the early twentieth century, and authoritarian Latin American regimes removed racial discrimination from their immigration laws a generation before the United States and Canada did. By the same token, critical theorists claim that racism has not diminished, but most states have removed their discriminatory laws, thus allowing significant ethnic transformation within their borders. An analysis of the immigration policies of the twenty-two major countries of the Americas since 1850 reveals that liberal states have been discriminatory precisely because of their liberalism and elucidates the diffusion of international legal norms of racial exclusion and inclusion.

scholarly journals PATENT TROLLING AND LEGAL REGULATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (EXPERIENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
A. G. Barabashev ◽  
D. V. Ponomareva
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Patent Protection ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Russian Soil

The article deals with a unique legal phenomenon that requires regulation in the context of protecting the rights of inventors to the results of scientific activity — patent trolling. Due to the imperfection of the patent system and patent legislation, the subjective rights of “bona fide inventors” in the field of scientific and innovation activities are constantly violated by “patent trolls”. On the example of the law enforcement practice of the United States of America, legal methods of countering this phenomenon are illustrated, the conditions conducive to its occurrence are analyzed. A conclusion is presented on the need to take into account the experience of the United States when amending the legislation of the Russian Federation on patent protection. It is noted that in the era of the fourth industrial revolution, the issue of combating “unscrupulous” copyright holders becomes one of the most acute. The criteria for assessing the “bad faith” of a patent infringement claim, developed by an American legislator, can become the basis for the development of similar legal norms on Russian soil and throughout the post-Soviet space.

scholarly journals U.S.-China Technological Rivalry: from “Arrogance” to Boycott

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (12) ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
S. Dmitriev
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Usa

The spread of the coronavirus pandemic and the slowdown in economic activity in the United States have strengthened the position of supporters of “decoupling” from China. The U.S.-China relations are progressing from “patient integration” to “impatient disengagement”. Escalating research spending, accelerated industrial modernization, and the expansion of China’s high-tech exports have been identified as major challenges to American technology dominance. The fragility of global value chains in cooperative relationships between US and Chinese companies has become particularly evident. The United States plan to free themselves from dependence on China’s innovative technologies and critical materials. Washington’s efforts to revive the country’s manufacturing industry received a new impetus. American TNCs have begun to return some of their enterprises to the USA. The “technological boycott” of China is aimed at causing maximum damage to the development of any competitive business that presents a challenge to American multinational corporations, and to slow down the progressive technological development of the PRC. Equally important are considerations of industrial policy aimed at crowding out competitors. Washington’s protectionist actions led to a reduction in trade and mutual investment and have put American companies targeting Asian consumers in a difficult position. Washington is beginning to fear that Beijing may powerfully respond to the United States with countermeasures that are sensitive to the American military-industrial complex and innovative sectors of the economy. Washington’s aggressive actions are mobilizing China’s efforts to move up the value chain and localize products to achieve self-sufficiency in key technologies. However, the threat remains that protectionism could become a “new normal” not only for U.S.-China relations. The only viable alternative to this scenario may be the joining of efforts of market participants interested in returning to international legal norms of trade.

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