Essays about: "American justice system"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words American justice system.
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1. “A Fatally Flawed System” : A critical investigation of the 2021 cases on the American Death Row where 11 people were executed
University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter och demokratiAbstract : The death penalty in the US has long been characterized by racist prejudices and mistakes. Previous research suggests that the majority of those executed are intellectually disabled people, black people and the poor. READ MORE
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2. An Exploration of the American Justice System through the Trial of Tom Robinson : A New Historicist Analysis of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : Adding something new to the understanding of To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), which is considered a twentieth-century classic, would be nearly impossible if not for the outlook of new historicism. Through a new historicist analysis of Harper Lee’s literary text parallel to non-fictional texts relating to the American justice system and civil rights, this essay explores how race affects U. READ MORE
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3. "Tempering the Gambler's Nirvanna" : A Review into to the issues and regulation of Third Party Funding in Investment Treaty Arbitration
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Third party funding (TPF) is a method of financing legal proceedings, in which a party not directly connected to the proceedings funds one of the disputing parties, usually in return for a percentage of the final monetary settlement. The interests behind TPF are that the funded party will have the resources to pursue their claim, while the funder will be able to profit from a percentage of the final settlement. READ MORE
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4. Sundown and Problems of Anti-Development in Petro-Modernity
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeAbstract : This essay takes the novel Sundown (1934), written by Native American writer John Joseph Mathews in the context of the Osage oil boom, as a literary source in order to address the question of how oil projects expectations of a glorious future, but actually prevents development in a colonial context. In this paper modernity is seen as a process of creation and destruction, able to create new ways of living and destroying the previous order, able to cause problems, but also find solutions in its never-ending movement. READ MORE
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5. Human Rights Violations in Argentina and Uruguay : A study with focus on the legal status of the amnesty laws
University essay from Stockholms universitet/LatinamerikainstitutetAbstract : This essay analyzes in a comparative manner, the cases of Argentina and Uruguay regarding the amnesty laws that both issued to members of the armed forces after the transition to democracy from the authoritarian regime, for violations of human rights committed during the military dictatorship. The research seeks to understand the causes that have made the amnesty law in Argentina from 1986 and 1987, together with the presidential pardoning of 1989 to be declared unconstitutional in 2005 and 2007 by the Argentinian Supreme Court, while the Uruguayan amnesty law issued in 1986 is at the time when this research was made still in force. READ MORE
