Essays about: "Informal law"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 94 essays containing the words Informal law.

1. 11. Electronic Court Records & Online Dating: The Swedish Case

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Daniela Silipigni; [2022]
   Keywords : Court records; criminal background checks; online dating; privacy; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This socio-legal research investigates the online dating outcomes of individuals with a Swedish criminal history. By utilising a self-administered questionnaire, this research has asked respondents several questions which helped to paint a picture of what kind of impact the online availability of court records has within the online dating realm in Sweden. READ MORE

3. 12. The Republic of Kosovo, awaited Member State in the European Union or a false illusion? : “Europe is our continent, and the EU is of our destiny”– The Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Benjamin Shehu; [2022]
   Keywords : European Union; The Republic of Kosovo; Copenhagen criteria; accession; normative power; international relations.;

   Abstract : The EU has taken a major role in The Republic of Kosovo, creating a new future for the country via the EU office in Kosovo with its role in implementing EU norms in Kosovo. Kosovo is a potential candidate state for the EU and has declared its interest in becoming an EU member state. READ MORE

4. 13. Sex Workers Are the Experts of Their Own Experiences

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Maria Giulia Taccari; [2022]
   Keywords : Sexköpslagen; Sex Workers; Sex Work; Prostitution; Sweden; Sex Purchase Act; Swedish Model; Neo-Abolitionism; Human Rights; Sex Workers Rights; Participatory Action Research; Thematic Analysis.; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In this thesis, a participatory approach was used to privilege the opinions of sex workers regarding the effects of the Swedish prostitution policy. Since 1999, Sweden has criminalized only the purchase of sex, thus, this research studied the impact on sex workers, who are seen as victims by the law. READ MORE

5. 14. Democratic Backsliding in Czech Republic and Hungary:A comparative case study of the democratic backslide in Czech Republic and Hungary

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Hareng Omar; [2022]
   Keywords : Democratic backslide; Democracy; Competitive Authoritarianism; Institutions; Czech Republic; Hungary; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The enlargement of the EU towards the CEE pointed and leaned towards democratization. Two of the countries that were on the path of democratization was the Czech Republic and Hungary. However, as time has gone by Czech Republic and Hungary that once were on the path of democratization has now suffered a Democratic Backslide. READ MORE

6. 15. This is our rule of law! An ethnography of the rule of law among the “No Green Pass” activists in Italy

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Gian Luca Traverso; [2022]
   Keywords : Sociology of rule of law; Sociology of constitutional law; Italian legal culture; resistance studies; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this thesis focuses on the bottom-up conceptualisation of the notion of rule of law, developed by a group of activists against a COVID vaccine passport enforced in Italy (so-called Green Pass), and their subsequent everyday acts of resistance. By using a multimodal digital ethnography methodology, centred on both in-person and digital informal encounters, this explorative case study conducts a thematic analysis of how the concept of the rule of law, usually the prerogative of legal professionals, legal scholars and politicians, is understood and by a group of “No Green Pass activists” in Italy and subsequently used as a cultural underpinning to develop silent resistant strategies against the Green Pass itself. READ MORE