Essays about: "courtroom discourse"

Found 3 essays containing the words courtroom discourse.

  1. 1. Partisan Gerrymandering and the U.S Supreme Court - What is the Problem Represented to be?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Maximilian Björklund Claesson; [2020]
    Keywords : Partisan Gerrymandering; U.S Supreme Court; Bacchi; Gill v. Whitford; Rucho v. Common Cause; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : A verdict in 2019 from the U.S Supreme Court that resulted in the withdrawal of the power of lower federal courts to judge in cases of partisan gerrymandering was a contested and debated one, both inside and outside the courtroom. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Elephant in the Courtroom: The Universality of Rights vs the Uniqueness of Human Animals in the Law

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Charmaine Murray; [2017]
    Keywords : RIGHTS ANIMAL HUMAN SPECIESISM LAW LEGAL EXCLUSION INTERCONNECTIVITY UNIVERSALITY; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The elephant in the courtroom is a metaphor for the overt problem facing the human rights discourse concerning the reluctance to recognize rights beyond the human animal. The growing global development of animal rights law in both the legislature and the judiciary of many jurisdictions, exposes the ethical dilemma of human rights that has been the defining characteristic of codified rights since their conception. READ MORE

  4. 3. Wicked Woman and Ready-money Gentlemen : Defining social roles in the British nineteenth-century courtroom

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Sandra Svensson; [2013]
    Keywords : Adjectives; corpus; courtroom discourse; social roles; tokens; types; witness;

    Abstract : The present study is a corpus-based study which examines social roles constructed in the British nineteenth-century courtroom. To discover the prevalent social roles in British nineteenth-century society the present study focuses on premodifying adjectives characterizing men and women. The method of classification is through semantic domains. READ MORE