Essays about: "legal norms"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 178 essays containing the words legal norms.

1. 1. Supporting education or deepening inequity? An Analysis of Voluntary Donations in State Schools: The Case of Reading

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Rebecca Swallow; [2023]
   Keywords : England; School System; Education; SDG; Sustainable Development Goals; Bourdieu; voluntary donations; Development Studies; Development; post-colonial; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis will explore the social norms around the practice of voluntary donations. It will also discuss more generally what this system of school funding means in terms of equality. All of which will be done using a socio-legal conception of norms and theories of capital. READ MORE

3. 2. The Offshore Asylum Policy : A Comparative Case Study of Denmark and the UK

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM)

   Author : Mikahel Broms; [2023]
   Keywords : Asylum; Asylum Policy; Offshore Policy; Refugees; Asylum Seekers;

   Abstract : The goal of this thesis is to provide a deeper understanding of the controversial issues surrounding the offshore asylum policy by concentrating on the political debates and arguments that are for and against the policies' activation. This will be done by  following the structure of a Political Discourse but applying an Argumentation Analysis to the study. READ MORE

4. 3. How individuals engaged in social work in Bali perceive their room for action when working with jandas : A qualitative study on social work with socially vulnerable women in Bali

   University essay from Marie Cederschiöld högskola/Institutionen för socialvetenskap

   Author : Camilla Johansson; Elin Rosenblad; [2023]
   Keywords : Janda; Bali; Social Work; Room For Action; Empowerment; Patrilineal; Patriarchal; Law; Culture;

   Abstract : The main purpose of this study is to investigate how individuals engaged in social work with socially vulnerable women in Bali perceive their room for action. Our participants' clients are widows, divorced women, unmarried women, or women with children born out of wedlock. In our thesis, we refer to these women as jandas. READ MORE

5. 4. The UN TreatyBodies and their Normative Output : International Human Rights Law Beyond State Consent?

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Per Eklund; [2023]
   Keywords : Treaty Bodies; International Law; Legal Status; International Human Rights Law; Non-Binding Legal Norms;

   Abstract : Few topics of discussion within international human rights law are as riddled with confusion as that concerning the legal status or normative significance of the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies and their work. The treaty bodies, in its work, generate a form of jurisprudence – a body of norms and directives about how state parties ought to act in order to comply fully with the treaties. READ MORE

6. 5. World Bank Group Engagement in Public-Private Partnerships : Strengthening Sustainable Finance in International Investment Standards

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Andrew Sefufan Simamora; [2023]
   Keywords : sustainable finance; international investment law; public-private partnership;

   Abstract : The prioritisation of private funds in financing public infrastructures due to limited financial resources available through the public sector has raised concerns about the protection of human rights and environment considering that the main goal of corporations is to generate as much profit as possible. The presence of the World Bank Group in the mix is to strike a balance between these competing needs by introducing the concept of sustainable finance through technical assistance and the adoption of standards that are integrated with the concept to influence the behaviour of state and non-state actors in their investment practices, especially in the developing world. READ MORE