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Deterritorializing Sexuality, Act(less)ing Justice: Žižekian/Deleuzian/Lao Zi’s Perspective on Hong Kong Law Reform on Sexual Offences
The ripple effect caused by the landmark case Leung Roy William v Secretary for Justice (2004) has been far-reaching and significant in its impact:...
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Urbanisation and China’s Land Use Policy Reform
This chapter provides a critical review of related literature in two sections. Section 2.1 introduces the urbanisation process in China and other...
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Informal land leasing and social relations: Insights from Zimbabwe’s small scale farms
This article examines the role of social relations in enabling informal land leasing in Zimbabwe's small scale (A1 villagised) settlements after the...
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“How About Being Trustworthy Rather Than Asking Families to Trust?”: A Prerequisite for Child Protection Authorities Partnering with Indigenous Communities
Australia’s Indigenous children are 12 times more likely than non-Indigenous children to be in out-of-home care, a rate that has been increasing....
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Effects of Labor Market Regulation for Underprivileged Workers: Evidence from Brazil
This paper analyses the impact of a Brazilian reform that guaranteed for domestic workers the same labour rights that other employees already had...
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Intrinsic vs. extrinsic incentives for reform: An informational mechanism of E(M)U conditionality
How does the prospect of accession to an international union affect a non-member-state government’s incentives to implement political and economic...
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Women’s Inheritance Rights and Child Health Outcomes in Kenya
In recent years, many develo** countries implemented inheritance rights reforms, aimed at abolishing any forms of gender discrimination in the...
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Ideational Bases of Land Reform in Brazil: 1910 to the Present
This chapter explores the history of the “agrarian question,” or what to do about a deeply inequitable landowning system, in Brazil. It focuses on...
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Todd-Breland, E. (2018). A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 344 pp. ISBN: 9781469646589 (Paperback)
In her recent book A Political Education , Elizabeth Todd-Breland tells the story of black education reform in Chicago since the modern civil rights...
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Improving the Effectiveness of the Consumer Product Safety System: Australian Law Reform in Asia-Pacific Context
The Australian government is undertaking public consultations over possible improvements to the 2010 Australian Consumer Law (ACL) regime, including...
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The Fertility Response to Cutting Child-Related Welfare Benefits
Despite long-term interest in whether welfare benefits motivate fertility, evidence from research has not been consistent. This paper contributes new...
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Regulatory Reviews: Revolutionary Re-imagining of Charity Law or Simply Restatements of Convenience?
This article examines a decade of charity law review processes in six jurisdictions—Australia, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and...
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Research on the reform of county-level Fangguanfu in ethnic regions in China —a case study of the Fangguanfu Reformation at Ongniud Banner
Ongniud Banner, as a mixed agricultural and pastoral county-level administrative region within the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, actively...
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Introduction: China’s Governance Reform and Crisis Management in Transition
On September 11, 2001, at 8:48 (US local time), the United States suffered the deadliest attack since the founding of the nation. Two 110-storied...
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Ambitious Reform Via Constituent Assemblies: Determinants of Success in Contemporary Latin America
Since 1998, several Latin American presidents have attempted to create constituent assemblies, rewrite constitutions, and fundamentally shift power...
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Psychiatry, Law, and Revolution: A View from Egypt
In 2009, Egypt adopted the “Law for the Care of Mental Patients,” a rights-based legislation intended to bring the country’s mental health...
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Democrats for Education Reform and the Inside Job
In a movement that largely tries to appear nonpartisan one operation announces its affiliation—Democrats for Education Reform. It has arranged itself...
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Treaty withdrawal and the development of international law
I argue that treaty withdrawal has two opposing effects on the development of international law. First, it directly impacts the treaty where it...
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Authoritarianism and Constitutional Reform: A Case-Study of LGBT Rights in Singapore and Taiwan
This chapter considers the divergent pathways of Taiwan and Singapore in respect to LGBT rights, and the implications of authoritarian government on...
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Gender Studies and the Higher Education Reform in Romania
To shed light on the local appropriations and the social usages made of internationalised knowledge on “gender” in various Eastern-European settings,...