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Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...law is this: -that each of our leading conceptions, -each branch of our knowledge, -passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious; the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.’ (Comte, 1853, p1). The first phase refers to blind belief in what we are told, the second to the beginning of questioning...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Going Public
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Going Public

...law by prohibiting the charging or paying of interest. Sukuks are increasingly being issues by non-Muslim countries as well. As “going public” thus “goes global” it can thus evolve to incorporate new values and norms. Nafis Alam and Christine Ennew explore this emerging international trend in their article “Islamic finance goes global, but Malaysia still leads...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship

...Laws should not be applied differently to individuals and groups based on class, race or gender. Key, in this regard, is preventing private actors from unduly influencing the government and its institutions to their own advantage. Corruption in the form of “kickbacks”, are therefore illegal and heavily regulated. However, many fear that through sponsorship...
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How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?
Digital & Computing

How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?

...laws against perpetrators. Despite this, not many victims come forward to register complaints or report attacks to police due to insensitive questioning and social stigmas that come with being a survivor of sexual violence in India's highly patriarchal society. To try to change this, journalist and self-titled Snapchat-storyteller Yusuf Omar provides his subjects with a...
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COP26 and the Glasgow Pact...one small step
Nature & Environment

COP26 and the Glasgow Pact...one small step

...law’ but peppered with a few juicy new headlines. For COP26 these included: Nations will up their game significantly on their NDCs (indicator 2/3) in the coming year ahead of COP27 in Egypt. For the first time in a COP decision, there was language around reducing fossil fuel use in the context of ‘efforts towards the phasedown of unabated coal power…’. Strong...
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Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted
Society, Politics & Law

Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted

...laws, giving member states control over migration and restoring the UK’s right to veto EU legislation. Business for New Europe, meanwhile, makes a case for the UK to stay in the EU. Their campaign is somewhat more comprehensive in the sense that beyond the economic and the trade components, their rationale extends into broader, and longer-term strategic issues like...
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Tackling juror trauma and stress
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling juror trauma and stress

...Law courses. [A stressed woman, leaning against a wall.] It goes without saying that being a juror can be stressful, particularly in offence against the person cases where jurors may be subjected to a range of graphic imagery depicting injury and death. Added to this, recent technological advances in 3D printing processes allow jurors to examine highly detailed physical...
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What pressures are young men feeling?
Education & Development

What pressures are young men feeling?

...law, the girl’s always right when it comes to the child,” said another. Most of the young men in our focus groups claimed to be tolerant towards homosexuality – “you wouldn’t discriminate against a gay person” – while recognising that prejudice still exists in wider society. However, sexuality was clearly a topic that some found difficult to talk about in a...
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