public-policy

The UN General Assembly’s “Correct the Map” resolution supports equal-area projections such as Equal Earth, especially to address distortions affecting Africa. It does not redraw borders, alter maritime zones, or make Equal Earth legally compulsory.

The World's First World Peace Constitution - 2026: Advanced Concise International Submission Edition is an independently authored, peaceful, good-faith and non-binding global constitutional and durable peace-solution proposal. The work presents an integrated framework concerning world peace, human dignity, peaceful dispute settlement, prevention of conflict and root causes, responsible governance…

Jigyasa Verma, University of Allahabad ABSTRACT Indian Constitution’s deliberately broad, open‐textured language has enabled the Supreme Court to act as a dynamic interpreter rather than a mechanical umpire, progressively expanding and concretising fundamental rights and structural principles. On this basis, the Court has read Article 21 to include a wide cluster of dignity‐enhancing rights—such …

Sanidhya Kashyap, Advocate & Independent Legal Researcher, Ranchi, India. Prerna Lakra, Advocate & Independent Legal Researcher, Ranchi, India ABSTRACT Bail under the juvenile justice framework in India operates on a fundamentally different footing from bail in the ordinary criminal justice system. Section 12 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 adopts a sta…

Contemporary legal systems increasingly face the challenge of accommodating customary norms within state legal frameworks. While state law serves as the primary source of legal authority, customary norms continue to regulate important aspects of social life in many communities. Indonesia and Madagascar provide particularly interesting examples because both countries acknowledge the existence of c…

The Constitutional Court Decision Number 49/PUU-X/2012, which annulled Article 66, paragraph (1), of Law Number 30 of 2004 concerning the Position of Notary, was a turning point in the supervision and protection system for the notary profession in Indonesia. This study aims to determine and analyze the legal and sociological implications of Constitutional Court Decision Number 49/PUU-X/2012 regar…

War crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide can arise from the same events but require different legal elements. This article explains how to distinguish them using armed-conflict nexus, attack requirements, protected groups, intent, and leading international cases.

[Gustavo Leite Neves da Luz is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University. He holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Hamburg.] “Nobody—that’s my name,” Odysseus tells the Cyclops Polyphemus in Book IX of the Odyssey. The answer does not render him invisible. Polyphemus knows that an intruder stands before him and later knows that he has been...

Full threshold tables for the general Lawson, Lawson LDDC and Lawson 2001 wind comfort criteria, plus which variant applies to your site and why. The post Lawson wind comfort criteria: LDDC, 2001, and the original compared appeared first on SimScale .

For Middle Layer NBFCs, regulatory compliance has become increasingly intertwined with governance, risk management, technology, outsourcing, customer conduct and supervisory preparedness. The Reserve Bank of India’s Scale-Based Regulation framework places greater regulatory intensity on NBFCs as they move beyond the Read More ... The post Compliance Function Training for Middle Layer NBFCs: RBI R…