Laws, Vol. 14, Pages 63: From Solidarity to Exclusion: The ‘Safe Country’ Concept in UK Asylum Law and the Irony of Borders Laws doi: 10.3390/laws14050063 Authors:

Rossella Pulvirenti [...]

AbstractThe Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) recently incorporated simulation-based training into their academy curriculum as part of the Keystone Model of Crisis Management

(KMCM). The novelty of this training is that it involves combining the expertise of clinical healthcare professionals with the expertise and practical training of [...]

How do preferences for international redistribution vary with income across countries? And within countries, are poor people more or less likely than rich people to support

international redistribution? I develop a simple model which includes both domestic and international tax and transfer programs. [...]

Background: Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAb) and carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPa) are critical priority MDROs. They can develop resistance

to last-line antibiotics, complicating infection treatment, leading to longer hospital stays, higher costs, and mortality. [...]

This article maps out and evaluates the rise of ‘Deliberative Rights Theory’ (‘DRT’), a novel field of human rights analysis drawing on ideas from deliberative democracy.

Deliberative democracy addresses dilemmas such as how deliberative and democratic inputs into public decision-making can each be influential, without either one dominating [...]

Strong constitutionalism usually conceives rights as instruments for protecting people. The problem with this conception is that it generates legal alienation, since it views

people as passive recipients of protection, which is an exclusive matter for the state and, ultimately, for judicial review. [...]

Judges’ role in adjudicating constitutional human rights is frequently criticised as undemocratic, fuelled by recent United States Supreme Court judgements on abortion, gun

rights and the environment. But human rights of those without political power are insufficiently protected by decision-makers accountable only to majorities. [...]

Deliberative mini-publics are decision-making bodies that provide technical instruction to a set of randomly-selected citizens, who then deliberate over public policies. Mini-publics

have long seen use across a range of policy areas globally. The appeal of using mini-publics lies in their integration of democratic and deliberative inputs, which [...]