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1454 - Law and State Power
Sat, August 10, 2:30 to 4:10pm, Sheraton New York, Floor: Second Floor, Central Park EastSession Submission Type: Paper Session 100min
Description
This session invites papers that consider how law constrains, enhances, and regulates state power. This includes papers that investigate the relationship between law and state power domestically, comparatively, and internationally. Possible topics include the relationship between legal systems and policy processes; law, democracy, and populism; the role of criminal justice institutions; legal approaches to managing dissent or international crises; the role of law in globalization; or the relationship between law and political economy.
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Individual Presentations
Humanitarian Capital: How Lawyers Help Immigrants Use Suffering to Claim Membership in the Nation-State - Chiara Galli, University of California Los Angeles
Motivations for and Consequences of Deliberate Contractions of the State’s Administrative Power - Amanda Rachel Cheong, Princeton University
States of Disempowerment: Governing Gendered Violence in India’s Era of Rights Mobilizations - Poulami Roychowdhury, McGill University
Feminicide and Feminicidio in Canada - Paulina Garcia del Moral, University of Guelph
Strategic waiting: Experiencing, producing and interpreting court delay during investigative processes in El Alto, Bolivia - Jorge Derpic, University of Georgia