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Laws, Volume 10, Issue 4

December 2021 - 20 articles

Cover Story: Escalating social media use has become a worldwide phenomenon. Teenagers seem particularly likely to use the expanding platforms to communicate. This article focuses on schools’ ability to curtail the damaging impact of cyberbullying on students. After discussing social media use, it addresses the authority of school personnel to discipline students for harmful internet expression initiated off school grounds, including threats, harassment, and bullying, and reviews in detail the U.S. Supreme Court’s first decision involving student off-campus expression. The article concludes with a discussion of legal and other guidance for school personnel in their efforts to curtail hurtful online student expression and create a positive school environment. View this paper.
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Articles (20)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,534 Views
17 Pages

15 December 2021

This paper is an analysis of a six-week Restorative Reasoning Programme that took place with 13 women in a UK women’s prison. It is an exploratory evaluation based on an adapted version of the QUALIPREV scheme. This two-stage evaluation examine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
10,638 Views
12 Pages

6 December 2021

There are no secure rights without the right of free speech. Free speech is the right that is necessary to defend all other rights. Student free speech is an essential foundation for societal free speech. We will not have a society that values and pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,634 Views
16 Pages

Climate Change Planning: Soil Carbon Regulating Ecosystem Services and Land Cover Change Analysis to Inform Disclosures for the State of Rhode Island, USA

  • Elena A. Mikhailova,
  • Lili Lin,
  • Zhenbang Hao,
  • Hamdi A. Zurqani,
  • Christopher J. Post,
  • Mark A. Schlautman,
  • Gregory C. Post and
  • Peyton I. Mitchell

2 December 2021

The state of Rhode Island (RI) has established its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals, which require rapidly acquired and updatable science-based data to make these goals enforceable and effective. The combination of remote sensing and so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,427 Views
19 Pages

Digitalization of Institutions of Corporate Law: Current Trends and Future Prospects

  • Vasiliy Andreevich Laptev and
  • Daria Rinatovna Feyzrakhmanova

2 December 2021

Digital technologies have been integrated into all aspects of public life, including politics, law, finance, business, education, science, and society. As a result of the use of digital technologies by various subjects, a transformation has occurred...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,687 Views
14 Pages

30 November 2021

Public school educators must navigate very complex intersections of the First Amendment’s Establishment, Free Exercise, and Free Speech clauses. The 6th Circuit’s ruling in Meriwether vs. Hartop created a slippery slope that could create...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,253 Views
20 Pages

23 November 2021

The asylum system is a key site in which disputes over “sexuality” are contested. In refugee status determinations, administrative bodies are required to determine the actual or perceived sexuality of a claimant. This article draws on eig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,557 Views
17 Pages

18 November 2021

This article contributes a critical study of efforts to internationalize the investigation and prosecution of corruption. The efforts to internationalize anticorruption enforcement are visible, for instance, in calls for an International Anticorrupti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
11,290 Views
13 Pages

17 November 2021

Concerns often arise about the First Amendment rights of public school educators in the United States both inside and outside of their classrooms. As such, after setting the legal context, we analyze teachers’ free speech rights in a variety of setti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
174,430 Views
18 Pages

15 November 2021

This article examines how the recent Indonesian Pornography Law renders homosexuality and/or homosexual acts intelligible to the Indonesia state and society by institutionalising them as criminal offences. By drawing on insights from queer studies an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,703 Views
9 Pages

12 November 2021

In the UK, Australia, and further afield, restorative programmes have been developed as a response to the failure of the criminal justice system to give victims of sexual violence a voice in the legal process. The restorative justice literature has t...

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