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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
6 Citations
7,717 Views
11 Pages

11 November 2021

This research aims to identify the prospects for recognizing the international legal personality of artificial intelligence, taking into account the practice of international organizations. The article describes a new idea based on the research of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,632 Views
19 Pages

9 November 2021

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACrtHR) has developed in recent years an innovative jurisprudence that has integrated the entity and extension of States’ obligations regarding children’s rights—as established in Article 19 ACHR—through the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,973 Views
17 Pages

2 November 2021

The struggle for queer people to be recognised as full sexual citizens continues to be thwarted by the existence of religious exceptions to equality law. These exceptions reactivate and legitimise the historical oppression of queer people, who have l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,578 Views
34 Pages

31 October 2021

Bangladesh is recently prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators of crimes against humanity and genocide committed in the Liberation War of 1971 via a domestically operated tribunal, namely the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB). Though...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,643 Views
16 Pages

Beyond Speech: Students’ Civil Rights in Schools

  • Janet R. Decker,
  • Allison Fetter-Harrott and
  • Jennifer Rippner

29 October 2021

Educators, including school leaders, must be able to handle legal dilemmas involving student speech, but these do not occur in a vacuum. Often, speech issues are commingled with other legal challenges. This article explores student rights beyond free...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,066 Views
16 Pages

25 October 2021

As with the progress of social sciences in which the notion of turn has gradually taken a central position in academic discourse, we have often seen the blended application of “paradigm shift talk” and “turn talk” to delineate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,299 Views
23 Pages

12 October 2021

The aim of the article is to propose and defend a distinctively political reading of the European Convention of Human Rights. Drawing on a range of different sources, my core claim is that realistically construed considerations of political legitimac...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,135 Views
3 Pages

30 September 2021

Since 1 December 2009, the time when the Treaty of Lisbon came into force, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (hereinafter: the EU Charter, the Charter) has been formally included in the EU legal order as primary EU law [...]

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