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Laws, Volume 6, Issue 4

December 2017 - 18 articles

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Articles (18)

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,684 Views
13 Pages

Spouse Sponsorship Policies: Focus on Serial Sponsors

  • Nafiseh Ghafournia and
  • Patricia Easteal

1 November 2017

Australian citizens or permanent residents can sponsor a spouse or prospective spouse for immigration, and concerns have been raised particularly in regards to serial or repeat sponsorship and the rights to safety for sponsored partners who are victi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,581 Views
12 Pages

24 October 2017

Since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990, states have made significant progress in enabling Americans with disabilities to live in their communities, rather than institutions. That progress reflects the combined effect o...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,970 Views
10 Pages

Sex, Sexuality, Sexual Offending and the Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities

  • Michael L. Perlin,
  • Heather Ellis Cucolo and
  • Alison J. Lynch

18 October 2017

Although the legal issues related to sexual autonomy and sexual offending are significantly different, the resistance to providing adequate and effective counsel and the employment of the vividness heuristic (to privilege anecdote and reject valid an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,803 Views
21 Pages

17 October 2017

Public Prosecutors have not received much attention from international, suprastate, state and/or associative institutions in terms of seeking to influence the adoption of a common organisational model by the most diverse countries. What we have inste...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,953 Views
14 Pages

12 October 2017

Honouring the requirement of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to introduce supported decision-making (SD) has largely been a case of much talk and little real action. As a socio-economic right, actualising support is resource...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,566 Views
13 Pages

8 October 2017

Whatever happens to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) over the next few years, it is fair to assume that state Medicaid programs will be subjected to cost control measures. Despite the recent deployment of substantial arguments to the contrary, the belie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
12,499 Views
9 Pages

28 September 2017

Tax amnesty programs are often used by governments to improve tax compliance and to increase tax revenue. However, the policy choice to provide a tax amnesty often results in adverse consequences, including the violation of other legal rules. For thi...

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