Reflexões sobre a constitucionalidade das cotas raciais em Universidades Públicas no Brasil: referências internacionais e os desafios pós-julgamento das cotas La cuestión de la con... by Fátima Bayma

“…It deals with the origin of affirmative actions in the United States, in France and also the limitations to apply these experiences into the Brazilian reality. …”
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PLURALIZAÇÃO ORDENATIVA E CONFLITOS CONSTITUCIONAIS: NOVOS PARADIGMAS DE ESTABILIZAÇÃO NORMATIVA NOS SISTEMAS TRANSNACIONAIS by Rafael Freitas, Luis Cláudio Martins de Araújo

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Fentanyl Overdoses in North America by Matt Dias

“…Investigations into the matter are occurring on both local and federal levels.[4] While historically, fentanyl sales and overdoses have been concentrated in the Eastern United States (in places such as Ohio and Southern Florida), the primarily affected regions of the emerging epidemic range from the greater Chicago area to British Columbia in Western Canada and California’s Central Valley. …”
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Maritime Boundary Avoidance and Resolution by I. I. Sinyakin

“…Smislov, Head, Department of International Law of the St. Petersburg State Technical Marine University; Dr. S.V. Vinogradov, CEPMLP, University of Dundee (United Kingdom).The discussion touched on several legal issues: International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea and maritime delimitation; international law requirements for drawing of baselines; delimitation of internal waters and territorial sea; basic principles of maritime dispute resolution; overview of the Russian legislation on maritime boundaries; issues of relevance of artificial islands, installations and structures to the process of maritime delimitation; influence of islands on maritime delimitation; legal electronic data on maritime delimitation; practical issues on settlement of maritime delimitation disputes; the Caspian Sea dispute and the issue of Spitzbergen.…”
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Adoção Homoparental, um direito omitido, reivindicado por famílias invisíveis by Adilson Lucio da Silva Filho

“…This study also deals with the main impacts of the legal omission regarding the existence of  gay families, especially the guarantees of their rights, in which we stumble upon an omissive State and a number of projects, such as family statute, for instance, that besides limiting the family unit to a core formed by a man, a woman and their children, puts at risk the adoption by same-sex couples, going over the STF (Federal Supreme Court), what already recognizes the gay marriage, denying the right of equality and dignity to families, besides reducing the chances of children and adolescents in a shelter situation being adopted and having a family.…”
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Contextual Vulnerability Should Guide Fair Subject Selection in Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials by Gianna Strand

“…INTRODUCTION In the United States, the supply of allogeneic, or human-derived, organs and tissues from living donors and cadavers available for transplant into critically ill individuals is inadequate.…”
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Contextual Vulnerability Should Guide Fair Subject Selection in Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials by Gianna Strand

“…INTRODUCTION In the United States, the supply of allogeneic, or human-derived, organs and tissues from living donors and cadavers available for transplant into critically ill individuals is inadequate.…”
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