State Budget Crises and Access to College for Undocumented Students in the United States by Fanny Lauby

“…Along with the rest of the unauthorized population living in the United States, these youths now have to face a serious backlash from state legislatures claiming to cut costs for their own government. …”
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Policies Affecting Pregnant Women with Substance Use Disorder by Colburn Yu

“…In 2014, Tennessee’s legislature passed a “Fetal Assault Law,” which made it possible to prosecute pregnant women for drug use during pregnancy. …”
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Legal Control of Municipal Bodies’ Power to Levy Tax: An Indian Perspective by Fareed Ahmad Rafiqi, Towseef Ahmad

“…It proceeds to study the scheme of distribution of powers under Schedule VII of the Constitution which contains the various provisions where the parliament as well as the State legislatures have delineated areas of operation in the form of the Union List, State List and the Concurrent List.…”
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Legislated rights: securing human rights through legislation by Webber, G, Yowell, P, Ekins, R, Köpcke, M, Miller, B, Urbina, F

“…Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation argues against this assumption, by showing how legislatures can and should be at the centre of the practice of human rights. …”

The Implementation of E-Budgeting Policy in Regional Government (A Case Study in Jakarta Province Province) by Saputra Ondy Asep, Hakim Abdul, Saleh Choirul, Pratiwi Ratih Nur

“…The effectiveness of the e-budgeting policy implementation is influenced by the human resources capacity in the mastery of information and communication technology, budgeting politics, and the opposing interests of the executives and legislatures. The supporting and obstacle factors of the process of e-Budgeting policy implementation are in the factors of commitment and executives’ interests, coordination and communication between the executives and legislatures, competence and commitment of the legislatures, coordination and competence of the OPD, as well as the factor of law. …”
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The notwithstanding clause in the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms: a new interpretive approach by Salvino, C

“…<p>The notwithstanding clause is a constitutional tool that can be invoked by federal, provincial, and territorial legislatures. It provides these legislatures with the ability to pass legislation that either pre-empts or overrides judicial review that concern certain Charter rights. …”

Interview with Arthur Caplan by Kaitlynd Hiller, Rachel F Bloom

“…You have to ask for them to get them, so I wrote up a law and got it through the New York State Legislature called Required Request, which was you had to ask when somebody died.  …”
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Rational choice politics / by Dewan, Torun A. (Torun Andreas), 1967-, Dowding, Keith M., Shepsle, Kenneth A.

“…Voting, elections and pressure politics -- v. 3. Legislatures -- v. 4. Bureaucracy, consitutional arrangements and the State.…”

Low-cost policy specialisation, district characteristics and gender. Patterns of committee assignment in Romania by Chiru, M

“…Nevertheless, little is known about this process in the legislatures established in the Central and Eastern European democracies. …”

Legislators’ Religiosity and Same-Sex Marriage in Latin America by Valentina González-Rostani, Scott Morgenstern

“…Although many legislatures have now voted on the issue, the literature has not intensively examined the policy makers’ attitudes toward same-sex marriage. …”
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Practice and Theory: The Diffusion of State Legislative Budget Reform by Sungkyu Jang, Sung-Jin Park, Robert J. Eger III

“… We question why some state legislatures responded to public discourse promptly while other state legislatures resist change. …”
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Do Independent Fiscal Institutions Enhance Parliamentary Accountability in the Eurozone? by Cristina Fasone

“…As they are expected to counter the deficit bias of the governments and the information asymmetry of the legislatures and the public over the management of the budget, IFIs may support or even strengthen parliamentary accountability. …”
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A Disproportionality Bias in the Bureau of the Regional Assembly of Madrid by Omar de la Cruz Vicente, Fernando Tomé Bermejo, Rafael Ramiro Moreno

“…The results show that, in view of the hypothesis on the importance of the number of seats, the NE was only followed in four of the 12 Legislatures for Vice-Presidents (it was always followed for Secretaries). …”
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Execution of administrative court decisions by Jean-Louis Dewost

“…However, one does not need to exaggerate, especially when we are aware of the agreement which exists (recently) between legislatures, State Council, and administrative courts to encourage the execution of decisions and deadlines.…”
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KRIMINALISASI DITINJAU DARI PERSPEKTIF TEORI HUKUM PIDANA (CRIMINAL LAW THEORY) by Marthen H. Toelle

“…Specifically related to the legislatures decision to criminalize, the forms of limitation can be undertaken by differentiate between the legitimate criminalization and the illegitimate criminalization. …”
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Legislative cooperation networks at the subnational level. Cases of Río Negro and Santa Fe by Cecilia Graciela RODRÍGUEZ

“…<p>This paper addresses legislative cooperation networks in the provincial legislatures of Río Negro and Santa Fe in Argentina during the 1995-2007. …”
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Next Steps for Animal Rights by David Favre

“…Over the past decade, the fifty state legislatures of the United States have been adopting legislation for the benefit of the group of animals known as companion animals. …”
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Recusatio iudicus: Serbian scope, comparative review and practice of European Court of Human Rights by Pejović Krsto M.

“…The results we have obtained, using comparative legal review and analyzing practice of ECHR indicate that the Serbian, as well as the legislatures in the region, faces major problems in this area. …”
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Global Sports Law Revisited by Ken Foster

“…It examines in particular the extent of sport’s autonomous self-governance, its claims to legal immunity from supervision by national courts and legislatures, and how such autonomy can be justified. …”
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Book review: A History of Australian Tort Law 1901-1945: England's Obedient Servant?' by Mark Lunney (Cambridge University Press, 2018) by Goudkamp, J

“…This book review of Mark Lunney's work emphasises the distinctively Australian law developed by local courts and local legislatures, despite the existence of a right of appeal to the Privy Council and the notion of a single common law of England. …”