Warning out in New England,

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Processos identitários e suas vicissitudes em uma comunidade quilombola

Estudos sobre processos identitários têm tido grande visibilidade em trabalhos desenvolvidos em várias áreas do conhecimento (Psicologia, Antropologia, Ciências Sociais, Psicanálise etc.). Esses estudos referem-se ao vínculo entre as pessoas e aglutinam temas importantes, tais como: os mecanismos das identificações e a gestão dos laços sociais. Escolhemos pesquisar um acontecimento extremamente atual, porque nos permite dar visibilidade a situações até él..'ltagônicas relativas às experiências identitárias. Com a promulgação da Constituição Federal de 1988, algumas comunidades negras rurais, foram remetidas, efetivamente, a uma situação singular: para obter os benefícios da Lei, que prevê a titulação das terras ocupadas por remanescentes dos antigos quilombos, seria necessária uma "identidade quilombola". Esta situação produz algumas questões: como aceder a uma "identidade"? Que reverberações isso provoca? Optamos por pesquisar a comunidade negra rural de Abacatal (PA), já reconhecida como quilombola desde 1999, com o intuito de pôr à vista algumas vicissitudes dos processos identitários aí implicados. Entrevistamos 12 moradores da comunidade, 5 homens e 7 mulheres, entre 27 e 68 anos, lá residentes há pelo menos 13 anos, ou seja, todos participantes do processo de titulação das terras. Ao final, foi possível destacar: a) as identificações que foram evocadas e remetidas aos antepassados escravos ou ao mito de origem da comunidade (que conta a história da união entre um conde e sua escrava); b) os benefícios que tiveram os moradores com a auto-identificação como quilombolas; c) os vários sentidos de ser "negro qui lombo Ia", dentre os quais, não se reconhecer quilombola quando isto significa ser "negro fugido". Concluímos que esses processos identitários, vividos nesta comunidade e por cada um de nós, pemitindo-nos a denominação de humanos, é, como afirma Costa (2000), o que nos mantêm vivos e nos dá gosto de viver.

Free software and the law. Out of the frying pan and into the fire: How shaking up intellectual property suits competition law just fine

Free software is viewed as a revolutionary and subversive practice, and in particular has dealt a strong blow to the traditional conception of intellectual property law (although in its current form could be considered a 'hack' of IP rights). However, other (capitalist) areas of law have been swift to embrace free software, or at least incorporate it into its own tenets. One area in particular is that of competition (antitrust) law, which itself has long been in theoretical conflict with intellectual property, due to the restriction on competition inherent in the grant of ‘monopoly’ rights by copyrights, patents and trademarks. This contribution will examine how competition law has approached free software by examining instances in which courts have had to deal with such initiatives, for instance in the Oracle Sun Systems merger, and the implications that these decisions have on free software initiatives. The presence or absence of corporate involvement in initiatives will be an important factor in this investigation, with it being posited that true instances of ‘commons-based peer production’ can still subvert the capitalist system, including perplexing its laws beyond intellectual property.

Second Strike and you are (finally) out? The Quashing of the Prevention of Infiltration Law (Amendment no. 4)

The blog-post critically analyses the Israeli Supreme Court judgment (HCJ 8425/13 Anon v. Knesset et al) quashing the Prevention of Infiltration Law (Amendment no. 4), offering themes of comparative constitutional interest.

The Judicial ‘Bail Out’ of the European Stability Mechanism: Comment on the Pringle Case. Research Paper in Law 09/2013

Since the beginning of the crisis, many responses have been taken to stabilise the European markets. Pringle is the awaited judicial response of the European Court of Justice on the creation of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a crisis-related intergovernmental international institution which provides financial assistance to Member States in distress in the Eurozone. The judgment adopts a welcome and satisfactory approach on the establishment of the ESM. This article examines the feasibility of the ESM under the Treaty rules and in light of the Pringle judgment. For the first time, the Court was called to appraise the use of the simplified revision procedure under article 48 TEU with the introduction of a new paragraph to article 136 TFEU as well as to interpret the no bail out clause under article 125 TFEU. The final result is rather positive as the Court endorses the establishment of a stability mechanism of the ESM-kind beyond a strict reading of the Treaty rules. Pringle is the first landmark ECJ decision in which the Court has endorsed the use of new and flexible measures to guarantee financial assistance between Member States. This judgment could act as a springboard for more economic, financial and, possibly, political interconnections between Member States.

The office and authority of a justice of peace : collected out of all the books, whether of common or statute-law, hitherto written on that subject : Shewing also the duty of constables, commissioners of sewers, coroners, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the highways, church-wardens, and other parish-officers : digested under alphabetical titles : To which are added precedents of indictments and warrants, never before printed : Very useful for justices of the peace, coroners, sheriffs, clerks of the assises, and of the peace, and of all others concern'd in such matters.

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The bloody buoy, thrown out as a warning to the political pilots of America; or, A faithful relation of a multitude of acts of horrid barbarity, such as the eye never witnessed, the tongue never expressed, or the imagination conceived, until the commencement of the French revolution.

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Considerations touching the likeliest means to remove hirelings out of the church. Wherein is also discoursed of tithes, church-fees, and church-revenues; and whether any maintenance of ministers can be settled by law.

At head of title: 2d edition.

Considerations touching the likeliest means to remove hirelings out of the church. Wherein is also discoursed of tithes, church-fees, & church-revenues; and whether any maintenance of ministers can be settled by law.

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Students walking out of Law building, October 1968

Jerome Knowlton

England's improvement by sea and land : to out-do the Dutch without fighting, to pay debts without moneys, to set at work all the poor of England with the growth of our own lands : to prevent unnecessary suits in law, with the benefit of a voluntary register : directions where vast quantities of timber are to be had for the building of ships, with the advantage of making the great rivers of England navigable : rules to prevent fires in London, and other great cities : with directions how the several companies of handicraftsmen in London may always have cheap bread and drink /

Vol. 2 has title: England's improvement by sea and land. The second part : Containing, I. An account of its scituation, and the growths, and manufactures thereof. II. The benefit and necessity of a voluntary-register. III. A method for improving the Royal-navy, lessening the growing power of France, and obtaining the fishery. IV. Advantageous proposals for the city of London, for the preventing of fires therein; and for lessening the great charge of the trained bands. V. The way to make New-Haven in Sussex, fit to receive ships of burthen. VI. Seasonable discourses of the tin, iron, linnen, and woollen trades; with advantageous proposals for improving them all : Illustrated with seven large copper-plates / By Andrew Yarranton, gent. London : Printed, to be sold by Tho. Parkhurst ..., 1698.