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Our knowledge of Roman law is based primarily on the works of Justinian's codification. When we read through the 'Corpus Iuris Civilis', we gain an excellent insight into the legal culture of the high and late classical period. But if we want to engage in an in-depth research into the earlier stages of Roman law, we have to rely on other sources. In this aspect, the sources of ancient literature (so-called 'non-legal' sources), inscriptions and papyri are particularly relevant. Research into the links between Roman law and ancient literature is one of the most interesting and innovative areas of (legal) Roman studies. This essay deals - from a legal perspective - with the 9th satire from Horace's first book of satires (so-called 'Schwätzersatire'). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the influence of the video game Overwatch on the global perception of traditional Japanese culture, particularly through the character Genji. It emphasizes the importance of scholarly analysis and the integration of video games into Japanese studies curricula. The text also explores the intersection of gaming, education, and cultural representation, highlighting the evolving landscape of digital entertainment and its impact on society. Overall, the article provides a detailed exploration of Japanese culture, literature, and video games, underscoring their educational and professional relevance in a global context. [Extracted from the article]

The Article 86.3 of the Act on court costs in civil cases (which also applies in administrative cases and cases tried before administrative courts) establishes the upper limit of compensation for earnings or income lost by a person who appeared before a civil court, administrative court or public administration authority. A similar solution is provided for in Article 618b § 3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in relation to the maximum amount of compensation for lost earnings that may be awarded to a witness in criminal proceedings. Unless specific provisions do not provide otherwise, this amount is currently (2024) PLN 82.31, which is much lower than the average daily wage of a person receiving the minimum wage and, as such, in most cases, does not compensate for the actual loss suffered by the party, witness or expert who appeared before the court or public administration authority. The applicable provisions specifying the maximum amount of compensation for lost earnings or income are considered inconsistent with the Constitution. For now, however, the Constitutional Tribunal has not recognized them as such, so these provisions are in force. Nevertheless, some judges do not apply them, assuming that they have the right to omit provisions that, in their opinion, are inconsistent with the Constitution. By doing so, they expose themselves to disciplinary liability. Is a regulation establishing an upper limit on the reimbursed income or earnings justified and necessary? Should judges ignore the provisions that set such a limit at too low a level? The author of the paper tries to answer these questions.

Globalization is past its peak, we are told. The rise of populist anti-globalization movements and the return of geopolitical rivalries among great powers in the 2010s has put an end to free-wheeling corporate global capitalism. Or has it? This article summons available data on cross-border corporate investments at the level of countries (balance of payments), firms (subsidiaries and affiliates), and corporate managers (industry surveys). It pays special attention to the period between 2015 and 2021, which spans the election of President Trump and the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic that have unsettled global politics. We analyze global patterns in foreign direct investment positions and in particular the evolution of investments by US corporations in China, arguably a "most likely case" for deglobalization. Our analyses find no evidence that economic cross-border integration is in decline. The global allocation of corporate investments across the world's major economic regions has remained stable. US corporations have not notably reduced their global activities. If anything, their aggregate investment position in China has increased during the Trump administration's trade war. Overall, the results cast empirical doubts on prominent narratives about the state of the global economy. Geoeconomic transformations in world economic infrastructures may well be underway, but they are better understood as new and adapted forms of internationalization rather than the end of globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The summons and notification process in civil cases is a very important initial stage in resolving disputes in court. An illegal summons or inappropriate notification can result in the decision being annulled or even delaying the judicial process, which is certainly detrimental to the parties to the dispute. In Indonesia, especially at the Denpasar District Court, one of the methods used for summons and notification is by registered letter. This method was chosen because it is considered more formal and has reliable proof of delivery. However, the effectiveness of using registered letters as a means of summons and notification in civil cases needs to be evaluated. This is important to ensure that this method can actually achieve its objective, namely providing valid and timely notification to the parties to the dispute. The effectiveness of this method will have a direct impact on the smooth running of the judicial process and legal certainty for the parties involved. This research was conducted both empirically and normatively research to find the effectiveness of using registered letters as a way to summon litigants in civil cases at the Denpasar District Court. The facts obtained on the ground are that many court summons are not properly delivered to the litigants, and then court summons that failed to be sent will be returned to the Denpasar District Court without a stamp from the Village Chief as required by the provisions. In this case, evaluation is needed from both parties, the Denpasar District Court and PT Pos Indonesia, so that the summons and notification via registered letter can be carried out effectively and by applicable regulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As often occurs with eminent authors, Emmanuel Levinas has acquired a growing number of followers over time and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary philosophers. In the modern world, where masks hide the visage of the Other, it is more necessary than ever to rediscover Levinas’ thought and writings in the light of a morality which does not justify egocentric behaviour in times of war, political turmoil or pandemics. A morality which would include us all without exception. The hermeneutical proposal of this research article consists in approaching the author’s thought through a global analysis, including textual, contextual and biographical elements. The unitive understanding of the philosophy of alterity, based on the idea of a transcendental goodness and on a limitless intersubjectivity where humanization unfolds its indestructible summons, is pursued. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study documented the structure and meaning of the language used in the Buntang ritual, as practised among the Dayak Maanyan in East Barito, Kalimantan, Indonesia. This is a special language spoken by this group, living in the southern part of Borneo, to communicate with their ancestors’ spirits. In our documentation, we observed the Buntang ritual, the location of the ceremony, the participants involved, and the interactions between participants to obtain a complete record of the Buntang ritual. We then interviewed a wadian, “priest”, for a complete transcription of the speech used during the ritual. The language used in ritual features constructions of paired clauses. Drawing on the awakening and summoning practices for ancestors’ spirits in this ritual, we documented 2,868 paired clauses. The first clause of the pair uses words from daily use in the Maanyan language, while the second clause uses words that are only used in the ritual. Pairs are a combined form of two clauses with the same meaning in an unequal number of words. This inequality occurs because of verb, noun, or adverb reductions at the beginning of the second clause and word additions at its end. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and its impact on Jewish culture, particularly in Gaza. It highlights the destruction of human lives, environment, and the power dynamics between Israel and Palestine. The text also explores the intersection of colonialism, capitalism, and violence in the region, as well as the socioeconomic divisions within Israel, focusing on the high-tech sector and the Haredi community. The authors call for a reevaluation of Jewish material culture and a critical engagement with the narratives surrounding the conflict. [Extracted from the article]

The nomenclature of the Anthropocene for this geological epoch marks in a novel way the global impact of human activity on the world. Consequently, it creatively raises the alarm bell of global environmental devastation. However, the narrative implicit in the Anthropocene presents challenges to use it as a departure point for developing an ethics of responsibility, as it contains morally relevant but ambiguous etiologies, phenomenological challenges to discrete human agency, and the potential erasure of both causes and victims of global environmental degradation. This challenge compounds the challenges to traditional models of responsibility‐as‐imputation by global forms of environmental degradation signaled in the Anthropocene. Our new epoch demands new models of responsibility. This article draws upon neglected work by Paul Ricoeur to reconstruct a twofold model of responsibility: (1) responsibility‐as‐imputation and (2) responsibility for the fragile other and the domains that amplify fragility. It shows that a twofold model can more completely respond to harms elicited by anthropogenic environmental degradation by maintaining the benefits of traditional models of responsibility‐as‐accountability while dramatically expanding the subject and objects of responsibility through attention to the fragile and thus better serving us as we navigate responsibility in the Anthropocene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Thinking alongside Laura Erber's poem "versos de circunstância", this paper investigates the figure of the "swimming teacher without water" to reflect on the teaching of literature and literary theory, proposing historical similarities between swimming and reading. The paper also summons Kafka's swimmer who does not know how to swim to examine a mode of (un)knowing that destabilizes the boundaries between teacher and student. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on fieldwork research among the Bosniak (Muslim) population in rural areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this article starts with the technique of summoning the dead, aimed at obtaining information about missing goods. It argues that the practice of summoning the dead, like practices aimed at magically harming others, is based on the same moral rules that govern everyday relations between the living and the dead. While these rules are generally followed and observed in everyday life, they can also be deliberately inverted to one's own advantage or to the disadvantage of others. Ultimately, I argue that the dead prove to be moral agents who act when moral norms are violated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to promote social distancing during the recent COVID-19 pandemic, physicians and healthcare systems have made efforts to replace in-person with virtual clinic visits when feasible. While these efforts have been well received and seem compatible with sound clinical practice, they do not perfectly replicate the experience of a face-to-face exchange between doctor and patient. This essay attempts to describe features of the virtual visit that distinguish it from its face-to-face analog and considers the phenomenological work of Emmanuel Levinas in arguing that these differences may limit the force of the ethical summons a provider would otherwise experience before the face of a patient. The diminishment of this signal therapeutic experience may engender vocational as well as clinical consequences, which should be weighed against the practical benefits of the virtual visit as we consider whether our enthusiasm for this mode of practice should continue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the notion of constitutional deliverance within the Victorian settlement. The expression points to the way constitutional arrangements react to threats that may disrupt the politico-legal order. Rooted in constitutional morality, it entails executing justice, restoring order, and protecting individuals' rights and freedoms. To this end, it analyses Phineas Finn, Phineas Redux, and The Prime Minister, i.e. three of the six Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novels, and explores whether the freedom of the press executed constitutional deliverance in the Victorian era. The essay will focus on Mr Quintus Slide, the editor of the People's Banner, whose acts of moralisation seem to fit into the (political and biblical) notion of deliverance. The article argues that Slide used the press not to deliver the Nation, but to avenge his own interests. In so doing, he contradicted the idea of constitutional deliverance as embedded in Parliament, where the anointed Monarch summons His body politic to execute justice and protect it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In traffic management, a careful detection of cars plays and monitors a vital role in ensuring safety and efficiency. This paper proposes a way to enhance the discovery of vehicles by dividing roads into remote areas and closing. The newly developed approach aims to define a vehicle and calculate vehicles in both fields. Yolov5M network is easy to discover and localize vehicles, exceed the traditional speed tracking methods and enable microorganisms. The proposed form achieves a higher accuracy of 0.833, outperform the Yolov5 Standard Form of 0.67. It also demonstrates the performance enhancement in the results of summons and mean average precision by keeping the training parameters reduction trend the same. Technically speaking, the split of the roads surface is divided into sections using the latest retail techniques and the fine tuning of the Yolov5M network to positively affect the detection and classification of vehicles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This note briefly discusses the institutional and process developments in Ethopia's modern criminal justice. There is a close relationship between political administration and justice administration considering the issue of judicial independence in a historical context. The year 1907 is taken as a starting point in the development of criminal norms and institutions because the Ministry of Justice was established and Afe Negus Nesibu was appointed Minster of Justice. The institutional and normative developments in this period were merely reactive to problems. Twelve judges were appointed to help the Minster of Justice who was entrusted to see all the cases by himself. Procedural rules were introduced as schedules in order to manage the inflow of cases. The enactment of the 1930 Penal Code helped judges determine sentences rather than sending convicts to the governor for sentencing. Regulation of appeal and preliminary processes such as providing a copy of judgement were introduced. The second phase in Ethiopia's modern criminal justice system started from 1941 onward because this year is a landmark for the establishment of modern legislation and modern criminal justice institutions. The police were established as an investigation institution that executes orders given by the court. Prison was established signaling imprisonment as a mode of punishment. The prosecution institution was established under the Ministry of Justice. Thereafter, several substantive and procedural rules have been adopted governing the initiation of cases, summons, evidence, judgement and appeal. The last institution established during this period was the judicial organ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The trial of a criminal charge may be held in absentia if the accused, duly summoned, fails to appear totally or after s/he was initially present when the trial begins. Ethiopia's Criminal Procedure restricts trial in absentia to grave crimes and specific fiscal crimes. It also has procedures for summons and retrial. However, it lacks sufficient clarity about issues relating to the partial absence of the accused, the requirement of personal summons, setting aside sentences imposed in absentia, the possibility of rehearing if a defendant fails to appear in appeals by the prosecution and whether an accused may choose representation by defense counsel than standing trial in person. The Cassation Division of the Federal Supreme Court has continued giving binding interpretations that expand the scope of trial in absentia even for minor crimes precluding retrial. Having examined relevant literature and comparative experience, it is suggested that express provisions that address these gaps need to be embodied in the Draft Criminal Procedure and Evidence Law. The Cassation Division should also reconsider its binding interpretations in light of restricting the scope of trial in absentia and towards allowing retrial in cases the accused's absence for good cause. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article interweaves recent personal, embodied, often deeply emotional events regarding kin and rivers and memory with reflections on how inquiry into such things summons up mixed and contested ancestors and the joyous, sometimes-painful, difficult task of working through such things in the art of writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia, as one of the branches of the Judicial Power in Indonesia, has the Supreme Court Regulation (PERMA) which is commonly abbreviated as PERMA. On October 10, 2022, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia issued Supreme Court Regulation Number 7 of 2022 concerning Amendments to Supreme Court Regulation Number 1 of 2019 regarding Case Administration and Electronic Court Proceedings. In this PERMA, the use of registered mail is mentioned in conducting court summons. The research issues in this study are: 1.) How is the procedure for court summons using registered mail according to Supreme Court Regulation Number 7 of 2022 concerning Amendments to Supreme Court Regulation Number 1 of 2019 regarding Case Administration and Electronic Court Proceedings? 2.) Is the use of registered mail for court summons under civil procedure law? This study is a library research, which involves studying books, legal texts, or other relevant information. The nature of this research is descriptive, where data presented is qualitative. It is descriptive because the results are narratively described with data sources including secondary data, which is obtained through the review of legal materials. The legal materials used by the researcher are categorized into primary and secondary legal materials. The data analysis method used is qualitative inductive analysis with an interactive model. The research findings show that court summons using registered mail according to Supreme Court Regulation Number 7 of 2022 concerning Amendments to Supreme Court Regulation Number 1 of 2019 regarding Case Administration and Electronic Court Proceedings are carried out by sending summons letters through POS Indonesia. However, the use of registered mail for court summons is not in accordance with the provisions of civil procedure law due to non-compliance with the principles of the summons and its potential detrimental effects on parties, especially the Defendant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article titled "A Voice from the War of Jenkins' Ear: The Journal of Capt. James Stafford, 1740-1741" discusses the recruitment efforts and experiences of North Carolina colonists during the War of Jenkins' Ear. The British government sought enlistees from its colonies to form an "American" regiment for an expedition against the Spanish West Indies. Capt. James Stafford, a plantation owner, documented his activities and observations during the expedition in a journal. The journal provides detailed accounts of the preparations, voyage, and military operations, as well as insights into eighteenth-century life. The article also mentions the challenges faced by the North Carolina troops, including disputes over pay and issues with desertion. [Extracted from the article]

This paper explores Fadwā Ṭūqān's and Maḥmūd Darwīsh's poetry written in the wake of the 1967 June War, the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982, and the Second Intifāḍah (uprising) in 2002. Specifically, the article investigates how the poets mobilize the Arabic elegiac (rithāʾ) genre, as well as pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetic traditions, in order to contemplate the future and foster a mode of proleptic mourning. This paper asserts that these two Palestinian poets utilize the longstanding elegiac form in Arabic literary heritage to not only summon and lament past events and atrocities, but to conjecture about the insecurity that they anticipate in the years to come. The poems render both hopeful and pessimistic sentiments and premonitions, demonstrating how the ongoing Israeli occupation and the Palestinians' resultant losses over time have precipitated increasingly sobering and distressing speculations about the perpetuation of Palestinians' grief in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literary psychogeography is one of the concepts that deals with the impact of certain geographical places on the human psyche. It is an interdisciplinary approach that connects psychology, geography, and literature. The aim of this research paper is to examine the theory of literary psychogeography on Leila Aboulela’s fifth novel, Bird Summons (2019) within the theoretical framework of Catherina Loffler. It deals with three female heroines who have decided to go on a road trip to the Scottish Highlands to visit the grave of Lady Evelyn Cobbold. Aboulela explores the three women’s struggle with their personal choices and commitments in life. She skilfully deals with their psychologies, their lost dreams, nostalgia, and their heroic metamorphosis. The women’s psychogeographical voyages at the forest along with their nostalgia lead to their physical metamorphosis to experience heroic transformation of their souls to achieve self-actualization in life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the establishment of the Federal Criminal Prosecution Service in Pakistan through the Federal Prosecution Service Act of 2023. The new law separates prosecution from the police in the Islamabad Capital Territory and aims to improve professionalism in criminal investigations. It also brings the federal criminal justice system in line with the provincial criminal justice system. The article highlights key points of the new law, such as the appointment of the Federal Prosecutor General and District Public Prosecutor, the relationship between police and prosecution, and the financial administration of the service. It compares the federal law with provincial prosecution laws and emphasizes the need for proper funding to ensure the effective functioning of the Federal Criminal Prosecution Service. [Extracted from the article]

In the process of psychical transmission from one generation to the next, who asks what of whom? The evocative expression of an 'errand' suggests that a subject is sent on a mission, sent in error, wanders away, and returns home, adversely changed. A vocative imperative is at the heart of a mission. When there is a call from an anterior Other, there must be a response. Before, there was an experience of a call and its response, then, there would be an errand. Precisely, the subject is preceded by the self-same subject's constituted and appropriated mandate from an anterior object. To upend an aberrant errand, a subject must reconfigure a posted imperative, ever altering, again and again, the call and summons of an alien and unwelcome guest turned host. Otherwise, the dissonant and unwelcome guest turned host may transform the naïve subject into a ghost, a revenant that disappears and returns to haunt the subject. Thanks to the new and public space in the clinical setting, the entity that listens to the sub-ject will come to know that reception and perception of an errand is communalised in ways where there is a constant alteration, revision and co-creation of meanings of the received and perceived phenomenon through reciprocal connection and reciprocal correction. When subject's experiential acquisitions enter that clinical setting, a resolute upending of a retrogressive descent toward death may occur. Hence, the meaning of staying alive for an Other who is otherwise dislocated, thrown, posted into a transgenerational spiral, toward death. A toxic errand is thus potentially aborted in that new space where a new relationship for resubjectivising and sublimating the unwanted mandate happens. Resubjectivising the injected errand becomes the exit strategy so that positive change is now conceivable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The influence of technological developments on the case examination process is in line with the industrial revolution which requires the application of technology-based performance, which is used in administering cases and implementing procedural law. The online system is a breakthrough in the administration of justice. The formulation of the problem is how to apply e-court in the examination of cases in the Court, and how the application of the principle of simple, fast, and light costs is connected with e-court in the Court. The purpose of this study is to find out how the application of e-court in the examination of cases in the Court, as well as to find out how the application of the principle of simple, fast, and light costs when connected with e-court in the Court. The method used is empirical juridical. The results of the study, the application of e-court in case examination, namely for online case registration, obtaining online case cost estimates, online payments, electronic summons, and electronic trials. E-court can be accessed by registered users and other users. E-court as a case administration management system is very helpful for the mechanism of proceedings in court because it simplifies and speeds up the stages of registration and examination in court, in addition to the registration, summons, and submission of hearing documents are carried out electronically to save costs. The implementation of e-court to realize the principle of simple, fast, and low cost, in this case, is used as an instrument that facilitates the administration of cases before trial, during trial hearings, and after trial through sending copies of judgments/determinations to litigants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces the notion of interspecies pragmatics and suggests that embodied CA studies can inform such pragmatics. The aim of the study was to investigate how dogs provide embodied responses to human utterances when a human is about to throw a ball for them to catch. Studying dogs' recipiency in interaction requires that multimodal approaches be taken into consideration. The data were collected with GoPro cameras attached to two dogs: each dog brought a first-person camera perspective to the analysis and, when they looked at each other, they also provided a third-person camera angle. The findings based on this multi-camera CA approach demonstrate that when dogs produce embodied responses to human utterances, they can distinguish Goffman's addressed recipient from the unaddressed recipient. Compared to human response production planning time (600–1200 ms), dog response planning time proved much faster (a maximum of 200 ms in this context). Another interesting methodological finding was that the distance between the speaker and recipient influenced the transcription of reaction times in turns-of-talk, as sound travels at only 0.3 m/ms. By contrast, embodied actions observed from video material contained no such transcription-related limitations due to the far higher speed at which light travels. • Interspecies pragmatics is introduced. • A model for organizing a dog-initiated ball game is presented. • Dogs can distinguish addressed recipients from unaddressed recipients. • Dogs' response planning time is faster than humans. • The distance between speakers influences transcribing talk-in-interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the novel "Un círculo" by Noé Jitrik, published in 2022, which takes place during the COVID-19 pandemic and follows three main characters who live together in a house. The plot unfolds when two officials appear with a court summons, revealing a historical past related to a clandestine detention center. The novel also addresses literary debates and includes references to various authors and works. The article highlights the representation of reality and literature in the novel, as well as the reflection on the literature's ability to narrate the present time and adapt to new realities. [Extracted from the article]

The article examines clashes between Nathaniel Davies and Dean Lewellin at St. Davids Cathedral in the 1840s, revealing intricate issues in Cathedral governance and funding. It discusses their pamphlet war, exposing tensions over financial management, property rights, and educational provision. It mentions that these disputes reflect broader debates about church reform and societal perceptions of clergy responsibilities in mid-19th-century England and Wales.

Key Clinical Message: Actinomycosis is a rare cause of appendicitis with an incidence of 0.3–1 incident per year per 100,000 people. A significant preoperative diagnostic challenge exists and is usually diagnosed incidentally on histopathological examination. Appendicular actinomycosis, a rare, chronic granulomatous infection caused by actinomyces species, holds a significant preoperative diagnostic summons and is often diagnosed serendipitously during the regular histopathological examination. Herein, we present a case of a 36‐year‐old female who presented with features suggestive of acute appendicitis, underwent laparoscopic appendicectomy, and was diagnosed with appendicular actinomycosis from the histopathological examination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The tablets in the private archives of the Assyrian merchants unearthed at the Kültepe provide detailed information about their economic and social lives. Information about the period's business transactions through these tablets is also obtained. The three documents discussed here belong to the archive of Aššur-rē'ī and his son Pilah-İštar, which were found in the 1988 Kültepe excavation and are about applying for a guarantor. These documents, which have a specific pattern and are prepared in the presence of witnesses, are a kind of summons. If the debtor does not make the payment on time, the creditor applies to the guarantor, and this application is recorded. In this study, besides the examination of these three new tablets, information about the guarantee and "to give to a guarantor (ana ša qātātim tadānu)" in the Kültepe texts and the 1988 archive are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pope Francis invites the Church to turn to the peripheries of society as the loci of saturated vision and grace, if it is to embody the grace of synodality. This work makes a claim that a synodal church that turns to the peripheries of the world ought to embody three markers that exude the fullness of being church in the world. These include the praxes of compassionate imagination, re-existing as a Pentecost church, and being an embodiment of ritualized hope for all. A turn to the Spirit-centered gift of compassionate imagination is itself a deliberate embrace of the messiness of life where the beauty of the sound of God's voice is heard and encountered. It involves an embrace of the summons of the Spirit that is found at the peripheries of the world and to embody abundant life for all in a manner that upends the dynamics of empire manipulations. To do this effectively, the Church ought to become an embodiment of hope in all its ways of being in the world. An embodiment of hope that is grounded in solidarity with others must necessarily entail the praxis of suspension of judgment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution investigates two canonical sequence types (summons/answer and request/compliance sequences) in daily human-animal interactions. Primatologists inspired by sequential analysis have previously documented what can be referred to as "sequential patterns" in animal communication, which entail basic orientations to the normative expectations at the heart of social life. Moreover, recent studies have observed these forms of turn-taking in interspecies interactions. This investigation is a contribution to this emerging trend. Following a review of recent literature on the topic, both in the field of social cognition and in pragmatics, it analyzes natural interactions occurring between domestic animals (mostly dogs, but also horses and cats) and their caretakers in diverse contexts. It focuses on a set of typical adjacency pairs, examining the animals' actions and uptakes as they appear in two sequential positions, i.e. as first or second pair parts. I argue that unravelling the different ways in which animals' actions may be "conditionally relevant" (Schegloff, 2007) to human utterances, and vice versa, has several critical consequences, both for the conception of animal participation and agency, as well as for the analytical devices that aim to develop linguistic and social theories. • Humans and animals carry out recognizable sequences during ordinary interactions. • The article explores two canonical sequence types: summons/answer or request/compliance. • Animals' actions can occur as first or second pair part within a given sequence. • This has critical consequences for the conception of animal agency as well as for social theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In her book The Power of the Jury: Transforming Citizens into Jurors, Professor Nancy Marder describes how the trial process, beginning with the jury summons and ending with a post-verdict meeting with the judge, transforms citizens into jurors and then back into more fully engaged citizens. In each chapter, Marder offers suggestions for making the process more effective so that jurors are better prepared to fulfill their role in the American justice system. In some instances, Marder’s suggestions elevate the transformation from citizens to jurors over the actual task that jurors exist to perform—namely, to use their collective wisdom and community values to decide cases fairly and impartially. Overall, however, The Power of the Jury provides valuable insights into how citizens can be transformed into effective jurors and how this transformation can impact the legal system in the United States and society as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the China-Philippines dispute over the South China Sea and its implications for the region's stability, highlighting the escalating tensions fueled by China's assertive actions and rejection of international court rulings. Topics include the strategic importance of the South China Sea, competing territorial claims, and the role of the U.S. in maintaining maritime order and freedom of navigation.

We offer an interpretation of the current condition of Latin American Marxism in its productive dimension, that which summons three central elements of all critical theorization of Latin American society, but whose impulse can be taken up again in other geo-cultures. First, an approach to the "baroque/abbreviated" dimension or understanding of capitalist sociality in the continent; second, the "plebeian" conception of politics, detachment from the configuration of the social form of capital in the particular conditions described in the first phase; and finally, the national-popular dimension as a temporary crystallization of the energies of Latin American society in the conquest of rights and liberties. It is based on regional authors such as René Zavaleta, Bolívar Echeverría, Álvaro García Linera, Carlos Oliva, among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]