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Pessoptimistic Constitutional Analysis Open

Nathan J. Brown · 2024

Traditionally, comparative constitutional analysis has been anything but truly comparative—or, rather, the comparisons drawn by scholars were limited to a small number of canonical cases, generally in North America and Europe. Older schola…

Autocrats Can't Always Get What They Want Open

Nathan J. Brown, Steven Schaaf, Samer Anabtawi, Julian G. Waller · 2024

Authoritarianism seems to be everywhere in the political world—even the definition of authoritarianism as any form of non-democratic governance has grown very broad. Attempts to explain authoritarian rule as a function of the interests or …

Judicial Review and the Jordanian Constitutional Court: False Start or Slow Start? Open

Farouq Saber Al-Shibli, Mohamad Alkhalaileh, Nathan J. Brown · 2023

Judicial review of the constitutionality of legislation has moved in recent decades from being the exception to the rule among Arab states. Not only has it spread, but contests about adjudication of constitutional disputes have become much…

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Marc Lynch, Janine Clark, Curtis R. Ryan, Nils Hägerdal, Nathan J. Brown , et al. · 2023

Debating the Law, Creating Gender: Shariʿa and Lawmaking in Palestine, 2012–2018, written by Irene Schneider Open

Nathan J. Brown · 2023

Views: Who Speaks for the Egyptian Soul? The Tension between Rulers and al-Azhar Open

Nathan J. Brown · 2023

Frontmatter Open

Michael Barnett, Nathan J. Brown, Marc Lynch, Shibley Telhami, Editor Brown , et al. · 2023

Contents Open

Michael Barnett, Nathan J. Brown, Shibley Telhami, Ian S. Lustick, Gershon Shafir , et al. · 2023

Preface Open

Michael Barnett, Nathan J. Brown, Marc Lynch · 2023

s Elliott School of International Affairs.It was the spring of 2019 when GW colleagues

Guide for interpreting and reporting luminescence dating results Open

Shannon A. Mahan, Tammy M. Rittenour, Michelle R. Nelson, Nina Ataee, Nathan J. Brown , et al. · 2023

The development and application of luminescence dating and dosimetry techniques have grown exponentially in the last several decades. Luminescence methods provide age control for a broad range of geological and archaeological contexts and …

Calibrating a Formfinding Algorithm for Simulation of Tensioned Knitted Textile Architectural Models Open

Farzaneh Oghazian, Nathan J. Brown, Felecia Davis · 2022

This paper presents an optimization-based calibration process for tuning a digital formfinding algorithm used with knitted textile materials in architectural tension structures.3D scanning and computational optimization are employed to acc…

METAMATERIAL DESIGN FOR TARGETED LIMB-SOCKET INTERFACE PRESSURE OFFLOADING IN TRANSTIBIAL AMPUTEES. Open

Anthony Garland, Nathan J. Brown, Meredith K. Owen, John D. DesJardins, Georges Fadel · 2021

UNDERSTANDING THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF SELECTIVE BREEDING PRACTICES IN RHODE ISLAND OYSTER AQUACULTURE Open

Nathan J. Brown · 2021

Selective breeding is a common practice within oyster aquaculture and is used to improve growth rates as well as reduce the negative impacts of water temperature rise, ocean acidification and disease among oysters. What is lesser understoo…

A canary in the coal mine: How do we hold interdisciplinary process and product in tension with place? Open

Scott A. Rankin, A MacDonald, M Badham, Kurt Wise, Nathan J. Brown · 2021

Carl Brown (1928–2020) Open

Nathan J. Brown · 2020

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Introduction Open

Nathan J. Brown, Saïd Amir Arjomand · 2020

The understanding of law in the Middle East requires not simply different disciplinary perspectives but bringing disciplines into dialogue with each other. It also requires analysis that crosses historical periods in order to understand le…

The Peacemakers: Navigating the Intersection of Biblical Justice and Contemporary Policing Open

Nathan J. Brown · 2019

For Christians seeking to enter the field of policing, the question of justice is answered by two separate sources. Conceptions of justice are presented by both the contemporary justice system and the Bible. The history and current state o…

Who or what is the wali al-amr Open

Nathan J. Brown · 2018

Modern Islamic political thought has grappled with the nature of state authority by using and reshaping the tools of classical legal and political thought. That is a tradition that gives rich guidance on what a ruler should and should not …

Politics over Doctrine: The Evolution of Sharia-based State Institutions in Egypt and Saudi Arabia Open

Nathan J. Brown · 2018

The current leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia are trying to assert much more political control over their respective country's religious institutions. The lesson the regimes seem to have taken away from the Arab upheavals is not the necess…

The Occupation at Fifty: A Permanent State of Ambiguity Open

Nathan J. Brown · 2017

The most significant development is not in the occupation itself but in the collapse of all attempts to devise alternatives.

Defining our strengths, focusing our goals, optimising our future: curriculum transformation at the University of Tasmanian Open

Nathan J. Brown, David Sadler · 2017

Defining our strengths, focusing our goals, optimising our future: curriculum transformation at the University of Tasmanian

Constitutional courts and political uncertainty: Constitutional ruptures and the rule of judges Open

Nathan J. Brown, Julian G. Waller · 2016

In a constitutional rupture, when the fundamental rules of political life are uncertain, it is unlikely that constitutional courts could play a major role. Yet in some remarkable cases, such courts transform into highly interventionist pol…

Tibial tuberosity to trochlear groove distance (TT-TG distance) Open

Bálint Botz, Nathan J. Brown · 2016

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