Cultural heritage rights and Indigenous peoples
Ayla Do Vale Alves discusses how human rights law be reformed or strengthened to better protect Indigenous peoples’ cultural heritage
Linkages between oil price shocks and stock returns revisited
How does the relationship between oil price shocks and stock market returns vary across countries and change over time, and what does this mean for oil importers and exporters?
Taking Stock of Indigenous-State Treaty-Making in Australia: Opportunities and Challenges
Harry Hobbs provides an update on the Indigenous-State treaty processes underway in Australia.
Faithless or Faithful Electors?
Can a “faithless” elector ever act in the true spirit of democracy, much like a juror who follows their conscience, even when the law says otherwise?
Banking Law and Climate Change: Key Legal Issues
How do climate change policies intersect with banking supervisory law to ensure the safety and soundness of financial systems in the face of evolving environmental risks?
Consumer Payment Behavior by Income and Demographics
How do income, education, and demographics continue to shape consumer payment behavior despite the rise of innovative options like mobile apps, BNPL, and cryptocurrency?
A new explanation of antisemitism: Jew hatred as a civilisational phenomenon
Liah Greenfeld explores antisemitism through the lens of civilizational conflict, arguing that Jew hatred has persisted due to its deep-rooted association with the development of national identity and competition between civilizations.
Architecture in Dialogue with an Activated Ground
Urs Bette explores the role of “unreasonable” thought and behavior in architectural design, focusing on the dynamic relationship between architectural objects and the site they inhabit
How Investors Shape Who and How Startups Hire
How do investors shape the early hiring decisions of startups, and what impact does this guidance have on both immediate hiring outcomes and future fundraising success?
A Difficult Balancing Act: What Planning Involves
How does the language of “balance” in planning discussions reveal and obscure underlying power dynamics and decision-making processes?
Financing Private Credit
How does the composition of lenders and their willingness to provide credit shape the relationship between credit expansions, real economic activity, and the likelihood of financial crises?
The Narrative AI Advantage?
How can human-AI collaboration transform the evaluation of creative solutions, and what role does critical thinking play in balancing AI’s influence on both objective and subjective criteria in decision-making processes?
Firm Performance Pay as Insurance against Promotion Risk
How does the prevalence of pay based on risky firm outcomes for nonexecutive workers challenge conventional contract theory, while revealing new insights about competition for promotions and the link between firm hierarchy and pay structure?
Interregional migration: who decides to move?
How can we better understand the motives behind regional migration in Australia—by focusing on individuals or households as decision-makers?
Does brain development rely on verbal interaction? Silence in English Language
Dat Bao explores the complex role of silence in language learning, challenging the assumption that verbal interaction is the primary driver of brain development
What is constitutional ideology?
Constitutional ideologies shape discourse by determining the boundaries of what can be argued within institutions, influencing both the worldview of the state and individual identity, while offering a framework to analyze citizenship, authority, and the underlying ideological rules related to causality, values, and historical claims.
Building a Research University in the Arab Region: The case of KAUST
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), founded in 2009 by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, was envisioned as a modern revival of the Middle East’s historical “house of wisdom,” blending the best practices of Western universities like Caltech to address global challenges in food, water, energy, and the environment.
Export-Led Industrial Policy for Developing Countries: Is There a Way to Pick Winners?
Tristan Reed argues that industrial policy can successfully target key sectors for growth, despite the debate on governments’ ability to “pick winners.” His essay highlights that governments can identify tradable sectors where public investment drives economic growth, focusing on those that are either highly productive or aligned with existing technologies and offer expanding markets. For developing countries, this strategy is particularly valuable. Export promotion agencies play a key role in coordinating efforts, offering a cost-effective and trade-compliant alternative to protectionism. Many nations have adopted this approach in their development strategies.
The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert
John W.I. Lee discusses the groundbreaking life of John Wesley Gilbert, an African American scholar who rose from slavery to become a pioneering archaeologist, educator, and advocate for interracial cooperation, contributing to archaeology in Greece and missionary work in Africa.
Blood in the Borderlands: Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821–1920
David C. Beyreis provides an in-depth portrait of how the Bent family creatively adapted in the face of difficult circumstances.
Holmes’s Understanding of His Clear-and-Present-Danger Test
Vincent Blasi discusses Justice Holmes’s rationale for the “clear-and-present-danger” test, focusing on why he emphasized imminence as a key factor in determining when speech poses a real threat to public safety.
Trade Finance and Exports: Firm-level Evidence from China
Using panel data from Chinese listed firms, Marc Auboin discusses the link between export earnings and trade finance. A 1% increase in trade finance loans is associated with a 0.067-0.083% rise in export earnings, depending on the model.
Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs: Constitutional Authority in Practice
Curtis Bradley examines how historical practices and precedents shape constitutional authority in U.S. foreign affairs, emphasizing the role of “historical gloss” in interpreting executive and congressional powers
Machine Learning: Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence
Phillip Bernstein outlines strategies for architects to adapt to the transformative impacts of AI and machine learning, emphasizing the need for the profession to embrace new technologies that will reshape design processes and roles, ensuring future relevance and success
Competing Legal Positivisms, Methodology and Distinctive Visions of Law
Brian Bix discusses different schools of legal positivism, focusing on their methodological approaches and the unique ways they conceptualize the nature of law and its functions.
Paediatric tube-feeding: An agenda for care improvement and research
Nick Hopwood discusses a means to improve the care and wellbeing of children with paediatric feeding disorder who require tube feeding (PFD-T).
Skills for Industry 4.0
Luke Houghton explores the essential skills needed to navigate the uncertainty brought about by digital convergence, a phenomenon central to Industry 4.0.
Work–family policies and occupational segregation by gender
Jennifer Hook examines how national work-family policies impact occupational segregation by gender, particularly among mothers
Israel Escalates War on Palestinian Prisoners
Lisa Hajjar’s argues that Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners constitutes a form of warfare, marked by systematic repression, punitive policies, and human rights violations.
A Family of Norms: Related Beliefs about Female Labor Force Participation
Elif Incekara Hafalir explores how correcting misperceptions about societal support for women working outside the home influences other related beliefs
Seroprevalence of hepatitis B antibodies among international and domestic university students
Anita Heywood investigates the prevalence of hepatitis B antibodies in both international and domestic students at a university in Australia
Judaism and Its Bible
Frederick E. Greenspahn describes the extraordinary two-and-a-half-millennia journey of a people and its book that has changed the world.
Racial Peer Effects at Work
Katharina Fietz examines how working with same-race coworkers influences employee retention within firms. Using employer-employee administrative data from Brazil, the research leverages unexpected deaths of workers from different racial backgrounds as natural shocks to peer group composition.
The Line: AI & The Future of Personhood
Is ChatGPT conscious, or is it simply performing an intricate form of mimicry? What if, in the future, claims of AI consciousness become more convincing? James Boyle delves into these pressing questions, examining the profound impact such developments could have on our understanding of personhood.
A quasi-comprehensive exploration of the mechanisms of spatial working memory
Why do some spatial patterns stick in our memory more than others? Liqiang Huang delves into the intricate mechanisms behind spatial working memory by integrating multiple theories into a single conceptual model.