Sharia and Egypt’s constitution: an Iraqi blueprint

The constitutional debates that took place in the run-up to the formation of the current Iraqi constitution provide a blueprint for the questions Islamic parties must address if they are to be insiders to the process of consolidating democracy

Rethinking Visitation: From a Parental to a Relational Right

[...] visitation rights are considered to arise from the very fact of parenthood, so that parents are entitled to this right simply by being legally recognized as parents. [...] visitation rights are subject to the general rule of parental exclusivity: only a child\u27s legal parents have rights considered parental, and non-parents cannot acquire them

The Higher Connectivity of Intersections of Real Quadrics

A linear system of real quadratic forms defines a real projective variety. The real non-singular locus of this variety (more precisely of the underlying scheme) has a highly connected double cover as long as each non-zero form in the system has sufficiently high Witt index.Comment: 13 page