Noel Semple
Biographic Data
| ID | 4163617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noel Semple |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noel |
| FAMILY NAME | Semple |
| SIGNATURE | SEMPLE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Windsor |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9745-5946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Welfarism and Person-Centred Justice
Welfarism is the idea that government should always try to make individuals’ lives go better, for them, than they otherwise would, overall. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate welfarism’s compatibility with, and potential to support, the ambitions of person-centred justice. Welfarism is a normative theory applicable to public policy generally, but one which has distinct consequences in the realm of law and legal systems. They are considered …
Good Enough for Government Work? Life-Evaluation and Public Policy
Welfare‐Consequentialism
This article is about two ideologies. Welfare‐consequentialism holds that government should adopt the policies that can rationally be expected to maximise aggregate welfare. Populism holds that society is divided into a pure people and a corrupt elite, and asserts that public policy should express the general will of the people. The responses of world governments to the coronavirus pandemic have clearly illustrated the contrast between these ideo…
Male, Pale, and Stale? Diversity in Lawyers’ Leadership
When lawyers elect the leaders of their self-regulatory organizations, what sort of people do they vote for? How do the selection processes for elite lawyer sub-groups affect the diversity and efficacy of those groups? This article quantitatively assesses the demographic and professional diversity of leadership in the Law Society of Upper Canada. After many years of underrepresentation, in 2015 visible minority members and women were elected in n…
Mandatory Family Mediation and the Settlement Mission
En Amérique du Nord, les conflits familiaux font très souvent l'objet de médiation où une tierce partie neutre tente de trouver avec les époux une résolution volontaire de leurs différends. La médiation familiale compte de nombreux partisans et de nombreuses partisanes enthousiastes, et dans plusieurs juridictions, elle constitue un passage obligé avant d'entreprendre les procédures traditionnelles. Cependant, elle a aussi donné lieu à une critiq…
Welfare‐Consequentialism
This article is about two ideologies. Welfare‐consequentialism holds that government should adopt the policies that can rationally be expected to maximise aggregate welfare. Populism holds that society is divided into a pure people and a corrupt elite, and asserts that public policy should express the general will of the people. The responses of world governments to the coronavirus pandemic have clearly illustrated the contrast between these ideo…
Mandatory Family Mediation and the Settlement Mission
En Amérique du Nord, les conflits familiaux font très souvent l'objet de médiation où une tierce partie neutre tente de trouver avec les époux une résolution volontaire de leurs différends. La médiation familiale compte de nombreux partisans et de nombreuses partisanes enthousiastes, et dans plusieurs juridictions, elle constitue un passage obligé avant d'entreprendre les procédures traditionnelles. Cependant, elle a aussi donné lieu à une critiq…
Male, Pale, and Stale? Diversity in Lawyers’ Leadership
When lawyers elect the leaders of their self-regulatory organizations, what sort of people do they vote for? How do the selection processes for elite lawyer sub-groups affect the diversity and efficacy of those groups? This article quantitatively assesses the demographic and professional diversity of leadership in the Law Society of Upper Canada. After many years of underrepresentation, in 2015 visible minority members and women were elected in n…
Welfare‐Consequentialism
This article is about two ideologies. Welfare‐consequentialism holds that government should adopt the policies that can rationally be expected to maximise aggregate welfare. Populism holds that society is divided into a pure people and a corrupt elite, and asserts that public policy should express the general will of the people. The responses of world governments to the coronavirus pandemic have clearly illustrated the contrast between these ideo…
Good Enough for Government Work? Life-Evaluation and Public Policy
Welfarism and Person-Centred Justice
Welfarism is the idea that government should always try to make individuals’ lives go better, for them, than they otherwise would, overall. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate welfarism’s compatibility with, and potential to support, the ambitions of person-centred justice. Welfarism is a normative theory applicable to public policy generally, but one which has distinct consequences in the realm of law and legal systems. They are considered …
Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Welfare (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)