Douglas McDonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 6603153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas McDonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | McDonald |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONALD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Solicitor, Craddock Murray Neumann Lawyers, Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9871-0761 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Escaping the lions: Religious conversion and refugee law
Keywords:: Refugee lawreligious conversionadministrative lawhuman rights lawrefugee status determinationcredibility assessmentRichard Posner
Worlds Apart: The Appointment of Former Politicians as Judges
Becoming Indian: William Broome and Colonial Continuity in Post-independence India
William Broome was the last British judge to remain in judicial service in India, and the only one to have been appointed to a High Court after independence. Despite having come to India as an officer of the Indian Civil Service (ICS), Broome remained in India after independence, marrying an Indian woman, raising his children as Hindus and taking Indian citizenship in 1958. As a judge of the Allahabad High Court, Broome adopted an expansive inter…
Simply Impossible: Plausibility Assessment in Refugee Status Determination
Credibility assessment is fundamental to any functional, sustainable system of refugee status determination ('RSD'). Without some form of assessment as to whether asylum seekers are telling the truth about their claims, governments and relevant agencies will be incapable of determining whether individual claimants truly possess well-founded fears of persecution on account of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a …
Medical Care in Prisons
Until the 1970s, a sentence to imprisonment deprived one not only of liberty but also put one's health at risk. Medical care was inadequately available and frequently primitive. This changed when federal courts intervened, forcing improvements in prisoners' care. Rights to adequate care were established, standards were promulgated, medical staffs were expanded, and providers in the surrounding community were called on to fill gaps. Spending for p…
Private Penal Institutions
Some argue that operation and ownership of correctional facilities is a core responsibility of government. The historical record indicates otherwise. Private parties long played a central role in the administration of penal sanctions in Great Britain and the United States. By the twentieth century, government assumed operational responsibility for most adult correctional facilities. Privately owned or operated juvenile facilities in the United St…
Private Prisons and the Public Interest
Punishment without Walls: Community Service Sentences in New York City
Simply Impossible: Plausibility Assessment in Refugee Status Determination
Credibility assessment is fundamental to any functional, sustainable system of refugee status determination ('RSD'). Without some form of assessment as to whether asylum seekers are telling the truth about their claims, governments and relevant agencies will be incapable of determining whether individual claimants truly possess well-founded fears of persecution on account of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a …
Escaping the lions: Religious conversion and refugee law
Keywords:: Refugee lawreligious conversionadministrative lawhuman rights lawrefugee status determinationcredibility assessmentRichard Posner
Medical Care in Prisons
Until the 1970s, a sentence to imprisonment deprived one not only of liberty but also put one's health at risk. Medical care was inadequately available and frequently primitive. This changed when federal courts intervened, forcing improvements in prisoners' care. Rights to adequate care were established, standards were promulgated, medical staffs were expanded, and providers in the surrounding community were called on to fill gaps. Spending for p…
Punishment without Walls: Community Service Sentences in New York City
Private Prisons and the Public Interest
Private Penal Institutions
Some argue that operation and ownership of correctional facilities is a core responsibility of government. The historical record indicates otherwise. Private parties long played a central role in the administration of penal sanctions in Great Britain and the United States. By the twentieth century, government assumed operational responsibility for most adult correctional facilities. Privately owned or operated juvenile facilities in the United St…
Medical Care in Prisons
Until the 1970s, a sentence to imprisonment deprived one not only of liberty but also put one's health at risk. Medical care was inadequately available and frequently primitive. This changed when federal courts intervened, forcing improvements in prisoners' care. Rights to adequate care were established, standards were promulgated, medical staffs were expanded, and providers in the surrounding community were called on to fill gaps. Spending for p…
Simply Impossible: Plausibility Assessment in Refugee Status Determination
Credibility assessment is fundamental to any functional, sustainable system of refugee status determination ('RSD'). Without some form of assessment as to whether asylum seekers are telling the truth about their claims, governments and relevant agencies will be incapable of determining whether individual claimants truly possess well-founded fears of persecution on account of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a …
Becoming Indian: William Broome and Colonial Continuity in Post-independence India
William Broome was the last British judge to remain in judicial service in India, and the only one to have been appointed to a High Court after independence. Despite having come to India as an officer of the Indian Civil Service (ICS), Broome remained in India after independence, marrying an Indian woman, raising his children as Hindus and taking Indian citizenship in 1958. As a judge of the Allahabad High Court, Broome adopted an expansive inter…
Escaping the lions: Religious conversion and refugee law
Keywords:: Refugee lawreligious conversionadministrative lawhuman rights lawrefugee status determinationcredibility assessmentRichard Posner
Worlds Apart: The Appointment of Former Politicians as Judges
Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints (2 works) · Marketing (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works)