In 2017, in the case of Matijošaitis and Others v. Lithuania, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that imposing life imprisonment without hope of release violated Article

3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, both in law and in practice. This landmark decision prohibited irreducible life sentences in Lithuania, prompting significant [...]

The article offers a conceptual perspective on the relevance of the theory of state organs developed in the 19th century in Germany for contemporary state theory in Latvia.

The article treats the genesis of the understanding of the state institutions since the regaining of independence in the 1990s. [...]

The desire to know the key determinants of voters’ voting preferences is the domain not only of political scientists, but also of politicians in charge of party programmes

and election campaigns. The 2023 parliamentary elections in Poland were an extremely interesting election in this respect, and the electoral preferences of Poles [...]

We examine the relationship between waste recycling (WR) and corporate tax avoidance, with a focus on the moderating role of executive committee gender diversity. Using panel

data comprising 13,815 firm-year observations from 921 publicly listed firms across 10 countries between 2010 and 2024, we find that waste recycling is negatively [...]

The bibliometric and qualitative analyses of 470 publications in the Web of Science Core Collection from 2004 through 2025 in this study associated the intellectual structure

and thematic evolution of AI-driven ESG cost modeling. The research commences using an integrated analytical framework consisting of three tools: (1) Bibliometrix [...]

Sustainability partnerships offer small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) access to expertise and resources, yet how these relationships connect to organisational adaptation

remains insufficiently explained. Drawing on template analysis of interviews with leaders from 13 service-oriented SMEs in Northeast England, this study integrates [...]

This study examines the associations between environmental strategy and green innovative behaviors among employees in the tourism and hospitality sector, including the specific

indirect associations through green organizational learning capability and environmental awareness. [...]

Polymer sorbents offer versatile solutions for removing heavy metals, dyes, PFAS, and pharmaceutical contaminants from wastewater. This review connects material design with

adsorption performance, regeneration, and circular economy concepts while highlighting machine learning–driven discovery, scale-up challenges, and research priorities [...]