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  • Classification of Law

    Classifying Law Note: see also Law Classification in this Encyclopedia In many countries, laws originate from three main sources: previous judicial decisions (common law), parliament/s (acts, statutes or legislation), and the Constitution (constitutional law). Legal Systems Legal Systems Civil Law Legal System Common Law Legal System Customary Law System Mixed Legal System Muslim Law System…

  • Classification of Law Materials

    Classification of Law Materials General Genre/form The Library of Congress (LC) added, in 2015, the much-anticipated “general genre/form terms” to the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT), and they are live in the authority file. The project to develop these general genre/form terms was a partnership between LC’s Policy and…

  • Classification for Law Libraries

    Classification for Law Libraries Moys Classification Introduction to the First Edition Part 1: Principles of Library Classification for Law books In compiling a library classification for any special subject, whether it be law, engineering or literature, the general rules of classification, such as the exclusiveness of categories and the comprehensiveness of the sum total of…

  • LC Classification on the Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

    LC Classification on the Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas In june 2011 started the drafts for a new subclass of the Library of Congress K classification in the works dealing with the Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas. As Jolande Goldberg notes the following motivations for the development of this…

  • Municipal law Classification (Max Planck Institute)

    Municipal Law Classification (Max Planck Institute) country abbreviations: I. Regions Africa Afr/Allg Baltic Balt/Allg Balkans Blk/Allg Islam Isl/Allg Latin Amerika L/Allg Karibik L/Kar Central Amerika L/MA Eastern Asia OA/Allg East Central Europe OME Oceania Oze/Allg Comparative law Rvgl Scandinavia SK/Allg Southeast Asia OA/Süd country abbreviations: I. Individual Countries Abu Dhabi Isl/AD Afghanistan Isl/Afgh Egypt; Isl/Aeg…

  • Comparative Law Classification (Max Planck Institute)

    Comparative Law Classification (Max Planck Institute) Notation Classification Rvgl 1. History Rvgl 2. Constitution Rvgl 2.1. Constitution, general aspects Rvgl 2.2. Federation and Constituent States/Regions [Foreign Relations Power see 6. 1.] Rvgl 2.3. Parliament, Legislative Process Rvgl 2.4. Elections Rvgl 2.5. Political Parties Rvgl 2.6. Government Rvgl 2.7. Head of State Rvgl 2.8. Basic Rights…

  • Public International Law Classification (Max Planck Institute)

    Public International Law Classification (Max Planck Institute) Notation Classification VR1 General VR 1.1 Comprehensive Studies VR 1.2 Surveys of State Practice VR 1.3 Surveys of Judicial Decisions VR 1.4 Surveys of Literature VR 1.5 Institutes, Societies VR 1.5.1 Institut de Droit International (before 1996 see 1.5.3) VR 1.5.2 International Law Association (before 1996 see 1.5.3)…

  • Rights and the Law Classification, Historical

    Rights and the Law Classification, Historical The word, rights, as used in municipal law and in the classification of law given (in Law Classification, Historical ), denotes two groups of attributes attached to persons. I. It usually means a power in one person, called the right-holder, to force another, called the duty-bearer, by aid of…

  • Law Classification, Historical

    Law Classification , Historical A nation’s law, as it exists at any date in the nation’s history, whether expressed by a written constitution, by statutes, by case law, by customs, or, as is now usually the case in civilized countries, by all of these in combination, may be conveniently grouped under nine great heads, as…

  • Law Classification

    Classification of law Current Information Technologies and Web-based services need to manage, select and filter increasing amounts of textual information. Text classifi- cation allows users, through navigation on class hierarchies, to browse more easily the texts of their interests. This paradigm is very effective both in filtering information as in the development of online end-user…

  • International Law Classification

    International Law Classification International Law Classification in the Library of Congress While the traditional “public international law” materials class in KZ, or occasionally in a “regional” schedule, materials on how public international law impacts national, local, or regional legal systems class with the subject, outside of KZ. Before going further, it’s important to note the…

  • Rule of Law

    Rule of law Definition Rule of law means that any act of the government must be done through laws, that no one is above the law. However this principle has many controversial aspects, the core of it requires that fair laws should apply to all persons in a given jurisdiction. It also means […]

  • Rule of Law

    Rule of law Definition Rule of law means that any act of the government must be done through laws, that no one is above the law. However this principle has many controversial aspects, the core of it requires that fair laws should apply to all persons in a given jurisdiction. It also means […]

  • International Economic Law

    Legal Issues International economic law is more likely to fall under the rubric of public international law, as it deals with international economic relationships between states. See, for example, Petersmann, 'International Economic Theory and International Economic Law: On the Tasks of a […]

  • International Economic Law

    Legal Issues International economic law is more likely to fall under the rubric of public international law, as it deals with international economic relationships between states. See, for example, Petersmann, 'International Economic Theory and International Economic Law: On the Tasks of a […]