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  • Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage

    A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage Note: Also called the Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage and the Garner’s Modern English Usage, depending on the editions. Seeral editions. New York: Oxford University Press. Author: Bryan A. Garner. The third edition: 2011. Pp. xxx + 991. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-19-538420-8. For the 4th edition: Garner’s Modern English Usage,…

  • Law School Legal Research

    Higher Degree Research Contents of Higher Degree Research Contents of this subject matter include: Research tools Managing and storing data Writing a thesis, Supervision, thesis management and developing a Doctoral Study Plan (DSP) Starting a legal research project: the nature of legal […]

  • Law School Legal Research

    Higher Degree Research Contents of Higher Degree Research Contents of this subject matter include: Research tools Managing and storing data Writing a thesis, Supervision, thesis management and developing a Doctoral Study Plan (DSP) Starting a legal research project: the nature of legal […]

  • Legal Guardianship

    Legal Guardianship in Aging Law Concept of Legal Guardianship in the context of Community Health Care and Services for Older Persons, published by the World Health Organization (WHO):Power, conferred by legal authority, to control an indivdual's affairs in relation to medical or other care.

  • Legal Encyclopedias

    Legal encyclopedias provide (generally) a brief, integrated statement of the law. They pull together an enormous body of legal literature, definitions, rules, and practice points derived mainly from case law. Indexes and cross-references are provided. Sections may be written by experts or by […]

  • Legal History

    Legal History “This abstraction called the Law,” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., once observed, is “a magic mirror, [wherein] we see reflected, not only our own lives, but the lives of all men that have been!”1 Holmes believed that this “magic mirror” offered historians an opportunity to explore the social choices and moral imperatives of…

  • Legal Positivism

    Legal Positivism Description by Several Authors Olivecrona (1971: 141) noted that, when nineteenth-century positivists ‘wanted to make a clean break with natural law doctrine, they ceased to cite the old authorities. But as a matter of course they took over their fundamental concepts.’ David and Brierley (1978: 2) commented on the shift from a theoretical…

  • Legal Information Retrieval

    Retrieval is based on automatic searching of documents for those embodying certain subject content. Such a system may involve automatic preprocessing of documents to form indexes or other structures to facilitate retrieval, but may not include any human intervention such as manual indexing of […]

  • Legal Pluralism

    Legal Pluralism Legal Pluralism Hooker (1975: 1) highlighted that ‘[l]egal systems typically combine in themselves ideas, principles, rules, and procedures originating from a variety of sources’, adding that ‘[b]oth in the contemporary world and historically the law manifests itself in a variety of forms and a variety of levels’ (p. 1). Studying legal pluralism clearly…

  • Socialist Legal Systems

    Socialist Legal Systems Socialist law is the legal system used in most Communist states. It is based on the civil law system and Marxist-Leninist ideology. During the cold war period, it was incorporated into the legal systems of the Soviet Union and its former satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. These systems were built…

  • “Lex iniusta non est lex”? Do seriously unjust laws bind? Legally?

    Main source: Finnis, John, “Natural Law Theories”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . “Lex iniusta non est lex” ? Do seriously unjust laws bind? Legally? In such a case, does the law as settled by social-fact sources, in losing its directiveness for judges and citizens, lose…

  • Citation of legal blogs in law reviews

    The importance (and credibility) of law blogs was confirmed when the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States cited its first blog in January, 2005. See United States v. Booker, 125 S. Ct. 738, 775 n.4 (2005). An article in Slaw (“citing blogs in Law Journals ) points the idea that the “question still arises…

  • White-Collar Crime

    Introduction to White-Collar CrimeWhite-Collar Crime, illegal acts committed by middle- or upper-class persons in conjunction with their ordinary occupational pursuits. The term, which has no legal significance, was first popularized by the American criminologist Edwin H. Sutherland in his …

  • Developing Countries

    Developing Countries in International Trade Meaning of Developing Countries, according to the Dictionary of International Trade (Global Negotiator): The developing countries generally lack a high degree of industrialization, infrastructure and other capital investment, sophisticated […]

  • Developing Countries

    Developing Countries in International Trade Meaning of Developing Countries, according to the Dictionary of International Trade (Global Negotiator): The developing countries generally lack a high degree of industrialization, infrastructure and other capital investment, sophisticated […]