Search results for: “legal subjects”
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Legal subjects
Legal subjects List of legal subjects proposed by the Encyclopedia: Academic list: Administrative law Administrative law Admiralty & Maritime Advanced Legal concepts Advanced Legal Research (Year) Advocacy Agency law Agriculture Law Alternative Dispute Resolution Analysis of the Law (Federal) Analysis of the Law (State) Animal law Animal law and Policy in U.S. Law Antitrust &…
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Legal System
International Legal System Scholars and judicial decisions have characterized the international legal system as a system of equal and sovereign nation states whose actions are limited only by rules freely accepted as legally binding. [1] Brierly defines international law as ‘the body […]
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Legal System
International Legal System Scholars and judicial decisions have characterized the international legal system as a system of equal and sovereign nation states whose actions are limited only by rules freely accepted as legally binding. [1] Brierly defines international law as ‘the body […]
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Authors of Legal Dictionaries
Authors of Law Dictionaries Albericus de Rosate, 1290-1360: Albericus’s Dictionarium Area: (Roman/Canon Law, 1581) Albericus was “born in Rosciate, near Bergamo, around 1290. He studied in Padua under Oldradus da Ponte and Riccardus Malumbra. He studied also under Ranieri di Forlì and received advice and help from Bartolo da Sassoferrato. In the second decade of…
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Popular Subjects
Popular Subjects Civil Law Civil Law Definition Civil Law (including vs Criminal Law Civil Law System (including vs Common Law) All Civil Law Health Law Health Care Law Common Law Common Law (Countries, Marrige, etc) Common Law Definition Magna Carta Common Law and Equity International Law Area Role of International Law International Law Definition Sources…
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Legal Authority
Legal Authority Legal Authority and Obligation This covers the following: Legal Authority Political Obligation Obligations in the Law Normativity of Law Political Obligation See more about political obligation here. Obligations in the Law Books and Papers about this subject: Lena Halldenius (2011). Kant on Freedom and Obligation Under Law. Constellations 18 (2):170-189. Matthew Lister (2012).…
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Legal Authority
Legal Authority Legal Authority and Obligation This covers the following: Legal Authority Political Obligation Obligations in the Law Normativity of Law Political Obligation See more about political obligation here. Obligations in the Law Books and Papers about this subject: Lena Halldenius (2011). Kant on Freedom and Obligation Under Law. Constellations 18 (2):170-189. Matthew Lister (2012).…
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State Legal Research
State Legal Research U.S. State Legal Research The first three topics in this subset highlight key sources in researching the laws of popular states. The last of this set provides general advice about researching the law of any state, including key sources of information for all fifty states (D.C. and U.S. territories are often included…
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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 […]
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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…
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Business Encyclopaedia and Legal Adviser
The Business Encyclopedia and Legal Adviser This several-volumes encyclopedia is authored by W. S. M. Knight, Barrister at Law of the Inner Temple. The edition was in London, by Caxton Publishing Company, located in Surrey Street. The first volume had five editions, being the last one (also a revised edition) made in 1913. The subtitle…
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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…
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Linked Data Principles to Legal Information
Linked Data and Law (Legal Information) Note: see the Encyclopedia’ Linked Data project at Lawi Metadata Bob DuCharme discussed the value of linked data in United States law. DuCharme notes, “At a recent W3C Government Linked Data Working Group working group meeting, I started thinking more about the role in linked data of laws that…