Search results for: “political jurisprudence”

  • Divorce in Classical Muslim Jurisprudence

    Divorce in classical Muslim jurisprudence Muslim laws do not create ‘chained women’, and therefore the solution to the problems currently facing British Muslim women in divorce is not the same as for women from the Jewish community. The Divorce (Religious Marriages) Act 2002 amended the main law on marriage in England & Wales, the Matrimonial…

  • Normative Jurisprudence

    Normative Jurisprudence Normative jurisprudence involves normative, evaluative, and otherwise prescriptive questions about the law. Freedom and the Limits of Legitimate Law Laws limit human autonomy by restricting freedom. (…) John Stuart Mill provides the classic liberal answer in the form of the harm principle: “[T]he sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively,…

  • Schools of Jurisprudence

    In the last decades, the principal schools of jurisprudence are: the natural-law school, the analytical school, the historical school, the comparative school, and the sociological school. "The first three differ mainly in their views of the nature and origin of law and […]

  • Methodology of Jurisprudence

    Methodology of Jurisprudence Descriptive Jurisprudence Books and Papers Veronica Rodriguez Blanco (2006). The Methodological Problem in Legal Theory: Normative and Descriptive Jurisprudence Revisited. Ratio Juris 19 (1):26-54. Kenneth M. Ehrenberg (2016). The Functions of Law. Oxford University Press. What is the nature of law and what is the best way to discover it? This book…

  • Methodology of Jurisprudence

    Methodology of Jurisprudence Descriptive Jurisprudence Books and Papers Veronica Rodriguez Blanco (2006). The Methodological Problem in Legal Theory: Normative and Descriptive Jurisprudence Revisited. Ratio Juris 19 (1):26-54. Kenneth M. Ehrenberg (2016). The Functions of Law. Oxford University Press. What is the nature of law and what is the best way to discover it? This book…

  • Jurisprudence of Concepts

    The Legal History of Jurisprudence of ConceptsThis section provides an overview of Jurisprudence of Concepts ResourcesSee AlsoLegal Biography Legal Traditions Historical Laws History of Law Further Reading Jurisprudence of Concepts in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History […]

  • Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States

    Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States. By the Best American and European Writers Subjects of the Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States. By the Best…

  • American Jurisprudence, 2d

    American Jurisprudence, 2d, Table of Contents   About the American Jurisprudence, 2d This set provides an unparalled breadth of coverage of all fields of American law-state and federal, civil and criminal, substantive and procedural. The articles collect, examine, and summarize the broad principles of American law and, at the same time, provide direct leads to…

  • Expropriation Jurisprudence

    Expropriation Jurisprudence Expropriation Jurisprudence under NAFTA By Dr. Howard Mann and Dr. Julie A. Soloway (March 31, 2002) The limits of analyzing the jurisprudence It is important to keep in mind that there are limits to the value of analyzing the jurisprudence because, under international law, Chapter 11 decisions have no stare decisis. A NAFTA…

  • 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 […]

  • Sociology of Law

    The Sociology of Law The Eastern-European Pioneers of the Sociology of Law This section provides an overview of the following pioneers: Eugen Ehrlich Leon Petrazycki Georges Gurvitch Nicholas S. Timasheff Foundational Works in Law and Society This section provides an […]

  • Sociology of Law

    The Sociology of Law The Eastern-European Pioneers of the Sociology of Law This section provides an overview of the following pioneers: Eugen Ehrlich Leon Petrazycki Georges Gurvitch Nicholas S. Timasheff Foundational Works in Law and Society This section provides an […]

  • Collectivism

    Collectivism Definition Collectivism is a term used to denote a political or economic system in which the means of production and the distribution of goods and services are controlled by the people as a group. Generally this refers to the state. Opposite of Free Enterprise Collectivism […]

  • Collectivism

    Collectivism Definition Collectivism is a term used to denote a political or economic system in which the means of production and the distribution of goods and services are controlled by the people as a group. Generally this refers to the state. Opposite of Free Enterprise Collectivism […]