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  • Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms

    Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms The shortening of existing words is another mean of vocabulary expansion. As with many other military slang and colloquial expressions, many of the slang and colloquial abbreviations originated during war. There were several motives for introducing slang abbreviations but the main reason was to hide the real meaning and linguistic economy.…

  • United Kingdom

    Legal Materials For purposes of this section, the United Kingdom includes England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The following is a compilation of some information concerning any of these jurisdictions into the topics discussed below. For more information, see the U.K. legal […]

  • Court of Arbitration for Sport

    Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) The Court of Arbitration for Sport is an institution independent of any sports organization which provides for servic­es in order to facilitate the settlement of sports-related disputes through arbitration or mediation by means of procedural rules adapted to the­ specific needs of the sports world. The Court of Arbitration…

  • Arbitral Courts

    Arbitral Courts Note: for information on the Court of Arbitration for Sport, see here. For information on the ICC International Court of Arbitration, see here. For information on the International Court of Environmental Arbitration and Conciliation, see here. Court of Conciliation and Arbitration Note: The Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration was an Australian court…

  • Hicks Classification System

    Hicks Classification System The Hicks Classification System is a locally developed classification system used, in some libraries, for early primary source material, such as statutes and reports, in American and British law. The Hicks scheme or system is used, in general, in law libraries (mainly, in the Yale law library, where the scheme was created),…

  • Hicks Classification System

    Hicks Classification System The Hicks Classification System is a locally developed classification system used, in some libraries, for early primary source material, such as statutes and reports, in American and British law. The Hicks scheme or system is used, in general, in law libraries (mainly, in the Yale law library, where the scheme was created),…

  • Soft Law

    Compliance with Soft Law In the study of compliance with soft law, several factors were identified in advance as possibly affecting state performance. While most of them apply to all subject areas in the study, the relative importance of each varies from one subject to another. The […]

  • Soft Law

    Compliance with Soft Law In the study of compliance with soft law, several factors were identified in advance as possibly affecting state performance. While most of them apply to all subject areas in the study, the relative importance of each varies from one subject to another. The […]

  • Decision-Making Processes

    Literature Review on (Management) Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and Critical Path Method (CPM) In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Bradley J. Best and Jeremy R.T. Lewis provide the following summary about the topic of (Management) Program […]

  • Civil Law System

    Overview Civil law may be defined as that legal tradition which has its origin in Roman law, as codified in the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian,[1] and as subsequently developed in Continental Europe and around the world. Civil law eventually divided into two streams: the codified Roman […]

  • Perjury

    Criminal Law: Crimes Against Government: PerjuryIntroduction to PerjuryA common law misdemeanor, perjury is now generally classified as a statutory felony. Perjury is defined as willfully giving a false statement while under oath concerning a material matter in a judicial proceedin…

  • Inquiry

    Inquiry Inquiry in the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes: Functions and relation to other peaceful means under the Charter of the United Nations Based on the UN Handbook on Pacific Settlement of Disputes: The function of inquiry-investigation or elucidation of a disputed issue of fact-was comprehensively dealt with in the 1899 and 1907 Hague Conventions…

  • Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

    Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Related entries about this Encyclopedia: List of Entries and Authors of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Bibliographic Details Title: Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Editors: Leonard W. Levy, Dennis J. Mahoney and Kenneth L. Karst Publisher: Cengage Gale, United States Publication Dates: 1986, 1992…

  • List of Legal Databases

    List of Legal Databases Databases A-Z List 19th Century Masterfile Publisher of this legal database: Paratext Coverage +/- : 1786 – 1937Contains numerous indexes, some with links to full-text. Use article finder or one of the other options (Google Book Search, Hathi trust) to locate full-text of citations, online or in print, or request via…

  • 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…