Category: Comparative law
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Analytical School
The Analytical School “To the analytical jurist, a law that commands what is ethically wrong or forbids what is ethically right is no less a law if it proceeds from the political sovereign… To the analytical jurist, customary law, including judicial custom, is an anomaly that should be abolished by covering the whole field of…
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Natural-law School
Natural-law School The natural-law school has its roots in Stoic philosophy and Roman jurisprudence; it was increasingly dominant in Europe from the Reformation to the close of the 18th century. The theory of the analytical school was first sharply formulated by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes in his Leviathan (1651). The views of this school,…
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Oxford Reports on International Law
Oxford Reports on International Law The Oxford Reports on International Law is an integrated database of significant court decisions by domestic and international courts on international law issues. This legal resource provides a cumulative digest to ICJ jurisprudence. Of particular interest is the International Law in Domestic Courts module. It provides a database of significant…