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  • Human Trafficking

    See International Criminal Law – Transnational crime In late 2000, the United Nations for the first time in international law defined human trafficking in the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (the Trafficking Protocol also called […]

  • International Refugee Law

    International Refugee Law International law: the refugee See International law and refugee conventions: States parties 1. International Instruments Basic instruments 1946 Constitution of the International Refugee Organization Extracts 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights Extracts 1950 Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of…

  • International Refugee Law

    International Refugee Law International law: the refugee See International law and refugee conventions: States parties 1. International Instruments Basic instruments 1946 Constitution of the International Refugee Organization Extracts 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights Extracts 1950 Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of…

  • Code of Canon Law

    Code of Canon Law Old Code General Principles of Canon Law In 1918, in the book “A Commentary and Summary of the New Code of Canon Law”, the author, Rev. Stanislaus Woywod wrote: Special agreements or concordats made between certain nations and the Holy See are not changed by the Code. (Canon 3.) Acquired rights,…

  • Code of Canon Law

    Code of Canon Law Old Code General Principles of Canon Law In 1918, in the book “A Commentary and Summary of the New Code of Canon Law”, the author, Rev. Stanislaus Woywod wrote: Special agreements or concordats made between certain nations and the Holy See are not changed by the Code. (Canon 3.) Acquired rights,…

  • International Sales Contract

    International Sales Contract in International Trade Meaning of International Sales Contract, according to the Dictionary of International Trade (Global Negotiator): An agreement between a seller and a buyer for the sale of goods. The contract should, at a minimum, identify the seller and […]

  • Collision Regulations

    Collision Regulations Comparative Overview International The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (“Collision Regulations 1972”, also known as the “COLREGS” ) were enacted by the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, adopted at London, 20 October 1972, which entered into force on 15 July 1977. The COLREGS 1972 were amended…

  • Fixture

    The act whereby a contract for the charter of a vessel is fixed, or concluded….

  • List of Construction Case Law

    Hello List of Construction Case Law Mainly English and Scottish Caselaw A & D Maintenance and Construction Ltd v. Pagehurst Construction Services Ltd (1999) 16 Const LJ 199 Abbott and Another v. Will Gannon & Smith Ltd (2005) 103 Con LR 92 (CA) Adam Opel GmbH (1) Renault SA (2) v. Mitras Automotive (UK) Ltd…

  • Vital Articles in Wikipedia

    Vital Law-Related Articles in Wikipedia Vital Articles in Wikipedia, Law-Related, with Page Views (in May 2013) Page Views World War II 1581032 United States 1295658 India 976306 United Kingdom 839999 World War I 737122 Australia 725548 Leonardo da Vinci 667564 China 663247 Japan 649289 Albert Einstein 619336 William Shakespeare 618768 Mahatma Gandhi 612628 Dog 549714…

  • Library of Congress Classification Class K

    Library of Congress Classification Class K System Many large law libraries from the United States, Canada (specially the major libraries, but not the law firm libraries) and other countries use the classification scheme developed by the Library of Congress (LC). Under this system, each item (like a book) is assigned a call number according to…

  • The Year Books

    The Year Books, precursors of Law Reports The Year Books were the law reports of medieval England. They are the principal source materials for the development of legal doctrines in the English courts from the late 13th century (earliest examples date from about 1268) to 1535 (the last in the printed series). Many (more than…

  • History of Citation Indexing

    History of Citation Indexing Legal Citation indexing originated with a table of cases that Joseph Story began in 1743. For centuries, the history of Legal Citation indexes wes related to the history of print law reports. The founder of modern citation indexing and citation analysis is Dr. Eugene Gartfield. He was the founder of ISI®…

  • Jacques Derrida

    Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida was born to a Sephardic Jewish family near Algiers in 1930 (and died on October 9, 2004), in what was then French Algeria. After World War II, Dorrida moved to France, where in 1950 he failed the entrance examination at the Ecole normale supérieure. Only in 1956 did he finally qualify.…

  • List of Legal History Broader Databases

    List of Legal History Broader Databases The following databases are comprehensive, covering a wide selection of time periods, and can be a starting point for a more specific database. Primary Sources Databases These databases provide access to full-text materials from the Middle Ages to the present: handwritten manuscripts, early printed treatises, pamphlets, etc. Some of…