Search results for: “legal affairs”
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Legal Realism
Legal Realism Papers and Books Gary Jan Aichele (1990). Legal Realism and Twentieth-Century American Jurisprudence the Changing Consensus. Andrew Altman (1986). Legal Realism, Critical Legal Studies, and Dworkin. Philosophy and Public Affairs 15 (3):205-235. Ian Carlo Dapalla Benitez (2015). A Critique of Critical Legal Studies’ Claim of Legal Indeterminacy. Lambert Academic Publishing. This paper challenges…
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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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Legal Guardianship
Legal Guardianship in Aging Law Concept of Legal Guardianship in the context of Community Health Care and Services for Older Persons, published by the World Health Organization (WHO):Power, conferred by legal authority, to control an indivdual's affairs in relation to medical or other care.
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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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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…
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PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service
PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service Index database details: New York: Public Affairs Information Service, 1972-. Monthly with annual cumulations. Review of PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service According to “Introduction to Research in International Law, Research Guide” (see Further Reading), this database is a “selective list of the latest books, periodical articles, government documents, pamphlets, microfiche,…
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Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia
Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia The Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia comprises introductions to the major legal systems in the world, with coverage ranging from legal Education and the way of professional practice, to the form of government and substantive law. This comprehensive compilation was a result of the efforts of Kenneth Robert Redden, who was a…