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  • Moral Panics

    Moral Panics Definition Jewkes wrote [1] that it is “difficult to explain why criminology-and its related fields-continue to place the moral panic thesis at the heart of studies of deviance and disorder when both sociology and media studies have more or less ignored it for decades.” The concept of moral panic offered by the Online…

  • Thai Money Laundering Charges

    United States Prosecution of Thai Nationals on Money Laundering Charges in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): On September 9, 2011, the United States filed a brief in the U.S. District Court for the […]

  • Thai Money Laundering Charges

    United States Prosecution of Thai Nationals on Money Laundering Charges in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): On September 9, 2011, the United States filed a brief in the U.S. District Court for the […]

  • Warranty

    In marine insurance contracts, either an exemption from or limitation to the policy, or a promissory warranty whereby the insured agrees to do, or not to do, some particular act. Failure to adhere strictly to a promissory warranty may invalidate a contract of insurance, whether or not the […]

  • Consular Law

    Consular Law International Multilateral Conventions Council of Europe – Agreement on the Transfer of Corpses – 26/10/1973 Council of Europe – European Convention on the Abolition of Legalisation of Documents executed by Diplomatic Agents or Consular Officers – 7.6.1968 EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON CONSULAR FUNCTIONS – 11.12.1967 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations – 24 April 1963…

  • Consular Law

    Consular Law International Multilateral Conventions Council of Europe – Agreement on the Transfer of Corpses – 26/10/1973 Council of Europe – European Convention on the Abolition of Legalisation of Documents executed by Diplomatic Agents or Consular Officers – 7.6.1968 EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON CONSULAR FUNCTIONS – 11.12.1967 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations – 24 April 1963…

  • Victim Reparation

    Victim Reparation and the Refugee Issues As published by the UNHCR in relation to Victim Reparation: Regardless of whether a victim seeks protection in the form of asylum, a temporary visa, or is repatriated, she should have access to methods of reparation for the harm she has suffered as a […]

  • Death Sentence

    Death Sentence on Russian Terrorists: International Incident In the book "International Incidents for Discussion in Conversation Classes", in relation to terminox, L. Oppenheim wrote in 1909: The following appeared in the Times of Feb. 29th, 1908: "St Petersburg, Feb. 27. […]

  • LegalZoom

    LegalZoom Legal Challanges In the early 1970s, Nolo Press founders Jake Warner and Ed Sherman managed to pierce through some of those pretenses when they published How to Do Your Own Divorce in California, which became a best seller. More than four decades later, a Los Angeles based company, LegalZoom.com, is taking legal self-help to…

  • Legal Lexicography

    Legal Lexicography or Jurilexicography Legal lexicography or jurilexicography is the most neglected aspect of the discipline of jurilinguistics, despite its great relevance for translators, academics and comparative lawyers. This important work on the connections between legal vocabulary and legal culture is a welcome addition to the literature in the growing field of “jurilingistics” , a…

  • Encyclopedia of Censorship

    Encyclopedia of Censorship Encyclopedia of Censorship Encyclopedia of Censorship List of Entries ABC Trial, The Abelard, Peter Abrams v. United States Académie des dames, L’ Achilles Statue, The Acta Pauli actual malice Adult Film Association of America Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The advocacy Afghanistan Age d’or, L’ Age of Reason, The Agrippa, Henry Cornelius Alabama…

  • Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices

    Known commonly as the Cooke Committee, a working party established under the auspices of the bank for INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS (read this and related legal terms for further details) in 1975 to seek to remedy inadequaci…

  • Bering Sea Arbitration

    Bering Sea Arbitration Definition The important fishery dispute between Great Britain and the United States, which was closed by this arbitration, arose in the following circumstances. Background In the year 1867 the United States government had purchased from Russia all her territorial rights in Alaska and the adjacent islands. The boundary between the two powers,…

  • Adam Smith

    The Doctrine of Adam SmithBeginnings of Modern CapitalismThe ideas of Adam Smith represented more than just the first systematic treatise on economics; they were a frontal attack on the doctrines of mercantilism. Like the physiocrats, Smith tried to show the existence of a "na…

  • eLaw

    eLaw Introduction “The eLaw Project aims at a reform of legal text production, creating one continuous electronic production channel with a uniform layout prepared on the same electronic text basis from draft to publication (promulgation) on the Internet. The workflow system includes government bills, committee reports, legal enactments of the Nationalrat and decisions of the…