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  • Medical Malpractice

    Malpractice Medical MalpracticeIntroduction to Medical MalpracticeMedical malpractice is the most common type of malpractice lawsuit. It typically involves the negligence of a physician while diagnosing or treating a patient. In the past, courts decided whether a physician's co…

  • Socialism History

    Socialism Socialism in the Early 20th CenturyIntroduction to Socialism HistoryGermany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) dominated the European socialist movement at the turn of the 20th century. Its dominance was due to a combination of factors: the prestige and importance of Ger…

  • Natural Law Theories

    Natural Law Theories In General This entry considers natural law theories only as theories of law. That is not to say that legal theory can be adequately identified and pursued independently of moral and political theory. Nor is it to deny that there are worthwhile natural law theories much more concerned with foundational issues in…

  • Foreign Law Guide (FLG)

    Foreign Law Guide (FLG) The FLG is the outstanding and comprehensive Foreign Law Guide. It contains the most up-to-date research in non-U.S. law. The FLG also includes lists of books about foreign law topics. According to its own description, the Foreign Law Guide is “an essential database offering relevant information on sources of foreign law,…

  • 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…

  • History of Zionism

    History of Zionism History of Zionism before 1910 During the middle ages, though the racial character of the Jews was being transformed by their Ghetto seclusion, the national yearning suffered no relaxation. If it expressed itself exclusively in literature, it was not on that account undergoing a process of idealization. (Cf. Abrahams’s Jewish Life in…

  • Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988

    Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL OCTOBER 5, 1988 Preamble We, the representatives of the Brazilian People, convened in the National Constituent Assembly to institute a democratic state for the purpose of ensuring the exercise of social and individual rights, liberty, security, well-being, development, equality and justice as…

  • History of Yugoslavia

    Introduction This is the first part of the history of Yugoslavia, which has had hugue implications in international law, specially European law. The country Also called “Jugoslavia”. The official name was the “Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes” (Kraljevina Srba Hnata i Slovcnaca). The country came into being in the closing months of 1918…

  • International Criminal Court Part 28

    International Criminal Court Part 28   532 -25.VI. 03 – Res. 1336(2003): Threats to the International Criminal Court Human Rights Law Journal Volume 24, Numbers 5-8, November 28, 2003 p.307 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 533 Advancing U.S. Interests with the International Criminal Court Ambassador David J. Scheffer Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law Volume 36,…

  • Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the North-East Atlantic Fisheries

    Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the North-East Atlantic Fisheries   Article 1 1. The area to which this Convention applies, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Convention area’, shall be the waters: (a) within those parts of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and their dependent seas which lie north of 36d* north latitude and between…

  • Convention on the Conservation of the Living Resources of the South East Atlantic

    Convention on the Conservation of the Living Resources of the South East Atlantic   Article I I. The area to which this Convention shall apply, hereinafter referred to as the “Convention Area,”shall be all waters bounded by a line drawn as follows: Beginning at a point at 6004’36″South latitude and 12019’48″East longitude, thence in a…

  • North-East Atlantic Fisheries Convention 2

    North-East Atlantic Fisheries Convention   Article 5 1. The Commission shall establish a Regional Committee, with the powers and duties described in Article 6 of this Convention, for each of the regions into which the Convention area is divided. 2. The representation on any Regional Committee so established shall be determined by the Commission, provided,…

  • Council of Europe: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine 2

    Council of Europe: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine   Article 17 – Protection of persons not able to consent to research 1 Research on a person without the capacity to consent as stipulated in Article 5 may be undertaken only if all the following conditions are met: i the conditions laid down in Article…

  • Lawyers and Principles of Economics

    Lawyers and Principles of Economics Main source: Salvador Trinxet Llorca, “Selected writings about lawyers” In his huge “Principles of Economics”Alfred Marshall mentioned several times the role of lawyers: Appendix A “But though the Romans contributed but little directly to the progress of economic science, yet indirectly they exerted a profound influence over it, for good…

  • Top 25.000 English words

    Which are the top 25.000 most popular English words? According to a review from Lawi, these are the 25.000 most popular English words, in order: you the i to a and it of that in is me what this for my on your we have do no don’t are be i’m not was he it’s…