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  • Apartheid Litigation

    Cases Decided Subsequent to Kiobel: Balintulo v. Daimler ag (apartheid Litigation) in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Cases Decided Subsequent to Kiobel: Balintulo v. Daimler ag (apartheid Litigation): On August 21, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]

  • Apartheid Litigation

    Cases Decided Subsequent to Kiobel: Balintulo v. Daimler ag (apartheid Litigation) in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Cases Decided Subsequent to Kiobel: Balintulo v. Daimler ag (apartheid Litigation): On August 21, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]

  • Legal Research

    Legal research is the investigation of information necessary to support legal decision-making, when applied by judges, or the search for authority that can be applied to a given set of facts and issues, when practiced by a researcher. International Legal Research Resources Encyclopedias, […]

  • Scope of Letters of Request

    Scope of Letters of Request In the Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters Article 1(1) is closely identical to article 1 of the draft Convention. The issuance of Letters is limited to the ‘judicial’ authorities of the State of origin. ‘Judicial’ is not defined. There is no definition of…

  • Amicus Curiae in International Investment Arbitration

    Amicus Curiae in International Investment Arbitration Note: this entry is a continuation of the entry about the Participation of Amici Curiae in NAFTA Chapter Eleven Cases. By Andrea K. Bjorklund (March 22, 2002) What Value Can The Proposed Amici Add The question of the movant’s interest must inevitably be bound up with the substantive knowledge…

  • Methodology of Jurisprudence

    Methodology of Jurisprudence Descriptive Jurisprudence Books and Papers Veronica Rodriguez Blanco (2006). The Methodological Problem in Legal Theory: Normative and Descriptive Jurisprudence Revisited. Ratio Juris 19 (1):26-54. Kenneth M. Ehrenberg (2016). The Functions of Law. Oxford University Press. What is the nature of law and what is the best way to discover it? This book…

  • Methodology of Jurisprudence

    Methodology of Jurisprudence Descriptive Jurisprudence Books and Papers Veronica Rodriguez Blanco (2006). The Methodological Problem in Legal Theory: Normative and Descriptive Jurisprudence Revisited. Ratio Juris 19 (1):26-54. Kenneth M. Ehrenberg (2016). The Functions of Law. Oxford University Press. What is the nature of law and what is the best way to discover it? This book…

  • Formal Legal Reasoning

    Formal Legal Reasoning Formalism about Legal Reasoning According to Philpapers, “Formalism about Legal Reasoning” refers to the use of (often logic-based) formalisms to shed light on legal reasoning. “Formal Models of Legal Reasoning,” in contrast refers to the use of such formalisms to model actual legal reasoning. Some works fit into both categories. The former…

  • 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,…

  • Mediaval Law

    Mediaval Law English Case Law (The Courts) This covers: Case Law (The Courts) (see below) Statutory Law (Legislative Records) (see below) Administrative Law (Records of State) (see below) Private Legal Documents (see below) Writs and Pleadings (see below) Early Legal Treatises (see below) Collections of Texts from Various Sources (see below) Case Law (The Courts)…

  • Mediaval Law

    Mediaval Law English Case Law (The Courts) This covers: Case Law (The Courts) (see below) Statutory Law (Legislative Records) (see below) Administrative Law (Records of State) (see below) Private Legal Documents (see below) Writs and Pleadings (see below) Early Legal Treatises (see below) Collections of Texts from Various Sources (see below) Case Law (The Courts)…

  • Classification System

    Library of Congress Classification System in Law LibrariesThe follow definition of Library of Congress Classification System is of use in law library research: A classification system developed by the Library of Congress for its collection, and used by most of the nation's college and […]

  • 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 Firm Data Storage

    Legal Firm Data Storage There is digital information: case files, emails, pleadings and other documents and shared files, even instant messages everyone in the firm generates each day. And then there’s information governance: the rules and framework for managing all of a law firm’s electronic data and documents, including material produced in discovery, as well…