Search results for: “the genius of the common law”
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Law quotes 3
Law quotes 3 See also: Law quotes – Law quotes 2 – Law quotes 4 – Lawyer Quotes When we censure those who have gone before us for inefficiency in law reform, we should recollect that we ourselves have never solved the problem of recompensing professional labour without the test of the length of…
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Law quotes
Law Quotes See also: Law quotes 2 – Law quotes 3 – Law quotes 4 – Lawyer Quotes How great soever the variety of municipal laws, it must be confessed that their chief outlines pretty regularly concur; because the purposes to which they tend are everywhere exactly similar. David Hume. It is his [the…
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Calvinism
Calvinism and Law The issue of ‘Calvinism and Law’ is a much-debated theme. It played a huge role in the historical debates around the Barmen Declaration (1934) in Germany and the Belhar Confession (1982) in South Africa. It prompts immediately vibrant discussions on civil disobedience and the relation between church and state and minorities and…
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Education
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." — Alvin Toffler See Education links History of Education In the following treatment of this subject, the theory and early history of education is […]
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Mixed Jurisdictions
Mixed Jurisdictions Mixed jurisdictions and mixed legal systems, their characteristics and definition, have become a subject of very considerable interest and debate in Europe, no doubt because of the European Union, which has brought together many legal systems under a single legislature, which in turn has adopted laws and directives taking precedence over national laws.…
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Reasons
Oral Reasons in Canadian Procedural Law Find materials in the Canadian legal Encyclopedia that anlyze Oral Reasons.
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Reasons
Oral Reasons in Canadian Procedural Law Find materials in the Canadian legal Encyclopedia that anlyze Oral Reasons.
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Cardinal
Cardinal History Cardinal (Lat. cardinalis), in the Roman Church, the title of the highest dignitaries next to the pope. The cardinals constitute the council or senate of the sovereign pontiff, his auxiliaries in the general government of the Church; it is they who act as administrators of the Church during a vacancy of the Holy…
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Resale Royalty Rights
Resale Royalty Rights Based on California Lawyers for the Arts information: A widespread consensus exists among developed countries that a visual artist is entitled to share in the increased value of his work, even after the work’s initial sale. The experience in these countries makes plain that an artists’ royalty can provide significant benefits to…
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History of Diplomacy
History of Diplomacy Introduction to the History of Diplomacy As soon as people organized themselves into separate social groups, the necessity of regularizing contacts with representatives of other groups became apparent. Even the earliest civilizations had rules for interaction. Early Development The first civilization to develop an orderly system of diplomacy was ancient Greece. Ambassadors…
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Nobility
Nobility Nobility in 1889 The following information about Nobility is from the Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States by the Best American and European Writers. “The Domesday Book is nothing but a great inventory of the Norman conquest. We quote from the history of M. Augustin Thierry…
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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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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.…