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  • Crime

    Introduction to Crime Crime, commission of an act or act of omission that violates the law and is punishable by the state. Crimes are considered injurious to society or the community, as distinguished from torts (see Tort) and breach of contract. As defined by law, a crime includes both the […]

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica Index

    Encyclopaedia Britannica Index 1959 Encyclopaedia Britannica Index in Law and Politics Law Banking law Bologna Casuality Crete Criminal law Education of women Federal courts Legal articles Legislation Ordeal Source Stoics Primitive law Law agent Law agents Law and opinion in the 19th century [Dicey] Law courts Law determiner [General law] Lawyers, Scot Law mechant [lex…

  • Regulation of Global Value Chains

    Regulatory Implications and Challenges of Global Value Chains This section provides an overview of regulatory implications and challenges of global value chains within the legal context of Global Value Chains in international economic law (Cross-Cutting Challenges).

  • Regulation of Global Value Chains

    Regulatory Implications and Challenges of Global Value Chains This section provides an overview of regulatory implications and challenges of global value chains within the legal context of Global Value Chains in international economic law (Cross-Cutting Challenges).

  • International Regulatory Standards

    Regulatory Minimum Standards This section provides an overview of minimum standards within the legal context of Regulatory Approaches in international economic law, with coverage of

  • Peacebuilding

    Peacebuilding in the Context of Peacemaking Definition of Peacebuilding published by the United Nations: Initiatives that foster and support sustainable structures and processes which strengthen the prospects for peaceful coexistence and decrease the likelihood of the outbreak, reoccurrence or […]

  • Peacebuilding

    Peacebuilding in the Context of Peacemaking Definition of Peacebuilding published by the United Nations: Initiatives that foster and support sustainable structures and processes which strengthen the prospects for peaceful coexistence and decrease the likelihood of the outbreak, reoccurrence or […]

  • Religions

    From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Religions (1): Ancient nations might be classified into pagan and those that worshiped the universal God. However, some of the nations at one time were pagan and at other times had a fair conception of the supernatural. Also, in Egypt, […]

  • Legal topics

    Academic Legal topics Law in general Comparative and uniform law Jurisprudence Legal Periodicals Bibliography Legal Monographic series Encyclopedias of Law Dictionaries of Law Words and phrases Legal Maxims Legal Quotations Legal Yearbooks Legal Directories Legal Research Legal composition and draftsmanship Legal Education Law societies International bar associations The legal profession Legal aid Legal assistance to…

  • List of International Criminal Justice Institutes

    List of International Criminal Justice Institutes, Organizations, and Resources Alphabetical List Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences International Section Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice American Society of Criminology Association Francaise de Criminologie Association Internationale de droit pénal (France)…

  • Legal Positivism

    Legal Positivism Description by Several Authors Olivecrona (1971: 141) noted that, when nineteenth-century positivists ‘wanted to make a clean break with natural law doctrine, they ceased to cite the old authorities. But as a matter of course they took over their fundamental concepts.’ David and Brierley (1978: 2) commented on the shift from a theoretical…

  • International Society

    International Society Law and Society The Need for Law and the Rule of Law Laws can change with time and according to location. See more about Rule of Law here. The Rule of Law, with origins in the Magna Carta, means that individuals must recognize and accept that law is necessary to regulate society. It…

  • European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies

    European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies The European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies has approximately 8,400 descriptors, and numerous non-descriptors. It provides a wellstructured and wide-ranging ” terminological tool” of controlled vocabulary with which to describe the subject content and format of all kinds of literature and material (books, reports, essays,…

  • KIA-KIK North America LC Classification

    KIA-KIK North America — Continued KIE-KIK United States US Diagram Cf. KF8201+ Indians (Law of the United States) Cf. E78-99.Z9 Indians of North America KIE (5000 no) Regional comparative American Indian law Bibliography General bibliography 2.A-Z Guides to law collections. Tribal law gateways (Portals). Web directories, A-Z Including national and regional tribal directories 2.A46 American…

  • LC Classification on the Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

    LC Classification on the Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas In june 2011 started the drafts for a new subclass of the Library of Congress K classification in the works dealing with the Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas. As Jolande Goldberg notes the following motivations for the development of this…