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  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

    Introduction to Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the CitizenDeclaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, revolutionary manifesto adopted on August 26, 1789, by the National Assembly of France and attached as the preamble to the new constitution of 1791. It was written princip…

  • Extradition and Human Rights

    Extradition and Human Rights In some cases, the provisions of extradition treaties vary considerably depending on the states involved. For example: Most nations, “including the United States, will not surrender a fugitive wanted for a political crime. The rise in terrorism, however, has brought about some limitations to the political offense exception.”(1) Many countries, including…

  • Early Efforts Against The Death Penalty

    Capital Punishment World Trends Early Efforts Against the Death PenaltySome distinctive doctrines in criminal law originated in efforts to restrict the number of capital crimes and executions. For instance, in the late 18th century, when all murder in the United States was punishable by dea…

  • Constitutional Law (Disambiguation)

    Constitutional Law (Disambiguation) Constitutional Law See Constitutional Law Constitutional Law, system of fundamental principles on the organization of a country’s government and the limitations of its powers. In the United States, constitutional law refers to legal rights that are directly addressed in the Constitution of the United States. For information on: * constitutional law in…

  • Death Penalty Debate

    Death Penalty Debate Capital Punishment: the Death Penalty Debate The practice of capital punishment is as old as government itself. For most of history, it has not been considered controversial. Since ancient times most governments have punished a wide variety of crimes by death and have conducted executions as a routine part of the administration…

  • Development of Criminology

    Development of Criminology The discipline of criminology has evolved in three phases, beginning in the 18th century. Although crime and criminals have been around for as long as societies have existed, the systematic study of these phenomena did not begin until the late 1700s. Prior to that time, most explanations of crime equated it with…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • John Bouvier

    John Bouvier John Bouvier (1787-1851) was a writer, publisher and lawyer. He was born in Codogno, France, in 1787. He immigrated to Philadelphia, with his (quaker) family, when he was fifteen. Bouvier oppened his own press, after working as apprentice to a printer, in 1808. He started in 1814 a weekly newspaper, “The American Telegraph”.…

  • 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…

  • MPEPIL: Public Law: C

    MPEPIL: Encyclopedia of Public Law: C   Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL): Articles listed alphabetically View a list of articles beginning with this letter: 1. Cabotage, Giemulla, Elmar M 2. Calvo Doctrine/Calvo Clause, Juillard, Patrick 3. Cambodia Conflicts (Kampuchea), Keller, Lucy 4. Camp David Accords (1978), Quigley, John B 5. Canals, Arcari,…

  • Common legal abbreviations

    Common legal abbreviations The abbreviations showed here are pluralized by adding the letter “s” inside the period. For abbreviations in citations in the United States, see Bluebook Rule 10.2.2. Do no use these abbreviations in this Wiki Encyclopedia. Word Abbreviation Academic ……………………………………….. Acad. Accountab[le, ility]………………………….. Acc. Acquisition …………………………………….. Acq. Adjudicat[e, ory] …………………………….. Adj. Advisor[y]………………………………………. Advis.…

  • International law index

    International law index Here is the list of almost 2.000 items of the international law index of the Wiki Encyclopedia of Law. AAPL v Sri Lanka Case Abduction, Transboundary Aboriginal Title Abu Dhabi Oil Arbitration Abuse of Rights Access to Justice in Environmental Matters Accessions to the WTO Accountability Accretion Achille Lauro Affair (1985) Acquiescence…

  • 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…