Search results for: “legal working time”
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Alternative Legal Frameworks
Alternative legal frameworks and the Refugee Issues As published by the UNHCR in relation to Alternative legal frameworks: There are various options with respect to the protection and recognition of rights of trafficking victims in addition to grants of asylum. A system of temporary or […]
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Legal Research Conduction
Conduct Legal Research Step 1: Preliminary Preparation There is more information about this subjet related to the field of legal research in the legal encyclopedia.Step 2: Issue There is more information about this subjet related to the field of legal research in the legal encyclopedia.Step […]
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History of Legal Treatises
History of Legal Treatises In the United States While the earliest law treatises predate the systematic dissemination of court opinions, by the early twentieth century this form of legal commentary had become an essential tool for lawyers and judges seeking to organize and understand the growing quantity of published case law. That was a period…
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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…
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Legal History
Legal History “This abstraction called the Law,” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., once observed, is “a magic mirror, [wherein] we see reflected, not only our own lives, but the lives of all men that have been!”1 Holmes believed that this “magic mirror” offered historians an opportunity to explore the social choices and moral imperatives of…
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As Laytime
A condition in some vessel charter agreements stipulating that time lost to the vessel because the charterer, shipper, or consignee cannot provide a berth for the ship will count as laytime, i.e., LAYTIME (read this and rela…
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Legal Ontologies
Legal Ontologies Note: for more information about legal ontologies, read the legal metadata website here. Legal Ontologies are the expression of the metadata section of legal documents according to a formalized ontology language such as OWL. They have proved crucial for representing, processing and retrieving legal information, “Legal ontologies differ from ontologies in other fields…
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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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History of Working Time
History of Working Time Regulations History of Working Time until 1920 The decade following 1910 witnessed a rapid advance and extension in the already widespread movement in favour of the reduction of the hours of labour. This was mainly due, apart from general trade-union pressure, firstly to the repercussions of the World War and of…
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Linked Data Principles to Legal Information
Linked Data and Law (Legal Information) Note: see the Encyclopedia’ Linked Data project at Lawi Metadata Bob DuCharme discussed the value of linked data in United States law. DuCharme notes, “At a recent W3C Government Linked Data Working Group working group meeting, I started thinking more about the role in linked data of laws that…
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United States Constitution timeline
1142 Iroquois Confederacy formed 1215 King John forced by English nobles to signthe Magna Carta at Runnymede 1620 May?ower Compact signed 1692 Salem Witch Trials 1735 Peter Zenger acquitted in a jury trial; foundnot guilty of engaging in seditious libel 1765 The British adopt the Stamp Act 1767 The British adopt the Townsend Act 1770…
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Legal research: resources for libraries
Some of the Websites presented in this section were created by universities or government agencies. Other sites come from professional associations or other organizations. The Websites are presented in alphabetical order. American Association of Law Libraries Washington Affairs Office https://www.ll.georgetown.edu/aallwash/ The American Association of Law Libraries includes a number of items that are of interest…
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Legal research: Files: Law and Media Technology
Legal Research : Files: Law and Media Technology Cornelia Vismann, Files: Law and Media Technology, translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008) is a detailed examination of the shifting legal, administrative, and technological aspects of files, extending from the ancient world to the modern era. Vismann, a German legal historian and scholar,…
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Legal research: Law of Libraries and Archives
Legal Research : Law of Libraries and Archives Knowing the laws affecting the librarians work is important, spacially with some issues, such as intellectual property, have been plagued by conflicting and confusing advice. Bryan M. Carson, a working librarian with a law degree, published “The Law of Libraries and Archives”. This work of nearly 400…
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Legal Education future
“THE FUTURE OF LEGAL Education “, by John Mayer(1) “All the notions we thought solid, all the values of civilised life, all that made for stability in international relations, all that made regularity in the economy…in a word, all that tended happily to limit the uncertainty of the morrow, all that gave nations and individuals…