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  • Classification of Law

    Classifying Law Note: see also Law Classification in this Encyclopedia In many countries, laws originate from three main sources: previous judicial decisions (common law), parliament/s (acts, statutes or legislation), and the Constitution (constitutional law). Legal Systems Legal Systems Civil Law Legal System Common Law Legal System Customary Law System Mixed Legal System Muslim Law System…

  • About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical 3

    About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical 3 It would appear, therefore, from the authorities which I have cited that in the two great English-speaking people of the world, one descended from the other, there prevail two, and possibly three, opinions as to the obligatory force of International Law on individual states. The lawyers…

  • About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical

    About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical In the latter portion of the last lecture I endeavoured to establish three propositions, which I hold to be extremely important to the intelligent study of International Law. The first of them was that the process by which International Law obtained authority in a great part of…

  • International trade law Part 11

    International trade law Part 11   137 Towards a European White Certificates Scheme: Review under Current National Experiences and International trade law Anne De Geeter Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law Volume 25, Number 1, February 2007 p.1 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 138 DROIT DU COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL ET DE LA CONCURRENCE/ INTERNATIONAL TRADE…

  • MPEPIL: Theories of international law

    MPEPIL: Theories of international law   Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) list of articles of this subject. List of articles pertaining to this subject: Theories of international law: 1. Comparative Law: Functions and Methods, de Cruz, Peter 2. Compliance, Theory of, Delcourt, Barbara 3. Critical Theory, Frankenberg, Günter 4. Environmental Ethics, Bosselmann,…

  • MPEPIL: Sources, foundations and principles of international law

    MPEPIL: Sources, foundations and principles of international law   Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) list of articles of this subject. List of articles pertaining to this subject: Sources, foundations and principles of international law: 1. Abuse of Rights, Kiss, Alexandre 2. Accretion, Anand, Ram P 3. Acquiescence, Marques Antunes, Nuno Sérgio 4.…

  • 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…

  • Investment treaty law and arbitration articles

    Investment treaty law and arbitration articles See: Investment treaty law and arbitration books Investment treaty law and arbitration books chapters Investment treaty law and arbitration book reviews Investment treaty law and arbitration symposia <a title="Permalink to Bilateral Investment Treaties “href=”https://www.lawi.us/bilateral-investment- Treaties /”rel=”bookmark/”> Bilateral Investment Treaties <a title="Permalink to Arbitral Institutions “href=”https://www.lawi.us/arbitral-institutions/”rel=”bookmark/”> Arbitral Institutions <a title="Permalink…

  • Lawyers, capital and interest

    Lawyers, capital and interest Main source: Salvador Trinxet Llorca, “Selected writings about lawyers” “Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economical Theory” was written by Eugen V. Bühm-Bawerk and traslated into english. In this book, Bühm-Bawerk mentioned lawyer when wrote the following: In Book I,Ch.I “After the twelfth century, however, the discussion is conducted on…

  • Lawyers and Principles of Economics

    Lawyers and Principles of Economics Main source: Salvador Trinxet Llorca, “Selected writings about lawyers” In his huge “Principles of Economics”Alfred Marshall mentioned several times the role of lawyers: Appendix A “But though the Romans contributed but little directly to the progress of economic science, yet indirectly they exerted a profound influence over it, for good…

  • The Law's Voice

    Main source: Duff, Antony, “Theories of Criminal Law”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . The Law’s Voice On some accounts, the law is not addressed to the citizens at all: it is, rather, addressed to the courts, laying down what actions they should take (what punishments…

  • The Normativity of Law

    Main source: Marmor, Andrei, “The Nature of Law “, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . The Normativity of Law Throughout human history the law has been known as a coercive institution, enforcing its practical demands on its subjects by means of threats and violence. This conspicuous…

  • The Nature of Law

    Main source: Marmor, Andrei, “The Nature of Law”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . The Nature of Law Lawyers are typically interested in the question: What is the law on a particular issue? This is always a local question and answers to it are bound to…

  • “Lex iniusta non est lex”? Do seriously unjust laws bind? Legally?

    Main source: Finnis, John, “Natural Law Theories”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . “Lex iniusta non est lex” ? Do seriously unjust laws bind? Legally? In such a case, does the law as settled by social-fact sources, in losing its directiveness for judges and citizens, lose…

  • Human persons are not law's creatures but its proper point

    Finnis, John, “Natural Law Theories”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . Human persons are not law’s creatures but its proper point Talk of human flourishing’s or wellbeing’s aspects, and of principles of practical reason, should not be allowed to distract attention from an important truth, implicit…