Search results for: “strict liability”

  • A Dictionary of Law Enforcement

    A Dictionary of Law Enforcement A Dictionary of Law Enforcement is “the only dictionary available -according to Oxford University Press, its publisher- that focuses on United Kingdom (British) law enforcement terms. This legal resource contains over 3,400 legal terms, covering many United Kingdom and European Union institutions.” Most of the entries in “A Dictionary of…

  • Economic Analysis of Law

    Economic Analysis of Law Introduction: Critical legal studies The Critical legal studies is a theory that challenges and overturns accepted norms and standards in legal theory and practice which fully emerged in the late 1970s. “Critical legal studies was a left-wing political/academic movement that now exists only as a school of thought in legal academia.…

  • 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…

  • The Year Books

    The Year Books, precursors of Law Reports The Year Books were the law reports of medieval England. They are the principal source materials for the development of legal doctrines in the English courts from the late 13th century (earliest examples date from about 1268) to 1535 (the last in the printed series). Many (more than…

  • Dahl’s Law Dictionary

    Dahl’s Law bilingual Dictionaries Author: Dahl, H.S. Type of Dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish, and French to English/English to French Edition: third (Spanish) and second (French) edition Published: Both in Buffalo, New York. The Spanish-English/English-Spanish in 1999; the French to English/English to French in 2001. Pages: XLI+913 p and XXV+675 p ISBN: 1575884968 and 2247043178 Description In both…

  • Outline of Evidence

    Note: this entry is based in United States law I. Burdens and Presumptions a. Burden of Proof i. Burden of pleading 1. You have to plead a claim, to state a claim for which relief can be granted ii. Burden of production 1. Must introduce evidence to support your claim in your pleading iii. Burden…

  • European Union law Part 15

    European Union law Part 15   216 The European Union 2005 in Luxembourg: Recent Developments in the Case Law of the Community Courts Andrea Biondi, Katherine Harmer European Public Law Volume 13, Number 1, 2007 p.33-46 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 217 European Union law and Defence Integration Sven Biscop European Public Law Volume 13,…

  • Development International Law – Part 16

    Development International Law – Part 16   147 The International Court of Justice and the development of international law over the past ten years M Olivier South African Yearbook of International Law Volume 29, 2004 p.23 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 148 International law for sustainable development? Somber reflections on World Bank efforts Dire Tladi…

  • Ranking of the top 100 legal most-cited articles of all time

    List of the top 100 legal most-cited articles of all time in ranking order Ranking of the top 100 legal most-cited articles of all time, according to Shapiro Below is the ranking of the top 100 most-cited articles of all time, according to “The most-cited law review articles of all time”, by Fred R. Shapiro…

  • Chriminal law and ethics

    Ethics and Criminal Law Amongst the questions on this issue are the following: Is the institution of the criminal sanction morally justified? Should the punishment reflect the seriousness of the crime or the risk posed by the criminal? Can the preventive detention of dangerous offenders be justified? Is strict liability in the criminal law always…

  • Principles for Allocating Loss

    Principles for Allocating Loss — Decreasing Principles of Culpability • Intention Principle ? Played out through fraud doctrine. Pin loss on party who commits fraud. • Knowledge ? If one party knows that they should not do something, they will be assigned loss. • Negligence • Strict Liability ? Where neither of the two parties…

  • UNESCO International Convention Against Doping in Sport

    UNESCO International Convention Against Doping in Sport UNESCO, the United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, is a specialised UN agency. It promotes international co-operation among its current 191 member states and six associate members in the areas of Education , social and natural science, culture and communication. Its remit also extends to sport. In…

  • The Internal Structure of the Criminal Law

    Main source: Duff, Antony, “Theories of Criminal Law”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . The Internal Structure of the Criminal Law Once we have articulated an account of the proper aims and limits of the criminal law, we can tackle various issues about its internal structure-about…

  • Theories of Tort Law: Justice, Rights, and Duties

    Main source: Coleman, Jules and Mendlow, Gabriel, “Theories of Tort Law “, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . Related: causation: in the law | contracts, theories of | criminal law, theories of | justice: distributive | property and ownership | rights Theories of Tort Law :…

  • Theories of Tort Law: Economic Analysis

    Main source: Coleman, Jules and Mendlow, Gabriel, “Theories of Tort Law “, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . Theories of Tort Law : Economic Analysis Rather than surveying the range of economic theories, this entry focuses in depth on what is arguably the dominant strain of…