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  • Bermuda

    The Legal History of Bermuda This section provides an overview of Bermuda U.s.-Bermuda Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement In relation to the international law practice and U.s.-bermuda Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement in this world legal Encyclopedia, please see the following section: […]

  • Bermuda

    The Legal History of Bermuda This section provides an overview of Bermuda U.s.-Bermuda Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement In relation to the international law practice and U.s.-bermuda Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement in this world legal Encyclopedia, please see the following section: […]

  • Social Policy

    Social Policy (in the Human Development Area) In this context, Social Policy means: legislative, institutional, budgetary support to achieve objectives in the field of human welfare, to protect the interests of socially vulnerable layers of such socially important areas as health, education, […]

  • Social Policy

    Social Policy (in the Human Development Area) In this context, Social Policy means: legislative, institutional, budgetary support to achieve objectives in the field of human welfare, to protect the interests of socially vulnerable layers of such socially important areas as health, education, […]

  • Censorship

    Introduction Censorship, supervision and control of the information and ideas that are circulated among the people within a society. In modern times, censorship refers to the examination of books, periodicals, plays, films, television and radio programs, news reports, and other […]

  • Law of the Sea

    Law Of The Sea The United States Congress has kept the United NationsÂ’s Law of the Sea Treaty bottled up in committee for 30 years. In 2011, a rush by nations to claim oil rights under the Arctic Sea was quickening debate on treaty accession. United States Senator Lee, cofounder of […]

  • Common Law

    Introduction to Common Law "Common Law, term used to refer to the main body of English unwritten law that evolved from the 12th century onward. The name comes from the idea that English medieval law, as administered by the courts of the realm, reflected the "common"customs of […]

  • Common Law

    Introduction to Common Law "Common Law, term used to refer to the main body of English unwritten law that evolved from the 12th century onward. The name comes from the idea that English medieval law, as administered by the courts of the realm, reflected the "common"customs of […]

  • Death Penalty

    WHEN BRITISH LAWYER CHRISTOPHER EADES arrived at Louisiana's oldest prison, the State Penitentiary at Angola, he found abominable food, sweltering heat, and inmates who feared for their lives. Literacy and education were minimal. One prisoner could name his birth date but not his age. Others […]

  • Death Penalty

    WHEN BRITISH LAWYER CHRISTOPHER EADES arrived at Louisiana's oldest prison, the State Penitentiary at Angola, he found abominable food, sweltering heat, and inmates who feared for their lives. Literacy and education were minimal. One prisoner could name his birth date but not his age. Others […]

  • Insecticide

    By Glen Martin, a contributing environmental writer. Colony collapse disorder (CCD), as the phenomenon is known, has plagued honeybee populations across the developed world. The syndrome is defined by the USDA as a dead colony with neither adults nor dead bee bodies, but with a live queen […]

  • Education

    "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." — Alvin Toffler See Education links History of Education In the following treatment of this subject, the theory and early history of education is […]

  • Arbitration

    Arbitration, reference of a dispute to an impartial person or persons, called arbitrators, for a decision or award based on evidence and arguments presented by the disputants. The parties involved usually agree to resort to arbitration in lieu of court proceedings to resolve an existing […]

  • Referendum

    Introduction to Referendum Referendum, practice of submitting an issue to the popular vote. The proposal or issue can itself be called a referendum. In government, the "petition referendum" originates with the voters and provides that a proposed law be put to a popular vote before it […]

  • 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…