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  • Rules

    Rule Commmon Meanings In a broad, more general sense, but applied to law, a rule is a "a law or principle that operates within a particular sphere of knowledge, describing or prescribing what is possible or allowable"(1), or "control of or dominion over an area or […]

  • Suspected Pirates

    International Support for Efforts to Bring Suspected Pirates to Justice in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to International Support for Efforts to Bring Suspected Pirates to Justice: (1) United Nations On November 18, 2013, the UN Security Council adopted […]

  • Cybercrime

    Cybercrime is one of the fastest-growing criminal activities on the planet. Cybercrime is defined as the use of any computer network for crime and the high-tech criminals of the digital age have not been slow to spot the opportunities. The scope of the definition becomes even larger with […]

  • Efforts to Bring Suspected Pirates to Justice

    International Support For Efforts to Bring Suspected Pirates to Justice in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): In international fora, the United States continued to underscore the importance of bringing […]

  • Efforts to Bring Suspected Pirates to Justice

    International Support For Efforts to Bring Suspected Pirates to Justice in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): In international fora, the United States continued to underscore the importance of bringing […]

  • Bitcoin

    Bitcoin in the E-Commerce Law Bitcoin, launched in 2009, was the first decentralized convertible virtual currency and the first cryptocurrency. Bitcoins are mathematical tokens composed of unique strings of numbers and letters that constitute units of the currency and are oftentimes traded […]

  • International Courts

    International Law: International Courts and Organizations Introduction to International Courts Judicial decisions rendered by international courts are important elements in identifying and confirming international legal rules. The most important international courts are the UN International […]

  • Human Trafficking

    See International Criminal Law – Transnational crime In late 2000, the United Nations for the first time in international law defined human trafficking in the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (the Trafficking Protocol also called […]

  • Blasphemy

    Blasphemy, in common law, crime of speaking or publishing words that vilify or ridicule God, the Bible, or religious beliefs. It is a misdemeanor, and two reasons formerly underlay its being a crime: (1) it tended to cause a breach of the peace between the blasphemer and those outr…

  • Classification System

    Library of Congress Classification System in Law LibrariesThe follow definition of Library of Congress Classification System is of use in law library research: A classification system developed by the Library of Congress for its collection, and used by most of the nation's college and […]

  • Blasphemy Laws

    Blasphemy Laws Many countries around the world have laws that punish expression deemed blasphemous, defamatory of religion, or contemptuous or insulting to religion or religious symbols, figures, or feelings. In addition, some states have added new blasphemy-type laws to their criminal codes or constitutions. The application of these laws has resulted in the jailing of…

  • Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

    Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity Details of the Encyclopedia Editor: Dinah L. Shelton, editor in chief. Published: Detroit : Macmillan Reference Date of Publication: c2005. Contents of the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity Entries Starting by A in the Encyclopedia Advertising African Americans African Crisis Response Initiative Aggression Algeria Alien Tort…

  • Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

    Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity Details of the Encyclopedia Editor: Dinah L. Shelton, editor in chief. Published: Detroit : Macmillan Reference Date of Publication: c2005. Contents of the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity Entries Starting by A in the Encyclopedia Advertising African Americans African Crisis Response Initiative Aggression Algeria Alien Tort…

  • 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…

  • 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…