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  • Socialist Legal Systems

    Socialist Legal Systems Socialist law is the legal system used in most Communist states. It is based on the civil law system and Marxist-Leninist ideology. During the cold war period, it was incorporated into the legal systems of the Soviet Union and its former satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. These systems were built…

  • List of Crimes

    Hello Hello List of Crimes and Felonies The following is a comprehensive list of crimes, felonies and misdemeanors. List of Less common crimes: Abandonment of wife Accidental criminal, situational criminal Assault with intent to commit rape Bone trade Car cloning Chantage (blackmail), form of blackmail Child Exploitation, child exploitation Click job Clothing theft Complicity in…

  • History of Zionism

    History of Zionism History of Zionism before 1910 During the middle ages, though the racial character of the Jews was being transformed by their Ghetto seclusion, the national yearning suffered no relaxation. If it expressed itself exclusively in literature, it was not on that account undergoing a process of idealization. (Cf. Abrahams’s Jewish Life in…

  • History of Nationalization

    History of Nationalization Introduction The fact that “Nationalization” had become in 1916-21 one of the burning political questions of the day is unfortunate as regards arriving at a clear appraisal of its principles, for, from the outset, it is difficult for a writer to avoid a certain bias in approaching its discussion. Yet Nationalization of…

  • 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…

  • Stimson’s Law Dictionary

    Stimson’s Law Dictionary “A concise law dictionary of words, phrases, and maxims : with an explanatory list of abbreviations used in Law books “(1911). The Authors were Stimson, Frederic Jesup, 1855-1943 and Voorhees, Harvey Cortlandt, b. 1867. FREDERIC JESUP STIMSON was PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LEGISLATION IN HARVARD and HARVEY CORTLANDT VOORHEES was lawyer in the…

  • Regina v. Bartle and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and Others

    Regina v. Bartle and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and Others (Ex Parte Pinochet) England, House of Lords. Lord Browne-Wilkinson: My Lords, As is well known, this case concerns an attempt by the Government of Spain to extradite Senator Pinochet from this country to stand trial in Spain for crimes committed (primarily in…

  • Libor Manipulation

    Libor Manipulation Scandal Libor Rate Manipulation Scandal Explained by Thomas Brom. (2012) Barclays admission that its financial traders sought to manipulate the London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) set off a flood of civil anti-trust actions. But a pending motion to dismiss the consolidated cases asks, “What’s the legal harm in fixing an abstraction?” LIBOR –…

  • 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 2

    About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical 2 This Jus Gentium of the Imperial jurisconsults is identical with the Law of Nature, or Natural Law, of many modern ethical and juridical writers; and both are, in fact, the law of God, made known somewhat dimly to the whole human race at all times, and…

  • About the Origins and Sources of International Law, Historical

    About the Origins and Sources of International Law, Historical The eminent man who founded the Whewell Professorship of International Law laid an earnest and express injunction on the occupant of this chair that he should make it his aim, in all parts of his treatment of the subject, to lay down such rules and suggest…

  • Declaration of Paris, Historical

    About the Declaration of Paris, Historical One point of considerable interest in International Law is the very different degree of durability which the various parts of the system have proved to possess. The oldest rules which belong to its structure are simply rules of religion and morality ordinarily applied between man and man, but so…

  • Henry Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice

    Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845-1927), British statesman, had, during his tenure of office as Foreign Minister (1900-5), definitely set his mark on British foreign policy at a crucial period in history. The system which his predecessor, Lord Salisbury, had inherited from Lord Beaconsfield,…

  • International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Part 4

    International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Part 4   43 Current developments in the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Roman Boed International Criminal Law Review Volume 3, Number 2, 2003 p.169-181 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 44 International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda Reports of Orders, Documents and Judgements 1995-1997, by Eric David, Pierre…

  • Human Rights Committee Part 5

    Human Rights Committee Part 5   42 The ‘delicate plant’ of free speech needs water: Coleman v Australia John Chesterman Alternative Law Journal Volume 32, Number 1, March 2007 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW The legal experiences of Australian agitator Patrick Coleman show the fragility of freedom of speech in Australia. Coleman was imprisoned as…