Tag: Legal Theory
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Common Law Legal Traditions
Common Law Legal Traditions Contents of Common Law Legal Traditions Contents of this subject matter include: Sources of Law Parliament and Legislation Courts Precedent Criminal and Civil Procedure Tort Law and Contract Law Legal Research
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Common Law Legal Traditions
Common Law Legal Traditions Contents of Common Law Legal Traditions Contents of this subject matter include: Sources of Law Parliament and Legislation Courts Precedent Criminal and Civil Procedure Tort Law and Contract Law Legal Research
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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 […]
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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 […]
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John Finnis
John Finnis John Finnis is an Australian legal scholar who grew up in Adelaide before getting a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford. He is currently professor of law at Oxford. Finnis published Natural Law and Natural Rights in 1980, and the book is considered a seminal restatement of the natural law doctrine. Finnis is a practising…
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John Finnis
John Finnis John Finnis is an Australian legal scholar who grew up in Adelaide before getting a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford. He is currently professor of law at Oxford. Finnis published Natural Law and Natural Rights in 1980, and the book is considered a seminal restatement of the natural law doctrine. Finnis is a practising…
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Hard Law
Federal or State Law Explained References See Also Civil Procedure (in international or comparative law) Federal Courts (in international or comparative law)
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Hard Law
Federal or State Law Explained References See Also Civil Procedure (in international or comparative law) Federal Courts (in international or comparative law)
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International Customary Law
Customary International Law Art. 38 (1) Statute of the International Court of Justice, after saying that the court's function is 'to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it', states, in para. (1) (b), that it shall apply 'international custom, as […]
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International Customary Law
Customary International Law Art. 38 (1) Statute of the International Court of Justice, after saying that the court's function is 'to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it', states, in para. (1) (b), that it shall apply 'international custom, as […]
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Footnotes
Footnotes This article examines the history and nature of footnotes and other annotational devices used in legal and other literature, particularly law reviews. The topic has received considerable attention in United States university law journals, which are heavily drawn on. The article starts by considering the nature of the glossing process and identifying different sorts…
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Footnotes
Footnotes This article examines the history and nature of footnotes and other annotational devices used in legal and other literature, particularly law reviews. The topic has received considerable attention in United States university law journals, which are heavily drawn on. The article starts by considering the nature of the glossing process and identifying different sorts…
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Questions Part 2
Questions Law as the Answer to a Question By Francis Bennion: In Part One of this article I suggested that we could make sense of the proposition that a particular law is the answer to a question by constructing a factual outline which would trigger the thrust of that law. How far are we from…
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Questions Part 2
Questions Law as the Answer to a Question By Francis Bennion: In Part One of this article I suggested that we could make sense of the proposition that a particular law is the answer to a question by constructing a factual outline which would trigger the thrust of that law. How far are we from…
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Questions
Questions Law as the Answer to a Question By Francis Bennion: From certain viewpoints, for example the sociological, a law can easily be seen as the answer to a question. What persons who find themselves affected by the impact of some unknown or doubtful law feel a need for is just that: the answer to…