resort to the jurisprudence of the World Court—a term which I take to include the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and its predecessor‚ the Permanent Court—and the way they do it. First‚ a preliminary question: why not ‘the ICSID jurisprudence in the decisions of the International Court of Justice’? The answer could simply be that it is not the topic of tonight’s conference. But there are also good reasons. First‚ there may be some doubt about the existence of ‘ICSID jurisprudence’; I do not
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women are obligated to the same rights as men (Feminism). Many people who support feminism believe that history was written from male’s point of view and consequently does not express women’s role in history or their place in society (Feminist Jurisprudence). There are many theories as to why women have been treated as inferiors for so long. A very prominent theory is how women are viewed in religious settings. Many blame Eve in the Christian faith to have set the fate for women by condemning mankind
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emerged as a key legal corpus throughout medieval Spain. Although known as royal legislation‚ the Siete Partidas is also comprised of Visigothic‚ Roman‚ and Canon law. The Siete Partidas therefore provides a wealth of information concerning medieval jurisprudence. The law codes encapsulated within the Siete Partidas have become a key lens with which to study
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Opinion of Guan Yin SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 11-817 STATE OF FLORIDA‚ Petitioner‚ v. CLAYTON HARRIS‚ Respondent. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA Syllabus The case present before us involves the constitutionality of a dog sniff in regards to the 4rth Amendment. The respondent claims that the police
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(Simpkin‚ Marshal and Co‚ 1843) Coddington A‚ Utilitarianism Today‚ ‘Political Theory’‚ (Vol. 4‚May‚ 1976) Riddal JG‚ Jurisprudence‚ (2nd edn Oxford Press 2006) Freeman M‚ Harrison R‚ Law and Philosophy Current Legal Issues‚ (Oxford Press 2007) Simmonds NE‚ Central Issues In Jurisprudence‚ (Sweet and Maxwell ‚3rd edn‚ 2008) Meyerson D‚ Understanding Jurisprudence‚ (Routledge Cavandish‚ 2007) Harris JW‚ Legal Philosophies‚ (Butterworths 1980) Manuel Velasquez‚ Claire Andre‚ Thomas
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the view that the privy council cannot bring justice to the country of Trinidad and Tobago especially in the area of crime as our crime rates have are disturbingly high. The Privy Council upholds appeals in death sentence cases through modern jurisprudence. Our democracy is in need of the death sentence to remedy crime. The case of Balkissoon Roodial v The State‚ Trinidad case said that the death penalty in that case was remitted back to the court of appeal from the Privy Council on the grounds
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decided. The jurisprudence theories on juristic person had been established since the early Roman law to justify the existence of legal person other than the human. The State‚ religious bodies and education institutions had long been recognized as having legal entity distinct from the members. The acceptance of the corporate personality of a company basically means that another non-human entity is recognized to assume a legal entity. This can be seen from the many theories of jurisprudence on corporate
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Islam is a religion based on oral tradition. It is very important because many of what we know of Islam in the present is based on orally transmitted information. Even when it comes to the authorities of the religion it can be traced to oral tradition. In this essay the emphasis would be put on how oral tradition sets up authority in the religion‚ in both sunni and and shi’ ite sects. Why is oral tradition so important in Islam? During the time when Muhammad was alive‚ unfortunately nothing
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A JURISPRUDENTIAL APPRAISAL OF LAW AS AN INSTRUEMENT OF SOCIAL CHANGE IN INDIA INTRODUCTION The subject of the relationship between law and social change involves extensive jurisprudential‚ sociological and philosophical discussions and learning done over centuries by a wide range of renowned commentators and authorities. The history of mankind reveals that human wisdom has devised different methods and means to meet the structural changes in the social system which take place with the advancement
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PAGE 1 – THE NATURE AND AUTHORITY OF THE SHARIA PAGE 2 – HOW THE WILL OF GOD MAY BE KNOWN REGARDING CONTEMPORAY ISSUES PAGE 3 – AUTHORITY PAGE 4 – IMPORTANCE (GUIDE TO LIFE‚ ACCURACY) PAGE 5 – DIFFERING UNDERSTANDINGS OF IJTIHAD PAGE 6 – GLOSSARY Nature and Authority of the Shari’a In technical terms it is a clearly defined way of following the guidance of God that was left as a pattern for Islamic living by each of the messengers: Muhammad [SAW] left a Shari’a left for the
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