Ethics and Law: Basic Concepts‚ Cases‚ and Dilemmas Baruch College Zicklin School of Business Department of Law W. Ray Williams This compilation[1] is intended for use during “Ethics Week.” The Law Department is firmly committed to exposing its students to ethical considerations when making legal and business decisions. As a result ethics is a component of all its course offerings. To the extent that students
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JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY VOLUME 20‚ NUMBER 4‚ WINTER 1993 0263-323X Marx and Law ANDREW VINCENT* There is no sense in which Marx can be described as just a legal theorist. He did not write any systematic works on legal science or jurisprudence; however‚ his observations on law are both immensely penetrating and contain an extremely subtle interweaving of philosophical‚ political‚ economic‚ and legal strands. Marx was also at the centre of many crucial intellectual and political debates
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International Journal of Law‚ Policy and the Family 2011 A husband ’s authority: emerging formulations in Muslim family laws Lynn Welchman Subject: Family law. Other related subjects: Legal systems Keywords: Comparative law; Islamic law; Marriage; Morocco; Spouses; United Arab Emirates *Int. J.L.P.F. 1 ABSTRACT This article considers the articulation of the husband-wife relationship in Islamic law and specifically the contemporary equation in statutory formulations of Muslim family law that sets the
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Teenage Driving Laws. Does shuttling teens around until they are 18 sound appealing? The answer is no. Despite the maturity level of teenagers‚ the driving age should remain the same because any driver could be reckless‚ kids could rely less on their parents‚ and teens could learn responsibilities that they need for future references. If the driving age stays the same many teenagers could rely less on their parents. Some teens have parents who work constantly so that could limit them from doing
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INTRODUCTION The law of contract is the collection of legal rules which govern contracts. These rules‚ in turn‚ are part of the law of obligations‚ a subdivision of the law of property which is traditionally regarded as part of private law. Private law governs the persons (legal subject) in their personal or private capacity before the law in relation to other legal subjects. In other word‚ private law can be defined as balance and protect legitimate individual interests. Traditionally private law‚ being
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Employment Law Paper Tonya J. Sevion BUS / 415 Business Law University of Phoenix Dr. Deborah Alsup‚ Instructor April 1‚ 2008 Employment Law Paper The Civil Rights Act enacted in 1964 (Title VII) was initiated to prohibit employment discrimination regardless of race‚ color‚ religion‚ sex‚ or national origin. In the early 1990’s employment discrimination legislation passed two major Acts. The 1991 Americans with Disabilities Act and Civil Rights Act. These amendments were to strengthen
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position as he was before the promise was made expectation interest – object is to put the plaintiff in as good a position as he would have been had the defendant performed the promise Wertheim the ruling principle of awarding monetary damages for breach of contract is to place the plaintiff in the same position as he would have been if the contract had been performed Anglia Television Ltd. Facts: P is suing D for wasted expenditure arising from D’s breach of K to star in their production
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LLM CANON LAW 2nd year Essay 4. What is the civil law on abortion and is this at odds with the Roman Catholic canon law? Introduction The word abortion comes from the Latin ’aboriri’ meaning to miscarry‚ where pregnancy ends too soon and the baby dies. The Abortion debate has become one of the most divisive and contentious issues of our time. Garlikov is of the opinion that once those for or against abortion reflect with more rationality‚they will discover
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agreement between two or more parties that is intended to be legally binding. The first mandatory requisite of any contract is an agreement (consisting of an offer and acceptance). At least two parties are required; one of them‚ the offeror‚ makes an offer which the other‚ the offeree‚ accepts.1 A contract may be defined as a legally binding agreement or‚ in the words of Sir Frederick Pollock: "A promise or set of promises which the law will enforce". The agreement will create rights and obligations
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daily basis. Research reveals what common sense suggests--that all these problems are rooted in racist‚ biased‚ and discriminatory social attitudes‚ attitudes which children encounter from their first moments of pre-school. The sense of injustice that they instinctively feel when they sense these biases will manifest out of discrimination towards one or both of their racial backgrounds‚ as well as towards the fact that they have more than one racial background. Examples of these concerns‚ and manifestation
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