(this beginning is a bit too open‚ it doesn ’t have a lead up to the point) In the last thirty years‚ the number of patients diagnosed with depression has doubled. (doubled from what? What percentage) The sharp increase in these diagnoses is due to the fact that the medical community has blurred the distinction between everyday unhappiness and clinical depression. (what percentage or numbers are you getting the 40% from?) The use of Psychotropic medication in depressed patients has increased in
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LAW AND POLITICS “TENTATIVE” COURSE SCHEDULE SPRING 2013 Readings: (M) Murphy and selected internet and electronic readings Some journal articles will need to be accessed through the UVU Library Journal database. If the below links to internet sources do not work‚ you should first search Google for alternative links. If you are still unsuccessful‚ then contact Dr. Griffin. This schedule is only “tentative” and subject to change by verbal or written notification – stay tuned! _________________
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Philosophers Ronald Dworkin and H.L.A. Hart have referred to discretion as “the hole in the doughnut” (Ndsaystarr‚ 2006). Discretion is the void in the middle of a ring consisting of policies and procedures. However‚ police are not always supposed to exercise discretion
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The independence of the judiciary was ensured by the act of settlement 1700‚ which transferred the power to sack judges from the crown to the parliament. Consequently‚ judges should theoretically make their decisions based purely on the logical deductions of precedent‚ uninfluenced by political or career considerations. The eighteenth century legal commentator‚ William Blackstone‚ introduced the declaratory theory of law‚ stating that judges do not make law‚ but merely‚ by the rules of precedence
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is crucial. Whenever judicial law-making is unavoidable‚ it must be done subject to strict restrictions. Both HK and UK cases will be used in this article to support the analysis. Judicial Creativity Both Ronald Dworkin and William Blackstone denied the creative role of judges. Dworkin regards law as a “seamless web”: since legal principles deduced from precedents never run out‚ judges can simply apply them to the adjudicating case‚ and need not to use their discretion in making laws. Meanwhile
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feature of Kelsen’s theory. Many of Hart’s former students became important legal‚ moral‚ and political philosophers‚ including Brian Barry‚ John Finnis‚ John Gardner Kent Greenawalt‚ Neil MacCormick‚ William Twining‚ Chin Liew Ten‚ Joseph Raz and Ronald Dworkin. The Concept of Law is the most famous work of HLA Hart; it was published in the year 1961. This book developed a lot about what we should understand about legal positivism and what is the idea that he brought into the legal law. Firstly‚ the
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some theories known as theories of legal positivism The question of whether all legal systems or even all laws‚ partake of some more general moral qualities is characteristic of some theories known as natural law theories Hybrid theories (that of Dworkin) suggest that the manner in which any and every particular law becomes part of a legal system can only be understood in terms of the enterprise of law at its most general level Natural Law The development of natural law as a jurisprudence usually
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philosophers‚ scientists‚ writers‚ have tried to answer the fundamental question what constitutes a good life. According to Dworkin‚ a good life is not just about living in some pleasurable way; it is about creating a good life in a critical way. It can be argued that living a good life entails treading down a moral path‚ doing all that morality requires us to do; however Dworkin posits that moral principles should be interpreted so that being moral makes us happy. In his
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believe that the utilitarian theory is not justified when a person is tortured as Ronald Dworkin revealed this in the book “Criminal Justice Ethics:Theory and Practice‚ 2e” when he revealed that “a core list of human rights‚ would include the right not to be tortured‚ and torture constitutes the most profound insult to its’ victim’s humanity‚ the most profound outrage of his human rights”(Banks‚ Cyndi‚ 2009). Dworkin disagrees with the act of torture and acknowledges the fact that it is an act that
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Physician-Assisted Suicide The question about physician-assisted suicide in many societies around the world remains difficult‚ except some European countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands‚ and some states in USA - Oregon‚ Washington and Montana where this former restriction was legalized. Nowadays‚ other countries and the rest of states in the U.S. facing dilemma rather to leave PAS illegal‚ or change existing law into legal practice. In “Introduction” of the book Ethical Issues in Modern
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