An ideal introductory law textbook, From Law to Order is the collaborative effort of two authors with extensive backgrounds in teaching and field practice. It examines the many facets of our legal system including: What is Law?; Making Law; Federal and State Courts; Criminal Law; Civil Law and Juvenile Justice; The Law and Social Change; Comparative Law--including Islamic Law; and Women and the Law. Discussion questions and vocabulary follow each chapter. An instructor's manual with test questions is available.
An ideal introductory law textbook, From Law to Order is the collaborative effort of two authors with extensive backgrounds in teaching and field practice.
Understanding of the philosophy and theory behind the law is significance to law makers, legal practitioners, academicians and laymen. The rationales are to have some understanding of public policy and the real aim of the laws that made up particular practices or the root of practices. Therefore, this book highlight selected philosophy and theory of laws in the area of commercial, financial and corporate law; medical law; constitutional and administrative law and lastly human resource law. The massive information and knowledge in this book will benefits law makers, legal practitioners, academicians, universities students in understanding the philosophy and theory of the law first, before appreciating and applying the substantive law in their profession and life.
Therefore, this book highlight selected philosophy and theory of laws in the area of commercial, financial and corporate law; medical law; constitutional and administrative law and lastly human resource law.
This book engages the diverse meanings and interpretations of Islamic and Western law which have affected people and societies across the globe, past and present, in correlation to the epistemological groundings of those meanings and interpretations. The volume takes a distinctively comparative approach, advancing dialogue on crucial transnational and global debates over the history of Western and Islamic approaches to law, politics and society and their relevance for today. It discusses how fundamental concepts are understood and even translated from one historical or political context or one semantic domain to another. The book provides focused studies of key figures and theories in a manageable, accessible format useful for specialized academic courses and research as well as general audiences.
This book engages the diverse meanings and interpretations of Islamic and Western law which have affected people and societies across the globe, past and present, in correlation to the epistemological groundings of those meanings and ...
Essays in Ethical Values for Theory, Practice, and Policy
This edited volume is the first collection of essays exploring the intersection of social economics and the law, providing alternatives to neoclassical law-and-economics and applying them to real-world issues. Law is a social enterprise concerned with values such as justice, dignity, and equality, as well as efficiency - which is the same way that social economists conceive of the economy itself. Social economists and legal scholars alike need to acknowledge the interrelationship between the economy and the law in a broader ethical context than enabled by mainstream law-and-economics. The ten chapters in Law and Social Economics, written by an international assortment of scholars from economics, philosophy, and law, employ a wide variety of approaches and methods to show how a more ethically nuanced approach to economics and the law can illuminate both fields and open up new avenues for studying social-economic behavior, policy, and outcomes in all their ethical and legal complexity.
This edited volume is the first collection of essays exploring the intersection of social economics and the law, providing alternatives to neoclassical law-and-economics and applying them to real-world issues.
Authors Costa and Zolo share the conviction that a proper understanding of the rule of law today requires reference to a global problematic horizon. This book offers some relevant guides for orienting the reader through a political and legal debate where the rule of law (and the doctrine of human rights) is a concept both controversial and significant at the national and international levels.
As argued by Archana Parashar, even though judges applied the rules of Hindu and Islamic laws, they interpreted them ... Macaulay's most important and lasting contribution to Indian law was the establishment of the Indian Criminal Code.
Using contemporary illustrations, Legal Maxims in Islamic Criminal Law delves into the theoretical and practical studies of al-Qawaid al-Fiqhiyyah in Islamic legal theory. It elucidates the importance of this concept in the application of Islamic law and demonstrates how the concept relates to the objectives of Islamic law (maqāṣid al-Sharī‘ah), generally.
Using contemporary illustrations, Legal Maxims in Islamic Criminal Law delves into the theoretical and practical studies of al-Qawaid al-Fiqhiyyah in Islamic legal theory.
NY act of Reasoning strictly so called presupposes the universality of its Sumption or Major Premise . ... From the enumeration which has just been made , it appears that , with the unimportant exceptions of legal precepts and a few ...
GRECH , A. P. Development and use of micro - reproduction in the libraries of the legal profession . Micro News 57 ( Mar. 1962 ) , 158 . 372. ... HOHFELD , W. N. Some fundamental legal conceptions as applied in judicial reasoning .
A set of general rules is " justified ” by reasoning from basic principles , but they do not cover all of law and ethics . In part the limitation is self - imposed and is motivated by a desire not to bore either myself or the reader .
The application of logic for the purposes of legal reasoning has been inhibited by the fact that the various basic positions about logic differ too much from each other . This is especially important in a field like legal reasoning ...
