Environmental law is increasingly important, especially in light of the Kyoto Protocol and the potential danger of climate change. Environmental protection also serves to penalise polluters within domestic legal systems.…
Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with representatives from 100+ law schools in one place. The Weil Legal Innovators Program selected Brady Miller and Jackson Weihe to receive scholarships for…
In a parliamentary system, as with Britain, Italy, Germany, India, and Japan, the executive is known as the cabinet, and composed of members of the legislature. The executive is led…
Hegel believed that civil society and the state were polar opposites, within the scheme of his dialectic theory of history. The modern dipole state–civil society was reproduced in the theories…
Thriving in Law School orientation programming helped to lay the groundwork for success for incoming students from diverse backgrounds. Professor Denise Gilman is a guest on the NPR program “All…
The Halakha is a code of Jewish law that summarizes some of the Talmud’s interpretations. Nevertheless, Israeli law allows litigants to use religious laws only if they choose. Canon law…
The chief obstacle to such a law in the first part of the twentieth century was opposition from settlers and farmers. Readers will welcome the detailed commentary of segregation laws…
Japan was the first country to begin modernising its legal system along western lines, by importing parts of the French, but mostly the German Civil Code. This partly reflected Germany’s…
For an exposition of social restrictions and their enforcement, see censorship; crime and punishment; and police. For a description of the legal aspects of war and the military, see war,…
By the 22nd century BC, the ancient Sumerian ruler Ur-Nammu had formulated the first law code, which consisted of casuistic statements (“if … then …”). Around 1760 BC, King Hammurabi…
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