Suffolk Law School
Johan John Austin’s utilitarian answer was that law is “commands, backed by threat of sanctions, from a sovereign, to whom people have a habit of obedience”. Natural lawyers on the other…
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University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Colour-coded map of the legal systems around the world, showing civil, common law, religious, customary and mixed legal systems. Common law systems are shaded pink, and civil law systems are…
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
A hallmark of Stanford University and a distinct strength of Stanford Law, where students can explore the many ways law intersects with other fields. In celebration of Constitution Day, we…
Suffolk Law School
Shipping companies operate through ordinary principles of commercial law, generalised for a global market. Admiralty law also encompasses specialised issues such as salvage, maritime liens, and injuries to passengers. Family…
Yale Law School
John Locke, in his Two Treatises of Government, and Baron de Montesquieu in The Spirit of the Laws, advocated for a separation of powers between the political, legislature and executive…
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Conflict of laws, or private international law in civil law countries, concerns which jurisdiction a legal dispute between private parties should be heard in and which jurisdiction’s law should be…
Yale Law School
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…
Suffolk Law School
If a country has an entrenched constitution, a special majority for changes to the constitution may be required, making changes to the law more difficult. A government usually leads the…
University of Michigan Law School
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…
Suffolk Law School
Negative perceptions of “red tape” aside, public services such as schooling, health care, policing or public transport are considered a crucial state function making public bureaucratic action the locus of…