... yackle is professor oflawand the Basil Yanakakis Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law. He has taught and written about constitutional law throughout his academic career, and he ... document and must be, given that the document and only the document counts as the Constitution.10But this is sophistry and a pernicious brand of sophistry in that it gen-erates misunderstanding and ... Nevertheless, and however much exegesis is re-quired to move from the text of the Constitution to judicial decisions about the text, theorists insist that the warp and woof of constitutional law is...
... rationalisation and modernisation of the criminal law. On the other hand, they bear responsibility to interrogate the problems of the law, and to seek to understand its inherent dynamics, its shifts and ... Sociology ofLaw in Onati, Spain in June 2007. The main aim of the workshop was to gather together experts in the fields of criminal lawand procedure, criminology, legal history, lawand psychology ... aspects of the same thing: the modern form of law. I will now outline these two aspects of modern individualist law and then contextualise the idea of the responsible subject in terms of Marshall’s...
... FBAWhewell Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, and Director, Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of CambridgeJohn S. Bell FBAProfessor of Law, Faculty of Law, ... relied on three different types of law; divine law, human law and natural law. 11 Of these, divine law was asserted to be primaryby many scholars and theologians of the fifteenth century. Secondly, ... the history of international law, illuminating the imperial character of the discipline and its enduring significance for peoples of the Third World.antony anghie is Professor ofLaw at the S....
... 95/46/EC (Directive 95/46/EC of theEuropean Parliament andof the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on xxxiv table ofconventionsArt. 25 6, ... Protocols of 8 June1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, Section I: ProtocolAdditional to the GenevaConventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International ... Protocols of 8 June1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, Section II: ProtocolAdditional to the GenevaConventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International...
... FBAWhewell Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, and Director, Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of CambridgeJohn S. Bell FBAProfessor of Law, Faculty of Law, ... relied on three different types of law; divine law, human law and natural law. 11 Of these, divine law was asserted to be primaryby many scholars and theologians of the fifteenth century. Secondly, ... 136The Mandate System and the construction of thenon-European state 147Government, sovereignty and economy 156The mandate and the dissolution of sovereignty 179The legacies of the Mandate...
... elements of classical thermodynamics of equilibrium states and deduce from them the second law as the principle of the increase of entropy.‘Classical’ means that there is no mention of statistical ... Irreversibility and Carathe´ odory’s principleOne of the milestones in the history of the second law is Carathe´ odory’s attempt to formulate thesecond law in terms of purely local properties of the ... may or may not be comparable. An example of non-comparable systemsis one mole of H and one mole of O. Another is one mole of H and two moles of H.One might think that if the comparison...
... differenttype of natural law, which could be complemented by positive law. Althoughpositive law lay outside the realm of natural lawand reason, in the free will of men,134positive law as a matter of ... (2005) 49 Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 1–45; and morerelevantly for present purposes, William Twining, ‘Social Science and Diffusion ofLaw (2005)32 Journal ofLawand Society 203–40, ... essential kinship, not of the Roman and the English law, but rather of theRoman and the English lawyer’;60 and the similar constitutional development of European kingdoms61 and the common legal...
... models oflaw in competition with state law. Such models oflawand norms are characteristic of what people often meanwhen they use the word ‘globalisation’.251 The return of universalist law 172See ... expansion and balanced growth of international trade, and to contribute thereby to the promotion and maintenance of high levels of employment and real income and to the development of the productiveresources ... rights, in the dignity and worth of thehuman person, in the equal rights of men and women andof nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations...
... of international law, asembodied in the Charter and in decisions of the International Court, toregulate the use of force and the assertions of certain most powerfulStates, andof certain of ... not law, but an adequate notion of a body of law cannot be gained without understanding the society in and for which itexists, and it is therefore necessary for the student of international law ... do, and what they actu-ally did as the result of a far wider range of pressures and opportunities.Moreover, the lack of interest in international law among most of thexi tion of power and...
... English law NORMAN DOE Law, Politics and the Church of EnglandThe Career of Stephen Lushington 1782-1873S. M. WADDAMSThe early history of the lawof bills and notesA study of the origins of Anglo-American ... the lawof bills and notes. The judges of the English common law courts did notborrow the rules of the lawof bills from sources external to thecommon law system. Rather, the English lawof ... they were not the be all and end all of the law of bills.The orthodox accounts of the history of the law of bills and notespush to the level of a priori assumption all of the issues that oughtto...