Search Results - "Authority"

Scientific evidence and equal protection of the law by Ancheta, Angelo N., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Science and law, ideology, and inequality -- Desegregation and "modern authority" -- Science and equal protection -- Proving discrimination -- Science, advocacy, and fact finding -- Directions and conclusions.…”
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Sinners on trial Jews and sacrilege after the reformation / by Teter, Magda

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : from sin to crime -- The meaning of the sacred -- Stealing sacred objects -- Prosecuting sins, defending faith -- The making of a Polish Jerusalem -- Protestant heresy and charges against Jews -- Christians on trial, Jews expelled -- The struggle for power and authority -- Justice and the politics of crime.…”
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Islamic law in theory : studies on jurisprudence in honor of Bernard Weiss /

Table of Contents: “…Law and language -- Part 4. Law: diversity and authority.…”
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Sanctuary and crime in the middle ages, 400-1500 by Shoemaker, Karl

Table of Contents: “…Authority, intercession, and penance -- Roman aristocratic traditions, imperial penal law, and sanctuary -- Reassessing early medieval sanctuary legislation -- The transmission and reception of sanctuary legislation in the early middle ages -- Sanctuary, blood feud, and the strength of Anglo-Saxon government -- Sanctuary in the century after the Norman conquest -- Sanctuary and Angevin law reforms -- The role of canon law in the destruction of sanctuary.…”
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The constitution as treaty the international legal constructionalist approach to the U.S. Constitution / by Martin, Francisco Forrest

Table of Contents: “…Final judicial review authority of federal and other international courts -- The fallacy of federal judicial activism in light of international law's non liquet prohibition principle -- The positive law of nations and its interpretive principles -- The natural law of nations -- Article III, international legal interpretation -- Extra-Article III, international legal interpretation -- The general liberal construction rule : extending Lynham to other Article III and Extra-Article III international law.…”
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The law of fundraising / by Hopkins, Bruce R.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- About the companion website -- Government regulation of fundraising for charity -- Anatomy of charitable fundraising -- States' charitable solicitation acts -- State regulation of fundraising : legal issues -- Index.…”
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United Nations naval peace operations in the territorial sea by McLaughlin, Rob

Table of Contents: “…Law, power, and the sea -- Power : naval force and the conduct of UN peace operations -- Legitimacy : UN peace operations, force, and the law of the sea convention -- UN naval peace operations, innocent passage, and the use of force -- UN naval interdiction operations in the territorial sea -- UN transitional administration and the status of the territorial sea -- Regulating authority for UN naval peace operations in third party territorial seas.…”
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UNCLOS 1982 commentary supplementary documents /

Table of Contents: “…The international seabed authority -- pt. 2. The international tribunal for the law of the sea -- pt. 3. …”
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Boundaries of discourse in the International Court of Justice mapping arguments in Arab territorial disputes / by Burgis, Michelle L.

Table of Contents: “…Listening for silences in and beyond the courtroom : methodological tools for understanding ICJ territorial disputes -- Between faith and place : Arab-Islamic approaches to authority and territory in theory and practice -- Sanctioning colonial legacies in the Sahara : the construction of postcolonial selfhood in the Libya/Chad territorial dispute -- (De)limiting the past for future gain : the relationship between statehood, colonialism, and oil in the Qatar v Bahrain territorial dispute -- Determining the limits of law in the Western Sahara case -- Discourses of division : law, politics, and the ICJ advisory opinion on the legal consequences of the construction of a wall in the occupied Palestinian territory.…”
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Law, politics and society in early modern England by Brooks, C. W.

Table of Contents: “…English history and the history of English law 1485-1642 -- Courts, lawyers and legal thought under the early Tudors -- The initiatives of the crown and the break from Rome -- Political realities and legal discourse in the later sixteenth century -- The politics of jurisdiction I: the liberty of the subject and the ecclesiastical polity 1560--c. 1610 -- The politics of jurisdiction II: multiple kingdoms and questions about royal authority -- The absoluta potestas of a sovereign and the liberty of the subject: law and political controversy in the 1620s -- The degeneration of civil society into a state of war 1629--1642 -- Law and 'community' -- The aristocracy, the gentry and the rule of law -- Economic and tenurial relationships -- The household and its members -- The person, the community and the state.…”
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Tax treatment of international civil servants by Martha, Rutsel Silvestre J.

Table of Contents: “…Independence of international civil servants -- The impact of the national jurisdiction to tax -- Independent functioning of international organizations -- Equity amongst members of international organizations -- The principle of equality of treatment -- Limitations of the double taxation relief method -- Conceptual foundations -- Its nature -- The international organization -- The members -- The host countries -- Authority to determine the personal scope -- The personal scope of the obligation -- Taxes covered -- Income covered -- National fiscal benefits -- The zero sum game -- Efficacy of the tax exemption method -- Efficacy of the tax equalization method -- Efficacy tax reimbursment method -- Efficacy of the tax adjustment method.…”
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Islamic criminal law in Northern Nigeria politics, religion, judicial practice / by Weimann, Gunnar Jochen

Table of Contents: “…The Fatwā and the beast : Islamic authority and Muslim unity in northern Nigeria in light of the 2002 Miss World Crisis.…”
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Old texts, new practices : Islamic reform in modern Morocco / by Terem, Etty, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Modern Islam and the religious reform tradition -- Religious knowledge and authority in precolonial Morocco -- The rhetoric of Moroccan modernity -- Delineating Muslim-Christian relations -- Refashioning notions of gender and family -- Redefining patterns of consumption -- Islamic legal tradition, change, and continuity.…”
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Legal reasoning and legal writing / by Neumann, Richard K., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Rule-based reasoning -- An introduction to judicial decisions and statutes -- Inside the writing process -- More about writing -- Office memoranda -- Predictive writing -- Selecting authority -- Working with statutes -- Working with precedent -- Working with facts -- A paradigm for organizing proof of a conclusion of law -- Varying the depth of rule proof and rule application -- Combining proofs of separate conclusions of law -- Working with the paradigm -- Paragraphing -- Effective style -- Quotations -- Professional email -- Orally reporting research results -- Client advice letters -- Developing a persuasive theory -- Developing persuasive arguments -- Motion memoranda -- Point headings and subheadings -- Statements of the case (or facts) -- Appellate practice -- Appellate briefs -- Writing the appellate brief -- Questions presented -- Oral argument.…”

American politicians confront the court opposition politics and changing responses to judicial power / by Engel, Stephen M.

Table of Contents: “…Beyond the countermajoritarian difficulty -- A developmental theory of politician's confrontations with judicial authority -- In support of Unified Governance : undermining the court in an anti-party age -- Party against partisanship : single-party constitutionalism and the quest for regime unity -- "As party exigencies require" : republicanism, loyal opposition, and the emerging legitimacy of multiple constitutional visions -- Clashing progressive solutions to the political problem of judicial power-- A polity fully-developed for harnessing (I) : living constitutionalism and the politicization of judicial appointment -- A polity fully-developed for harnessing (II) : a conservative insurgency and a self-stylized majoritarian court responds.…”
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Legal reasoning and legal writing / by Neumann, Richard K, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Rule-based reasoning -- An introduction to judicial decisions and statutes -- Inside the writing process -- More about writing -- Office memoranda -- Predictive writing -- Selecting authority -- Working with statutes -- Working with precedent -- Working with facts -- A paradigm for organizing proof of a conclusion of law -- Varying the depth of rule proof and rule application -- Combining proofs of separate conclusions of law -- Working with the paradigm -- Paragraphing -- Effective style -- Quotations -- Professional email -- Orally reporting research results -- Client advice letters -- Developing a persuasive theory -- Developing persuasive arguments -- Motion memoranda -- Point headings and subheadings -- Statements of the case (or facts) -- Appellate practice -- Appellate briefs -- Writing the appellate brief -- Questions presented -- Oral argument.…”

Brownlie's principles of public international law / by Crawford, James, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The sources of international law -- The relations of international and national law -- Subjects of international law -- Creation and incidence of statehood -- Recognition of states and governments -- International Organizations -- Forms of governmental authority over territory -- Acquisition and transfer of territorial sovereignty -- Status of territory : further problems -- The territorial sea and other maritime zones -- Maritime delimitation and associated questions -- Maritime transit and the regime of the high seas -- Common spaces and the co-operation in the use of natural resources -- Legal aspects of the protection of the environment -- The law of treaties -- Diplomatic and consular relations -- Unilateral acts; estoppel : Succession to rights and duties -- Sovereignty and equality of states -- Jurisdictional competence -- Privileges and immunities of foreign states -- The relations of nationality -- Nationality of corporations and assets -- The conditions for international responsibility -- Consequences of an internationally wrongful act -- Multilateral public order and issues of responsibility -- The international minimum standard : persons and property -- International human rights -- International criminal justice -- The claims process -- Third-party settlement of international disputes -- The use of threat of force by states.…”

International law and the genetic resources of the deep sea by Leary, David Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…The international significance of deep-sea hydrothermal vents -- Framework treaties and key concepts in international law -- Regional and other environmental treaties -- The continental shelf regime -- The common heritage of mankind -- Domestic legal regimes regulating activities at hydrothermal vent sites within national jurisdiction -- The emerging deep sea biotechnology industry -- Marine scientific research -- The role of the International Seabed Authority -- Elements of the future international legal regime.…”
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Law's cosmos juridical discourse in Athenian forensic oratory / by Wohl, Victoria, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The world of law : oratory and authority -- Legal violence and the limit of justice -- Legal fictions : subjects probable and improbable -- Logos biou : law's life stories -- Civic amnesia and legal memory : remembering and forgetting in the lawcourts -- Family/law : legal genealogies.…”
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Collier's conflict of laws / by Rogerson, Pippa