Essays Tagged: "legal obligation"
Compare critically Bentham's, Hart's and Dworkin's accounts of legal obligation. The essay is submitted for the course "Jurisprudence"
Legal obligation is both Bentham's and Hart's central concern. Yet, Dworkin does not really make an ... ising positivist theses. Thus, I will first make a brief summary of Bentham's and Hart's account of legal obligation, before I make a comparison of all the three jurists' theories.Jeremy Bentham's Leg ... ppiness". In other words, he has to find a balance between benefits and evil.Bentham believed that "legal obligation was nothing more than an awareness of the probability that punishment would be impo ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Case study on granting domestic partnership benefits.
ic Partner RelationshipsCalifornia is receiving considerable notoriety in newspaper headlines about legalizing domestic partner marriage. The Supreme Court's decision is a major victory in the equal r ... lesbian couples but until now, the state of California or those doing business in California had no legal obligation to offer benefits to same-sex couples. Will the Supreme Court's decision have a pos ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
Ethics in E-Business
Ethical IssuesEBUS 400 E-BusinessEthical IssuesB2B and B2C companies must deal with legal and ethical issues. Many of the issues are very similar. There are a few differences that each ... site. An example of a B2B is IBM. Amazon.com is an example of a B2C. Each type of company will face legal, ethical and regulatory issues daily in normal business activities. Many new issues arise with ... it card information, purchase details and personal information secure.B2C websites have a moral and legal obligation to protect the information of its customers. Customers must be protected from fraud ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Accounting For Asset Retirement Obligation
) . The exposure draft of Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) staff states that the staff's legal obligation to undertake asset retirement activity is based on the fact that a condition on the ... ement amounts, inflation factors, credit-adjusted discount rates, time of settlement and changes in legal regulatory and environmental landscape.ReferencesGuinn, R.E., Schroeder, R. G. and Sevi, S. K. ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Article/Case Law Search
l and can go home after the procedure and not have to worry about staying overnight. There are many legal issues regarding these types of facilities and as you will read they have to do with physician ... rk waivers and Medicare cases. It takes a lot to run a surgical center and to find out what kind of legal issues that can be involved is a lot to deal with.Physician ownershipOne of the main sources o ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Common Law in Australia: The Tort Of Negligence
the defendant at the time when he or she breached the duty.ELEMENTS OF NEGLIGENCE1. DUTY OF CARE - Legal obligation on a person engaged in any activity to take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissi ... of the wrongdoer's negligence."Implications of the DecisionEmployers have long been aware of their legal and moral duties in regard to an employee's occupational health and safety. Employers must now ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Audit Expectation Gap
seen on the corporate governance activities to ensure a good image of the company. Auditing being a legal obligation for the companies now, ensure that the financial reports of the company are without ... lapses, that were associated with auditors' fraud and negligence, have been unveiled, the auditors' legal liabilities became the bone of contention in almost every country. Auditing being an expensive ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting
Women with Substance Abuse Problems
women on the street find themselves as addicts and pregnant. Most pregnant drug offenders enter the legal system through hospitals or on other charges, such as prostitution, instead of being arrested ... ir follicles (Mayet, Morgan, & Strang, 2008).The real dilemma for case manager is what it their legal obligation when dealing with pregnant drug addicts. Mothers who are discovered as an illicit d ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
The theme in Ibsen's A Doll's House
der the rule of men, having no share at all in public concerns, and each in private being under the legal obligation of obedience to the man with whom she has associated her destiny." (8)Nora obsessiv ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art