Essays Tagged: "Jurisprudence"

Greenspan - The Case for the Defense

past cases and important events in Greenspan'slife allowed myself, the reader, to learn more about Jurisprudence and the Criminal Code.The entire casebook revolves around several main themes includin ... an is, whathe believes in, what he represents and what he would do for his profession.The wheels of jurisprudence are always turning, and I came to realise howGreenspan worked and bargained for his st ...

(2 pages) 45 0 5.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Death Penalty for Terrorists

-- and if indeed we are at war what constraints precepts of natural justice and sound international jurisprudence impose on the retributive military actions that our government, perhaps aided by its a ...

(3 pages) 112 1 3.2 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

This essay is a 1 page biography on Adam Smith, the "father of capitalism".

ppointed chairman of moral philosophy a year later. He lectured on such topics as ethics, rhetoric, jurisprudence, and political economy, also known as "police and revenue". Theory of Moral Sentiments ...

(1 pages) 105 0 4.3 Aug/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies

Discuss the Main Problems between the Sunni and Shi'i Islam.

les or customs should be interpreted emerged in the form of the four major Sunni 'schools of law or jurisprudence' (or madh'hab). These were in addition to the Shi'i schools, the most dominant of whic ...

(7 pages) 223 0 4.5 Aug/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Islam

Critically evaluate the main principles of legal positivism and natural law.

ome extent superseded by Positivism. We have been asked to critically evaluate these two schools of Jurisprudence.Greek NaturalismThe classical Greek philosophers believed that natural law was a moral ... (1798-1857), Hume's theories set the ground rules for accurate criteria of reasoning to problems of jurisprudence, especially regarding the separation of "ought" and "is".Bentham (1748 -1832) theorise ...

(14 pages) 512 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Adam smith

rring in 1752 to the chair of moral philosophy. His lectures covered the field of ethics, rhetoric, jurisprudence and political economy, or "police and revenue." In 1759 he published his Theory of Mor ...

(1 pages) 56 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Common Law vs. Political Law vs. Scientific Law

tific law developed in the absence of any legislature or Congress or Parliament whatever.Scientific Jurisprudence.Fifteen centuries ago the Roman Empire had collapsed. In many places there was no law ...

(9 pages) 195 0 3.6 May/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

The Code of Hammurabi

he first known legal code in history, Hammurabi's Code. He clearly understood the importance of the jurisprudence system and even put his code of laws among his most significant accomplishments. Hammu ... s of the citizens and to punish the criminals, therefore to keep the order in the state. The modern jurisprudence system covers the same aspects as the code of Hammurabi: there are social, moral, reli ...

(3 pages) 47 0 3.9 Jan/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

Introduction To Jewish Law about SUicide

Jewish jurisprudence differentiates between biblical commandments, which are those deemed to have been dire ...

(12 pages) 24 0 4.3 Jan/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights

Music and Singing in the Light of the Quran and Sunnah by Abu Bilal Mustafa Al-Kanadi (Part 3)

t is related by Ibnul-Jowzi that Ishaaq bin Eesaa At-Tabaa asked Imaam Maalik bin Anas, the leading jurisprudence of Madeenah, about the view of the people of Madeenah regarding singing (ghinaa). He r ... e ruling of prohibition (tahreem) is generally agreed upon by the scholars of Madeenah. The Maaliki jurisprudence and commentator, Al-Qurtubi , reports Ibn Khuwayz Mandaad as saying that Imam Maalik h ...

(8 pages) 24 0 4.2 Jan/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Lawrence Lessig: Cyberlaw Superstar.

Cyberlaw is a relatively new area of jurisprudence and telecommunications policy, where technology and law intersect. From the controvers ...

(8 pages) 41 0 5.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Biography on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Russian composer who wrote "The Nutcracker".

ining engineer and his wife, his second, was of French ancestry. He went to school at the School of Jurisprudence and was a civil servant till 1861 when he entered Saint Petersburg Conservatory and gr ... so in the book, Orlova gives an explanation why. He says that a former classmate from the School of Jurisprudence came into possession of a letter from member of the Russian aristocracy which was addr ...

(2 pages) 22 0 5.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Crime

cal justifications for punishment through forms of internationalized sentencing by drawing upon the jurisprudence of the ad hoc tribunals, and the foundation instruments of the International Criminal ...

(20 pages) 259 2 3.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Aristotle versus Kant on ethics as the science for the achieve to happiness

ality, and their interaction with an idea of a "Golden Mean."All forms of science desire a purpose. Jurisprudence, for example, tries to instill a universal mode of general rules (laws) in a society, ...

(6 pages) 111 0 4.6 Sep/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

David Souter

in Melrose, Ma. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1961. He then furthered his studies in jurisprudence at Oxford University where he gained his masters degree. In 1968 Souter accepted the p ...

(1 pages) 3 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

English

Jurisprudence is a ragbag. Into it cast all kinds of general speculations about the law. What it is ... or to naked force? Should we obey it? Whom does it serve? These are the questions of which general jurisprudence is comprised. They can be ignored, but they will not go away.Harris, Legal Philosophie ... tics COURSE MATERIALS The prescribed text for the course is: M D A Freeman, Lloyd's Introduction to Jurisprudence, 7th ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2001) [available in a cheap ELBS edition] As noted by Wa ...

(3 pages) 9 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Law

Jurisprudence is a ragbag. Into it cast all kinds of general speculations about the law. What it is ... or to naked force? Should we obey it? Whom does it serve? These are the questions of which general jurisprudence is comprised. They can be ignored, but they will not go away.Harris, Legal Philosophie ... tics COURSE MATERIALS The prescribed text for the course is: M D A Freeman, Lloyd's Introduction to Jurisprudence, 7th ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2001) [available in a cheap ELBS edition] As noted by Wa ...

(3 pages) 18 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Faust

ures of just about anyone. In the beginning of the play, he says, ?I've studied now Philosophy, And Jurisprudence, Medicine, And even, alas! Theology, All through and through with ardour keen! Here no ...

(5 pages) 28 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Natural Crime versus Legal Crime

of law that is derived by nature and many would claim that, therefore, has validity everywhere. In jurisprudence (The philosophy or science of law) “a system of right or justice common to all humank ...

(5 pages) 150 1 5.0 Mar/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The Law of the European Union. Nowadays a Creation of the ECJ

ere combined with the doctrines of direct, indirect effect and state liability. Thus, through ECJ's jurisprudence, the EC which was planned as an economical community became a superior legal order, wi ... aw, producing their impact on the national legal systems.The most important step made through ECJ's jurisprudence towards consistent and uniform application of EU law is the heralding of the supremacy ...

(6 pages) 20 0 0.0 May/2010

Subjects: Law & Government Essays