Eye Of Law

Author : Michael Stolleis
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134028108

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Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity through to the present day: from the Greek Eye of Justice, the eye of the impartial judge of the Underworld, the Eye of God watching past, present and future, the Eye of the Prince, guiding his subjects, to the almighty Eye of the Law. While our belief in the law may have become brittle, nothing escapes what is now the Eye of Big Brother. ‘In the Name of the Law’ takes up the various formulas used to legitimate the decisions of the courts, from the times of absolutism over the 19th century until today. The speaker who speaks in the name of a higher being underlines his function: his authority comes from above. And it is ‘in the name of’ god, king, people, state, nation, or law, that a weak, earthly, justice receives its support.

Author : Mary Gaudron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990*
Category : Discrimination
ISBN : 0646031708

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In the Eye of the Law by Mary Gaudron Pdf

Author : Jill Eggleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 1407101579

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The Eye of the Law by Jill Eggleton Pdf

Author : Bruno Latour
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745655024

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The Making of Law by Bruno Latour Pdf

In this book, Bruno Latour pursues his ethnographic inquiries into the different value systems of modern societies. After science, technology, religion, art, it is now law that is being studied by using the same comparative ethnographic methods. The case study is the daily practice of the French supreme courts, the Conseil d’Etat, specialized in administrative law (the equivalent of the Law Lords in Great Britain). Even though the French legal system is vastly different from the Anglo-American tradition and was created by Napoleon Bonaparte at the same time as the Code-based system, this branch of French law is the result of a home-grown tradition constructed on precedents. Thus, even though highly technical, the cases that form the matter of this book, are not so exotic for an English-speaking audience. What makes this study an important contribution to the social studies of law is that, because of an unprecedented access to the collective discussions of judges, Latour has been able to reconstruct in detail the weaving of legal reasoning: it is clearly not the social that explains the law, but the legal ties that alter what it is to be associated together. It is thus a major contribution to Latour’s social theory since it is now possible to compare the ways legal ties build up associations with the other types of connection that he has studied in other fields of activity. His project of an alternative interpretation of the very notion of society has never been made clearer than in this work. To reuse the title of his first book, this book is in effect the 'Laboratory Life of Law'.

Author : Ian Haney Lopez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814736944

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White by Law by Ian Haney Lopez Pdf

"Whiteness pays. As White by Law shows, immigrants recognized the value of whiteness and sometimes petitioned the courts to be recognized as white. Haney Lspez argues for the centrality of law in constructing race."--Voice Literary Supplement"White by Law's thoughtful analysis of the prerequisite cases offers support for the fundamental critical race theory tenet that race is a social construct reinforced by law. Haney Lspez has blazed a trail for those exploring the legal and social constructions of race in the United States."--Berkeley Women's Law JournalLily white. White knights. The white dove of peace. White lie, white list, white magic. Our language and our culture are suffused, often subconsciously, with positive images of whiteness. Whiteness is so inextricably linked with the status quo that few whites, when asked, even identify themselves as such. And yet when asked what they would have to be paid to live as a black person, whites give figures running into the millions of dollars per year, suggesting just how valuable whiteness is in American society.Exploring the social, and specifically legal origins, of white racial identity, Ian F. Haney Lopez here examines cases in America's past that have been instrumental in forming contemporary conceptions of race, law, and whiteness. In 1790, Congress limited naturalization to white persons. This racial prerequisite for citizenship remained in force for over a century and a half, enduring until 1952. In a series of important cases, including two heard by the United States Supreme Court, judges around the country decided and defined who was white enough to become American.White by Law traces the reasoning employed by the courts intheir efforts to justify the whiteness of some and the non- whiteness of others. Did light skin make a

Author : Nell McCafferty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 0907085059

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In the Eyes of the Law by Nell McCafferty Pdf

Author : Greg Marquis
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-19T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552668603

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The Vigilant Eye by Greg Marquis Pdf

In The Vigilant Eye, Greg Marquis combines the narrative and chronological approach of traditional institutional history with the critical approaches of social history, legal history and criminology. The book begins with the English and Irish roots of nineteenth-century British North American policing and traces the development of the three models of law enforcement that would shape the future: the local rural constable, the municipal police department and the paramilitary territorial constabulary. Marquis examines the development of provincial police services, whose expansion coincided with the rise of mass automobile ownership and controversies over alcohol prohibition and control, and their eventual absorption into the RCMP. In terms of political policing, the vigilant eye has monitored, harassed and disrupted various social and political movements ranging from Fenians to communists, to Quebec separatists and environmentalists. Marquis argues that the style of community policing in vogue during the 1970s and 1980s lacked confidence and had a limited impact. Canada’s simplistic crime-fighting model undermines genuine reform, including curbs on the use of deadly force on citizens, and justifies the increased militarization of policing. Marquis argues that it is time for citizens to turn their vigilant eye towards police and policing in their own communities.

Author : Michael Stolleis
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134028115

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The Eye of the Law by Michael Stolleis Pdf

Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity through to the present day: from the Greek Eye of Justice, the eye of the impartial judge of the Underworld, the Eye of God watching past, present and future, the Eye of the Prince, guiding his subjects, to the almighty Eye of the Law. While our belief in the law may have become brittle, nothing escapes what is now the Eye of Big Brother. ‘In the Name of the Law’ takes up the various formulas used to legitimate the decisions of the courts, from the times of absolutism over the 19th century until today. The speaker who speaks in the name of a higher being underlines his function: his authority comes from above. And it is ‘in the name of’ god, king, people, state, nation, or law, that a weak, earthly, justice receives its support.

Author : Zhao Feng
Publisher : Devneybooks
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304464682

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Chu Han's frown deepened, and he said with a heavy voice, "I want to be promoted, not by these crooked ways, but by my personal ability

Author : William Ian Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 113944882X

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Eye for an Eye by William Ian Miller Pdf

This book is a historical and philosophical meditation on paying back and buying back, that is, it is about retaliation and redemption. It takes the law of the talion - eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth - seriously. In its biblical formulation that law states the value of my eye in terms of your eye, the value of your teeth in terms of my teeth. Eyes and teeth become units of valuation. But the talion doesn't stop there. It seems to demand that eyes, teeth, and lives are also to provide the means of payment. Bodies and body parts, it seems, have a just claim to being not just money, but the first and precisest of money substances. In its highly original way, the book offers a theory of justice, not an airy theory though. It is about getting even in a toughminded, unsentimental, but respectful way. And finds that much of what we take to be justice, honor, and respect for persons requires, at its core, measuring and measuring up.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780702039386

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Author : Lorinda Hagen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0725506075

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In the Eye of the Law by Lorinda Hagen Pdf

Author : Cora Harrison
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780100982

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Eye of the Law by Cora Harrison Pdf

A Mystery of Medieval Ireland 1510. A great feast is being held. Into a crowd listening to the story of Balor, the one-eyed god, come two strangers. The younger of the two, Larla, bears a letter that claims that the wealthy Ardal O'Lochlainn is his true father, which Ardal vociferously denies. So when Larla is found dead, with one eye missing, some think he was killed by the god, but most suspect Ardal. Mara, the Brehon of the Burren, is called to investigate.

Author : Michael Donald Kirby,Sophie Blencowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Courts
ISBN : 186287347X

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Through the World's Eye by Michael Donald Kirby,Sophie Blencowe Pdf

Collection of essays based on public speeches made by Michael Kirby, a Justice of Australia's High Court since 1996. Part One centres around the defence of fundamental human rights via the law, while Part Two consists of Kirby's reflections on the law and its institutions in Australia. Includes references, index, table of cases and table of legislation. Author has held numerous posts in international bodies and was awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal in 1991 and the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education in 1998.

Author : Adrian Bleese
Publisher : Eye & Lightning Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785632631

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Above the Law by Adrian Bleese Pdf

Adventures in a helicopter Adrian Bleese spent twelve years flying on police helicopters, and attended almost 3,000 incidents, as one of only a handful of civilian air observers working anywhere in the world. In Above The Law he recounts the most intriguing, challenging, amusing and downright baffling episodes in his careerworking for Suffolk Constabulary and the National Police Air Service. Rescuing lost walkers, chasing cars down narrow country lanes, searching for a rural cannabis factory and disrupting an illegal forest rave...they're all in a day's work. It's a side of policing that most of us never see, and he describes it with real compassion as he lives his dream job, indulging his love of flying, the English landscape and helping people. Perhaps more than anything, it's a story about hope.