Legal Engagement

Author : Collectif
Publisher : Publications de l’École française de Rome
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9782728314652

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Legal engagement by Collectif Pdf

The Roman empire set law at the center of its very identity. A complex and robust ideology of law and justice is evident not only in the dynamics of imperial administration, but a host of cultural arenas. Citizenship named the privilege of falling under Roman jurisdiction, legal expertise was cultural capital. A faith in the emperor’s intimate concern for justice was a key component of the voluntary connection binding Romans and provincials to the state. Even as law was a central mechanism for control and the administration of state violence, it also exerted a magnetic effect on the peoples under its control. Adopting a range of approaches, the essays explore the impact of Roman law, both in the tribunal and in the culture. Unique to this anthology is attention to legal professionals and cultural intermediaries operating at the empire’s periphery. The studies here allow one to see how law operated among a range of populations and provincials—from Gauls and Brittons to Egyptians and Jews—exploring the ways local peoples creatively navigated, and constructed, their legal realities between Roman and local mores. They draw our attention to the space between laws and legal ideas, between ethnic, especially Jewish, life and law and the structures of Roman might; cases in which shared concepts result in diverse ends; the pageantry of the legal tribunal, the imperatives and corruptions of power differentials; and the importance of reading the gaps between depiction of law and its actual workings. This volume is unusual in bringing Jewish, and especially rabbinic, sources and perspectives together with Roman, Greek or Christian ones. This is the result of its being part of the research program “Judaism and Rome” (ERC Grant Agreement no. 614 424), dedicated to the study of the impact of the Roman empire upon ancient Judaism.

Author : Kenneth Manaster
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137342331

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The American Legal System and Civic Engagement by Kenneth Manaster Pdf

In recent years there has been a widely-recognized and serious lack of rational and civil public discussion about current issues. In The American Legal System and Civic Engagement, Manaster asserts that ordinary citizens can form their opinions on public issues more intelligently, confidently, and responsibly if they have some guidance on how to do it. Drawing from the tools and traditions of the American legal system, he offers guidance to aid citizens in understanding public issues and participating in the type of responsible public debate these challenging issues deserve. From analyzing the influence of the media in informing the public, to examining the role of the citizen as a juror, The American Legal System and Civic Engagement is a practical and informative guide to how Americans can better perform the civic duty that modern democracy requires.

Author : Nalini Mahadevan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781300025818

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How to Start a Law Practice and Succeed by Nalini Mahadevan Pdf

Author : Vicki Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199715466

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Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era by Vicki Jackson Pdf

Constitutional law in the United States and around the world now operates within an increasingly transnational legal environment of international treaties, customary international law, supranational infrastructures of human rights and trade law, and growing comparative judicial awareness. This new environment is reflected in increasing cross-national references in constitutional court decisions around the world. The constellation of legal orders in which established constitutional regimes operate has changed - there are more bodies generating law, more international legal sources, and more multi-national interactions that bring into view various legal orders. How do these transnational phenomena affect our understanding of the role of constitutions and of courts in deciding constitutional cases? Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era explores this question, looking at constitutional court decisions from around the world, and identifying postures of resistance, convergence or engagement with international and foreign law. For the United States, the book argues for cautious engagement by the Supreme Court with transnational sources of law in interpreting the national constitution. Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era offers law school students and professors an authoritative study of comparative constitutional law by one of the most important scholars of domestic and comparative constitutional law. The book defines how international comparative experiences are relevant to constitutional analysis and discusses in detail the multiple possible connections between international law and constitutional law including a comparative overview of constitutional law in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Israel, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Author : Eithne Dowds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509921904

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Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law by Eithne Dowds Pdf

This work introduces and further develops the feminist strategy of 'norm transfer': the proposal that feminist informed standards created at the level of international criminal law make their way into domestic contexts. Situating this strategy within the complementarity regime of the International Criminal Court (ICC), it is argued that there is an opportunity for dialogue and debate around the contested aspects of international norms as opposed to uncritical acceptance. The book uses the crime of rape as a case study and offers a new perspective on one of the most contentious debates within international and domestic criminal legal feminism: the relationship between consent and coercion in the definition of rape. In analysing the ICC definition of rape, it is argued that the omission of consent as an explicit element is flawed. Arguing that the definition is in need of revision to explicitly include a context-sensitive notion of consent, the book goes further, setting out draft legislative amendments to the ICC 'Elements of Crimes' definition of rape and its Rules of Procedure and Evidence. Turning its attention to the domestic landscape, the book drafts amendments to the United Kingdom (UK) Sexual Offences Act 2003 and to the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999: thereby showing how the revised version of the ICC definition can be applied in context of the UK.

Author : Susan Harris Rimmer,Kate Ogg
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9781785363924

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Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law by Susan Harris Rimmer,Kate Ogg Pdf

For almost 30 years, scholars and advocates have been exploring the interaction and potential between the rights and well-being of women and the promise of international law. This collection posits that the next frontier for international law is increasing its relevance, beneficence and impact for women in the developing world, and to deal with a much wider range of issues through a feminist lens.

Author : Stephen Gillers,Roy D. Simon,Andrew M. Perlman
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781543804300

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Regulation of Lawyers by Stephen Gillers,Roy D. Simon,Andrew M. Perlman Pdf

Regulation of Lawyers, Statutes and Standards, Concise Edition, 2019

Author : J. F. R. Boddens Hosang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192595492

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Rules of Engagement and the International Law of Military Operations by J. F. R. Boddens Hosang Pdf

The book systematically analyses the relationship and interaction between rules of engagement (ROE) and the legal framework regulating armed conflicts, both at the international and national levels. At the international level, the relationship between ROE and human rights law and international humanitarian law is explored. At the national level, the book relates ROE to (comparative) criminal law. A separate chapter analyses the complex relationship between self-defence law and rules of engagement. It is the first monograph to comprehensively examine these issues and to analyse how ROE interact with the various sources of the (international) law of military operations, both in terms of the law as a source for these rules and how the law is reflected and implemented through them. In doing so, and based on the author's own experience, the book provides examples of how complicated, often controversial issues of law can be resolved while keeping the rules understandable at all levels of military operations. Aimed at both scholars and practitioners, the book provides a bridge between the academic world and the operational world. It provides new insights for both of those audiences in terms of understanding how the law applies to - and through - the rules on the use of force for military operations.

Author : André Nollkaemper,Professor of Public International Law André Nollkaemper,Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International Law Yuval Shany,Yuval Shany,Antonios Tzanakopoulos,Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law and Fellow in Law at St Anne's College Antonios Tzanakopoulos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192864185

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The Engagement of Domestic Courts with International Law by André Nollkaemper,Professor of Public International Law André Nollkaemper,Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International Law Yuval Shany,Yuval Shany,Antonios Tzanakopoulos,Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law and Fellow in Law at St Anne's College Antonios Tzanakopoulos Pdf

The Engagement of Domestic Courts with International Law advances and develops a new paradigm for describing, assessing, and understanding the role of domestic courts in the international legal order.

Author : Matt Price
Publisher : On Point Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774890182

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Engagement Organizing by Matt Price Pdf

What separates campaigns that win from those that don’t? At any given moment, there are hundreds of campaigns under way that seek to persuade citizens or decision makers to think, act, or vote in a certain way. Engagement Organizing shows how to combine old-school people power with new digital tools and data to win campaigns today. Over a dozen case studies from NGOs, unions, and electoral campaigns highlight this work in practice. At a time of growing concern about what the future holds, this book is an indispensable guide for seasoned campaigners as well as those just getting started, who want to apply the principles of engagement organizing to their own campaigns.

Author : Law Commission of Canada
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774843737

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Indigenous Legal Traditions by Law Commission of Canada Pdf

The essays in this book present important perspectives on the role of Indigenous legal traditions in reclaiming and preserving the autonomy of Aboriginal communities and in reconciling the relationship between these communities and Canadian governments. Although Indigenous peoples had their own systems of law based on their social, political, and spiritual traditions, under colonialism their legal systems have often been ignored or overruled by non-Indigenous laws. Today, however, these legal traditions are being reinvigorated and recognized as vital for the preservation of the political autonomy of Aboriginal nations and the development of healthy communities.

Author : Alessandro Stasi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004308923

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Elements of Thai Civil Law by Alessandro Stasi Pdf

Elements of Thai Civil Law offers a clear and comprehensive overview of the main principles governing legal relationships between private individuals in Thailand.

Author : Helen Gibbon,Ben Golder,Lucas Lixinski,Marina Nehme,Prue Vines
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000806694

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Critical Legal Education as a Subversive Activity by Helen Gibbon,Ben Golder,Lucas Lixinski,Marina Nehme,Prue Vines Pdf

In an age when everyone aspires to teach critical thinking skills in the classroom, what does it mean to be a subversive law teacher? Who or what might a subversive law teacher seek to subvert – the authority of the law, the university, their own authority as teachers, perhaps? Are law students ripe for subversion, agents of, or impediments to, subversion? Do they learn to ask critical questions? Responding to the provocation in the classic book Teaching as a Subversive Activity, by Postman and Weingartner, the idea that teaching could, or even should, be subversive still holds true today, and its premise is particularly relevant in the context of legal education. We therefore draw on this classic book to discuss, in the present volume, the consideration of research into legal education as lifetime learning, as creating meaning, as transformative and as developing world-changing thinking within the legal context. The volume offers research into classroom experiences and theoretical and historical interrogations of what it means to teach law subversively. Primarily aimed at legal educators and doctoral students in law planning careers as academics, its insights speak directly to tensions in higher education more broadly.

Author : Niall Moran
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030832599

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Engagement Between Trade and Investment by Niall Moran Pdf

This book explores engagement between the trade and investment law regimes and the extent to which this is being driven by Preferential Trade and Investment Agreements (PTIAs). It provides an empirical analysis of engagement between the two regimes using data from 60 PTIAs and 60 Bilateral Investment Treaties concluded between 2005-2019 to see whether PTIAs result in increased engagement and whether they are doing so over time. The book explores eight of the factors identified as evidencing inter-regime engagement. These chapters look at when engagement is appropriate and to what extent it is appropriate in relation to each of these areas. Based on the findings of this book’s empirical and comparative law analysis of PTIAs, BITs, and the trade and investment law regimes, the book examines whether the conclusion of PTIAs compared to BITs has resulted in increased levels of engagement between the trade and investment law regimes. This book does not put forth the view that convergence between trade and investment is always appropriate, but provides recommendations as to how treaties may be formulated and interpreted in a manner that takes inter-regime engagement into account with a view to ensuring the harmonious simultaneous development of the two regimes. The question of the future direction for engagement between the trade regime and the investment regime is very topical in light of changes to the architecture of both regimes at present.

Author : Anne Orford,Florian Hoffmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191005565

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The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law by Anne Orford,Florian Hoffmann Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of International Legal Theory provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the major thinkers, concepts, approaches, and debates that have shaped contemporary international legal theory. The Handbook features 48 original essays by leading international scholars from a wide range of traditions, nationalities, and perspectives, reflecting the richness and diversity of this dynamic field. The collection explores key questions and debates in international legal theory, offers new intellectual histories for the discipline, and provides fresh interpretations of significant historical figures, texts, and theoretical approaches. It provides a much-needed map of the field of international legal theory, and a guide to the main themes and debates that have driven theoretical work in international law. The Handbook will be an indispensable reference work for students, scholars, and practitioners seeking to gain an overview of current theoretical debates about the nature, function, foundations, and future role of international law.