RentSeeking, Public Choice, and The Prisoner's Dilemma. Mankind soon learn to make interested uses of every right and power which they possess, or may assume. We evaluate people and groups as responsible or not, depending on how seriously they take their responsibilities. Often we do this informally, via moral judgment. In this Review of James Forman, Jr. s Pulitzer Prizewinning Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, Darren Hutchinson reconciles Formans research with antiracist accounts of U. Literature on implicit bias, social dominance orientation, and rightwing authoritarianism contextualizes black punitive sentiment within antisubordination criminal law theory. LEGAL POSITIVISM and NATURAL LAW THEORY James B. In recent times, a group of legal philosophers using methods of conceptual clarification to make normative claims about law have become known as legal positivists. Pardo (Emory University School of Law) has posted Federally Funded Slaving on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article presents a new frame of reference for thinking about the federal governments complicity in supporting the domestic slave trade in the antebellum United States. Critical legal studies (CLS) is a school of critical theory that first emerged as a movement in the United States during the 1970s. Critical Legal Studies adherents claim that laws are used to maintain the status quo of society's power structures; it is also held that the law is a codified form of society's biases against marginalized groups. Despite wide variation in the opinions of critical. UPDATE: Philippine Legal Research By Milagros SantosOng Milagros SantosOng is the Director of the Library Services of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She is the author of Legal Research and Citations (Rexl Book Store) a seminal book published in numerous editions and a parttime professor on Legal Research in some law schools in the MetroManila. This qualifying Law degree is taught by the worldleading, researchactive academics based in our prestigious Law School. They will introduce you to technical legal topics and help you to understand the ways that law shapes society. Almost 30 years after first publication, this essay remains relevant as to how professions develop over time and in different countries. It is written in a highly academic manner, so it is a bit challenging to stay engaged in reading the book, but it's a fascinating look at the history of the accounting, legal, and medical professions in particular. Just war theory deals with the justification of how and why wars are fought. The justification can be either theoretical or historical. A Theory of Legal Argumentation: The Theory of Rational Discourse as Theory of Legal Justification Revised ed. 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During the nineteenth century the advocates of limitless state power made a comeback with new rhetoric, (the utilitarians) or the same old rhetoric dressed in new clothes), and in the twentieth century they. Finding Chinese Law on the Internet By Joan Liu Joan Liu is an associate curator and head of the Acquisitions Serials Department of the New York University School of Law Library. She received her LLM from the East China Institute of Politics and Law (1988) and her MLS from Rutgers University in New Jersey (1995). THIS essay examines the idea of tolerance in our advanced industrial society. The conclusion reached is that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or. Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior. Law is a system that regulates and ensures that individuals or a community adhere to the will of the state. Stateenforced laws can be made by a collective legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes, by the executive through decrees and regulations, or. Philosophy of law: Philosophy of law, branch of philosophy that investigates the nature of law, especially in its relation to human values, attitudes, practices, and political communities. Traditionally, philosophy of law proceeds by articulating and defending propositions about law that are general and An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the commonsense intuitive linear view. This translation of The Law was done by Dean Russell of The Foundation staff. His objective was an accurate rendering of Mr. Bastiat's words and ideas into twentieth century, idiomatic English. A nineteenth century translation of The Law, made in 1853 in England by an unidentified contemporary of Mr. Bastiat, was of much value as a check against this translation..