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Justice and Abortion According to Bernard Boxill and Ronald Dworkin

In ten pages the opinions contained within Boxill's Blacks and Social Justice and Dworkin's Life's Dominions are examined as they ...

Agenda for American Civil Reform Justice A Response

Civil litigation is considered in this overview of six pages and incorporates examples to reveal civil justice inadequacies includ...

UK Law

In five pages this paper discusses UK law in an overview of governmental structure, the making of laws, and international law with...

Studies in Contract Case Law

In twelve pages four cases involving contract law are analyzed in terms of contractual issues and legal definitions....

Interstate Commerce and the Opinion of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice

lines. "Its no secret that criminals and minors will do the easiest thing they can in order to get guns" (Vertuno PG). The...

Economic Justice and Poverty

In five pages this paper examines poverty and economic justice from libertarian and utilitarian perspectives with theories by Jovi...

On the Commonwealth by Cicero

master and ruler of men, namely God, who is the author of this law, its interpreter, and its sponsor. The man who will not obey it...

Meanings of Copyright Laws

International and domestic copyright laws are considered in this paper containing 8 pages which includes discussion of Internet co...

A Matter of Interpretation Federal Courts and the Law by Antonin Scalia

in the US. Glendon says that it no longer seems to limit even judges in the civil law tradition. Tribe and Dworkin argue that to i...

The Utilitarian Approach to Obeying the Rules

in question happens to be offensive to seventy-five percent of the population, it is highly likely that the twenty-five percent wh...

Process of Juvenile Justice

punishment under the law, however, and it has occurred a number of times. In fact, the death penalty has seen resurgence. ...

John Rawls and Thomas Hobbes on Various Philosophical Issues

In ten pages this paper discusses the fool's argument, the personal contract, the prisoner's dilemma, and the assurance game as pe...

California Nurse-Patient Ratios

(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...

Crime And Youth: How Family Relations Contribute To The Development

Aggressive behavior would not be such a concern in children if it were a natural occurrence for them to outgrow the tendency; howe...

Copyright and Music Streams

when an artists music is played via streaming audio, what is their expectation as far as royalties go? It seems as if royalties ar...

Tracing Proprietary Claims on Sham Trusts under Common Law and Equity Law

this is an approach which is particularly applicable to chattels which are easier to identify as specific items (Martin and Turne...

Federal Shield Law: A Journalist's Right

From anonymous to citizen to professional to criminal, informants are comprised of various types of individuals who uphold an asso...

Sources of International Law

from being true law (Hart, 1994). He states there is an argument that this cannot be the case as the evolution is different; there...

2 New Proposed Laws

inspection program" that pertains to "breeders, dealers, kennels and shelters with more than 25 dogs" (Seibel, 2007). Inspections ...

Juvenile Justice: The Importance of Separating Juveniles and Adults

is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...

Is there an Inherent Bias towards Employers in Unfair Dismissal Law?

this time cases would usually be brought for a breach of contract (Card et al, 2003). Unfair dismissal is first seen in the Indust...

Truck Driving Laws

operate trucks only within a state are "only subject to rules at the state level" ("Why Arent Trucking Laws National in Scope?"). ...

Is There an Incompability Issue Between the European Convention for Human Rights and Adverse Possession?

had abandoned or dispossessed the land. This was seen as legalising the theft of land where an owner did not exercise their rights...

The Debate about Predatory Lending Laws

some examples and the Republican/Democrat dichotomy is a generalization. That said, the model provides a sense of where the people...

Theories of Feminism and Law

at how this can be applied in critiquing the law. If we consider the concept of the law under critical legal studies the approach ...

1990 Case of the US Supreme Court v. Employment Div., Ore. Department of Human Resources v. Smith, 494 US 872

for ingesting peyote, a hallucinogenic drug. This was not recreational drug use, however, but rather, for sacramental reasons as p...

Bobby Joe Long

is the issue of sexual dysfunction, no matter if they are heterosexual or homosexual. In his case, Long claims he became hypersex...

Societal Views of Seasoned Criminals and White Collar Criminals

This paper contrasts and compares how society views these types of criminals in five pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliog...

An Article 'Psychopathy and Violence in Criminals' by Serin Reviewed

In seven pages this article is reviewed in terms of research study purpose, subjects, data, methodology, findings, conclusions, ob...

Criminal Theory and Criminal Treatment Programs

basis of social norms, thereby causing them to seek out the only measure of achievement they can. Boot camp and shock incarcerati...