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America's Poor and Rich and Bridging the Gap That Exists Between Them

In five pages this paper discusses how to bridge the gap between the affluent and impoverished classes in America, that can only c...

Legalized Slavery in Colonial Times

Slavery in America was held in place by a complicated network of legal precedents. This paper analyzes the history of the practice...

U.S. Law Enforcement and How It Developed

In forty pages this paper examines how law enforcement developed in America in a consideration that includes police administrative...

Rights for Women in America

this issue, such as Craig v. Boren, in which the Supreme Court decided to look more closely at any type of classification based up...

US Desegregation Laws and Educational Practices

doors. Now, many decades later, a more insidious form of this type of harassment is before the legislature. Many predominantly...

Patriot Act and New Department

The Department of Homeland Security was signed into law in 2002, a year after the 9/11 attacks on America. Prior to that, the Patr...

Rampart Independent Review Panel Report and What Can be Done to End Deviance within Law Enforcement

to cooperate with LAPD officials in exchange for a five-year prison term. Perez charged that several members of the CRASH unit en...

Judiciary and the Changes in the Interpretation of the Law After the Human Rights Act

European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms with the section indicating the law should be in interpreted in line ...

Law Enforcement and the Challenges of Constitutional Law

as the legal ramifications of these interactions. This section of the paper helps the student to provide a summary overview of t...

Certainty and Uncertainty in English Contract Law for the Sale of Goods

of case law as well as statutes may indicate potential outcomes, but without laws that cover all scenarios and a legal approach wh...

Civil Law Countries and Their Criminal Justice Systems

as if the major difference between the nations of Europe, with the exception of Great Britain that is entrenched in the common law...

Could the Leaders of Boko Haram be Charged with Crimes Agsinst Humanity?

Boko Haram are an Islamic jihadist organization based in Nigeria who became known for the kidnapping of more than 200 Christian s...

DOE and its Illegal Actions

The United States Department of Energy, in its attempt to prop us a uranium enrichment company that was failing, arranged for enri...

Commercial Contract Law in the UK

dispute as to fact (McKendrick, 2000). At first this may appear to have the potential to be an express term, however, in this case...

Rights of Third Parties, Privity, and English Contract Law

a contract we can see that this was allowed under Dutton v Poole (1677) 2 Lev 211 (Flannigan, 1987). This is also referred to by D...

Creation and Development of the Equity Law

They litigants would be able to move across the hall from one law court to the Lord Chancerys division to try and get justice when...

Law Choice and Applications in International Commercial Disputes

a decision which is based ion evidence resented to them, and without the use of their own knowledge of a matter (Goode, 2000)....

Creation of Equity Law and Its Common Law Relationship

may be heard and judged to be in favour of a plaintiff or a defendant, but the ruling would be incapable of dispensing justice due...

Post September 11 Elementary Schools in New Jersey

with the family. Of course, the other side of the coin is that this event is the first time--aside from Pearl Harbor--that America...

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 ...

U.S. Family Impact of Prohibition

capita per year by those Americans that were considered of drinking age (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Obviously, alcohol con...

Intoxicants and Islam

This direction is sometimes general in nature yet it can be applied to specific components of our world. Other times this directi...

Police Administration and Organizational Management IV

"Court of Appeals erred in concluding that employers are always automatically liable for sexual harassment by their supervisors." ...

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...

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...

Prohibition: Pros and Cons

the cities themselves. Evangelist Billy Sunday preached a sermon about the evils of alcohol in 1920. Among other things, he said...

Evaluating the Pros and Cons of Prohibition

that it controlled a bipartisan majority of more than two-thirds in each house of Congress by 1916" (Lacey, 2005, p. 45). The arg...

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...

The Application of Privacy and Copyright Laws in Australia

sold articles to different publication, they are not under salary or retainer and they carry the risk and the cost of undertaking ...