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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...

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...

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...

California Nurse-Patient Ratios

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

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...

Kandinsky, Beckmann, and Marc

Introduction In the early part of the 20th century there were many artists creating intriguing pieces of work that were very uniq...

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...

Boas and His Successor Levi-Strauss

its not possible to summarize them, but it seems that the consensus is that his work was principally in "kinship, myth, and a form...

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 ...

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...

Sublime and Subjective Romanticism in William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”:

natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...

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...

Hindu Society and Women's Roles

are not to be allowed any form of independence - they cannot even undertake religious fasts on their own initiative, but must join...

California Family Code and Property

kicked in. In this way, the value would be calculated for the 10 years prior to the marriage during which the husband owned the pr...

Comparing and Contrasting 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy and 'The Metaphorphosis' by Franz Kafka

to assist him in his most basic needs, provides the kind of care and understanding required by the dying and increasingly isolated...

Studies in Contract Case Law

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

Criminal Justice, Social Justice, and Morality

the right to be treated the same as others Conclusion Although we know that the US Constitution guarantees certain rights to its ...

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and Samuel Beckett's 'Obligation to Express'

This report examines these two works within the context of Samuel Beckett's artistic observation regarding 'the obligation to expr...

Mistakes in United Kingdom's Common Law

the case given that this is a matter of common mistake (McKendrick, 2000). In this case the agreement can be seen as fulfilling t...

1979's Sale of Goods Act and British Law

Goods Act 1979 requires goods sold by traders to be of satisfactory quality" (Anonymous Representation in the United Kingdom, 2002...

The Dead Who Refuse to Die in The Hunter Gracchus by Franz Kafka and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

(Silverman, 76). In a surprisingly large number of Poes stories, the revenant theme is coupled with some sense of a double -- two...

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...

Male Sexual Harassment

In seven pages this paper discusses how contemporary society defines sexual harassment and considers how the law addresses victimi...

Product Liability and Tort Law

lack of fasteners or screws to hold this segment in place, resulted in his injuries. Claims of product liability based on two ele...

HIPPA and California Policy

"drastic changes and levels of ambiguity contained in the proposed regulations" would be problematic to implement and compliance v...

Taiwan and the US/Comparing Domestic Violence

domestic violence, offering comparison to the legal standard on this issue in the US. In 1993, a horrific incident, the stabbing ...

Comparative Analysis of Short Stories "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka and "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldnt get up, impeded by his enormous wings" (Marquez)...

LAW FOR TENANTS AND LANDLORDS

This 3-page paper analyzes tenant and landlord law, going into issues such as Implied Warranty of Habitability and tenant rights. ...

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...

Australian Courts and Statutory Interpretation

are not necessarily the same words (or meanings) and as a result, the photographer can argue that the purpose of the import was no...