Anything discussing the essence, interpretation and evolution of norms or inquiring the social, political anthropological (and you name it) reasons and logic behind following or applying a rule - will have it's place here. Riggs v Palmer. Philo Riggs, as Guardian ad litem et al., Appellants,vElmer E. Palmer et al., Respondents. Court of Appeals of New York Submitted June 21, 1889 Decided October 8, 1889 115 NY 506 CITE TITLE AS: Riggs v Palmer On the 13th day of August 1880, Francis B. Palmer made his last will and testament, in which he gave small legacies to his two daughters, Mrs. Riggs and Mrs. It is quite true that statutes regulating the making, proof and effect of wills, and the devolution of property, if literally construed, and if their force and effect can in no way and under no circumstances be controlled or modified, give this property to the murderer.
The purpose of those statutes was to enable testators to dispose of their estates to the objects of their bounty at death, and to carry into effect their final wishes legally expressed; and in considering and giving effect to them this purpose must be kept in view. For the same reasons the defendant Palmer cannot take any of this property as heir. GRAY, J. Legal Theory Lexicon. UCB Rhetoric - The central question for the philosophy of law is, What is law? To inquire into the rhetoric of the philosophy of law is, then, to ask, How do we speak about law, and about what law is? How do we pursue philosophical inquiry into law ‑‑ and what can this pursuit reveal about what it is we are seeking?
What must we think law is, such that we seek it in the ways we do? With the help of insights drawn from Heidegger and Nietzsche into the nature and history of moral and legal thought, we will examine both the development of Western legal philosophy and the tacit premises on which it can be seen to be conducted. In looking to classic and modern statements of the political and moral foundations of law, our principal focus will be the question of the source, nature and implications of the search for such foundations, and its bearing upon the understanding of law. Required Reading(1) H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law (Oxford University Press, 1961; 2nd ed, 1997) The Supreme Court . Expanding Civil Rights . Landmark Cases . Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
A mug shot of Ernesto Miranda, whose wrongful conviction led to the landmark case Miranda v. Arizona, in which the Court held that detained criminal suspects must be informed of their rights prior to police questioning. Reproduction courtesy of the Arizona Department of Corrections Miranda v. Arizona (1966) In Miranda v. The Court maintained that the defendant's right against self-incrimination has long been part of Anglo-American law as a means to equalize the vulnerability inherent in being detained.
Without these two fundamental rights, both of which, the Court ruled, "dispel the compulsion inherent in custodial surroundings," "no statement obtained from the defendant can truly be the product of his free choice. " Legalism (Chinese philosophy) Legalism was a philosophy emphasizing strict obedience to the legal system. It was one of the main philosophical currents during the Warring States period. It was a utilitarian political philosophy that did not address higher questions like the purpose and nature of life.[1] The school's most famous proponent and contributor Han Fei believed that a ruler should use the following three tools to govern his subjects: Primarily members of the ruling class, the Legalists emphasized that the head of state was endowed with shi, the "mystery of authority", and as such his decisions must always command the respect and obedience of the people.
The state (country) comes first, not the individual. The emperor’s very figure brought legitimacy. In emphasizing the power of rulership, Legalists such as Shen Dao (c. 350–275 BC) and Shen Buhai sought to devalue the importance of the charismatic ruler. The entire system was set up to make people behave and act how the dynasty wanted. Dr. Fozia Lone | International Law Observer | A blog dedicated to reports, commentary and the discussion of topical issues of international law. Book Review: Noam Lubell, Extraterritorial Use of Force against Non-State Actors Book Review: Noam Lubell, Extraterritorial Use of Force against Non-State Actors (Oxford: OUP, 2010) ISBN 978-0-19-958484-0 Dr. Fozia Nazir Lone (Assistant Professor and Programme Leader LLB, City University of Hong Kong, fnlone@cityu.edu.hk) Noam Lubell, Reader in the School of Law at the University of Essex, and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, presents in this book … India Army Major Avtar Singh- Perpetrator of Extrajudicial Killing – Roaming Free in California On 13th May 2011 I read a news item in Kashmiri local newspaper Greater Kashmir captioned ‘File status report on Major Avtar’s Extradition’.
The news stated that Court directed police to file a status report on the progress made in the extradition of Major Avtar Singh, accused in the killing of prominent lawyer and human rights activist Jaleel Andrabi, who was kidnapped and killed by … The Law In These Parts - שלטון החוק. Can a modern democracy impose a prolonged military occupation on another people while retaining its core democratic values? Since Israel conquered the territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 war, the military has imposed thousands of orders and laws, established military courts, sentenced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, enabled half a million Israeli "settlers" to move to the Occupied Territories and developed a system of long-term jurisdiction by an occupying army that is unique in the entire world.
The men entrusted with creating this new legal framework were the members of Israel's military legal corps. Explores this unprecedented and little-known story through testimonies of the military legal professionals who were the architects of the system and helped run it in its formative years. The Law In These Parts is sponsored by: (Israel Producer) Former managing director and senior producer at Belfilms, Israel. (Co-producer, USA) Ms. (Cinematographer) Mr. Translate. Archives - lesoir.be. Les assises se relèvent-elles? Page 16 Mardi 6 octobre 2009 n Belgique, la cour d’assises se prononce en deux phases. Dans un premier temps les jurés, tirés au sort parmi la population, se prononcent seuls sur la culpabilité de l’accusé.
Le 13 janvier 2009, la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme, à Strasbourg, a condamné la Belgique parce que les jurés ne motivent pas leur verdict. Depuis lors, les parlementaires tentent de trouver la parade à ce problème. Le Sénat a opté pour la deuxième solution. Pour la motivation, c’est l’option du Sénat qui est confirmée. L’Exécutif et le Législatif envisagent notamment de désengorger les cours d’assises dont les procès coûteraient trop cher.
Toujours pour réduire les coûts, les sessions d’assises seraient écourtées. Enfin, deux points suscitent encore de nombreux débats : le juge a déjà la faculté d’annuler une condamnation qui semble aberrante, et de faire rejuger l’affaire. . « Une malhonnêteté intellectuelle » Se précipiter, jamais. (Belgian) Jury Trial System Counter to ECHR. Digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1230&context=gov_fac_pubs. KarlJaspers: Die geistige Situation der Zeit | Feuilleton | DIE ZEIT Archiv | Ausgabe 24/1983. Aktualisiert 10. Juni 1983 08:00 Uhr Speichern Drucken Twitter Facebook Google + Karl Jaspers zu seinem Studenden GM im November 1931: „Haben Sie gelesen, was der Ludwig Marcuse über mein Büchlein geschrieben hat? Wer das Buch heute liest, wird vor allem fragen: Was hat dieser stolze Sonderling, der recht eigentlich, eine lebenslange Krankheit als willkommenen Schutz, gebrauchend, im „Elfenbeinturm“ wohnte, was hat dieser ungeheuer diszipliniert ganz seiner Arbeit lebende Philosoph aus nur scheinbarer Weltferne vorausgesehen oder schon gesehen, was heute noch ist?
Anzeige Oft wird der Leser über die Aktualität des Buches staunen: wie viel damals schon war und erkennbar war, obgleich in bescheideneren Dimensionen, was heute noch ist. Ein zugleich aktuelles und veraltetes Buch. Auch die besten Propheten – aber dieser hätte den Namen entschieden abgelehnt – sehen aus ihrer Gegenwart heraus nur einige Aspekte der Zukunft, nie das „Ganze“. Karl Jaspers' vier Schuldbegriffe (1946) Karl Jaspers' vier Schuldbegriffe (1946) In seiner 1946 erschienenen Schrift "Die Schuldfrage" setzte sich der Heidelberger Philosoph Karl Jaspers ausführlich mit der Frage von Schuld und Verantwortung für die Verbrechen des Nationalsozialismus auseinander. Er stellte in diesem Zusammenhang vier Kategorien der Schuld auf: - die kriminelle Schuld aufgrund objektiv nachweisbarer Gesetzesverstöße, - die politische Schuld durch Handlungen der Staatsmänner, an denen der Einzelne durch seine Staatsbürgerschaft und durch seine Mitverantwortung, wie er regiert wird, beteiligt ist, - die moralische Schuld durch Handlungen, deren Charakter nicht allein dadurch nicht verbrecherisch wird, daß sie befohlen sind, - die metaphysische Schuld aus der Mitverantwortung für alles Unrecht und alle Ungerechtigkeit in der Welt (Wenn ich nicht tue, was ich kann, um es zu verhindern, so bin ich mitschuldig.).
Die Instanzen zur Klärung der einzelnen Kategorien der Schuld sind Gott allein zur vierten Kategorie. Critical legal theory. Critical legal studies (CLS) is a theory that challenges and overturns accepted norms and standards in legal theory and practice. Proponents of this theory believe that logic and structure attributed to the law grow out of the power relationships of the society. The law exists to support the interests of the party or class that forms it and is merely a collection of beliefs and prejudices that legitimize the injustices of society.
The wealthy and the powerful use the law as an instrument for oppression in order to maintain their place in hierarchy. The basic idea of CLS is that the law is politics and it is not neutral or value free. Many in the CLS movement want to overturn the hierarchical structures of domination in the modern society and many of them have focused on the law as a tool in achieving this goal. CLS is also a membership organization that seeks to advance its own cause and that of its members. Www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/jurisprudence/llm-01/docs0607/LLM01_syllabus.pdf. Www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/jurisprudence/docs/2012/2012_cecile_laborde.pdf. Lptforum.wordpress.com. Law, Philosophy of Philosophy of law (or legal philosophy) is concerned with providing a general philosophical analysis of law and legal institutions. Issues in the field range from abstract conceptual questions about the nature of law and legal systems to normative questions about the relationship between law and morality and the justification for various legal institutions.
Topics in legal philosophy tend to be more abstract than related topics in political philosophy and applied ethics. For example, whereas the question of how properly to interpret the U.S. Constitution belongs to democratic theory (and hence falls under the heading of political philosophy), the analysis of legal interpretation falls under the heading of legal philosophy. There are roughly three categories into which the topics of legal philosophy fall: analytic jurisprudence, normative jurisprudence, and critical theories of law.
Table of Contents 1. Bix takes conceptual analysis in law to be primarily concerned with (3) and (4). a. B. UCB Rhetoric - UCB Rhetoric - Spring 2012. Understanding law as a matter of language requires attending to the ways that law hears and is heard. Exploring the hearing of law leads into issues of experience and temporality to which speech act "theory" gives short shrift. Such a turn reorients both current models of legal positivism and contemporary representations of impartial justice which overemphasize issues of blindness and sight. As the readings of this seminar show, the turn to hearing also allows one to negotiate the materiality of the human condition while taking history seriously. In addition the required reading listed below, we will discuss selections, if not more, from Pitkin's Wittgenstein and Justice; Ricoeur's The Just and Truth and Narrative; Tomlins' Freedom Bound; and other legal, legal-historical, and legal-philosophical texts, depending on student interest.
Attendance, participation, occasional short discussion papers and presentations will be required, as will a final 20-page paper. Required Reading. Leiter on Dworkin on "Justice for Hedgehogs" Brian Leiter (University of Chicago) has posted The Empire Strikes Back: Errors and Mistakes in "Justice for Hedgehogs" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In "The End of Empire: Dworkin and Jurisprudence in the 21st Century," I demonstrated that the seven most distinctive Dworkinian theses about the nature of law and adjudication have been extensively and decisively criticized over the past three decades, so much so that Dworkin himself has abandoned several of them.
Dworkin has now responded to my essay in a new monograph, "Justice for Hedgehogs. " In this short paper, I demonstrate that "Justice for Hedgehogs" fails to redeem any of the seven major Dworkinian theses. In many cases, Dworkin abandons his prior arguments for his distinctive claims, substituting new, but much weaker arguments, for prior positions that, while demonstrably false, at least had the virtue of some philosophical interest.
Justice for Hedgehogs | Further comments by Ronald Dworkin. Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER". JEAN-MARC TRIGEAUD. Collections I. Commencement et totalité 1. De la Dikélogie à la prosopologie 2. II. 3. 4. 5. III. 6. 7. 8. Réponse au Prof. 9. IV. 10. « Humanisme de la liberté » dans la perspective de l’humanisme légazien 11. 12. V. 13. 14. 15. 16. VI. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Entre deux tendances contemporaines, ce nouveau recueil s’engage dans une troisième voie. D’un côté, en effet, il faut tenir compte du néo-scepticisme et du néo-empirisme des positivismes ou des « théories de la justice ». D’un autre côté, l’on ne saurait négliger non plus un néo-dogmatisme et un néo-rationalismedu « droit naturel » souvent ralliés paradoxalement par des « théories de la justice », courants qui, sous prétexte de pourchasser le relativisme, s’attachent à un fondement mais qui le veulent « fondateur » de solutions et y absorbent toute la réalité de l’être et du devoir-être.
Tel est l’ordre « fondationnel » où l’on peut se placer. Métaphysique et éthique... : chap.10.