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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Legal Development"”.
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The Role of the U.S. Courts of Appeals in Legal Development: An Empirical Analysis
<p>What are the causes and consequences of legal development? In recent years courts scholars have begun to address these broad and challenging questions, yet there is still much work to be done. The intermediate level of the federal court system: a.k.a., circuit courts) provides an institutional …
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The legal development of R2P within the norm life cycle based on actual state practice
… solution to redress the failings of the current legal framework. It was unanimously adopted in 2005 as part of the World Summit Outcome Document (Outcome Document) within paragraphs 138, 139 and 140.1 For the purpose of this text, these paragraphs outline the definition and framework accepted by …
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The History of The Novgorodian Pomest'e: 1480-1550 (Russia)
This study is concerned with the legal development of the Russian military fief (pomest'e) in the first half of the sixteenth century. This investigation was undertaken to determine the legal distinction between the early sixteenth century pomest'e and the votchina, an alodial tenure which had …
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The Development of Medical Liability in Germany 1800–1945
Title: The Development of Medical Liability in Germany 1800-1945 Author: Colm Peter McGrath, Corpus Christi College Abstract: This thesis examines the development of medical liability in Germany during its intense formative period from 1800-1945. The focus is on how the fault requirement in civil …
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The antecedents to the school financial crisis in Kentucky
… First, the study traced the historical and legal development of the financial support system for public elementary and secondary education from 1830 to the present date. Second, the study analyzed the facts surrounding the ruling declaring the system unconstitutional. The study was a …
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‘From the Majallat al-Aḥkām al-ʿAdliyya to a civil code’: the politics of reforming civil law in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, 1925-1951
… and regional politics formed a powerful motor of legal development and reform, this dissertation challenges the long-held view that the replacement of the Majalla and the making of the Lebanese, Syrian, and Iraqi civil codes amounted to nothing more than a transplantation project of other European …
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The development of the public school support plan in West Virginia
… of the study was to trace the historical and legal development of the financial support system for public elementary and secondary education in West Virginia from 1863 through November, 1984. In addition, the study provided a compiled source of data on selected aspects of the West Virginia …
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The notion of infanticide and its development under Maltese criminal law 1784-2004
… This thesis· is designed to survey the historico-legal development of the notion of infanticide under Maltese Criminal Law from the promulgation of the Code de Rohan in 1784 down to the present day. The first chapter mentions the aim of this thesis, the sources tapped and the method used. The …
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Deconstructing China's family law for LGBTQ non-traditional families through a comparative lens of sexuality
… to identify the reasons behind the ambiguous legal environment regarding LGBT people’s rights in the family and to predict the future of LGBT non-traditional families by deconstructing China’s family law and exploring family regulations in China. Due to the ambiguity of China’s law regarding …
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The History of the Public-Private Divide in UK Individual Information Law: 1948 to 2017
… identifies the role of diverse actors in those developments. The thesis addresses two alternative tendencies encountered in the broader literature. The first is to understand the development of information law as a broad shift from a state-restrictive to a more individual approach, and within …
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Reexamining the "Constitutional Revolution of 1937": Evolution, Revolution, or Restoration and the "Fall" of Economic Due Process
… about its accuracy. In the 1990s, revisionist legal scholars began to publish new theories of the “revolution” rooted in the development of constitutional doctrine. These theories posited that the dramatic legal transformations of the New Deal era were the result of gradual changes in legal …
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Reforming the Law on Warranties, Disclosures and Misrepresentation in Cypriot Marine Insurance: Should Cyprus Follow the UK’s Insurance Act 2015?
… which it is based to determine the best possible legal development for Cyprus. The main focus of this thesis is the drafting of its own marine insurance legislation that should be considered as a priority because of the country’s reliance on the maritime industry. This is important for two main …
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Extending the frontier of the Nigerian insanity defence: comparative analyses of the insanity defence in England and Scotland to offer alternative options for development.
… the mental health system needs strengthening. Legal development is necessary for a society to keep pace with the complexity and dynamism of modern civilisation. It is in the Nigerian Government's long-term interests to consider the insanity defence as an evolving area of law and to review the …
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Codes as Constitution: The Development of the Biblical Law-Codes from Monarchy to Theocracy
… assyriology and the sociology of law, the Hebrew legal texts have commonly been categorised in recent study as ancient law-codes analogous to the cuneiform codes recovered from the ancient Near East. This has not led, however, to a more constructive and decisive stage in the study of biblical law, …
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Scandinavian Influence on English Law, c. 870-1215
… regions were distinguished by their legal practices and termed the Danelaw, with legal differences visible in English texts such as the c. 997 ‘Wantage Code’. Past historiography has primarily searched for English legal origins within Anglo-Saxon traditions or Norman innovations, …
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A Legal Proposal for the Creation of Conservation Agreements in Thailand: A Comparative Study
… thesis explores the potential for legal development of CAs in Thailand. It employs a doctrinal research approach and comparative analysis of law to uncover whether a legal framework for the establishment of CAs should be made and if so, what provisions should be proposed to make …
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Piers Plowman, Legal Authority and the Law of Subject Status.
This project examines the legal discourses surrounding Langland's Piers Plowman to show that the language of the law courts, and the dilemmas faced there on a daily basis about the authority of the law, are mirrored in the way in which Langland presents Christ's harrowing of hell at one of the …
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Contract Norms and Contract Enforcement in Graeco-Roman Egypt
… contracts) have been studied rigorously from a legal perspective, there has been no systematic study of contract as an economic institution in the eastern half of the ancient Mediterranean. The first three chapters argue that such a study is a historical desideratum and seek to establish the …
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The law applicable to contractual obligations in consumer contracts of adhesion in Ghana
… by engaging in a comparative study of the legal development of choice of law rules in the jurisdictions of the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (US/USA), with specific reference to California and China. This study will assist in developing a theoretical framework to …
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Dynamics of tunisian polygamy law in gender perspective
… revolusi (sekarang) terdapat wacana isu pelegalan larangan hukum poligami di Tunisia. 2) Dalam perspektif gender, dinamika hukum poligami yang terjadi pada periode setelah kemerdekaan menunjukkan langkah maju Negara Tunisia dalam usaha melindungi hak-hak kaum wanita dengan melakukan …
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