On Law and Justice in Community

Natural Law, Justice and Democracy-Some Reflections on Three Types of Thinking About Law and Justice

Intuitions of Justice: Implications for Criminal Law and Justice Policy

Recent social science research suggests that many if not most judgments about criminal liability and punishment for serious wrongdoing are intuitional rather than reasoned. Further, such intuitions of justice are nuanced and widely shared, even though they concern matters that seem quite complex and subjective. While people may debate the source of these intuitions, it seems clear that, whateve...

Health Law as Social Justice.

Health law is in the midst of a dramatic transformation. From a relatively narrow discipline focused on regulating relationships among individual patients, health care providers, and third-party payers, it is expanding into a far broader field with a burgeoning commitment to access to health care and assurance of healthy living conditions as matters of social justice. Through a series of increm...

Islamic Law , Customary Law , and Afghan Informal Justice

This report is part of the United States Institute of Peace’s (USIP) ongoing effort to understand the pluralist legal system of Afghanistan. It examines, compares, and contrasts Islamic law with traditional forms of justice in an attempt to elucidate how such rule of law approaches interact as well as provide a fuller understanding of each system to better guide rule of law practice, policy, an...

• Place of justice in cultural- social development with emphasis on Positive law

Today, justice and its place are considered as a vital component in social development by theorists. After the revolution In Iran, Positive law is like a support by which we can realize "justice" in different affairs of society. Therefore, in this study, we considered the place of justice in social development with emphasis on Positive law. The main question is where the real place of justice i...