Para-Legal Authority and Its Perils

Ethnic Perceptions of Legal Authority

Although California has always been home to many ethnic and cultural groups, the state’s population is reaching new levels of diversity. Demographic projections from the California Department of Finance indicate that by the year 2020, over 60 percent of the state’s residents will identify themselves as non-white. Large influxes of immigrants from Latin America and Asia, coupled with higher birt...

Precedent and Legal Authority: A Critical History

The World of Research and Its Mysteries; Scientific Authority

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره 20، آذر 1400، 954-953         دنیای پژوهش و رمز و رازهای آن؛ مرجعیت علمی   The World of Research and Its Mysteries; Scientific Authority   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   تا کنون در مورد پنج راز مهم دنیای پژوهش یعنی: خلاقیت و نوآوری [1]، کار بدون وقفه [2]، انتخاب یک یا دو موضوع اصلی مورد علاقه [3] شفافیت و صداقت در انجام ...

Discourse and Authority in European and Post-communist Legal Culture

Based on Paul Feyerabend's distinction between guided and free exchange, the author argues that the accession of the post-communist states to the European Union took the form of the former kind, i.e. the form of communication where all participants in the process voluntarily embrace the meaning of law developed through inter-institutional discourse within the European Union. However, due to the...

Max Weber: Traditional, Legal-Rational, and Charismatic Authority