Private Law, Public Consequences, And Virtue Jurisprudence

African Jurisprudence: The Law as a Complement to Public Morality

Every society is governed by certain rules (the law), customs, norms and values; and these are intricately crucial to the maintenance of public morality. Invariably, there is a public morality which provides the cement of any human society; the law, especially the criminal law, must regard it as a primary function to reflect and maintain this public morality. Criminal Codes lay down various off...

Contemporary Jurisprudence and International Law

Jurisprudence , law and certainty in

With different nuances and from diverse analyses, scholars agree to maintain that the interaction of law and natural philosophy contributed to originate distinctive conceptual categories such as facts, certainty, and probability during the early-modern period. From this historiographical account, Francis Bacon has been highlighted as one of the most influential authors who merged legal thinking...

Virtue Ethics and Animal Law

This essay explores virtue ethical concepts in the context of animal law theory and practice. For reasons discussed in the essay, virtue ethics may not, on its own, serve as an adequate foundation for general anticruelty statutes, but it may have application in those contexts in which sufficient sharing of values enables participants in legal reform to work through differences in moral commitme...

Confidential Business Information in Jurisprudence and Iranian law

As a result of information technology era and possibility of swift access to information, endorsement of Confidential Business Information (CBI) has found an extraordinary importance; whereas the CBI concept and legal warranty in order to support it thoroughly in Iran is not emphasized in the framework of a specific law. This issue has led to legal problems in the trial with allegation of CBI v...