The 'Different Voice' in Jewish Law - Some Parallels to a Feminist Jurisprudence

Silencing the different voice: competence, feminist theory and law.

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...

Abortion--the need to change Jewish law.

Rights) that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . " History has repeatedly demonstrated the need for separation of church and state which our United States Constitution guarantees. By imposing the tenets of any religious group on all we would destroy the liberty of all not in agreement with the state-sponsored morali...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

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...