272 * Attiya Waris is an Assistant Lecturer, Department of Commercial Law, School of Law of the University of Nairobi in Kenya. She holds two Masters of Laws one in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria in South Africa and another in Business and Commercial Law from the University of London. She holds an Undergraduate Law degree from the University of Nairob...

This Essay does not focus on legal theory in law schools, the common core of legal scholarship as practiced in law schools, nor the trend towards interdisciplinary research as reflected in the “law and” movements in law schools. Rather, it looks outside of law schools, law reviews, and internal legal discourse. It examines the role that legal scholars play in interdisciplinary debates on legal ...

The socio-legal theories of P. A. Sorokin and M. Weber are common in belonging to the normativist trend sociology law. To determine limits their applicability analysis operation legal norms, it is necessary clarify reasons for differences. notable differences between both connected not only with general corresponding sociological systems, but also fundamentally different conceptual foundations ...

The article identifies three stages in the development of sociology at BSU, reveals their content and features. It is argued that institutionalisation on territory Belarus began with opening Belarusian State University creation department primitive culture, where students were given lectures genetic sociology, issues labour, law, cultural history, family marriage. After identification historica...

the concept of individualism in the field of sociology was introduced by the empirical scheme of one's position in society. the growing importance of the attention to this pattern affected by social changes has been rapid and rough. cultural and social processes of modernization and modern age always create new conditions and stimulus leading to changes and verities in methods of individualizat...

as european and american countries became industrialized, general sociology was gradually replaced with industrial sociology because the main issues were issues related to the industrial society. in the latter half of the 19th century and the early 20th century there was no clear idea about industrial sociology and its duties. after the second world war, a more exact definition of the field eme...

this paper reviews the relationship between the rule of law, good governance, and sustainable development as those terms are used by the relevant development organizations; describes the efforts made by various organizations to promote the rule of law and good governance; and addresses the need to strengthen compliance and enforcement for sustainable development. a recent movement, which has re...