The legal competency or capability to exercise rights is level of judgment and decision-making ability needed to manage one's own affairs and to sign official documents. With some exceptions, the person entitles this right in age of majority. It is acquired without legal procedures, however the annulment of legal capacity requires a juristic process. This resolution may not be final and could b...

Learning is complex for any number of reasons. One of these is that it doesn’t take place in a laboratory: it happens in real places, within and between real people, and as a consequence it takes place in multi-factorial environments. At every stage of learning in Higher Education (HE), from student choice of institution and programme, to the transfer of learning from theory to practice, to a s...

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo's contributions to the juristic culture of his time are not confined to the doctrinal illuminations and improvements which are to be found in his judicial opinions. He was a great judge; he was also a philosopher of law. How great a philosopher of law is a question that is, perhaps, premature to ask or to attempt to answer. Philosophy is a long-range look at life, and it...

INTRODUCTION From the very dawn of civilization, as soon as any ethical conceptions of justice began to be entertained, it must have been incumbent on magistrates and juristic officials everywhere to try to differentiate between accidental death, murder, and suicide. Soon other, similar questions began to arise as well, questions concerned with poisoning, wounding, arson, virginity, miscarriage...

In Rome, quite unlike Athens, there grew up a professional class of lawyers. These 'jurists' were originally priests, but in the course of the third century BC they came to profess a secular jurisprudence. Their role in the Roman legal system was pivotal: neither the magistrates responsible for granting legal remedies nor the judges who decided cases were lawyers; all looked to the jurists for ...

sheikh murtaza ansārai is regarded as one of the greatest imamite jurists, and one of the prominent scholarly and juristic figures of the last centuries. his proficiency, originality and gumption are evident in his surviving works regarding problems in principles (usūl) and traditional-demonstrative jurisprudence. his precious researches on “investigation and criticism of chain of transmission ...

The development of modern genetics is often hailed as one the most important scientific success stories in recent history. With steps going back to work Gregor Mendel 19th century, a major milestone was discovery human DNA structure by James Watson and Francis Crick mid-20th century. This event constituted revolution that ultimately altered life sciences resulted numerous impactful achievements...

This article explores the relationship of Foucault to Marxism. Although he was often critical of Marxism, Foucault’s own approach bears striking parallels to Marxism, as a form of method, as an account of history, and as an analysis of social structure. Like Marxism, Foucault represents social practices as transitory and all knowledge and intellectual formations as linked to social relations an...