In this study there are 2 (two) problems studied. First, what is the form or of legal politics in 1945 Constitution. Second, nature This research uses normative research. The results obtained: constitution as a means order to achieve goals state, namely interests nation and basic law comes from values character nation, taking into account system adopted. Constitution not rigid permanent, but op...

Abstract This chapter presents an overview of feminist legal and political thought, aiming at discussing the different perspectives within thought. In first part, basic concepts in thought such as gender, patriarchy, feminism are explained, a brief historical evolution movements is provided. The other two sections focus greater detail on theories, respectively, including critical analysis influ...

The terms “state” and “government” are often used interchangeably in political discourse, but they can also refer to very different entities. In political geography, a distinction between the two is often not made, or made weakly. Thus, this article reviews how these terms have been used in political geography and across allied disciplines, especially in international law. Political geographers...

This article begins by first focusing on the Tokyo IMT’s heritage of collective forgetting in relation to instances of systematized violence against women, especially the establishment of comfort stations in territories formerly occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army. In specific, after the Introduction, it describes the international political, legal and military factors that led to the format...

By drafting statutes and delegated acts, national legislative drafters play a crucial role in European Union (EU) compliance. Given their extensive legal training, they can be expected to operate as ‘guardians of EU law’ and thus correct national non-compliant tendencies. Yet, they also have a role as politically loyal civil servants, responsive to national political demands. This conntribution...

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 ...

It no longer seems revolutionary to say, as Duncan Kennedy did over twenty years ago, that “Law schools are intensely political places.”1 As Kennedy himself argues in this issue of Unbound, today’s law professors “have correctly and honestly internalized the irreducible political element in law,” and accordingly law faculties feature a rich pluralism of overlapping and conflicting methodologies...