Civil law

can help assist both employees and employers alike. “Private Practice Lawyers”, technically work alone in an office or can work alongside other lawyers at a law firm. Private Practice Lawyers can have cases from divorce and child custody to malpractice suits. Most of the time, the workers who do choose to work alone may often practice general law in order to have larger range of clientele. Now “Public Interest Lawyers”, can offer individualized legal services to clients, as well as work on legal…

Netherlands Civil Code (art. 1046) and some Australian states (art. 27C Victoria Commercial Arbitration Act 2011, art. 27C South Australia Commercial Arbitration Act 2011) and New Zealand (art. 6(2) New Zealand Arbitration Act) contain such provisions. This allows for more freedom to the parties and is more in line with the party autonomy principle in international commercial…

and/or their fathers to being able to own their own property and manage their own financial businesses. Woman today in the twenty century are able to drive, own property, work outside the home, vote for president, work in male dominated jobs, have laws that protect their rights, and most importantly have a voice. This was not always the reality for women in nineteenth century. The living legacy of what women fought for in the past century has surpassed their expectations. Women’s rights movement…

just liberals, but Supreme Court Justices across the political spectrum have invoked judicial activism one time or another. Bibliography: Dodrill, Fransisco J. Benzoni & Christopher S. "Does Judicial Philosophy Matter? A Case Study." West Virginia Law Review 113, no. 287 (Winter 2011). This was a case study of two conservative judges that served on the US Court of Appeals for the Forth Circuit together for over fifteen years. One a textualist, but the other was more an activist or…

the judicial branch, the congress, and the president. The judicial branch is liable for interpreting the constitution and adapted laws while applying their interpretations to nationwide controversies. And the legislative branch, or congress, is responsible for making the laws necessary for functioning. While the executive branch (president) enforces and carries out the laws or policies created.…

of the role of the judiciary in a constitutional democracy. Judge Bork believes that a judiciary’s authority derives from applying the law and not personal values, the intentions of the lawmakers to govern whether the lawmakers are the Congress enacting a statute or those who ratified our constitution, and the precedent of those in the judiciary who enacted a law in the past. Bork points out that he wrote in an opinion for our courts, the judge’s responsibility is “to discern how the framers’…

non-legal actions are effective in administering justice for consumers. Consumer law has continually evolved in order to maintain its ability to protect consumers within the ever-changing modern marketplace - progressing from the common law notion of caveat emptor to an intensive legal framework recognising the fundamental need for consumer protections. While much of this contemporary framework - comprised of statutory bodies, law courts and tribunals, and working in conjunction with a myriad of…

The Federal Law states an advertisement “must be truthful, not misleading, and, when appropriate, backed by scientific evidence.” (Federal Trade Commission) If an advertisement does not apply to these rules, it is by definition false and therefore illegal. The Federal Trade Commission, by their own standards, enforces these rules and punishes the companies guilty of breaking them. Making false claims about products and services is a very broad spectrum. The claims can range from quality and…

The Constrained Court’s Role in the Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights movement was a collaborative effort towards equal rights for African Americans. In 1954, the Supreme Court deemed “separate but equal” unconstitutional in the case, Brown v. Board of Education. In The Hollow Hope, Gerald N. Rosenberg analyzes the Court’s power in the Civil Rights movement, suggesting that the Court lacked the tools needed to create social reform. In From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, Michael Klarman…

first makers intelligently balanced the powers of the government in an aim to protect the rules of the majority and minority rights promoting liberty and equality. The Constitutional law has greatly impacted other nations’ constitution due to the way it has been interpreted, reinforced and implemented. Being the supreme law of the United States of America, the United States Constitution originally was composed of seven articles depicting the national structure of government. The first three…