International Court of Justice

The notion of community engagement is understood by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as such; “Community engagement describes collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.” Essential community engagement assists in developing students into advocates of sustainable change through service and collaboration with communities to…

Amnesty international Amnesty International (AI) is a nonprofit, independent international organization that works zealously to protect Human Rights around the world. It’s an intentional organization that fights for the human rights which have been violated around the globe. It has gained support worldwide with over 7 million members and supporters around the globe. Amnesty International primarily targets governments, but also reports on non-governmental bodies and private individuals…

expansion and development in Australia. Justice Michael Kirby’s metaphor of equity being a ‘time capsule ’ however does not reflect the treatment of equitable principles in fiduciary law, as equity’s principles in this context have not been opened. The case Breen v Williams [Breen] provided the High Court of Australia [High Court] with an opportunity to restate, and to possibly reshape, the principles governing fiduciary law. However, failure by the High Court in recognising fiduciary…

The government of Saudi Arabia is a monarchial system and its legal system is based on Islamic law. Islam does not recognize a distinction between a legal system and other controls on a person’s behavior. Followers of Islamic law believe Islam provides all the answers to questions about appropriate behavior in any sphere of life (Reichel, 2008, p. 123). Before Muhammad, Arabic tribes operated under customary law. After Muhammad was called to be a prophet by the angel Gabriel, Muhammad…

INTRODUCTION Amnesty International is a global movement of people campaigning for internationally recognized human rights to be respected and protected. A worldwide voluntary based membership organization holding more than 3 million supports, members and activists from across 150 countries and territories. The amnesty international is one of the world’s largest organizations campaigning for human rights, consisting of sections, affiliated groups and individual members. It is a non-profit Non…

The world has known many great leaders, however, in my opinion President Franklin Roosevelt has made the biggest impact on our economy and government in this century. Roosevelt began a new era in American history by ending the Great Depression and helping the Second World War come to an end. Without Roosevelt who knows where this country could have gone? In 1929, the U.S. suffered from a stock market crash. This crash set off a train reaction that plunged the U.S. into what is known as the…

International human rights have a historical trajectory that emerges from a revolutionary process; which developed individual rights within legislative, ideological, economic, political and societal arenas. This essay will elaborate on impact of these phenomenons on institutionalized human rights through a liberal lense. It will then examine the role of human rights in practice and explore the realist nature in which they occur in the political arena. Liberalist believe that institutionalized…

want my contribution to right those who has been wronged in the legal system. My curiosity of the case of OJ Simpson and my reading on ‘Outrage: The five reasons OJ Simpson got away with murder’ has given me insight into the potential wrongs in the justice system and has empowered me to transfer this inquisitiveness into studying Law. The inspiration to read law came from having the privilege to speak to a ‘Family and Relationship’ solicitor and the fulfilment I would acquire when assisting…

The second generation concerns economic, social and cultural rights, specifically, those enshrined in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, such as rights to housing and to form a trade union. The third generation typically is said to include the right to development, the right to self-determination, minority rights, the right to a…

that point, governmental authority law is restored to conduct roving wiretaps and engaging in surveillance of suspected terrorists. The FISA was another affected agency, increasing Federal law enforcement agencies investigations on behalf of the FISA courts. Providing organizations and private companies more authority to publicly report requirements from the FISA. Lastly, the new law disqualifies many FISA interpretations of the law and requirements, which would then be published reports on…