Jurisprudence

Colonial India was a key commodity in the world trading economy during the time of European exploration. India was sort after for its wealth and prosperity. This lead to many rival nations, namely the Dutch Republic, England, France and Denmark-Norway, establishing trading posts within the country during the era of the 17th century. It was during the late 18th century that one of the biggest colonial players, Great Britain, achieved dominance over India, dragging it through to the 19th century…

The “siècle des Lumières” and accompanying French Revolution were, and often still are, characterized as mass movements of antagonism towards faith and religion. As the Catholic faith of the old regime crumbled, the revolutionary spirit of the time promised to do away with orthodoxy and create a new egalitarian society based on freedom. Ideas like these were fueled by the French philosophes, with thinkers like Voltaire referring to orthodox religion as “the mother of fanaticism and civil…

Annotated Bibliography Giovanna Camacho Kaplan University There has been an ongoing debate about whether environmental factors or biological factors are associated with behavior. Carey and Gottesman (2006) suggest that epigenetics play a role in both environment and biological factors when being associated with behavior. Epigenetics alters genes throughout someone’s lifespan and includes implications from previous family members (Carey & Gottesman, 2006). Life choices from previous…

Genesis 9:6 - Whoso sheddeth man 's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. In this scripture I feel like it basically states that if you kill a man by human hands then the man that kill, should also be killed by human hands. God created us in his image, so if we kill a human it’s like taking apart of God because we were all created in his image. It is morally wrong, because God created man and if someone kills we are taking that away from God. “A man who…

Romer v. Evans is a case brought to the Supreme Court by Richard G. Evans (Respondent), a gay employee of the mayor of Denver against then Governor Roy Romers, The Attorney General of Colorado, and the State of Colorado (Petitioner). The case was centered around an amendment to the state constitution that prohibited “the state of Colorado… at any level of state or local government from adopting or enforcing any law or policy which provides that homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation,…

Park Tae-Hwan Case Revisited 1. Case summary 1) Mr. Park was sanctioned for positive from doping test by WADA for eighteen months Park Tae-Hwan was sanctioned by WADA after testing positive for testosterone of doping test for eighteen months . After retroactive ban on participation in any FINA-sanctioning events starting from September 2014, Korean Sport and Olympic Committee (KSOC ) has a rule that ‘athlete who has served doping suspensions from representing the country for three years…

| | | |No enquiry allowed into jury deliberations after verdict, even if juror | |Section 51 Criminal Justice & Public Order Act 1994 creates offence |alleges racial or any other type of bias or wrongdoing by the jury. | |to intimidate or threaten to harm a juror. |…

Imagine one person killing another person and being sentenced to death. Should the United States use this system or not? Capital Punishment is one of the most controversial topics today because of the morality that goes along with it. As of July 1, 2015, thirty-one states including; Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky,Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon,…

1) Collect all Crosby cases in which a plaintiff alleges malpractice against a lawyer for failure to draft a shareholder or CCA that protects minority shareholders. As a threshold matter, the statute of limitations for legal malpractice actions is one year. Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2305.11(A). Generally, an individual shareholder may not bring a legal malpractice action against an attorney that is employed by the corporation itself. See e.g. LeRoy v. Allen, Yurasek & Merklin, 114 Ohio St. 3d 323.…

308). This type of violence is quite similar to social cleansings and should be treated as such. Further violations of CAT are clear as “acts of torture must have been committed by public officials. This is a common requirement in international jurisprudence under human rights treaties” (Grans, 313). This clause directly applies to social cleansings as the majority of the killings are directly or indirectly committed by public officials. Yet, even though these violations are indubitable, they…