Jurisprudence

Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a massive economic contraction impacted immensely on the transitions of the newly independent Central Eastern European countries along with the difficulties of transforming a socialist economy and regime into a market economy and democracy with a party-governed system dominated by political freedom. Poland, a fast growing economy and one that is fully integrated into Western structures, and Ukraine, a developing country that is still seemingly…

Describing Captain Porteous, a name memorable in the traditions of Edinburgh as well as in the records of criminal jurisprudence, Scott remarks, “It was only by his military skill, and an alert and resolute character as an officer of police, that he merited this promotion, for he is said to have been a man of profligate habits, an unnatural son, and a brutal husband… his…

Cattle slaughter is the killing of nonhuman animals also referred as killing domestic livestock. The animals are generally killed for food; however, they might also be killed for other reasons such as being diseased or unsuitable times for families to feed it. The animals most commonly slaughtered for food in India are cattle and water buffalo for beef and goats for goat meat and mutton, pigs for pork and ham, horses for horse meat, chickens and ducks, and increasingly, fish farming in the…

Since 1976, the U.S. has executed approximately 1,439 people, according to the Death Penalty Information Center (2016). However, this is not a new issue in U.S. politics, as the death penalty has been a controversial form of punishment in America since colonial times. According to a PBS article by Michael H. Reggio, the use of capital punishment in the U.S. was a tradition brought over by the English settlers, with the first execution on American soil occurring in 1608 when the Virginia colony…

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed, black teenager was shot to death by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown’s killing, and the grand jury’s subsequent refusal to indict the officer responsible for his death, sparked national outrage and demonstrations across the country. Pundits and advocates alike saw the incident as evidence of a pervasive problem of excessive use of force by police against black males. In the investigative report that followed the killing, the U.S…

Quite apart from the fact that there is a general agreement that torture is morally wrong, the prohibition of torture is also enshrined in fundamental conventions like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. From a moral point of view, we agree that torture is ‘evil in itself’ (mala in se) : the act is inherently wrong by nature, independent of the law. This means that it is not required to base it on a legal rule to prove that…

Ibn al-Qayyim wrote mainly on subjects like commentary of the Holy Qur'an, Islamic jurisprudence, traditions of the Holy Prophet (SAW), mysticism, social, political and economic issues. We can divide his economic thoughts into five main categories: 1 His views on the economic philosophy of Islam. a) Homo Islamicus and Not Homo Economicus Ibn al-Qayyim highlights the basic Islamic faith that every man is accountable before Allah (SWT) for his conduct and that Allah (SWT) is the source of…

and interpretations became official legal documents called the Quran and Sunna, which act similarly to the Torah and Gemara in Jewish tradition. In addition, different legal schools of thought were established, each with its own takes on Islamic jurisprudence. From 600-1400 CE, Sharia law splintered because each interpretive sect, also called a fiqh, of Islam used different methods to solve the problems created by the expansions of Islam: specifically, the leadership vacuum after the first…

The Keystone XL pipeline was commissioned in 2010. It “is a $7 billion pipeline approximately 1,661 miles in length and 36 inches wide” (Palliser 2012, 8). The company that would run this project is TransCanada and the pipeline “would run from Hardisty, Alberta, to Nederland, Texas, and traverse Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas” (Palliser 2012, 8). The media has written about the different perspectives on this proposed project. The Indian Country Today article is…

not before or during trial. Skinnider and Gordon state that the "principle aimed at protecting against the use of coercion by authorities in the conscription of the accused as a testimonial source" (10), which has been developed by the Canadian jurisprudence to protect Canadian citizens rights in court. Over the past couple of decades, the principle against self-incrimination and not having to be compelled to assist on one 's prosecution has been deeply rooted in Canada 's Legal system…