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cultures depending on the state and the locations within the state. There also laws that can differ from state to state, some being reasonable and others that are quite questionable. With so many differences, it is understandable to have situations where the nation as a whole will disagree on. Whether it be the legalization of recreational marijuana – or in this case, the Stand Your Ground law. The Stand Your Ground law states that if one is in a situation in which they feel threatened, they…

2.1.2 Submission - Speaker 2 The honourable chairman, I speaks as the second speaker for the motion of Man-made law are more superior to Divine law. Therefore, I would stand on the position that Divine law are superior to Man-made laws. The first submission is that man-made laws are made with personal desire of the maker or enacter. Man made laws may be implemented in an unjust manner by corrupted person, Lord Acton had once stated “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.…

“Judges (courts) do not ‘make’ law but merely interpret the law.” The famous quote, “Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don 't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely” [Hamburger: http://www.quotegarden.com/justice.html (Downloaded 20th March 2016)] can be considered for interpreting that “Judges (courts) do not ‘make’ the law but merely interpret the law” as practically law is ruling our daily life as “the…

the Impact of European Law on English Law The EU has a big effect on the law in the UK as all laws that are passed must comply with EU laws and regulations. If it doesn’t then the UK will be fined and anyone affected by this law will be able to take the UK to the European Court of Justice. Before we are able to understand the effect the laws made by the EU have on the law in the UK, we must understand what the European Union is, what it consists of and how it delivers its laws. The EU is built…

Introduction In a recently released opinion, the Kansas Court of Appeals for the first time addressed the meaning of Kansas water law. The case of Garetson Brothers v. American Warrior, Inc., 51 Kan. App. 2d 370 (2015), concerns a groundwater dispute between a senior water user and a junior water user in southwest Kansas. After filing a complaint against the junior user, the senior user sought an injunction against the junior user to stop their use of the groundwater. The District Court granted…

truth?” Objecting Counsel: “No, Your Lordship is to hear the evidence. ” Evidence law is a mixture of principles, rules, guidelines and discretions. Jeremy Bentham legal theorist, stated it thus; ‘The field of evidence is no other than the field of knowledge’. The law of evidence is a critical subject for any lawyer or indeed party to a proceedings, who is concerned with investigation or the conduct of trials. The law of evidence is essentially about, the facts or materials that, are…

Ian Haney Lopez, a Professor at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley primarily works in the areas of racial justice and American law. Lopez is also the author of White by Law, The Legal Construction of Race, which presents a critical look at how race has been recognized by law and it’s legal actors such as judges and policy makers throughout history. The author mainly focuses on analyzing prerequisite cases that in affect, have changed the way that race is perceived…

behind the law being debated. The rift between adapting the Constitution in order for it to keep up with changing times and maintaining the original intentions of the framers poses many difficulties for the justices when interpreting the validity of a law in comparison to the Constitution. Because of this dilemma, various theories about how to efficiently interpret the Constitution have been created to help to the justices properly elaborate on the various…

citizens, it must be the Constitution. The great Constitution created the relative integrated law-making system for America. As we know, no single country or government can stand without laws, and there is no doubt that an influential law-making system can bring most of the benefits to the government and citizens. In addition, the part of the Constitution that has the important function and great effect on law enforcement is the three branches of the Constitution. The three branches are…

1) The first Objection based on legal realist of law is that law is made by legal legislatures and constitutions which works in one state might not work in another and that it could go both ways and it is left in the hands of the judges to make a decision which could affect both parties. Law as stated above is made by constitutions and legislatures but the law is merely a state prediction as to how it will follow. The example given is of a taxi business which is owned by the Jones family who own…