New Laws

process of gaining a new and different culture which often happen in immigrant groups. ''While every person is subject to enculturation, the acquisition of the cognitive category of his or her society, only those who move from one culture to another are subject to acculturation.'' (Renteln, ‘The Culture Defense’ 13) The third concept is assimilation, which always goes along with acculturation. “Assimilation refers to the process by which individuals adopt the value system of the new culture”…

Korobkin’s “The Scarlet Letter of the Law: Hawthorne and Criminal Justice,” she believes that The Scarlet Letter is an example of Lincoln’s doctrine of obedience to law. Hester and Chillingworth play two different roles. Hester follows Lincoln’s philosophy, which is that she submits herself to the law. Hester receives a “humane sentence most striking in its failure to include physical punishment” (Korobkin). Hester is an example of someone who excepts the law. However, Chillingworth goes…

arrested for stealing street signs and vandalizing cars. Everyone from all around the US began to debate on whether or not caning- the punishment received for vandalism in Singapore- was well- deserved or “cruel and unusual punishment.” While The New York Times’ editorial called “Time to Assert American Values” tries to look for more “humanitarian” solutions for Michael Fay’s acts, the Chicago Tribune’s editorial article “Michael Fay Got What he Deserved” by Michael F. Mazza as well as…

separation of powers was formed to make sure that this is the case. Separation of powers puts the institutions of government into three different branches. These branches are: The legislature which make the laws; the executive government put laws into action; and the third brach,the judiciary interprets the laws. Separation of Powers is said to be the cornerstone of fair government. It is supposed to give back a voice to the people, and stop any corruption in governments. But the question to ask…

Critical Review: The Common Place of Law The Common Place of Law is an interesting empirical research of legal consciousness that is actually a very strong logical theory, in which law is recognized as both constituting and being constituted by social relations and cultural practice. The question that Ewick and Silbey spawn their theory from comes from the classic question, “how is the law experienced” rather than “what is the law,” this was a very compellingly argument made by Ewick and Silbey.…

Law reform is the act of altering laws to better suit the importance of social values. Laws constantly need to be modified to suit the needs of the society, they cannot remain static. An essential feature of the legal system is to adapt and solve uprising problems. The reforming of law is needed for it to remain relevant and have the support of the general public. Some issues that the Australian legal system has to take into account are; to promote equality, resolve issues, balancing the…

Since my decision that Indiana would join the multi-state legal challenge to the new federal health care law, many Hoosiers have called or e-mailed my office with questions. Let me now explain why Indiana had to join the challenge. Since my decision that Indiana would join the multi-state legal challenge to the new federal health care law, many Hoosiers have called or e-mailed my office with questions. Let me now explain why Indiana had to join the challenge. Q. What gives you the authority to…

hundreds of years. They have been used from hunting, to self-protection, and to protection of the citizen rights of this country. With the recent mass shootings that has been seen in the United States, there has been an increased push for gun control laws. The thought is, if the country places a ban guns, there will be less shootings, resulting in needless deaths of our citizens. Is there a correlation between guns and the number of homicides? Even with recent mass-shootings, weapon bans are a…

Sherman, Charles P. Roman Law in the Modern World, Volume 1. New Haven: New Haven Law Book Company, 1922. Print “Slavery is failure…which Justinian fully recognizes” (Sherman 132) “Justinian [Paved] the way” (Sherman 107) “History of Roman Law since Justinian” (Sherman 14) Flavius Anicus Justinian was one of the most famous emperors of all time, and ruled out of the great city of Constantinople. He was born in the small town of Illyria in 483, which is located in the Balkan peninsula.…

Luther King Jr.). This quote by King describes how morality cannot ultimately be dictated by laws, but behavior can be. True morality comes from the heart and laws won’t cause someone have a morality change. Moral behavior is very often influenced by both religion and laws in the way that religion can make people think they may be punished in the afterlife for certain actions, laws, and both religion and laws have things that are prohibited that really aren’t “wrong”. Firstly, morality is often…