Rational-legal authority

COMMUNITY: Guardian Ad Litem Morgan Pristupa University of North Florida December 5, 2014 Introduction To begin with, the Guardian ad Litem community is international. Several places around the world have created Guardian ad Litem programs. For the purposes of this paper, I am focusing on the 21 local Guardian ad Litem programs in Florida’s judicial circuits. According to Guardianadlitem.org (2014), the Florida Guardian ad Litem program “advocates a strong…

○ Facts: The insured defendant, Steven Fuller was in Alexander City, Alabama at an event his mother was hosting at her office, where she is a director for the United Way. Mr. Fuller had left the event and was returning to his home in Verbena, Alabama. He was traveling west on U.S. Highway 280 and traveling in the left hand lane. He spotted a Taco Bell, and attempted to cross the right lane and turn into the parking lot. He failed to see the plaintiff’s vehicle in the right hand lane and…

The case of Norton vs. Argonaut Insurance Co. was the result of a wrongful death suit initiated by the plaintiff’s, Glynace Norton and his wife Anne Norton, in an effort to recover damages for the accidental overdose and subsequent death, of their three month old daughter by hospital staff at Baton rouge General Hospital on January 02, 1960. In summary, the plaintiff’s infant daughter was diagnosed with a congenital heart condition shortly after being born and was given the drug Lanoxin, which…

Annotated Bibliography Keighley Maxted & Co. v. Durant [1901] AC 240 (Undisclosed Principle). The Court asserted that "A contract made by a person intending to contract on behalf of a third party, but without his authority, cannot be ratified by the third party so as to render him able to sue or liable to be sued on the contract, where the person who made the contract did not profess at the time of making it to be acting on behalf of a principal." This case is the base of my essay, I have used…

certain groups of people. The utilitarian viewpoint is skewed toward the status quo. Hart’s viewpoint leaves little room from for justice, which should be at the heart of judicial enforcement. The critical theorist’s viewpoint, while valid, offers few legal remedies for practical application. Good laws incorporate the sociological knowledge of the feminist movement, and it weighs the needs of communities-at-large while utilizing the principles of individual justice. Like Dworkin, I find that the…

Positive Impact Last year, I made the decision to run for an executive position in a university society, and was somewhat surprisingly elected for the role. While this has resulted in both positive and negative consequences, it generally has a positive impact in relation to my career aspirations. I wanted to become an executive member of the society so that I could influence the society in the direction I want – I was disappointed in the previous executive team, as the society was not what I…

revised the theory of rational choice theory within the 17th century which saw the history of the European movement, the Enlightenment, which was heavily influenced by these thinkers. The enlightenment entailed of the conception of reason and rationality when discussing such things as criminality or even religion. Beccaria was specifically known as a criminologist due to his large input into rational theory and deterrence. The act of rational theory suggests criminals come to rational…

materialize as to why target killings are being used. In this article, I believe that the rational actor model is being used and from this…

by Dellen Millard and Mark Smich after his truck was offered for sale on Kijiji. Many biological, psychological and sociological theories of crime could be applied to explain the desire to commit murder but in this case, Social Learning Theory and Rational Choice Theory offer the best rationalization (O’Grady 2014, 81-83, 99).…

1) A $100 bill is lying on the ground in the middle of campus. No one is close to it and there are few people outside. Is the money taken? - I chose rational choice theory because the money is lying on the ground, and no one is out asking if they have found a specific amount of money. He is making a conscious decision as to whether pick up the money or not. He is not stealing the money from anyone, and no one is questioning him about finding any money. The money is just lying on the ground. No,…