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In Ronald Dworkin’s Law’s Empire, the myth of the grand judge Hercules is ‘encapsulated by the metaphor of an ideal judge, Hercules is immensely wise and with full knowledge of legal sources. Acting on the premise that the law is a seamless web, Hercules is required to construct the theory that best fits and justifies the law as a whole in order to decide any particular case. Hercules, Dworkin argues, would always come to the one right answer.’(Dworkin) In contrary to the Greek demigod, the…

Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. was the first time that there was a lawsuit on website accessibility under the ADA to go to trial. However, since then there have been similar cases. The common ruling behind all of these cases are that the court found that there was a common nexus between website's goods and services, and those provided at the physical stores. One example is the National Federation for the Blind v. Target. This case included a group of visually impaired plaintiffs…

“The Roles and Functions of the Judiciary: A Comparison between Malaysia and the Republic of Philippines” The judiciary of Malaysia and the Republic of Philippines are similar, but owing to different historical influences, both judiciary systems have developed differently to perform the same purpose of upholding the law as enacted by the legislature alongside the executive. The history of the Malaysian judiciary traces across three major timelines; that is, the pre-British colonial era, the…

is authorized to act on the behalf of the principal. The four types of agency relationships are expressed agency, implied authority, agency by estoppel, and agency by ratification (Kubasek, Brown, Herron, Dhooge, & Barkacs, 2016, p. 412). The most common relationship is the expressed agency which is applicable between Dave and Empire Courier Service. Their expressed relationship would presumably be expressed through an employer/employee contract. The three types of business relationships are…

Privity of contract is the relationship that exists between the parties to an agreement. This relationship is necessary in contracts; therefore, if you want to lodge a suit regarding a contract, you need to prove that you and the other individual were in privity of contract; hence, you were both involved in the contract and had an established contractual relationship. In addition, a doctrine of contract law that precludes any person from seeking the enforcement of a contract, or suing on its…

Asees Puri Professor Malvika Maheshwari Introduction to Political Theory 27th April, 2015 Is the conception of Desert (in contemporary Liberal theory) asymmetrical in the contexts of Distributive and Retributive Justice, especially Criminal Law, keeping in mind the perspective of Rawls? One can argue that the nature of Criminal Law is such that it is usually seen as a ‘state institution in charge of state punishment’ – its scope, apparatus and effects are determined by the principles of…

protect citizen’s rights since ancient Greece and Rome times. This job was dated long ago when schools were built for young boys to learn many skills in pleading law cases. During the time of English colonies, who were educated to teach the English common law to the foreigners (Exploring, p1). Through the many practices that have occurred I past when law began, being a lawyer has gotten better in modern age through the law field. However before I decide to become a lawyer, I must…

The play antigone evidently demonstrates the contention of common law and divine law.Here divine law is spoken to by antigone while mainstream law is spoken to by ruler Creon. Aside from this there are different characters in the play who maintains Antigone in the play the contention is not of identities but rather of ideas– the contention of standards. The ruler bolsters mainstream law while others underpins the religious soul that is divine law. In any case is the standard of the god in…

The Manusmrti remains one of the finest embodiments of Classical Hindu law and of fundamental importance in any study on law in India. Buhler designates Manusmrti as 'Bhrigu's version of the Institutes of Sacred law proclaimed by Manu".14 Its opening verses describe how Manu, the descendent of the self¬ existent Brahmana was approached by the great sages to explain the sacred law. Buhler further explains that if the versions given by commentators like Govihdraja, Narayana and Raghavananda as…

First, it must be determined if the members of Congress and the individual navy sailor have the standing needed to file suit. The issue of standing is covered by Article III, § 2 of the Constitution. There are two standing requirement tests: the constitutional test and the prudential test. (Lujan) The constitutional test requires the following for a party to have standing: 1) the party must have suffered injury-in-fact, (meaning it must be concrete and either actual or imminent), 2) there must…