Yale Law Journal

Potential grounds for appeal can be on the basis of ‘misdirection of law or facts, failure to refer to a defence, inappropriate comments by the judge, or jury irregularity.’ as stated in the AQA Law book. The Court of appeal consists of three senior judges, the superior of the three is referred to as the lady/lord chief justice. They have the power to quash convictions, in addition…

Lon Fuller, while discussing the legal system and the addition of laws, brought up ways that you can fail in making laws. 1) The failure to make laws at all 2) Failure to publicize laws 3) Abuse of Retroactive legislation 4) Unintelligible rules 5) Contradictory rules 6) Rules requiring more than what is humanly possible 7) Frequent changes in the law 8) Lack of congruence between state rules and administration. Fuller believes if any of these failures occurs, the system of rules are no longer…

Education and Citizenship. Do they go hand in hand? Is education required to be a good citizen? Yes, and No, A good citizen should know how to vote, to keep up with current events, laws of their country and so on and basic human rights. Yet they are not taught this in school but instead they are taught useless things which is a waste of time and money. A good citizen is someone who knows how to keeps themselves educated and up to date on current events in their school, city, state, country and…

Robert H. Jackson declared on one occasion that “it is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error,” clearly placing the continuance of his work- exposing injustice- into the capable hands of the ordinary citizen. Jackson’s bold step in the form of the Nuremberg trials reminded the international community that the ideals of equality, justice, and fairness extend to all members of…

allow their personal and political views to affect their interpretation of the law, and, consequently, their decisions in important cases. Judicial activists are often accused of ignoring stare decision when making their decisions. (American Psychological Assoc.) For Judicial restraint is a judicial interpretation that encourages judges to limit the exercise of their own power. Judges should hesitate to strike down laws unless they are obviously unconstitutional, though what counts as…

Our journal articles this week focused on the heated debate of health care as a right or a privilege of United States citizens. Although this has always been a topic of discussion, it has held more prevalence in recent years with President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, the first successful step in the direction of making health care a right. Despite the majority of citizens believing health care is something all people should have, the way of going about it – universal health care – is highly…

One could argue that Michael Jordan or Hillary Clinton would get off easier than a normal average person. I believe that a rich person has more assets than an average person that will allow them to get off easier. An average person will go to jail because they are not rich or well known. Rich people will get off easier because they are wealthy and famous. There are two types of legal systems, one for the average and unfortunate and one for the rich and powerful. Rich people have an advantage…

Prostitution is the act of sexual relations for money. I support the act of prostitution as an occupation. While many people are against this “occupation” it would actually benefit the world so much if we legalized and supported it. Prostitution should be decriminalized because it will reduce crime, it will help us live healthier, and it will benefit the world. Many people don’t really look at prostitution as being a job. Their first thought is, “illegal”, “whore”, “is he/she being forced?”,…

backlash by Duane Buck if she came foward. Buck’s defense attorney Jerry Guerinot brought forth the input of psychologist Walter Quaijno to discuss the possibility of future violence by Duane Buck. the reason for this incorporation pertains to Texas law that requires the jurors to determine if the defendant will be a dangerous to society. The state of Texas along with this question needs to unanimously vote for the death penalty to be given. Dr. Quinjo discussed the relationship between race…

Social Institutions regarding Racial Inequality Slavery ended over 150 years ago and In 1964 the Civil Rights Act ended all laws regarding segregation. Have you ever wondered why racial inequality is still prevalent in today’s day and age. Well a lot of the reasoning behind racial inequality still existing is in fact due to social institutions. Throughout the course of this paper I’m going to argue that inequality still presides due to institutional arrangements thus being unsustainable. Many…