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Negligence, strict liability and nuisance law in Uganda liability for unintentionally causing harm.
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Manning the law ::why the legal person remains a man /
No full textThis is a study of elite English men of English law and the methods they used to retain and justify their power and privilege, through controlling the story of the legal person. It looks at how these men of legal authority thought of themselves and their institution; how they studied and explained law; and how they put themselves in the middle of it, as the standard human in need of legal regulation and protection and in charge of that regulation and protection, and assigned to women an inferior legal role and being. The main strategy used to do all this was manipulation of the concept of 'the legal person'. From the 1860s to the 1920s the courts declared that women were not 'persons' who could exercise public power - to vote, to sit in Parliament, to gain degrees, to be lawyers. Up to the end of the 20th century, and into the 21st, women's personhood remained precarious in the private sphere, for rape was excused within a marriage and female reproduction remained under state control (as it still does). The book examines the active exclusion of women from the means of making legal meaning, especially the ability to shape law's central concept and shows the epistemological effects of this sex differential of legal power which are still felt today. Leading legal thinkers who helped to masculinise the concept of the person, to the detriment of women, are still revered. Law's continuing male orientation is neither seen nor acknowledged and the legal person is treated (falsely) as if he had always been and remains anyone
Criminal procedure /
No full text"Casebook for Criminal Procedure for law students in advanced criminal procedure courses"-- Provided by publisher
The transformation of international investment law and its principles ::indirect expropriation and fair and equitable treatment /
No full textRegulae iuris in the medieval and modern age ::essential stability vs. evolving contexts /
No full text"The 2022 workshop has revealed a common theme in the scholarship of regulae - the contradiction between essence and context within them. On the one hand, the regulae may be seen as real entities, essential in themselves and stable. The presentations by David Deroussin and other scholars have shown that already the Roman jurists, e.g. Cicero, dreamt of using the regulae as the underlying legal principles, helping to "reduce law into art". Similarly, the presentation by David De Concilio has indicated that medieval jurists, especially those of the Bologna school in the 13th century, tended to see the regulae as objective generalisations of the solutions to the groups of related legal cases: they revealed certain "reasons of law" (causae legis) underlying the solutions"-- Provided by publisher
Wahl durch Klerus und Volk ::das Verfahren der Papstwahl bis ins 12. Jahrhundert /
No full text"Bis ins hohe Mittelalter galt für die Papstwahl grob der einfache Grundsatz der „Wahl durch Klerus und Volk". Dabei gab es weder ein Konklave noch die Abstimmung durch ein klar definiertes Kardinalskollegium. Die vielschichtigen, ritualisierten Abläufe der Papstwahl konnten dennoch stabile Ergebnisse hervorbringen.Die vorliegende Studie nimmt die mittelalterlichen Verfahrensformen, Wirkmechanismen und Rollen bei der Papstwahl durch Klerus und Volk in den Blick. Auf Basis des reichhaltigen Quellenmaterials werden die Vorgänge eines legitimen Herrschaftsüberganges in ihrer zeitgenössischen Beurteilung erfasst und mit einem modernen Analyseinstrumentarium untersucht."-
Las cortes de Toledo del año de mil & quinie[n]tos veynte & cinco años ::las leyes & prematicas reales hechas por Sus Magestades : en las cortes q[ue] mandaron hazer & hizieron : en la ciudad de Toledo : en las quales ay muchas leys y decissiones nueuas y aprouacio[n] y declaracio[n] d[e] muchas p[re]maticas y leys del reyno : sin las quales ningu[n] administrador de justicia deue estar.
No full textResearch handbook on the sociology of legal ethics /
No full text"Situating legal ethics in relation to classical sociology of law themes, this astute Research Handbook investigates ethics as a contested set of professional rules designed to protect clients and serve the public, revealing how they operate in action to shape lawyers' relation to state and market power. Expert authors discuss how legal ethics can reflect and legitimate structural inequalities in the legal profession and wider society, exploring their institutionalization within specific social and political contexts. They assess the consequences of ethics enforcement on stratification and access to justice, as well as the influence of ethics in larger conflicts over democracy, authoritarianism, and the rule of law. The Handbook presents a broad range of global perspectives through empirical studies covering the institutionalization of legal ethics in South Africa, feminist lawyering in Turkey, the ethics of Christian lawyers in Australia, and the development of professional standards in European courts. Based on this innovative work, it proposes a framework for understanding the sociology of legal ethics that distinguishes it from other research bodies in the field by placing the social role of ethical rules and their enforcement at the centre of study. Scholars and students of law and society, legal ethics, sociology and sociological theory will greatly benefit from this compelling Research Handbook. Providing an overview of how lawyers understand and practice ethics in their daily work lives, it is also an essential resource for practitioners and policymakers in the legal profession"-