Crowning Glory: Public Law, Power and the Monarchy

African Jurisprudence: The Law as a Complement to Public Morality

Every society is governed by certain rules (the law), customs, norms and values; and these are intricately crucial to the maintenance of public morality. Invariably, there is a public morality which provides the cement of any human society; the law, especially the criminal law, must regard it as a primary function to reflect and maintain this public morality. Criminal Codes lay down various off...

Basal ganglia—thalamus and the “crowning enigma”

When Hubel (1982) referred to layer 1 of primary visual cortex as "… a 'crowning mystery' to keep area-17 physiologists busy for years to come …" he could have been talking about any cortical area. In the 80's and 90's there were no methods to examine this neuropile on the surface of the cortex: a tangled web of axons and dendrites from a variety of different places with unknown specificities a...

Law and Power

Power Law and Entropy

Shannon[1] and Yavuz[2] estimated the entropy of real documents. This note drives an upper bound of entropy from the power law. Let D be a set of documents and f r(w) be the number of occurrences of a word w in the document. Given an interger k, we denote by F (k) the number of words whose frequency is k, i.e., F (k) = ♯{w ∈ D | f r(w) = k}. The entropy of the document set D is defined by E(D) ...

Law and State Power:

The struggle for power has been a persistent phenomenon throughout history, involving the rulers, general public, and various other interest groups. As one of these groups, the legal community has been in a unique position to regulate the relationship between the ruler and the public because of its dual responsibilities to provide services to the public and to impose constraints on the rulers. ...