Freedom and Slavery in Roman Law

Ideology and Imagery in the Law of Slavery - Symposium on the Law of Slavery: Theories of Democracy and the Law of Slavery

Roman-Dutch law in modern South African succession law

Abstraction, Law, and Freedom in Computer Science

ION, LAW, AND FREEDOM IN COMPUTER SCIENCE TIMOTHY COLBURN AND GARY SHUTE Abstract: Laws of computer science are prescriptive in nature but can have Laws of computer science are prescriptive in nature but can have descriptive analogs in the physical sciences. Here, we describe a law of conservation of information in network programming, and various laws of computational motion (invariants) for p...

Freedom and choice in constitutional law.

The constitutional rights of children, the mentally ill, and other legally incompetent persons have been the subject of much litigation in the past twenty years. In this Article, Professor Garvey develops a general theory to explain the different ways in which persons of diminished capacity can be said to enjoy constitutional protections. He first notes that, of the various constitutional provi...

Constraint and Freedom in the Common Law

The purpose of this paper is to advance our formal understanding of the common law, especially the nature of the reasoning involved, but also its point, or justification. As so often in discussions of the modern common law, I will concentrate on the doctrine of precedent, according to which decisions by earlier courts constrain decisions by later courts, while still allowing these later courts ...