Many scholars before this time have written about the Ogboni institution in Yoruba land of southwest Nigeria. Instances are William Bascom (1944); Forde (1951); Peter Morton-Williams (1960); J.R.O. Ojo (1972–73); Robert Smith (1976); L.E. Roache (1971); R. Hallgren (1988). However, conspicuously missing in their analyses is the overriding influence and place that the Ogboni institution wields i...

BACKGROUND To practice occupational health in Europe, a medical doctor must qualify in occupational medicine. This requires a period of postgraduate specialist medical training lasting a minimum of four years, in conformity with European regulations, to obtain a certificate of completion of training which is then mutually recognized within the entire European Union. DISCUSSION In 2002 an Ital...

Today, in vitro fertilization (IVF) is not just a medical issue, but certainly also a complex legal issue, in which lawyers can play an important role by establishing the suitable legal conditions to regulate legal relations by introducing necessary theories. One of the important and controversial issues, which can be approached legally, is the study of the pre-implantation embryo with regard t...

This article argues that EU law can be interpreted to support the current existence of legal rights for animals and nature. While these have not been explicitly recognised in law, prerequisites doing so already exist order. The theoretical justifications protection nature differ, but both may benefit from a approach. Further, such approach helps address jurisprudential questions pertaining dire...

the main aim of this research is jurisprudential feasibility of receivable-backed securities dividends. liquidity management and correct guidance of them toward the productive sector is necessary for a developing country. due to the high percentage of receivable dividend in iran's capital market and the time-consuming nature of receivable dividend in investment companies, which leads to re...

the guardian council, as the sole competent authority to jurisprudential review on the legislations of majlis, plays an unique role in the preservation of islamic criteria in the field of legislation. in this paper, through a case study, studying the process of the guardian council’s jurisprudential review on the islamic penal act, as the most prominent criminal legislation, from the perspectiv...

Pandemic emergencies and concomitant needs for interventions to protect public health place great pressure on individual liberty. In the United States, these pressures are exacerbated by views of negative liberty as freedom do whatever one wants with one’s person. This essay argues that original US Supreme Court decision recognizing legislative powers health, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, was prem...