With the creation of the World Trade Organization (“WTO”), an area of international law may have become more like law as we commonly perceive it. Yet it is not necessarily the neutral technocratic process some of its proponents make it to be. Whatever is one’s perspective on trade liberalization and its enforcement, developing countries and developing country constituents are at a disadvantage ...

The notion of neutrality has long been criticised in the mediation literature. It is often said that mediator neutrality is a myth that hides the reality of the impact of the mediator on both the content and the process of mediation. Despite these criticisms neutrality continues to be seen as central to mediation theory and to the acceptance of mediation as a legitimate, fair and just process. ...

The importance of language and terminology for the law and the jurisprudence is beyond question because language is a central subject of a lawyer's work (Hatz 1963, Salton/McGill 1983). The particularity of the legal language is the use of a special vocabulary of legal terms which are used to express definite concepts. The presence of a particular term has specific connotations. Legal thinking ...

Despite the exceptionally high rates of domestic violence in Alaska, Alaskan jurisprudence affords battered women varied and sparse guidance for the use of their experience as a battered woman in criminal trials. Of the minimal guidance offered, none arises in the form of a binding Alaska Supreme Court opinion, rule of evidence, or governing statute. As one of the few states lacking established...

Social workers in all practice areas are affected by interactions with the law and legal systems. Unfortunately, the profession has paid inadequate attention to education, scholarship, and practice in legal environments. This article introduces a new perspective for examining social work and the law called "therapeutic jurisprudence," which emanates from psychology/mental health law. Therapeuti...

The article analyses the issues of some most important constituents openness political financing, which include: reporting by parties and election committees, publishing data resulting from reports possibility getting acquainted with this information. An attempt was made to identify problems in matter, referring positions entities raising these issues, legal writings jurisprudence. Solutions kn...

The uncertain political status of America's millions of undocumented immigrants and their children has exposed deep and ongoing disagreement about how US citizenship should be accorded to foreign-born persons. I identify the principle of jus temporis, a law of measured calendrical time, that has worked in concert with jus soli and consent to construct citizenship law since the nation's founding...

We tend to sympathize with addicts who behave illegally or immorally in service of their addictive cravings more readily than we do with those who act in exactly the same ways but who are not addicted. The addict who kills for money to buy crack seems less a moral monster than the unaddicted person who coldly plots the same murder for the same purpose. This distinction in our moral sentiments s...

In his manuscript, Lectures on Jurisprudence, based on his lectures at Glasgow University in the early 1760’s, Adam Smith stated that a factor that “greatly retarded commerce was the imperfection of the law and the uncertainty in its application” (Smith, 1978, p.528). This is still one of the main messages of the Law and Economics literature as it pertains to development. Law and Economics is a...