as a result of rule of law ideal, judges are required to act in accordance with laws. the ideal is justified by some political values: political liberty, legal liberty , personal liberty and equality. citizens are subject only to the law not to the arbitrary will or judgment of another who wields coercive government power. but in some cases law is indeterminate. in these cases there is an impor...

U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence undermines access to contraception by permitting individuals, institutions, and even corporations to claim religious objections to ensuring contraceptive insurance coverage, thus imposing those beliefs on non-adherents and jeopardizing their access to essential reproductive-health services. This jurisprudence is not only harmful but also runs contrary to the law...

This article describes how therapeutic jurisprudence, and the therapeutic jurisprudence/preventive law model, can be imported into legal education and practice. Although the approach can (and does) find application in a broad spectrum of legal areas, the present article focuses on the criminal law clinic and on training future criminal lawyers with an expanded professional role: one that explic...

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 R I. The Importance of Public Truth-Telling and Acceptance of Responsibility to Victim Healing and Community Norm Change: Social and Psychological Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 R A. Benefits to Individual Victims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32...

This dissertation develops a theory of post-national constitutional law, sovereignty, and solidarity that draws on conceptions of identity and time from across Anglo-American legal theory, continental political and social thought, and European jurisprudence. It attends to how post-national law might gather together texts, discourses, practices, and institutions in a shared effort to transform t...

At the time of writing, the United Kingdom is grabbling with its decision to abandon its European Union membership. As the country is divided and hate incidents are increased by almost 50%, this think-piece presents a critical analysis of Europe’s missed opportunity for social justice. The paper presents evidence by analysing the civil and political rights jurisprudence of the European Court of...

Level: Semester: Course Code: VETM 0 Course Title: STATE MEdiCinE/JURiSPRUdEnCE/ETHiCS ( 0 hrs) number of Credits: Prerequisites: Co-requisites: Course description: The Laws of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago and Regulations governing the organisation and administration of veterinary public health agencies. The importance of jurisprudence the science of law in veterinary education and need fo...