This book is concerned with the origins of Muhammadan jurisprudence. I shall, of course, often have occasion to refer to examples taken from Muhammadan law, which is the material of Muhammadan jurisprudence. But the history of positive law in Islam as such, and the relationship between the ideals of legal doctrine and the practical administration of justice fall outside the scope of the present…
We know that Napoleon tried to apply the ideas of the Contrat Social to the officers of his regiment; the idea of everyone's commitment to the whole was the essence of his conception of morale. Indeed, there is alive in Rousseau, especially in the Contrat Social, something of the spirit of ancient Rome, with its emphasis on the soldier and the marching column.
Buku ini menyajikan masalah dan pokok-pokok pikiran yang tercantum di dalamnya kepada forum hukum Indonesia guna memperoleh kajian kritis dari para pakar hukum Indonesia, dan juga para penstudi Filsafat Ilmu. Telaah dan diskusi tentang landasan kefilsafatan dan sifat-sifat khas Ilmu Hukum dan membuka atau memperluas kemungkinan untuk memperoleh gambaran yang lebih jelas dan baik tentang Ilmu Hu…
There is great variation in the range of human situations subsumed under the generic title of colonialism, and while theoreticians debate the origin, motivation and dimensions of this most powerful of historical environments, C and attempt to define lines of classification which satisfy all the evidence provided by colonial societies, whether that evidence be economic, ethnic or socio-cultural,…
It matters how judges decide cases. It matters most to people unlucky or litigious or wicked or saintly enough to find themselves in court.
In many Latin American countries, judicial institutions suffer from long delays, extensive case backlogs, limited access to justice, and lack of trans- parency and predictability in court decisions. The complex problems fac- ing judicial systems range from inefficient administration to the denial of fundamental human rights. Regarding the latter, a distinguished Peruvian jurist writes that a pe…