Law essentially serves two functions in modern, western, industrial society. First, it serves to order and regulate the affairs of all "persons", be they individuals, corporations or governments. Secondly, law acts as a standard of conduct and morality, variously directed at individuals and groups, businesses and governments. In short, through both of these functions, the law seeks to promote a…
Hukum adat berhubung dengan pembinaan negara Indonesia
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.
Dalam kehidupan berbangsa dan bernegara selalu saja ditemukan tarik ulur antara kekuasaan, hukum, dan demokrasi yang bersumber pada keserakahan terhadap kekuasaan, padahal keserakahan akan kekuasaan tersebut tidak saja melanggar prinsip-prinsip Negara hukum, demokrasi, dan hak-hak asasi manusia, namun juga dapat melanggar prinsip-prinsip hukum administrasi dan asas-asas umum pemerintahan yang l…
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…
Putusan-putusan Mahkamah Agung mengenai persoalan dalam lingkungan hukum adat
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,…