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…
Buku ini merupakan saduran sebagai buku Hans Kelsen yang berjudul REINE RECHTSLEHRE, edisi kedua. Hans Kelsen mencoba memecahkan masalah-masalah fundamental teori hukum umum menurut prinsip-prinsip metodologi murni tentang pemahaman ilmu hukum. Kecuali itu, dia juga mencoba menentukan posisi ilmu hukum dalam sistem ilmu pengetahuan
Metodologi penelitian hukum mempunya ciri-ciri tertentu yang merupakan identitasnya, karena ilmu hukum dapat dibedakan dari ilmu-ilmu pengetahuan lain. Ada kemungkinan bahwa para ilmuwan dari ilmu-ilmu tertentu di luar ilmu hukum menganggap penelitian hukum bukan merupakan suatu penelitian yang bersifat ilmiah.
Hukum berfungsi sebagai perlindungan kepentingan manusia. Agar kepentingan manusia terlindungi, hukum harus dilaksanakan Pelaksanaan hukum dapat berlangsung secara normal, damai. tetapi dapat terjadi juga karena pelanggaran hukum. Dalam hal ini hukum yang telah dilanggar itu harus ditegakkan. Melalui pene- gakan hukum inilah hukum ini menjadikan kenyataan. Dalam me- negakkan hukum ada tiga unsu…
Sampai saat ini, terdapat dua aliran besar dalam studi hukum, yaitu aliran positivistik di satu sisi dan aliran kultural dan sejarah di sisi yang lain. Kedua aliran itu, masing-masing membuat pagar tembok imaginer yang sulit ditembus.
Egypt is the most productive country in the world; and in its most flourishing age is said to have contained twenty thousand cities. It deserved to be called, even more than modern Belgium, "one great town." Its location brought it into contact with all the great primi- tive race-stocks alike of Africa, of Asia, and of Europe; and to all of them were transmitted some of its literary or artistic…
This book is about the politics of nature conservation in late New Order and early Reformasi Indonesia
The production of this book has been both an intellectual challenge and a test of our commitment to the vision, premises and processes that the concept "legal literacy" incorporates. The purpose of this book is to contribute to the conceptual and methodological clarity about legal literacy and the issues surrounding it. This has been done by focussing critically on several of them, such as oper…
Provides comprehensive, updated treatment of land law in England and Wales, being revised and rewritten to take account of legislative activity since the property legislation of 1925. New chapters include material on: proprietary estoppel; leasehold and freehold covenants; and licences.