This book encourages readers to see the law as a living part of the political, social, economic and cultural life of New Zealand and includes exercises, examples, case studies, essay topics, puzzles, and problem-solving features to get students engaged, as well as a discussion of law beyond the courts, including jurisprudence and dispute resolution.--From back cover.
How should we respond to the fact that law and democracy are under real threat in our world? In Keep Law Alive, James Boyd White warns us that if we are to keep law alive we must understand what law is, and how it works at its best--while at the same time recognizing that it may indeed be lost. The following quote, taken from the Foreword, describes the author's approach: "My idea in this book is to express my sense of what law is like at its best--how it works, what it offers us, and what it requires of us, both as lawyers and as citizens, and what it would mean to lose it. I want to do this at this time in history because, as I say immediately below, I think the law as we know it is subject to serious threats today, threats I elaborate both explicitly and implicitly in the body of the book. The book begins with an immersion in legal thinking of a kind I believe to be of a high and traditional order, and ends with the recognition of another sort of thinking and being which I think may help us live with and respond to the threats I mention. In it I speak from a world--the world of law and democratic government in which I grew up and was educated and led most of my working life--that is now in peril in our country. This world was built upon the imperfect but real assumption that our polity is a constitutional democracy, based upon a fundamentally reliable electoral process, and that, with all its defects--some of them serious indeed--law is an institution that should be treated with utmost respect as an essential and valuable part of our public world." Testimonials "White first illuminates the everyday arts of law--writing criminal statutes, writing opinions about free speech, interpreting constitutional principles of equal protection, interrogating division, harmonizing dissonance--to remind us of the grace and fragility and hospitality of the norms of legal discourse that we ordinarily take for granted."--Linda Ross Meyer, Quinnipiac University School of Law "Keep Law Alive is offered to readers who are willing to take up the challenge that the title urges. The book thus performs what the Romans called a traditio: a literal handing over of an object to another person with the intention of conveying ownership. The book is an act of cultural transmission, a passing of the torch. What a responsibility--and what a gift!"--Julen Etxabe, Canada Research Chair in Jurisprudence and Human Rights "White's work is transformative in its content - for what it asks of law and legal thought; and transformative in its form - for how the wisdom and humanity of White's writing engage the expectations, sensitivities and attunements of the reader. The work does so, at heart, because one trusts his words."--Paul Linden-Retek, School of Law, University at Buffalo "In his recent book Keep Law Alive, White once again offers a vision of law, a vision that is continuous with that he first proposed long ago, but developed and presented with a clarity that comes only with long reflection on a governing idea. And it is, once again, a vision that is also an invitation and a warning. The title Keep Law Alive expresses vividly the urgency White wants us to feel about the task he is summoning American readers to undertake."--Jeff Powell, British Journal of American Legal Studies, Volume 10 Issue 1, Spring 2021
Law is at the heart of every society, protecting rights, imposing duties, and establishing a framework for the conduct of almost all social, political, and economic activity. Despite this, the law often seems a highly technical, perplexing mystery, with its antiquated and often impenetrable jargon, obsolete procedures, and endless stream of complex statutes and legislation. In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks introduces the major branches of the law, describing what lawyers do, and how courts operate, and considers the philosophy of law and its pursuit of justice, freedom, and equality. In this second edition, Wacks locates the discipline in our contemporary world, considering the pressures of globalization and digitalisation and the nature of the law in our culture of threatened security and surveillance. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Our Laws are forever present and provide the pathways for all Australians to truly learn how to belong to this continent.' - June Oscar 'No other current work has been able to so comprehensively explain the significance of traditional law in all its manifestations.' - Henry Reynolds Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines what it is to be human. Complex and evolving, law holds the keys to resilient, caring communities and a life in balance with nature. Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn show how Indigenous law has enabled people to survive and thrive in Australia for more than 2000 generations. Nurturing people and places, law is the foundation of all Indigenous societies in Australia, giving them the tools to respond and adapt to major environmental and social changes. But law is not a thing of the past. These living, sophisticated systems are as powerful now as they have ever been, if not more so. Law: The Way of the Ancestors challenges readers to consider how Indigenous law can inspire new ways forward for us all in the face of global crises.
David Bartlett explores Paul's letters to the Romans and there discovers Paul's vision of the nature of God. Along the way, Bartlett highlights Paul's thoughts on God's gift of Jesus Christ, the world of the first Christians, and the nature of faith. This book will encourage and enlighten the modern reader confronted with contemporary issues, including pluralism and the meaning of faith.
This book examines biblical and rabbinic law as a coherent, continuing legal tradition. It explains the relationship between religion and law and the interaction between law and morality. Abundant selections from primary Jewish sources, many newly translated, enable the reader to address the tradition directly as a living body of law with emphasis on the concerns that are primary for lawyers, legislators, and judges. Through an in-depth examination of personal injury law and marriage and divorce law, the book explores jurisprudential issues important for any legal system and displays the primary characteristics of Jewish law.
This book reflects and intimate discusses various topics and issues concerning to legal studies and its development in Indonesia and Global perspective. This book is dedicated to all legal practitioners and scholars around the world that have been presented their best works and ideas in the 3rd ICILS International Conference, 2020, held by Faculty of Law Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia in July 2020 by Online Conference System. The 66 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submission. The paper reflects the conference sessions as follow: Law and Technology, Private and Commercial Law, Law and Politics, Public Law, Comparative Law, and other related issues on legal development, including Law Tech and Human Behavior. The 3rd ICILS International Conference 2020 also co-hosted by Jayabaya University, Jakarta and University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
Includes the text of the Epistle to the Romans (Revised standard version), and translations (from the Greek and Latin) of patristic commentaries on the Epistle.
