Sentences with phrase «different legal traditions»

There is a rapidly expanding interaction between national and regional legal systems and international law as well as among national and regional legal systems themselves in spite of their often quite different legal traditions.

Different legal traditions There is the obvious distinction that one decision was under German law and the other under English law.

The event, hosted in Johannesburg on 19 and 20 July, was the second of three international events the institute is running in 2017, which consider the harmonisation of different legal traditions in international arbitration.

It is also of interest to see how this balance is struck in a neighbouring jurisdiction, moreover one which follows a different legal tradition.

Not exact matches

But of this I remain certain: A marriage license in jurisdictions that have redefined marriage gives legal form to something very different from what the Bible and church tradition call marriage.

And according to aboriginal legal scholar Hannah askew, for non-Indigenous learners, understanding Indigenous legal traditions will require not only finding a way to access the content of these traditions, but also learning how to interpret a completely different style of legal system − one that substitutes «a set of interlocking and overlapping processes» for rigid rules, and that requires that those processes be understood via the full range of senses: sound, touch, sight, taste and smell.

It is therefore very helpful for a single practitioner work, such as this, to gather together the most important rules, guidelines and so - called «soft law» on the subject, to set out the key principles applicable in each type of arbitration, and to provide illustrative cases from a number of different jurisdictions and legal traditions.

This enables parties from different nationalities and legal traditions to have confidence that their disputes will be resolved on a level playing - field, by a non-partisan tribunal.

Furthermore, religion does not preclude reasoned argument; its arguments are based on a more - or-less exacting hermeneutic of «revealed» texts (and, sometimes, oral traditions), which is not that much different from the practice of law, since most legal cases are not reasoned from first principles, but from precedent - setting cases like Oakes).

Studying indigenous legal traditions also involves learning central concepts that are quite different from the ones on which European legal systems are founded.