Sentences with phrase «on philosophy of law»

If you want to read usually understandable, even by non-lawyers and academics, texts on the philosophy of law — i.e. including what «law» means and how law is made, in common law systems, you could do far worse than to start with HLA Hart «Concept of Law», Dworkin «Law's Empire» and Rawls «A Theory of Justice».

Since 2008, Rob has taught courses on philosophy of law, the American Constitution and the American legal system in Poland, the Czech Republic, Turkey, China and India and has given presentations on philosophy, the American Constitution and / or lawyering at Vanderbilt University, Boston University and ELSA, the European Law Students Association.

The essay on Philosophy of Law might be a good place to start, as it does a tour d'horizon of various theories of jurisprudence: analytical, normative, and critical.

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Ivan Misner, founder of Business Network International, explains how this philosophy based on the law of reciprocity works only when self - applied.

Originalists such as Gorsuch also apply their philosophy to resolve disagreements over laws crafted by Congress or state legislatures, focusing on the text and intention of the lawmakers.

The proceedings of the sixteenth conference, held at Villanova University, is just out — 606 pages of papers chock - full of thoughtful articles on law, philosophy, ethics, culture, and politics.

The public philosophy is the claim that the objective law of right, written into the nature of things, makes on citizens, as contrasted with the claims that the citizens make on the natural and social reality on which they depend.

Later, in Reflections on America, Maritain wrote: «The Founding Fathers were neither metaphysicians nor theologians, but their philosophy of life, and their political philosophy, their notion of natural law and of human rights, were permeated with concepts worked out by Christian reason and backed up by an unshakeable religious feeling.»

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

By the same stroke, the philosophy of the will takes on its true meaning: it is not exhausted in the relation between the maxim and the law, between the arbitrary and the willed; a third dimension appears: arbitrary — law — aim of totality.

In their historical context, however, the issues, in response to which the Pauline formula was forged, no longer existed: because Christianity was well on the way to becoming a gentile religion, separate from Judaism, the question of the salutary benefit of faith in Christ, which earlier had arisen among Christians who did not observe the cultic requirements of Jewish law, and in that sense were without «works of the law, arose now among Christians whose lives exhibited moral laxity, which could be understood in terms of popular moral philosophy.

More important, he relates Burke's critique, which is fundamentally based on a classical and Christian understanding of natural law, to his political philosophy as a whole.

Just as Buber's understanding of law goes hand in hand with his philosophy of language, so Buber's emphasis on transformation through dialogue marks his views of culture and politics, both in Germany before the Holocaust and in Israel after it.

We sat on the student interview committee that would help choose a new member of the philosophy faculty, and we were thrilled one day to find ourselves interviewing Professor Russell Hittinger, an eminent natural law theorist who had taught at Fordham, Princeton, and the Catholic University of America.

Professor Hittinger was hired, and in the next two years I took every course he offered, from «Aquinas» Treatise on Law» to «The Philosophy of Religion.»

J. Budziszewski is Associate Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, and author of Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law (InterVarsity, 1997).

While leading a week - long seminar on deep secularization and its effects in Europe (and on the democratic project throughout the world), I met younger Israeli scholars, deeply immersed in their Judaism and keen students of political philosophy, who were trying to articulate a Jewish theological rationale for human rights, democracy, the rule of law, and so forth.

He did not merely copy Democritus» physics, as was commonly thought, but introduced the idea of spontaneity into the movement of the atoms, and to the Democritus world of inanimate nature ruled by mechanical laws he added a world of animate nature in which the human will operated.9 Marx thus favours the views of Epicurus for two reasons: firstly, his emphasis on absolute autonomy of the human spirit has freed human beings from all superstitions of transcendent objects; secondly, the emphasis on «free individual self - consciousness» shows one way of going beyond the system of a «total philosophy».

For the last five years, a group of gifted teachers of philosophy and law has been meeting regularly with friends on the federal bench under the auspices of our James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding.

In developing his notion of «curricular neutrality,» Nord takes on issues of linguistics and philosophy, but his main concern is the constitutional law produced by the Supreme Court's decisions on church and state.

And then, because (as he later wrote) he realized «that Catholicism was the largest force in my life, yet I knew so little about it,» he went on to study theology, philosophy, and canon law at the Catholic University of America, earning a PhD in 1951.

And, I am very leery of the philosophy that gives me the right to tell someone else what they can / can not eat, based on the fact that they are (or soon will be) required by law to have «health insurance».

However, he also wrote extensively on the subject of liberty and the philosophy of law.

He visited Oxford as a guest of the State of the State lecture series, which focuses on the transformation of the modern state from the perspectives of political science, philosophy, law, history, economics and sociology.

Yes, he established a philosophy of biology by introducing the time factor, by demonstrating the importance of chance and contingency, and by showing that theories in evolutionary biology are based on concepts rather than laws.

The book emerged from the authors» study of choice programs in the schools of San Antonio, but it became an attempt at a sweeping synthesis of scholarly work on education policy, drawing on literature in philosophy, economics, political science, education, and law.

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Our Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga class, based on Deepak Chopra's bestselling book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, blends traditional yoga philosophy with western fitness for a practice that will increase your flexibility, strength, and cardiovascular health as well as help you experience a deep sense of well - being in all areas of your life.

Based on the teachings presented in Deepak Chopra and David Simon's popular book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga, this beautiful practice blends meditation, Pranayama, yoga philosophy, sun salutations, and Asana development to bring you into alignment with the magnificent rhythms of the cosmos.

In early June, I was fortunate to see an all - too - rare prescribed burn while spending several days in Kings Canyon National Park, mainly at a fascinating workshop hosted by the University of Illinois law and philosophy program focused on the evolving meanings of both «wilderness» and «wildness» on a planet increasingly shaped by humans.

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(a) changing our name on the basis of arguments so logically fallacious that, even in our era of nobody failing anything, would have garnered an F in any credible Philosophy of Logic course (and without waiting for the Legislature to actually pass the law, such is our contempt for the legislative process),

The Boston Globe's Sacha Pfeiffer tells the story of how Peter D. Enrich, «a mild - mannered, 55 - year - old philosophy teacher - turned - law professor,» found himself in the Supreme Court yesterday taking on DaimlerChrysler, the state of Ohio and others: «Professor leads small group in battle with legal giants.»

The piece appearing in the magazine specifically focused on the law firm's client focused approach to every client and the law firm's philosophy of helping clients transition from a very difficult time in their lives to a better less stressful life.

Branson graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and political science from Texas A&M University and went on to receive a full - tuition scholarship to the Baylor University School of Law, where he earned his juris doctorate.

Committed to the philosophy that community service is part of the privilege of practicing law, Crowley Fleck has a long history of pro bono (meaning for the good of the community) legal service on behalf of low income and disadvantaged people in our communities.

Notemesh, a «social note - taking» application, is based on a philosophy that can seem a little out of place in law school.

If therefore the student in our laws hath formed both his sentiments and style, by perusal and imitation of the purest classical writers, among whom the historians and orators will best deserve his regard; if he can reason with precision, and separate argument from fallacy, by the clear simple rules of pure unsophisticated logic; if he can fix his attention, and steadily pursue truth through any the most intricate deduction, by the use of mathematical demonstrations; if he has enlarged his conceptions of nature and art, by a view of the several branches of genuine, experimental, philosophy; if he has impressed on his mind the sound maxims of the law of nature, the best and most authentic foundation of human laws; if, lastly, he has contemplated those maxims reduced to a practical system in the laws of imperial Rome; if he has done this, or any part of it, (though all may be easily done under as able instructors as ever graced any feats of learning) a student thus qualified may enter upon the study of the law with incredible advantage and reputation.

«The Committee's review of Judge Roberts's writings and public statements, however, has raised concerns about the impact of Judge Roberts's judicial philosophy in three broad areas essential to women's rights: (1) the use of state and federal power, (2) laws that have a substantial impact on women, and (3) federal laws intended to protect against discrimination based on sex.»

Since our founding in 1978, we've become one of Connecticut's leading medical malpractice, serious personal injury and complex civil litigation law firms based on a simple philosophy: To provide our clients with the best legal representation possible, regardless of the effort and expense required.

They include lawyers and investment bankers, with backgrounds in the arts and sciences and degrees in law, mathematics, philosophy and engineering, all focussed on the fascinating process of assessing the value of the contingent asset that is a litigation claim.

It forces you to focus not only on the overall philosophy of your law firm, but the nuts and bolts of starting a law firm too.

Mr. Clark's office is located in Toronto at the Criminal Law Offices on College Street, along with several other independent lawyers and firms not associated in business but sharing a common philosophy of how and why criminal defence counsel play a key role in guarding Canada's essential characteristic as a «free and democratic society».

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What is the area of law under which these are classified and is there any prominent philosophy or legal theory on these types of rules?

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