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The article examines the Roman law institution of noxae deditio, which essentially served a dual function: (a) it allowed the slave’s master to choose between assuming liability for the damage caused or surrendering th...

The article attempts to objectively capture the concept of the Civil Code of 1964 in the context of the time of its creation and entry into force, as well as in the context of other codifications of the 1960s. It takes i...

O presente artigo analisa, inicialmente, a posição majoritária da doutrina segundo a qual o Direito se constitui em autêntica e genuína ciência autônoma, abordando o conceito de ciência, a classificação binári...

This article addresses the question of whether and how the Lutheran Reformation led to a (further) pluralisation of legal systems. Since the beginning of the early modern period, primarily in the course of the 16th centu...

The article focuses on the beginnings of legal regulation of woody plant pathology. It describes the origin and development of the first legal norms from the end of the 18th century to 1924. Early norm-making arose from ...

The paper analyzes the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and its four key clauses – the citizenship clause, the priviliges or immunities clause, the due process clause and the ...

‘Is there some other form of law?’ – that is how Gaius Iulius Caesar (played by Ciaran Hinds) in the TV series ‘Rome’ comments on Roman Law. ‘Rome’ (2005–2007) is a historical drama set in the last days o...

Authority in law is manifested not only through norms and sanctions, but also through symbols that express authority, power, and position within a hierarchical structure. This paper focuses on the analysis of symbols of ...

This study examined the African Union and sub-regional courts as avenues to attaining justice on the continent of Africa. The wave of decolonisation in Africa in the mid-20th century led to the political independence of ...

The paper sums up the requirements and demands for the driver training in Czech lands from the early 20th century to 1989. This period is associated with several political changes that were reflected also in the training...

The authors analyse decisions of the Supreme Court of the Czechoslovak Republic regarding the application of the Act on the Protection of the Republic (1923) in cases of disturbing the peace, perceived as manifestations ...

The articles published by the Annals of Eugenics (1925–1954) have been made available online as an historical archive intended for scholarly use. The work of eugenicists was often pervaded by prejudice against racial, ...

El trabajo presenta de manera sintética la historia de las Islas (de acuerdo a las distintas fuentes) la posición argentina y británica sobre el archipiélago, un análisis de los derechos de soberanía y a la libre d...

Aparentemente, la defensa de las órdenes superiores es un concepto relativamente sencillo de definir. No obstante ello, entre los expertos jurídicos causa más confusión de lo que se pensaría. A lo largo de la histor...

El Profesor Yoon realiza un estudio descriptivo de la influencia que ha tenido la historia del pueblo coreano y su cultura en la conformación del sistema jurídico de ese país. Sus reflexiones son útiles para percibir...

Economic theory has suffered in the past from a failure to state clearly its assumptions. Economists in building up a theory have often omitted to examine the foundations on which it was erected. This examination is, how...