1. Getting started

Legal Skills ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Finch ◽  
Stefan Fafinski
Keyword(s):  
Legal Studies ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
The Law

This chapter is aimed at getting you started in your legal studies. It addresses some of the questions and concerns that students have about studying law and starting at university. It explains something of the nature of the law and how it impacts on society before moving on to look at some of the practicalities involved in studying law as it considers how the degree is structured and how teaching and assessment will work.

1. Getting started

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Emily Finch ◽  
Stefan Fafinski
Keyword(s):  
Legal Studies ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
The Law

This chapter is aimed at getting you started in your legal studies. It addresses some of the questions and concerns that students have about studying law and starting at university. It explains something of the nature of the law and how it impacts on society before moving on to look at some of the practicalities involved in studying law as it considers how the degree is structured and how teaching and assessment will work.

scholarly journals EKSEKUSI NAFKAH PERCERAIAN DI PENGADILAN AGAMA KOTA MALANG

Ulumuddin ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Rendra Widyakso
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Financial Responsibility ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The Law

This article aims to answer to important questions in legal studies that how to implement the legal execution of earning the expenses caused by divorce based on Indonesian law? And, how do the perspective of Islamic legal schools deal with the execution? There are numbers of scholarly journals studying this specific issue. However, the preliminary study that specifically focuses on the Legal Verdict of the Religious Court of Malang No. 0957/Pdt.G/2014/PA.MLG is offered by this article. It finds that legally, the judge has authority to order the ex-husband to pay the expences of the divorce compensation (mut’ah), financial responsibility due to divorce (iddah) and financial claim (madiyah) and financial childcare (hadhanah) before the divorce pledge is pronounced. If the expences cannot be paid, the ex-wife has right to purpose the legal execution to the court. Due to the purpose the chief of justice is responsible for and has authority to remind the ex-husband (aanmaning) and doing the legal execution if he disrespectly avoided the court’s order. The concept of legal expenses due to divorce is ruled by the fiqh of Islamic legal schools, in spite of the fact that the details of execution remain no any explanation. This article argues that the execution has been done referring to the law. It purposes to fulfil justice, expediency and rule of law. Furthermore, these purposes are the beginning step in order to achieve the public order (mashlahah) and the higher objective of Islamic law (maqashid al-syari’ah).

scholarly journals Legal Reasoning Pattern Based On Trancendental Values : A Reflection on Legal Reasoning Based on Positivism Values

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-70
Author(s):  
Basri Basri
Keyword(s):  
Legal Reasoning ◽  
Normative Study ◽  
Study Methods ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Reasoning Pattern ◽  
The Law

Purpose of the study: This article aims at finding out the pattern of legal penalties for transcendental valuesMethodology: This research is conducted using descriptive philosophical normative study methods. As a secondary legal material, this writing draws on literature, papers, journals, and research related to this writing.Main Findings: Positivism-based legal reasoning has failed to accommodate all the interests and legal needs of the community in realizing justice and prosperity. The pattern of legal reasoning based on transcendental values is a choice because it is related to the understanding that places the law for justice and public welfare.Applications of this study: This study can give benefit to thinkers in the field of legal studies thinking to make a breakthrough in the formation of new lawsNovelty/Originality of this study: The use of the basics of transcendental law can be made as a new breakthrough to realize a just and prosperous law

4. Starting out at law school

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imogen Moore ◽  
Craig Newbery-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Law School ◽  
Transition To University ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Law ◽  
Exciting Time ◽  
First Time

Starting legal studies is an exciting time. However, the student might also feel a bit apprehensive about commencing a new and challenging programme of study, joining a new institution, approaching new ways of working, facing new expectations, and meeting new people. Whether they are moving away from home for the first time, changing degree courses or changing their career, some nerves and concerns are completely natural. This chapter looks at both the transition to university and an introduction to the law school itself. It explores some of the different challenges that may be faced and provides strategies to meet those challenges. It also explains a bit more about the law school and the early days to help the student to settle in as quickly as possible.

Omnipotence and the Law: A Psychoanalytically Oriented Analysis

1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-458
Author(s):  
C. G. Schoenfeld
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Dred Scott ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Law ◽  
Infants And Young Children

This article seeks to illuminate the effect of unconscious infantile omnipotence fantasies upon the law and some of its major officials. First, psychoanalytic discoveries about the omnipotence ideas of infants and young children are detailed, and an attempt is made to relate these ideas to the current overestimation of the status and effectiveness of international law. Then the possible relationship between such infantile notions and today's incredible litigiousness is discussed. Considered next in the light of infantile omnipotence beliefs is a series of landmark Supreme Court decisions since 1793—including the disastrous Dred Scott decision that helped to precipitate the Civil War. One of the possibilities raised is that the acceptance of the antimajoritarian concept of “judicial review” reflects the displacement of unconscious omnipotence fantasies from parents onto judges. Discussed next is the implicit logic of currently popular (but clearly unsound) Critical Legal Studies doctrines that, in effect, assign “omnipotence” both to judges and to the law they are presumably free to manipulate in the service of political goals. Finally, an attempt is made to understand why the public tends to ascribe “omnipotence” to judges and prosecutors and why the unconscious omnipotence notions of judges, prosecutors, and policemen are likely to affect their own official behavior.

“Critical Empricism” and American Critical Legal Studies: Paradox, Program, or Pandora's Box?

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Trubek ◽  
John Esser
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Sociology Of Law ◽  
Critical Legal Studies ◽  
Critical Sociology ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Law

What should we make of Susan Silbey's call for socio-legal scholarship that is both critical and empirical? Do we think the law and society movement can and should develop a critique of the legal order? Can empirical research contribute to such a critique? Does the idea of a “critical sociology of law” make any sense at all?

The educative ambition of Law and Literature

Legal Studies ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Ward
Keyword(s):  
Law And Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Critical Legal Studies ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Many

In 1979, Allen Smith suggested that there was to be a ‘coming renaissance’ in Law and Literature as a teaching discipline. In fact, Law and Literature had already arrived. In 1973, James Boyd White had publishedhis The Legal Imagination, and had geared it primarily to the teaching and study of law. Of the many intriguing characteristics of the Law and Literature movement, one of the most exciting and most valuable, is the fact that, unlike many other theoretical approaches to the problems of law, the ambition of Law and Literature is firstly educative, and only then, secondly, social and political. Moreover this secondary ambition, has tended, in two senses, to be appended to the educational ambition. In one sense, it is additional in that the political manifesto is supposed to emerge from the educational force of literature. In a second sense, it is additional because politics was certainly not such a ranking ambition in the earliest days of the Law and Literature movement, and it is no concidence that the politicization of Law and Literature has come about as its star has risen, whilst that of Critical Legal Studies has declined

Evading international law: How agents comply with the letter of the law but violate its purpose

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 857-883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán I. Búzás
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Bad Faith ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
Original Case ◽  
The Law ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Despite the widespread nature of evasion (bad-faith compliance), this interesting phenomenon is under-studied in International Relations. Even the most sophisticated typologies of compliance and rule following overlook evasion. This is problematic because evasion is essentially a false positive that looks like genuine compliance but can have the effect of violation. Drawing on purposivist legal theory, this article offers an in-depth discussion of evasion. It articulates what evasion is, why it occurs, how it relates to designed flexibility, and how it impacts accountability. Evasion entails intentional compliance with the letter of the law but violation of the purpose of the law in order to minimize inconvenient obligations in an arguably legal fashion. Three original case studies illustrate the empirical purchase and generalizability of evasion in International Relations. Evasion contributes a more nuanced understanding of compliance, cautions that legality sometimes hinders accountability, and offers policy recommendations to counter undesirable evasion. The article concludes with promising directions for a research program on evasion.

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