Authority by Aggregation and Abstraction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Skreslet Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Pragmatic Theory ◽  
Legal Thought ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
Religious Learning ◽  
The Law ◽  
Substantive Law ◽  
Lasting Influence

In addition to his views on ijtihād and tajdīd, al-Suyūṭī’s lasting influence in Islamic legal thought lies in the area of legal precepts (pithy maxims or questions that sum up areas of the law). Al-Suyūṭī’s al-Ashbāh wa-l-naẓāʾir stands as a core work in this genre of legal literature and is still a popular textbook for students at Egypt’s premier institution of religious learning, al-Azhar. Using the pragmatic theory of Grice and others, I argue that legal precepts fulfill a number of key discursive functions for the jurist. It is with al-Suyūṭī’s Ashbāh that he is most successful in asserting his authority as an aggregator, abstractor, and framer of the law. The power of framing lies in the ability to distill key universal principles from the vast corpus of Islamic substantive law and to assert that these principles represent the essence and spirit of the Sharīʿa.

scholarly journals RELEVANSI HUKUM PROGRESIF TERHADAP HUKUM ISLAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-48
Author(s):  
Muhammad Samsuri
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Legal Thought ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Veil

One of the most interesting legal ideas in the current legal literature of Indonesia is progressive law. This is because progressive law has challenged the existence of modern law which has so far been considered established in punishment. The law reveals the veil and overthrows the failures of modern law based on positiveistic, legalistic and linear philosophy to address issues developed in accordance with the law as a matter of human and humanity. Progressive law contains the liberating spirit of liberation from the legalistic and linear conventional legal conviction. Running a law is not merely textual legislation but in running the law must be by determination, empathy, dedication, commitment to the suffering of the nation to dare to find another way to prosper human. Progressive law starts from a basic assumption, law is an institution that aims to bring people to a life of justice, prosperity and make people happy. The flexibility of the development of Islamic legal thought is highly relevant to introducing the ethos of progresivism in the dynamics and crystallization of Islamic law. The implication of this progressive mode of thinking is the liberation of mankind from mythological, passive and aggressive-conservative things. On the basis of this progressive ethos, it is recognized the capacity of the free will, free act.

Shame (Ḥayāʾ) as an Affective Disposition in Islamic Legal Thought

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-169
Author(s):  
Marion Holmes Katz
Keyword(s):  
Social Functioning ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Legal Thought ◽  
Affective Disposition ◽  
The Law ◽  
Substantive Law ◽  
The Ideal

The recent “ethical turn” in the study of Islamic law has directed much attention to the cultivation of “virtuous passions” as central to the project of the classical Sharīʿa. This model has been particularly salient in the study of normative rituals, and some scholars have extended it to encompass much broader social and disciplinary aspects of the ideal Sharʿī order. The present paper focuses on the concept of ḥayāʾ (shame), understood as the fear of moral or social disapprobation, which is arguably the affective trait Muslim thinkers saw as most fundamental to proper social functioning and adherence to the law. The article compares the treatment of ḥayāʾ in ethical and legal works of scholars of the Shāfiʿī legal school in the 11th to early 12th centuries and argues that works of substantive law pursued a deliberately minimal approach to the role of affect.

The Common Law in Colonial America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Revolutionary Movement ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
American Law ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
The Law ◽  
Substantive Law ◽  
The Revolution

This volume begins where volumes 2 and 3 ended. The main theme of the four-volume project is that the law of America’s thirteen colonies differed profoundly when they first were founded, but had developed into a common American law by the time of the Revolution. This fourth volume focuses on what was common to the law of Britain’s thirteen North American colonies in the mid-eighteenth century, although it also takes important differences into account. The first five chapters examine procedural and substantive law in colonies and conclude that, except in North Carolina and northern New York, the legal system functioned effectively in the interests both of Great Britain and of colonial localities. The next three chapters examine changes in law and the constitution beginning with the Zenger case in 1735—changes that ultimately culminated in independence. These chapters show how lawyers became leading figures in what gradually became a revolutionary movement. It also shows how lawyers used legal and constitutional ideology in the interests, sometimes of an economic character, of their clients. The book thereby engages prior scholarship, especially that of Bernard Bailyn and John Phillip Reid, to show how ideas and constitutional values possessed independent causal significance in leading up to the Revolution but also served to protect institutional structures and socioeconomic interests that likewise possessed causal significance.

The Judicial Council of the State of New York; Its Objectives, Methods, and Accomnlishments. I

1941 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 933-940
Author(s):  
Leonard S. Saxe
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
The State ◽  
York State ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Law ◽  
Substantive Law

The Judicial Council and Its Objectives. My assignment is to implement Professor Sunderland's brilliant primer on judicial councils by a more specific presentation utilizing the experiences of the New York State Judicial Council. Of the three elements that enter into a consideration of the judicial branch of government, the first—the substantive law, the law of rights and duties—is not within the province of the judicial council either in New York or elsewhere. The second element—the machinery of justice—is the principal field of the judicial council. If the council does its work well in that field, attention cannot fail to be focused upon the third and most important element—also part of a judicial council's problems—the judicial personnel.

The paradoxes of legal paternalism and how to resolve them

Legal Studies ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Ogus
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Freedom Of Choice ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
Soft Paternalism ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Law ◽  
Benefit Cost

Legal paternalism occurs when the law forces individuals to avoid certain risks (‘hard paternalism’), or, without coercion, nudges them away from such risks (‘soft paternalism’), on the ground that otherwise they will make unwise decisions. The questions when and how such approaches should be taken are of fundamental importance in a society in which there are increasing risks to health and livelihood resulting from technological developments and greater freedom of choice. However, they are not openly addressed in policy-making circles and have also been neglected in the European legal literature. In this paper, I attempt to explain these paradoxes and to outline a theoretical benefit–cost framework for determining when and how legal paternalism might be considered appropriate.

scholarly journals Ethical Turn in Legal Analogy

2022 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 159-182
Author(s):  
Felicitas Opwis
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
Ethical Content ◽  
The Law ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Lasting Influence ◽  
The Way ◽  
Divine Law

Al-Ghazālī’s articulation that the purposes of the divine Law (maqāṣid al-sharīʿa) are to attain maṣlaḥa for the five necessary elements of human existence was not only novel but had long-lasting influence on the way Muslim jurists understood the procedure of analogy (qiyās). The correctness of the ratio legis was determinable by its consequences in bringing about maṣlaḥa. This shift was possible only by intellectual shifts in understanding the relationship between ethics and law. This paper traces the development in conceptions of ethics and its impact on the procedure of analogy in three 5th/11th century predecessors of al-Ghazālī, namely al-Baṣrī, al-Dabbūsī, and al-Juwaynī. It shows that al-Ghazālī’s definition of the purposes of the Law was developed based on previous conceptual shifts in the ratio legis from being a sign for the ruling to reflecting the ethical content of the divine injunction.

scholarly journals Interpretation of Consent Decrees and Microsoft v. United States I: Making Law in the Shadow of Negotiation

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lloyd C. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
Consent Decree ◽  
Public Forum ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Ordering ◽  
Negotiated Settlements ◽  
Consent Decrees ◽  
The Law ◽  
Substantive Law

 People negotiate agreements "in the shadow of the law," whether in the private ordering of affairs such as drafting contracts or in the public forum of settling lawsuits.[1] A reverse phenomenon, however, has gone largely unnoticed: judges occasionally declare law in the shadow of negotiated settlements. In interpreting the terms of a consent decree[2] when the parties themselves cannot agree on what obligations such terms impose, the judge may determine that both the words and the parties' own intentions are so ambiguous that the words must be interpreted in light of the substantive law that gave rise to the plaintiffs' claim. This writer has previously contended that the meaning of an ambiguous term should be determined, in part, "by reference to the constitutional or statutory rights sought to be vindicated in the litigation." Even if the law is somewhat uncertain, part of the judge's interpretive effort should be to determine which interpretation "will best serve the policies of the relevant law."[3] It appears that the federal courts, at least, have adopted this position.[4]

scholarly journals Prohibition of interrogation of notaries as witnesses in criminal proceedings

1970 ◽  
pp. 345-349
Author(s):  
Ulyana Polyak
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
Criminal Procedure Law ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
Notary Public ◽  
Made In

The current criminal procedure law of Ukraine stipulates that a witness is obliged to give a true testimony during pre-trial investigation and trial, however, the legislator made an exception for this by specifying the categories of persons who have been granted immunity from immunity, ie they are released by law. testify. The article deals with the problems of law and practice regarding the prohibition of the interrogation of a notary as a witness in criminal proceedings and the release of him from the obligation to keep the notarial secret by the person who entrusted him with the information which is the subject of this secret. The notion of notarial secrecy is proposed to be changed, since the subject of this secrecy is not only information that became known to the notary public from the interested person, but also those information that the notary received from other sources in the performance of their professional duties, as well as the procedural activity of the notary himself, is aimed at achieving a certain legal result. The proposal made in the legal literature to supplement the CPC of Ukraine with the provisions that a notary is subject to interrogation as a witness on information that constitutes a notarial secret, if the notarial acts were declared illegal in accordance with the procedure established by law The proposal to increase the list of persons who are not subject to interrogation as witnesses about the information constituting a notarial secret is substantiated, this clause is proposed to be supplemented by provisions that, apart from the notary, are not notarized, other notarials, notaries as well as the persons mentioned in Part 3 of Art. 8 of the Law of Ukraine "On Notary". Amendments to the current CPC of Ukraine by the amendments proposed in this publication will significantly improve the law prohibiting the interrogation of a notary as a witness in criminal proceedings, as well as improve certain theoretical provisions of the institute of witness immunity in criminal proceedings.

scholarly journals ОПЕРАЦИЯЛЫҚ ІЗДЕУ ҚЫЗМЕТІНІҢ ЗАҢНАМАЛЫҚ РЕТТЕУЛЕРІН ЖАҚСАРТУ ЖОЛЫМЕН ҚЫЛМЫСҚА ҚАРСЫ КҮРЕС МӘСЕЛЕЛЕРІН ШЕШУ

2021 ◽  
pp. 163-169
Author(s):  
Ахметкали Шаймуханов
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Analysis And Study

В статье рассматриваются и анализируются некоторые положения действующего оперативно-розыскного законодательства Республики Казахстан. На основе сравнительного анализа и изучения юридической литературы поднимаются проблемы, возникающие в правоприменительной деятельности при реализации отдельных положений закона. Автором вносятся предложения и рекомендации по совершенствованию правовых норм, направленные на решение задач, связанных с профилактикой, предупреждением и пресечением наиболее опасных уголовных преступлений. Мақалада Қазақстан Республикасының қолданыстағы жедел-іздестіру заңнамасының кейбір ережелері талқыланып, талданған. Салыстырмалы талдау және заң әдебиеттерін зерттеу негізінде заңның белгілі бір ережелерін жүзеге асыру кезінде құқық қорғау органдарында туындайтын проблемалар көтеріледі. Автор аса қауіпті қылмыстық құқық бұзушылықтардың алдын алуға, алдын алуға және жолын кесуге байланысты мәселелерді шешуге бағытталған құқықтық нормаларды жетілдіру бойынша ұсыныстар мен ұсыныстар енгізеді. The article discusses and analyzes some of the provisions of the current operational-search legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Based on comparative analysis and study of legal literature, the problems arising in law enforcement activities in the implementation of certain provisions of the law are raised. The author makes suggestions and recommendations for improving legal norms aimed at solving problems related to the prevention, prevention and suppression of the most dangerous criminal offences.

Philisophy and Theory of Law

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Corporate Law ◽  
Medical Law ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Law ◽  
Theory Of Law ◽  
Substantive Law ◽  
Massive Information

Understanding of the philosophy and theory behind the law is significance to law makers, legal practitioners, academicians and laymen. The rationales are to have some understanding of public policy and the real aim of the laws that made up particular practices or the root of practices. Therefore, this book highlight selected philosophy and theory of laws in the area of commercial, financial and corporate law; medical law; constitutional and administrative law and lastly human resource law. The massive information and knowledge in this book will benefits law makers, legal practitioners, academicians, universities students in understanding the philosophy and theory of the law first, before appreciating and applying the substantive law in their profession and life.

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