Don't Call It a Comeback: The Criminological and Sociological Study of Subfelonies

After featuring prominently in early law and society research, the study of subfelony enforcement and processing was largely eclipsed by the study of mass incarceration. Of late, the subject matter has enjoyed a resurgence. This review addresses what things might be included in a study of subfelonies, what aspects about them researchers have studied, and why it might be theoretically interesting to study them.

AKIBAT HUKUM PERKAWINAN SIRI TERHADAP HARTA KEKAYAAN DI DUSUN TAIPALAMPANG DESA BALUMBUNGANG KECAMATAN BONTORAMBA KABUPATEN JENEPONTO

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi tentang status harta pada perkawinan siri dan penyelesaian sengketa harta kekayaan pada perkawinan siri. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif, yang bersumber dari data responden, pembagian angket dan wawancara serta bahan-bahan dari pustaka yang berlaku dan berkaitan dengan status harta kekayaan pada perkawinan siri yang terjadi di Dusun Taipalampang Kecamatan Bontoramba Kabupaten Jeneponto. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa fenomena perkawinan siri yang terjadi pada Dusun Taipalampang bisa menimbulkan berbagai macam permasalahan dari aspek hukum dan lingkungan masyarakat. Perkawinan siri menurut Pasal 2 ayat (1) Undang-Undang Perkawinan No 1 Tahun 1974, perkawinan yang sah adalah perkawinan yang dilakukan menurut hukumnya masing-masing agama dan kepercayaannya. Pada pasal tersebut undang-undang perkawinan menyerahkan syarat sahnya perkawinan dilihat dari sudut agama. pada perkawinan siri terdapat cacat administrasi karena pada pasal 2 ayat (2) UUP dijelaskan bahwa tiap-tiap perkawinan dicatat menurut peraturan perundang-undangan yang berlaku sehingga apabila terjadi permasalahan pada sengketa perkawinan dapat diselesaikan dengan berdasarkan hukum yang berlaku. Diketahui bahwa pencatatan perkawinan merupakan salah satu bukti konkrit yang dapat digunakan untuk membuktikan apakah benar telah terjadi perkawinan, dengan adanya pencatatan juga memudahkan Pengadilan Agama menyelesaikan sengketa harta kekayaan apabila terjadi perceraian. Karena pada perkawinan siri tersebut sulit untuk menentukan status harta kekayaan dalam hukum apabila perkawinan tidak tercatat. This study aims to identify the status of property in unregistered marriage “nikah siri” and dispute resolution property on the unregistered marriage. This study uses a qualitative method, which is sourced from the data of respondents, the distribution of questionnaires and interviews as well as materials from the literature, which are valid and related to the status of property on unregistered marriage that happens in Taipalampang, Bontoramba District, Jeneponto Regency. The results of this study show that the phenomenon of “nikah siri” which happens in Taipalampang can cause a variety of problems from the aspect of law and society. Unregistered marriage, according to Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Marriage Law No. 1 Year 1974, a legal marriage is a marriage conducted according to the law of each religion and beliefs. In the chapter of the laws of marriage handed over the terms of the validity of a marriage is seen from the angle of religion. On Unregistered marriage, there are defects in administration because article 2, paragraph (2) UUP explains that every marriage is recorded according to the laws and regulations that apply so that in case of problems in a marital dispute can be resolved with the under applicable law. Be aware that the registration of marriage is one of the concrete pieces of evidence that can be used to prove whether the right has occurred to the marriage, with the recording also facilitating Religious Court resolve the dispute assets if they divorce. Because ‘nikah siri” is difficult to determine the status of the assets in the law if the marriage is unregistered.

Addressing the legal issues of an innovative start-up company

<p>Before examining the substance of the law it is necessary to discuss the contrast between law and practice. It is important to keep in mind that the letter of the law is sometimes not what is done in practice. This realisation is often referred to as the “law and society perspective.” Advocates of this perspective treat legal doctrine as more than just a closed system because they recognise that there are other external influences at play. Beyond the law, people are also influenced by other factors such as social roles, morals, religion and culture. For example, university researchers have an external incentive mechanism outside of IP law. Such researchers frequently prefer to publish their results and discoveries in academic journals rather than file for patents. A patent cannot be granted where there has been a publication. However the researchers are motivated by other incentives such as access to research funds and the attainment of professorship. The Law and Society perspective highlights the fact that the formal processes, which are provided for by the law are at times substituted by informal customs and understandings. An information technology (IT) firm that contributed to this paper by participating in an interview (Interviewee A), provided a good example of such an occurrence. Rather than use any of the formal IP modes of protection which are discussed in the following sections of this paper, ‘Interviewee A’ uses a very unorthodox strategy to protect their IP. They said: “we rely on employment contracts, code of conduct, and especially personal ethics and behaviour to protect our IP. We therefore have a company culture that encourages teamwork and cooperation”.</p>

Addressing the legal issues of an innovative start-up company

<p>Before examining the substance of the law it is necessary to discuss the contrast between law and practice. It is important to keep in mind that the letter of the law is sometimes not what is done in practice. This realisation is often referred to as the “law and society perspective.” Advocates of this perspective treat legal doctrine as more than just a closed system because they recognise that there are other external influences at play. Beyond the law, people are also influenced by other factors such as social roles, morals, religion and culture. For example, university researchers have an external incentive mechanism outside of IP law. Such researchers frequently prefer to publish their results and discoveries in academic journals rather than file for patents. A patent cannot be granted where there has been a publication. However the researchers are motivated by other incentives such as access to research funds and the attainment of professorship. The Law and Society perspective highlights the fact that the formal processes, which are provided for by the law are at times substituted by informal customs and understandings. An information technology (IT) firm that contributed to this paper by participating in an interview (Interviewee A), provided a good example of such an occurrence. Rather than use any of the formal IP modes of protection which are discussed in the following sections of this paper, ‘Interviewee A’ uses a very unorthodox strategy to protect their IP. They said: “we rely on employment contracts, code of conduct, and especially personal ethics and behaviour to protect our IP. We therefore have a company culture that encourages teamwork and cooperation”.</p>

Reflecting on Durkheim and His Studies on Law through Cancellation of British Citizenship

Through an analysis of cancellation of citizenship laws in the United Kingdom, this chapter evaluates Durkheim’s writings on law and its links to moral evolution. It argues that Durkheim’s studies on law are complex and offer rich insights for contemporary sociolegal research. His methodological approaches are also ones that map onto modern-day sociolegal (“law and society” or “law in context”) research. However, Durkheim is overoptimistic in his view that, with time, a modern morality has emerged which venerates the sanctity of the Individual.2 In nationality deprivation cases, analysis reveals the breakdown of social solidarity and the failure to protect people from statelessness. It appears that organic solidarity of the kind that supports human rights is not always a matter of seamless moral and legal progression, contrary to Durkheim’s views.

It's About Bloody Time and Space

Time frames relationships of power, especially in the context of law. One of the clearest ways in which time is implicated in both law and society is via discourses about women’s biological functions. This Article is an introduction to a larger project that analyzes legal discourses regarding a crucial aspect of women’s calendrically-associated biological functions: women’s menstrual periods. Over the course of the project, I explore legal discourses about menstruation through the notion of what literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin calls “chronotopes”—a connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships. Temporality, Bakhtin argues, is closely associated with certain paradigmatic spaces, and the combination of shapes, ideologies, and identities. Legal discussions of women’s menstrual bleeding are key sites for the discursive creation and maintenance of certain ideologies of womanhood. These discussions appear in a wide variety of contexts and in ways that either explicitly reference or implicitly index ideologies of female identity. All are characterized by efforts to mark them as narratives linked to other temporally prior or future moments, and are often indices of chronologically or spatially related stigmas and taboos. While legal discourses of menstruation do not give a complete account of the category “woman,” they provide cogent examples of how womanhood ideologies are constructed in legal contexts.

Censors and Public Lands: The Failure of Governance of a Common?

Nowadays, a small part of the worldwide population, under the aegis of property on some commons, can find a way to increase their riches, intensifying the conflicts inside the society and damaging the environment. This is the “dark side” of globalization: through this phenomenon, humans economically and socially united most of our planet, simultaneously emphasizing the fragmentation that lies under this apparent unification. This conflict, however, is not between law and society, but it is inside the latter, where the only possible way to bridge the gap seems – mostly – to be through philanthropy. This work wants to find a possible enlightenment through the study of the regulation of the roman’s lands (ager publicus), which were granted under a payment: thus, they were subjected to revocation. This rule was strengthened for the most fruitful lands through the recognition of a supervisory power in the hands of the censors, census officers and controllers of the citizen’s morality, whose decadence was sanctioned with the loss of the right to vote. It was them who could decide to whom give these lands in lease through a public auction, never considering – through a direct sanction as revocation – the ethics of the winners, thus allowing to increase their assets and consequentially the social instability.

Neo-Thomism in Action

In his encyclical Aeterni Patris (1879), Pope Leo XIII expressed the conviction that the renewed study of the philosophical legacy of Saint Thomas Aquinas would help Catholics to engage in a dialogue with secular modernity while maintaining respect for Church doctrine and tradition. As a result, the neo-scholastic framework dominated Catholic intellectual production for nearly a century thereafter. This volume assesses the societal impact of the Thomist revival movement, with particular attention to the juridical dimension of this epistemic community. Contributions from different disciplinary backgrounds offer a multifaceted and in-depth analysis of many different networks and protagonists of the neo-scholastic movement, its institutions and periodicals, and its conceptual frameworks. Although special attention is paid to the Leuven Institute of Philosophy and Faculty of Law, the volume also discloses the neo-Thomist revival in other national and transnational contexts. By highlighting diverse aspects of its societal and legal impact, Neo-Thomism in Action argues that neo-scholasticism was neither a sterile intellectual exercise nor a monolithic movement. The book expands our understanding of how Catholic intellectual discourse communities were constructed and how they pervaded law and society during the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.