Theories of Law
The theory of law that defines the law as that which originates from authority, is obeyed habitually, and works due to fear of sanctions.
What is legal positivism?
The English translation of halakha and sharia.
What is 'the path'?
The Church lives by Roman law, in Latin.
What is Ecclesia vivit lege romana?
The name of the document preventing the king from suspending Parliament.
What is the English/1689 Bill of Rights?
It outlawed war in 1928.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
It is defined by its orality, informality, and emphasis on consensus and reconciliation.
What is chthonic law?
Sayings and traditions ascribed to the Prophet Muhammad.
What are hadith?
The Latin term for law that applies to Roman citizens only.
What is the Ius civile?
The name for the shift from multiple legal personalities to one, single legal personality.
What is de-corporation?
The two languages that the term 'genocide' combines.
What are Latin and Greek?
E.E. Evans Pritchard wrote 'Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the...'
Who are the Azande?
The term for what a ruler who fails to maintain justice loses in the Confucian legal tradition.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The three pillars of the ius commune.
Roman law, church/canon law, and customary law
The year Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to church in Wittenberg.
1517
Theorist of multicultural citizenship.
Who is Will Kymlicka?
He believes law develops through interactions between legal traditions.
Who is H. Patrick Glenn?
In the Jewish legal tradition, they are commandments or obligations (especially in terms of sacrifice).
What are mitzvot?
This European legal system is distinguished by its focus on procedure and writs.
What is English common law?
He greatly relied upon Aristotle's conception of natural law during the Valladolid Debate.
Juan Gines Sepulveda
The international court that focuses on arbitration between states, rather than on individual responsibility for human rights violations/war crimes.
International Court of Justice (ICJ)
The mafia are an example of this kind of legal system.
What is a parasitic legal system?
The name for Hindu jurisprudence/treatises.
What are dharmasastras?
The year the Capitulary of Charlemagne was issued.
What is 802?
The King of Spain during the Valladolid Debate.
Charles I
French minister of the interior who insisted that women pose bare-headed for official identity photos in 2003.
Who is Nicolas Sarkozy?