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Roe v Wade & The People Behind Law
Very few cases are as well known as Roe v Wade, the landmark US Supreme Court case that, in 1973, affirmed that women have a right to an abortion. Until its …
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Donaldson v Becket, Copyright & The Public Domain
Copyright has not always existed. Shakespeare used to give his actors only the lines of the character they were playing, and the three words before each line, …
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R v Dudley and Stephens, Part II: Law & Religion
Last week, I discussed R v Dudley and Stephens, and its significance in showing us how the cogs of common law turn. We also looked at the definitions of murder …
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R v Dudley & Stephens, Part I: Murder, & Common Law
In English law, something can be legal or illegal based on statute, or based on common law. Statutes are what we often think of as “laws”, for …
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The Nuremberg Trials & Legal Positivism
What is a law? Can a terrible, unjust rule, still be a law? Saint Augustine argued that “An unjust law is no law at all,” but modern jurisprudence …