Rather than being based on the view that in ascertaining the content and meaning of the law, we should look to authoritative social sources, Dworkin's contention that legal reasoning is necessarily interpretive rests on an account of law which expressly repudiates the Razian understanding of law as source-based.
Some German and French historians had addressed some of these questions, but Riley-Smith answered them with an unprecedented clarity and directness, founded on a far wider and more systematic reading of theology and canon law as well as of narrative sources and documents.
These systems include gravitational fields, which obey the inverse-square law, as well as systems with point sources, such as radio antennas.
The J. W. Long Law Library has 296,000 volumes and microform equivalents, which include both state and federal primary law sources, as well as treatises, periodicals and other secondary legal sources.
In December, 2013, the G.N.C. endorsed Sharia law as the source of all legislation and voted to extend its mandate for an additional year.
CAIRO — Tunisia's ruling Islamist party, Ennahda, said on Monday that the country's post-revolution constitution would not mention Islamic law as a source of legislation, signaling a forceful break with ultraconservatives who have been demanding an Islamic state.
Page A9 TUNISIA RESISTS ISLAMIC LAW Tunisia's ruling Islamist party, Ennahda, said that the country's post-revolution constitution would not mention Islamic law as a source of legislation, signaling a forceful break with ultraconservatives who have been demanding an Islamic state.
The film would be based on Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's "8," a play that used transcripts from the 2010 trial that struck down the law as the source material for an all-star retelling of the case.
Family members, especially husbands and mothers-in-law, serve as sources of information, gatekeepers, and sometimes proxy clients when the husband goes to the pharmacist to procure drugs instead of the woman herself.
We do so by using changes in U.S. compulsory schooling laws as a source of exogenous variation in general skills ("Evidence from changes in compulsory schooling laws in the United States").
In general, it was Roman policy to respect the mos regionis ("regional tradition" or "law of the land") and to regard local laws as a source of legal precedent and social stability.
