Legal doctrine is the currency of contemporary law. Yet while law students, lawyers, and judges take the substance of specific doctrines seriously, the idea ofdoi:10.7208/chicago/9780226726380.001.0001Schlag, PierreGriffin, AmySocial Science Electronic Publishing...
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“It is in my view difficult to draw a direct line from the Salem witch trials to a specific existing legal doctrine, but I would argue that they have had an immense influence on how we think about the law,” Niehoff says. “The trials are filled with cautionary tales about how catast...
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Legal EducationLawyeringSkillsSocial ChangeINTRODUCTION The longstanding categorical distinction that elevates doctrinal teaching over...doi:10.7916/D8DR3154Jewel, Lucille AColumbia Journal of Gender and LawColumbia Journal of Gender & Law
Common law is a legal system in which laws are derived from judicial decisions and precedent. Almost all countries with a judicial system based on common law—including the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States—have incorporated multiple forms of the doctrine of estoppel in their laws....
The contra proferentem rule is a legal doctrine in contract law that dictates how ambigous clauses in a contract should be interpreted. The rule stipulates that if a clause in a contract is ambiguous or can be interpreted in multiple ways, it should be read in a way that disfavors the pa...
This doctrine has been contested in recent years by those who argue that victims should not be able to suetortfeasorsfor damages that have been reimbursed from another source. Those sources can include health insurance or property insurance, workers' compensation, Social Security disability benefits,...