In Chapter 4, we describe the rise and principal characteristics of legal modernity, including the profound social transformation, in little more than three hundred years, from a situation of abundant commons and scarce capital to the current one of excessive capital and dramatically weak ecological ...
The article concludes that, if law needs a metaphysics, it should be one which allows for change, transformation and the emergence of the radically new. A social universe without gaps, all possible forms of which are determined from the beginning, will end up as the opposite of what we are...
This commitment to revolutionary change turned out to be temporary: by 1990 all three ‘socialist-oriented’ states — Afghanistan, the PDRY, and Ethiopia — had abandoned their earlier policies. Their records of social transformation nonetheless merit informed analysis, if only because of the ...
Gender, Law and Social Transformation in India Sobhagmal C. Bhandari 181 Accesses Abstract We are living in the twenty-first century which is dedicated to knowledge. We call ourselves a civilized and developed society, but it is a matter of concern that a crime like human trafficking is ...
Examines an application of Lotus Development Corp.'s Notes and Elf Technologies Inc. Electronic Labor Force agent technology in a Portland, Oregon law firm. Reasons behind Bullivant, Houser, Bailey, Pendergrass & Hoffman's migration to Notes; Coverage of installation; Implementation of Notes projects...
While China is increasingly confident in its dazzling economic growth in past decades, the country is placing urgency on building more basic and lasting confidence -- to generate its own great minds in philosophy and social sciences. China gains new economic traction on path of restructuring While...
The article focuses on the United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC) of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG)--an alliance of law students, legal workers, attorneys, and other people of color in the NLG--formed out of a pressing need to address issues of race and equality. The language of the...
At its core, the study of law provides a deep understanding of the principles that underpin a just and orderly society. Law serves as the bedrock of civilization, offering a structured framework for resolving disputes, upholding individual rights, and maintaining social order. For those drawn to ...
Corporate Law (Anatomy) and Planned Capitalism If the privatisation of corporate law through the liberalisation of the right to incorporate can be regarded as an outcome of social change,withincapitalism it has led to further social transformation. The offering of the corporation’s organisational feat...
In addition, this book explains—in this respect also interesting for the social sciences—the functioning of law and its specific instruments of control and shows their framework conditions. From a traditional civil law perspective, it is necessary to justify why law is allowed to control people...