... Benedict statutory law Savigny Friedrich Karl von and jurisprudence Hammurabi Laws of Maine Sir Henry 1Kings Grimm Jacob and jurisprudence Graf Karl Heinrich and biblical law biblical law statutory law common law Jeremy Bentham jurisprudence legal code Hammurabi The early great works...

... Passover Seder slavery rabbinics Maimonides legal code ethics liberation In the first chapter of this book, as I drew on the biblical record of divine/Israel encounters, God was primarily depicted as a liberator. Consequently, I claimed, the intellectual exegetical freedom the classical rabbis...

...This chapter analyzes a legal code found among nomadic pastoralists in eastern Tibet. This code consists of directions and prescriptions relating to different areas of tribal life and specifies compensation payments to be made after a death or injury. Its provisions diverge significantly, however...

... institutional development legal rights and political agency of indigenous colonial subjects liberal reforms native legal codes plantation agriculture and slavery Cape Verde and Portuguese forced settlement Guinea Bissau and Portuguese colonial occupation African slaves enslaved Africans slavery British...

... Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman penal code hudud (punishments) Hadith(s) Vision 2030 legal code extremism Speaking at a conference in October 2017 to announce plans for the development of an economic zone housed in the ultra-futuristic city dubbed ‘Neom’ (with 500 billion USD behind...

...This chapter explores the nature of the legal code and how it can be used to study state, inter-state, and non-state legal orders. It illustrates how codes can resolve or reduce problems of translation, and thereby generate a discussion of the nature of codes, and how they operate within language...

... at legal language above the level of the sentence, we are concerned with the level of discourse. This article addresses the language of legal texts with special reference to their grammar and structure, focusing on written legal texts as materializations of the language of the legal code, a term...

... themselves as traditional elements), Reform, and Liberal (these latter two viewed themselves as progressive elements). The essential theological demarcation between the traditional and the progressive groupings lay in their claimed relationship to halakhah, the Jewish legal code, and its...

... “native legal codes” that undermined the legal rights and political agency of indigenous nonwhite colonial subjects following the abolition of slavery in the New World. This chapter presents the book’s core arguments, empirical results, and the research methodology that is used to measure and explain...