CHARLOTTE, NC - SEPTEMBER 21: A police officer attempts to extinguish a fire on the I-85 (Interstate 85) during protests in the early hours of September 21, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The ...

The project explores the cultural drivers of excessive use of the criminal law as a solution to social problems. It explores the socio-cultural functions of myths (i.e. symbolically-laden folk ...

Law and punishment are very different concepts and should not be unduly amalgamated. The function of law is the codification of norms, definition of rights and obligations, creation of mechanisms for ...

Criminal legal codes draw clear lines between permissible and illegal conduct, and the criminal justice system counts on people knowing these lines and governing their conduct accordingly. This is the ...

On Monday Dec. 1, the state Senate State Government Committee considered Senate Bill S4924, presented as an efficiency measure to consolidate investigative functions by transferring the ...

Law firms that are at the forefront of evaluating and deploying new technologies can demand certain requirements before rewarding their business to the providers who measure up. This would ensure ...

Realist school, or Realism, is that school of jurisprudence which is more concerned with the scientific observation of lawmaking and its functioning, rather than the ends of law. The Realist School of ...

NEW DELHI: Enactment of law is a sovereign function to be performed by the Parliament or the State Legislature and a court cannot issue direction to pass a law, the Delhi High Court said while ...