Money talks, so let's talk money: Competing for fiscal resources
Thesis - 5 pages - Fiscal law
The academic landscape has changed in recent years. In the modern academic environment, competition between departments and programs for scarce dollars is the order of the day. Despite the fact that the library is traditionally “the single largest budget center in any academic...
Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975
Essay - 3 pages - Constitutional law
Inclusion came by the way of Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 which gave the right of equal educational opportunity to children with disabilities. This was later reenacted in 1990 as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Supported by the Americans with...
Case Brief, Analysis and Impact of Journalism Case Law
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Other law subjects
Judith Miller, an investigative reporter for the New York Times, received a grand jury subpoena to testify regarding the leak of the identity of an undercover CIA agent, Valerie Plame. It was believed that Miller had information regarding which it was that broke federal law by disclosing the...
Exploration of the concepts of criminology and criminal justice as sciences
Essay - 7 pages - Criminal law
Throughout the course of the twentieth century notable advancements in science and technology has enabled researchers choose significantly improve their overall ability to conduct empirical research. Although the advancements have taken place have impacted almost every field of study, and a...
The issue of choosing a Supreme Court Justice
Essay - 8 pages - Constitutional law
Introduction In recent years, the stability of the Supreme Court has been challenged as a direct result of changes in the specific members that comprise the Court. Up until 2006, specific patters of decision-making could clearly be delineated. However, the death of Chief Justice William...
Affirmative action in the U.S
Essay - 9 pages - Constitutional law
In recent years, the issue of affirmative action has become one that has polarized debate in the United States. Affirmative action, which was originally conceptualized under President Johnson's Executive Order 11246 was supposed to provide social institutions with the mechanisms necessary to...
The Right Medicine: Same-sex Family Law
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Other law subjects
Currently in the United States, same-sex couples face many discrepancies in the law compared to heterosexual married couples, many related to taxation, discrimination protection, and other benefits. Of particular importance are the barriers that same-sex couples and larger families face when...
The Effectiveness of Restorative Justice
Essay - 7 pages - Civil law
In recent years, restorative justice has been utilized by various jurisdictions and organizations across the globe in an effort to promote increased satisfaction and fairness to participants, as well as hoping to lower crime rates and achieve a multitude of other objectives. Furthermore, it has...
Should the common law courts recognise the need for a general doctrine of unconscionability?
Essay - 7 pages - Civil law
The doctrine of unconscionability remains a venue of debate and controversy not only for legal scholars, but for judges and attorneys in this country and abroad. The idea of unconscionability is in itself problematic. How can a judge, jury, or attorney deem what is or is not fair? Even if an...
Introduction to Government and Politics "Hunting" for Diversity: Hunt v. Cromartie
Essay - 3 pages - Other law subjects
“A reapportionment plan that draws in persons, who may have very little in common but the color of their skin, bears an uncomfortable resemblance to political apartheid” (Rosenschein). Clearly, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor understood the weight of her decisions. With those...
Homosexuality and the Law in Canada
Case study - 4 pages - Civil law
Authority has always discriminated and has been prejudiced towards several different categories of people. Whether it's ethnic group, gender, size, or sexual orientation there has been a history of unfair treatment. The world has come a long way into adapting and accepting the multicultural boom...
The American's with Disabilities Act
Case study - 5 pages - Other law subjects
The Americans with Disability Act provides the unique opportunity to enhance self-determination, choice, and greater freedom for all men, women, and children with disabilities in the United States. The most significant movement was the black civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's. After...
Conversion: To and From: Theology and our reflections
Essay - 4 pages - Other law subjects
Throughout this course we have studied the relationship between one's embedded and deliberative theology. We understand this relationship to be cyclical in nature; when one's deliberative, or second order theology, is reflected upon it can have the effect of altering one's embedded...
Outline and assess the extent to which the wto agreements have legal effects before eu and member states' courts, creating rights for individuals and the possibility of testing the compatibility of eu secondary legislation with these agreements.
Essay - 12 pages - International law
Because its creation was not a simple extension of the GATT, literature has shown a lively curiosity for the reception of WTO law within the Community legal order. Some concrete facts justify this infatuation. Unlike its predecessor, the WTO is a permanent institution with its own secretariat...
Issues related to gun control
Tutorials/exercises - 14 pages - Criminal law
Did you know that Canada has more guns per house than the United States? This is actually because Canada has a lot more hunting guns than the States, but they have more hand guns and more dangerous guns then we do. Gun Control in Canada has been a very controversial subject in the past few years...
Karlene Kincaid v. River Bluffs Community College : Appeal
Essay - 8 pages - Civil law
This appeal is from the order granting Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Western Division. The District Court had jurisdiction over this case pursuant to 28 U.S.C. ยง 1331 (2002) because this case arises under the...
Research on Whether Fingerprint Detection Technology Can Benefit by Use of Micro-X-Ray Fluorescence Techniques
Tutorials/exercises - 10 pages - Criminal law
Fingerprint identification is one of the most common and often used forensic tools worldwide. It has been used globally by government agencies for the past 100 years, outperforming DNA and all other systems combined to identify and catch criminals. Even so, there are limitations motivating...
Parking space lease agreement
Standard contracts - 1 pages - Civil law
_____________________, hereafter referred to as Lessor, does hereby agree to lease to ________________________, hereafter referred to as Lessee, ____ parking space(s) located at ________________________ in ____________________, such parking space being further described as Parking Space No. ____...
To Legalize or Not to Legalize : The question of Marijuana in America
Essay - 2 pages - Civil law
Once upon a time… or more accurately in the early 1930's, marijuana was made illegal and renamed the ‘Devil's Weed'. Whether or not there was a conspiracy to make hemp illegal by the government and the pulp paper industry is hard to say, but one thing is for certain, the strangling hold...
Current Proposals on the Illegal Immigration Problem
Essay - 2 pages - International law
No one knows exactly how many illegal immigrants are in this country. Estimates range from 4 to 12 million people. The largest group of undocumented immigrants is Mexicans. Thousands of Mexicans, some with families, cross the border illegally in search of work. Typically an illegal will stay in...
The Criminalization of Our American Youths: Is Twenty-One an Unfair Drinking Age?
Essay - 2 pages - Civil law
Alcohol, a cheap easy way for many young American adults to enjoy a society which has cast selective freedoms which they fight and die for right out the window. An issue which has plagued young adults since its surfacing in 1984 under President Regan, should the legal drinking age for all...
In the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
Law case - 7 pages - Constitutional law
Plaintiff Karlene Kincaid alleges that defendant River Bluffs Community College retaliated against her for exercising her First Amendment right to free speech by terminating her employment contract with the college. Plaintiff claims that the letter to the editor she wrote and the film she...
The Human Coyote: A Heroic Criminal?
Essay - 2 pages - International law
In all the various interrelated issues of the border, there is one central group that is essential to allowing immigrants to cross in the United States: the coyotes. Coyotes are smugglers who assist immigrants in getting across the border without getting stopped by the border patrol, or anyone...
Abortion Debate
Essay - 2 pages - Other law subjects
Throughout history there has been an ongoing struggle over abortion. The process of terminating a baby did not sit well with some and thus a debate arose. Advocates of free choice clashed with those who stood by more traditional ideals. Throughout the debates lifetime very little progress has...
The Political Spectrum: A Different Approach
Essay - 9 pages - Other law subjects
The traditional left-right political spectrum we use to place politicians platforms is outdated. We carried this spectrum over from the French, and any citizen would be hard pressed to be able to even accurately define what the spectrum is measuring. We all know that on the right side sit the...
Paradise Valley Hospital case study
Case study - 25 pages - Labor law
Karen Vogel - Director of Nursing Conflict - DON vs. Hospital Administrator Mr. Anderson's philosophy: “If you leave a problem alone long enough and it will go away” Karen sought guidance and support Mr. Anderson: “do your job or let someone else do it” Karen agreed in...
Either Way, Someone Is Playing God
Essay - 3 pages - Other law subjects
Once there was a man who hated his neighbor. Everyday there would be music blasting from the neighbor's house that disturbed the man trying to work. He had asked his neighbor to stop the noise politely many times, but the noise persisted. One day the man snapped and took one of the speakers and...
Punitive Damages
Essay - 8 pages - Other law subjects
Although there is a debate over the purpose of punitive damages, it is generally admitted that their main goals are to deter and to punish wrongdoers : “punitive damages are designed to punish a defendant for grossly inappropriate actions and, in doing so, to deter future such actions by...
American law essay 3 : Bush v. Gore 531 U.S. 98 (2000)
Essay - 4 pages - Constitutional law
Bush v. Gore is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court in many regards. First because of its time constraint (the Electoral College had to meet on December 18th, which gave the Justices very little time to make a major decision), secondly because of its tremendous impact (the Court was given...
Discuss the analysis and significance of the abduction and trial of Eichmann from an international law perspective, with reference to legal writing
Essay - 8 pages - International law
“The very concept of individual accountability - indeed - the very idea that an act could be ‘criminal' was antithetical to International law during much of its history […] With narrow exceptions, individuals held no rights and bore no responsibilities under International law,...
