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United Nations Rule of Law: Informal Justice, on the relationship between informal/community justice, the rule of law and the United Nations Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Archived 27 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine , a series of 12 videos on the subject of justice by Harvard University's Michael Sandel, with reading materials and ...
Equality before the law is a tenet of some branches of feminism. In the 19th century, gender equality before the law was a radical goal, but some later feminist views hold that formal legal equality is not enough to create actual and social equality between women and men.
The rule according to higher law is a practical approach to the implementation of the higher law theory that creates a bridge of mutual understanding (with regard to universal legal values) between the English-language doctrine of the rule of law, traditional for the countries of common law, and the originally German doctrine of Rechtsstaat ...
Unfortunately, justice and social justice are not always compatible. Sometimes, we can have justice, or we can have social justice, but not both. Conflict between justice and social justice
The law shapes politics, economics, history and society in various ways and also serves as a mediator of relations between people. Legal systems vary between jurisdictions, with their differences analysed in comparative law. In civil law jurisdictions, a legislature or other central body codifies and consolidates the law.
Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical" is an essay by John Rawls, published in 1985. [1] In it he describes his conception of justice. It comprises two main principles of liberty and equality; the second is subdivided into fair equality of opportunity and the difference principle .
The World Justice Project (WJP) [117] is an international organization that produces independent research and data, in order to build awareness, and stimulate action to advance the rule of law. [118] The World Justice Project defines the rule of law as a durable system of laws, institutions, norms, and country commitment that uphold four ...
The 1615 conflict between common law and equity came about because of a "clash of strong personalities" between Lord Chancellor Ellesmere and the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Sir Edward Coke. [31] Chief Justice Coke began the practice of issuing writs of habeas corpus that required the release of people imprisoned for contempt of chancery ...