Tag: Jurisprudence

  • Legal opinions

    Legal opinions in the United States A legal opinion is a statement, usually prepared in writing but sometimes delivered orally by a judge or court to announce the decision reached in a case argued or tried before them, giving a brief summary of the facts, expounding the law as it applies to […]

  • Court Reporter

    Court Reporter in the United States Person responsible for recording court proceedings. Court reporters typically use special stenotype machines to make a verbatim record of all proceedings. Taped recordings are used in some jurisdictions instead of court reporters. Transcripts from stenotype […]

  • Court Reporter

    Court Reporter in the United States Person responsible for recording court proceedings. Court reporters typically use special stenotype machines to make a verbatim record of all proceedings. Taped recordings are used in some jurisdictions instead of court reporters. Transcripts from stenotype […]

  • BP Bibliography Cases and reviews

    British Petroleum Bibliography Cases and law review articles in the United States An environmental crime example In re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010,  731 F. Supp. 2d 1352 (J.P.M.L. 2010) (consolidating 77 of nearly 300 related […]

  • New actors in international law. Bibliography

    New actors in international law. Bibliography in United States Traditionally, international law has focused on the state as an actor but gradually other actors have taken the international stage with a degree of legal personality. The international society of today would be unimaginable […]

  • Barcelona Traction Case

    Barcelona Traction Case in United States Barcelona Traction Case (1970) A Contentious Case between Belgium and Spain before the ICJ: http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&code=bt&case=41&k=4e Belgium citizens, with stock in the electric company known as Barcelona Traction, sought […]

  • Reparations for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the UN

    Reparations for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the UN in United States Reparations for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the UN (1948) Advisory Opinion of the ICJ: http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=4&code=isun&case=4&k=41 The ICJ ruled the UN has legal standing as […]

  • Court library

    Courts libraries or Court library in the United States In the law world, a Court library is a law library located in a courthouse, maintained for the use of judges, courthouse staff, lawyers and their clients, and members of the public, for example, the library of the US Supreme Court. […]

  • American Jurisprudence, 2d

    American Jurisprudence, 2d, by West in the United States This set provides an unparalled breadth of coverage of all fields of American law—state and federal, civil and criminal, substantive and procedural. The articles collect, examine, and summarize the broad principles of American law and, […]