JKUAT Faculty of Law COURSE OUTLINE Unit Code: LAW 2302 Unit Title: Law of Business Associations II Academic Year: 2013/2014 Semester: September 2013 Lecturer: Dr. L. M. Musikali Email: lmusikali@gmail.com Purpose of the Course: The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the main features of the company law of Kenya and to enable students to understand and critically analyse the ways in which company law balances the interests of different groups represented within the company
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NATURAL LAW ROBERT P. GEORGE* Oliver Wendell Holmes‚ the legal philosopher and judge whom Richard Posner has‚ with admiration‚ dubbed “the American Nietzsche‚”1 established in the minds of many people a certain image of what natural law theories are theories of‚ and a certain set of reasons for supposing that such theories are misguided and even ridiculous. While I have my own reasons for admiring some of Holmes’s work—despite‚ rather than because of‚ the Nietzscheanism that endears him
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Phoenix 2008 The Role of Law Law is a system or collection of “principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people.” (Dictionary.com) In the past‚ people viewed law as an unchanging factor that was a part of the natural order of life. Today‚ most lawmakers view law as a flexible instrument that can be used to accomplish a chosen purpose. “One strength of this instrumentalist attitude is its willingness to adapt the law to further the social good
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Unjust Laws “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws” (MLK Jr). Everyone has the moral and ethical obligation to disobey unjust laws that are put in place. It comes down to one thing‚ whether the law is right or wrong. For most humans‚ the brain is fully developed by the age of 25 according to National Institute of Health‚ so the creators of laws are well aware of right and wrong. In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” King writes‚ “A just law is a man made code that squares with
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Law & Ethics Law and ethics can take many twist and turns. This paper will focus on why law is not an exact science. It will show the root cause of this fact is because ethics and law go hand in hand. Final it this paper will define the implications of healthcare. At the end of this paper‚ the reader will understand the relationship between healthcare laws and ethics. Most people that work with laws on a daily basis understand that it is not an exact science. Law is not an exact science because
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Law and morals Part A Law has been defined by Sir John Salmond as the body of principles recognised and applied by the state in administration of justice. There are two theories on what law is‚ the natural law theory and the positivist law theory Lloyd a natural law theorist defined the law as the constant assertion that there are objective moral principles which depend upon the natural of the universe and can be discovered by reason Natural law theorists believe that for law to be valid it
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OBJECTIVE: To understand what the Case Law is and what is the importance‚purpose and history of the same and thereby getting a better understanding of the role and relevence of Case Law in India. HYPOTHESIS: Case Law or Common Law is a reported decision given by a court of first instance i.e. Supreme Court or High Court in which there are new interpretations of law and can be cited as precedent in the process of Stare Decisis. Case Law is law developed through decisions of Appellate Courts
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Business Law Introduction A business consists of trade of any profession or vocation. Business law looks at the formation of the business and the contracts plus legislations within it. The body of a business has rules and regulations that business law enforces enabling it to govern the transactions between business entities. In relation to that is commercial law. Marketing‚ Bankruptcy‚ contracts and trade in general are all under commercial law. In this assignment I will be assessing that
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the most controversial cases in American law is Roe v Wade‚ a decision impacting abortion laws in America. In the case‚ the Supreme Court ruled that a woman has a right to have an abortion anytime in the first trimester and can have an abortion in the second trimester under stricter conditions regarding the facility the abortion is performed in and the physician who performs the procedure. The decision angered many states because they previously had laws prohibiting abortion because many people
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A social structure is mandatory for the survival of humans. Man’s natural affinity for evil and conflict has been around since the dawn of time - until order was maintained through the introduction of laws. Without law‚ the integrity and stability of society would diminish completely. As a strong advocate of determinism‚ Thomas Hobbes believes that a strict government is the only way to social stability. Hobbes believed that a state of nature - one without a form of government - would essentially
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