Portal:Law
Welcome to the Portal of the School of Law. This is a guide to learning resources about Law in general. Please help create and organize resources under the learning projects.
The Laws of Hammurabi, H. Otto Sommer (translator) Records of the Past, Vol. II, Part III (1903) |
Photo by David Iliff: CC-BY-SA-3.0 / GFDL |
The main law research projects are:
- Wikiversity Law Reports, a series of freely-licensed headnotes for court decisions.
- Wikiversity Law Review, a series of freely-licensed journal-style law articles.
“ | There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws. | ” |
— Edward Coke |
“ | The law...should surely be accessible at all times and to everyone. | ” |
— Franz Kafka |
“ | Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise. To interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them. | ” |
— Voltaire |
“ | [The most important provision of the] Magna Charta, extorted from King John in 1215, as a restriction upon what was then an almost unlimited kingly power, [was that] "No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseized or outlawed or banished or anyways destroyed, nor will the King pass upon him or commit him to prison, unless by the judgment of his peers of the law of the land. | ” |
— Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Rise of the American Union (1891) |
“ | The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread. | ” |
— Anatole France |
“ | The more corrupt the state, the more laws it has. | ” |
— Tacitus |
“ | All law has for its object to confirm and exalt into a system the exploitation of the workers by a ruling class. | ” |
— Mikhail Bakunin |
...that Magna Carta refers to several charters issued in the 13th century? The popular image is of the 1215 charter but there were further charters in 1216, 1217, 1225, and 1297. |
In the School of Law there are a number of learning projects including:
- Latest news
- 20 February 2018: Oxfam produces action plan after revelation of prostitution scandal on Haiti
- 18 February 2018: Fourth U.S. state governor orders net neutrality in government contracts
- 16 February 2018: United States: Berkeley, California declares itself a sanctuary city for recreational cannabis
- 15 February 2018: Russia: ex-governor of Sakhalin region Alexander Khoroshavin sentenced to thirteen years for bribery
- 11 February 2018: Competition Commission of India fines Google ₹1.36 billion for 'search bias'
- 10 February 2018: Pakistan court sentences one man to death penalty, and life imprisonment to five others for Mashal Khan lynching incident
- 10 February 2018: Dhaka court sentences former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to five years on corruption charges
- 8 February 2018: Chinese Foreign Ministry confirms arrest of bookseller Gui Minhai
- 4 February 2018: United States: Four injured in Los Angeles school shooting
- 3 February 2018: India: Head of Delhi Commission on Women calls for prompt capital punishment for child rape
Search Wikinews for news items related to Crime and law. |
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