Legal Methods

Statutory interpretation is a process by which courts interpret statutes. Statutes/ Acts of Parliament are laws that the Parliament passes. In the Ugandan Context, The Parliament is a law-making organ according to the authority of its powers as stipulated under Art. 79 of the Ugandan Constitution.
Courts are charged with the duty of interpreting laws made by the Parliament in the dispensation of Justice

Il mondo globale sta sollecitando la curiosità del giuscomparatista ad intraprendere “viaggi” verso destinazioni lontane (in primis Africa e Asia) tradizionalmente considerate secondarie dall’accademia occidentale. Una tensione intellettuale che ha tuttavia messo in luce l’inadeguatezza degli equipaggiamenti metodologici di cui dispone il giurista occidentale per stabilire una comunicazione empatica con l’alterità giuridica. Tali limiti hanno radici ben salde nella modernità positivista e possono essere declinati con riferimento sia alla strumentazione metodologica che alla sua narrazione fortemente semplificata. Occorrono nuovi percorsi creativi che facciano della consapevolezza metodologica un obiettivo centrale nella formazione del giurista globale, stimolandone così un’identità accademica che sappia prescindere dalla mera strumentalità della propria ricerca.

"Much of the literature on the ethics of legal advocacy focuses on a 'you should because you are supposed to' argument." However, this analysis focuses on disclosing and confronting adverse authority to help an attorney win her case. The paper ends with three specific writing techniques to employ in "grappling with" adverse authority: A) highlighting inconsistent rule statements; B) distinguishing and synthesizing cases on their facts and holdings, and C) using procedural posture and policy arguments.
    This paper also identifies and discusses ethical rules for attorneys directed to obligations to disclose adverse facts and adverse authority in legal argument. It further discusses mental resistance and sells "the benefits of candor." The topic of the strengths inherit in the use of adverse authority had no fully explored in the scholarship in 1999, and is still under-discussed in the literature, as of 2008.

Islamic military law is a doctrine, which was created by Ulama, basing on Sharia and Fiqh, as right way of Islam – collection of demands and methods of just military actions that are mandatory for Muslim warriors. Foundations and first rules of Islamic military law were established in the very beginning of Hijra, soon after prophet Muhammad began creation of Islamic state in Medina. The prophet always gave different recommendations and suggestions to the warriors and those instructions became the core of the military law. Most of them were codified and abstracted by the first Khalifa Abu Bakr in the ten rules of Islamic armed forces. Muslim treaties and documents of IX century already included the rules about Islamic ethics, economical law and implementation of Islamic military law. They regulated issues concerning the relations with ambassadors, displaced people or refugees; also, rules of action in the battle fields, defense of women, children and non-warriors, process of negotiat...

Artykuł podejmuje problematykę metody stosowania prawa w kontekście bezpieczeństwa, jakie wynikać ma z pewności prawa Unii Europejskiej. W tym też celu autor poddaje logiczno-psychologicznej analizie dwie takie metody: a) wynoszoną na piedestał w common law, prawniczą analogię oraz b) wiązaną ściśle z systemami prawnymi typu civil law, prawniczą dedukcję (przybierającą też postać sylogizmu prawniczego). Przy tym rezultat rozumowania według obu tych metod uznany został za zależny, nie tylko od operacji myślowych przebiegających na poziomie racjonalnego systemu rozumowania, ale również, i to w stopniu znacznym, od wyniku rozumowania intuicyjnego, bazującego na zgromadzonych w pamięci długoterminowej doświadczeniach/informacjach. Ponadto możliwość zwiększania pewności prawa w stosunku do prawniczej dedukcji została tu skorelowana z podnoszeniem progu, do wysokości którego mają być podejmowane decyzje absurdalne (niesprawiedliwe) mające uzasadnienie w językowej analizie tekstu aktu prawnego; podczas gdy intersubiektywność otrzymywanych za pośrednictwem prawniczej analogii konkluzji, ilekroć nie ma się to odbywać poprzez wpływanie na zasoby, z których korzysta rozumowanie intuicyjne, uznana została za ustawioną na względnie stałym poziomie: tzw. oczywistych (bardzo bliskich) analogii.

Critically Compare and Contrast any Three Theories on the Concept of Law Drawing Illustrations from Nigerian Laws. According to Karl Nickerson Llewellyn"Jurisprudence is as big as law-and bigger" drawing from the assertion above, jurisprudence which is derived from latin word "juris prudential" is the foundational basis which provide a fertile soil through which law can grow. Thus, jurisprudence is the philosophy of law, theory of law and the total study of law which covers its origin, evolution, principles, theories and views of eminent jurists, thinkers and philosophers about law. By extension, it is the study of the concept, origin, sources, evolution,

This article provides a critical, personal appraisal of attempts at designing an introductory Legal Methods module, from the perspective of Brexit. Focusing on the author’s own “cases and materials” collection, it interrogates how, rather than challenging a number of paradigms which subsequently dominated Brexit discourses, it unwittingly reproduced them. The second part of the article seeks to respond by suggesting various ways in which a Legal Methods module might introduce students to legal analysis through the example of Brexit itself.