THE very wise and practical statesmen who in 1787 assembled in Philadelphia to frame a charter of government for the thirteen states, which should "form a more perfect union" than the existing ...

Islamic Law or what is called Muslim Personal Law comes under attack not only by Hindutva forces but also is criticized by secular forces who stand for gender equality. The Hindutva forces attack it ...

House Republicans abandoned plans to pass the SCORE Act this month as a delicate bipartisan coalition pushing codification of ...

Often, from the standpoints of legal expertise, the state and business interests, the idea of modernizing the law through the enactment of systematic legal codes has very powerful appeal. But ...

To understand positive law codification, it helps to know something about the U.S. Code. The Code was adopted in 1926 for the purpose of arranging the general and permanent federal statutes by subject ...

THE tort law deals with cases of civil wrong that one commits towards another for which remedy may be obtained, usually in the form of damages. For instance, if a doctor performs an operation by using ...

The Modern Law Review is a general, peer-refereed journal that publishes original articles relating to common law jurisdictions and, increasingly, to the law of the European Union. In addition to ...

NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Saturday called for “codification of Muslim personal law and the need to revisit marriage, divorce and guardianship laws”. The commission said ...

Bill Cordingley analyses the evolving legal landscape of climate change and biodiversity loss, which increases the pressure ...