Law Essays

            When the founding fathers introduced the Fourth Amendment, their main objective was to safeguard the people’s right to secure their property against encroachment. In doing so, they referred to the laws of England which provided that even the slightest invasion of private property amounted to an act of trespass. …

Introduction Issues regarding crime, criminal justices, social justices, and others are innate concerns to any society in the world. The 19th and 20th centuries have been described as the violent centuries in the world history (Newburn, 2004). The two centuries have witnessed world wars, genocides, ethnic cleansing, money laundering, scams, …

Introduction In most countries especially in the western world including Australia, USA, Canada, UK, and others, the use of repressed memories in courts has resulted to conflicts in the judicial systems. In some countries like Australia, there are organizations like False Memory Association which has been formed by those (mostly …

Introduction After the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the subsequent events in the early 1990s, the EU found it easy to agree with Russia on its agenda. The democratization calls were making some progress to the indebted and weak Russia.  But the strategy is in shambles now. The high …

Introduction The first amendment was the first major enactment in the constitution of the United States that guaranteed the freedom of expression to all Americans. The amendment prohibited the United States congress from coming up with laws that prohibited the free exercise of individual religious belief, infringe on the individual …

The so-called Code of Hammurabi, the origin of which is dated around 1700 BC in Mesopotamia, is one of the most ancient sets of laws known. What especially heightens its value is the fact that it is one of the most intact exemplars of this kind of document. The laws …

Summary             The article is about Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) whereby the writer starts by briefly explaining the origin of the model, its formula and finally the importance to an individual investor as well as fund managers. The basic elements of the formula are also discussed such as risk …

In the essay, “The Ultimate Punishment:  A Defense of Capital Punishment,” Ernest van den Haag relates the arguments of those opposed to the death penalty and then categorically refutes them.  One such argument is that in which abolitionists argue that the death penalty is discriminatory.   However, van den Haag responds …

Every word of the establishment and religion clauses is open to interpretation. The primary ambiguity is in the word “establishment”. This may be seen as referring to: (1) only involuntary participation in religious activity or the formation of a state church, as in Kennedy’s dissent in Country of Allegheny v. …

Facts of the Case             The appellant had been convicted in Ohio of violation of one of the state’s pornography statutes, Section 2905.34 of the Ohio Revised Code.  It is undisputed that appellant lived on the second floor of a two-family residence.  She answered the door to find three Cleveland …