On the role of prototypes in appellate legal argument (abstract)

Author(s):  
L. Thorne McCarty
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2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (04) ◽  
pp. 1003-1041 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandra Zarnow

This article considers the role of Bella Abzug, lead counsel for Willie McGee from 1948–1951, in shaping the defense of this Cold War era Mississippi rape case. Representing McGee left an indelible mark on Abzug: she made her first trip south, wrote her first Supreme Court petition, and faced her first death threat. Participation in the Left legal bar—especially the National Lawyers Guild and Left feminist circles—shaped Abzug's legal consciousness as she redirected the McGee defense significantly in 1950. By joining race and sex, Abzug's legal argument zeroed in on the taboo of interracial sexual relations at the heart of Southern rape cases, thereby exposing the innermost sexual color line. She urged the courts and cause lawyers—albeit unsuccessfully—to pursue a more radical civil rights agenda than outlawing public segregation, as ultimately achieved in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), and typically recognized in Cold War civil rights scholarship.


2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
Ahwan Fanani

Adat (custom) is a polemical topic in Islamic law. The development of Islamic law since the era of Prophet Muhammad has shown the important role of adat. Islamic law was formulated in accordance or in opposition to the custom of Arabs. However, classical Islamic legal theory (usul fiqh) does not consider it in legal argumentation. Its role is recognized in qawa‘id fiqhiyyah (principle of practical law) as one of five main principles. It is included in non-agreed legal argument. The paper is aimed to reveal the place of custom in Islamic law from the era of prophet to the contemporary era, especially in Islamic legal theory, in the principles of Islamic law, and in Islamic court according to manual book. This paper concludes that custom plays crucial role in elaborating Islamic law in practice. Custom has been acknowl- edged by Islamic scholars, especially by those of Hanafite and Malikite schools, as important part of Islamic law. However, they limites the role of custom in term of private law. The custom was never be discussed in term of rites and folklore, as it is popular now. The custom can still plays important role in Islamic private law or even in alternative dispute resolutions as far as traditional authority is needed and acknowledge by Islamic communities. Adat (custom) merupakan polemik dalam hukum Islam. Perkembangan hukum Islam sejak zaman Nabi Muhammad telah menunjukkan peran penting dari adat. Hukum Islam dirumuskan sesuai atau bertentangan dengan kebiasaan orang-orang Arab. Namun, teori hukum Islam klasik kita (usul fiqh) tidak mempertimbangkan dalam argumentasi hukum. Perannya diakui dalam qawa ‘id fiqhiyyah (prinsip hukum praktis) sebagai salah satu dari lima prinsip utama. Hal ini termasuk dalam argumen hokum yang tidak disepakati. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan tempat adat dalam hukum Islam dari era Nabi ke era kontemporer, khususnya dalam teori hukum Islam, dalam prinsip-prinsip hukum Islam, dan di pengadilan Islam menurut buku manual. Tulisan ini menyimpulkan bahwa Adat memainkan peran penting dalam menguraikan praktek hukum Islam. Adat telah diakui oleh ulama Islam, terutama oleh orang-orang dari Mazhab Hanafi dan Maliki, sebagai bagian penting dari hukum Islam. Namun, mereka membatasi peran adat dalam hal hukum privat. Kebiasaan ini tidak pernah dibahas dalam hal ritual dan cerita rakyat, seperti yang populer sekarang. Kebiasaan masih bisa memainkan peran penting dalam hukum privat Islam atau bahkan dalam resolusi sengketa alternatif sejauh otoritas tradisional dibutuhkan dan diakui oleh masyarakat Islam.


Legal Studies ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Conaghan

This paper explores understandings of harm in law through the application of a feminist perspective. Drawing on the idea of harm as a social construct, the paper considers the role of law in shaping perceptions of when a harm has occurred and whether it should be redressed. These themes are illustrated by means of a close legal and contextual analysis of the House of Lords decision in Waters v Metropolitan Police Commissioner, in which a woman was allegedly bullied at work for reporting she had been raped by a fellow officer. The paper raises questions about why this particular claimant had difficulty establishing that she had suffered harm, despite alleging 89 separate hostile acts by fellow officers, and even though the courts who heard her claim assumed for the purposes of legal argument that the facts alleged were true. It is argued that the narrowness of the approach adopted by most of the judges who heard Ms Waters' claim precluded recognition of the seriousness of the allegations and the social, political, and legal need to provide redress.


2018 ◽  
pp. 330-341
Author(s):  
Jean d’Aspremont ◽  
Eric De Brabandere

International lawyers are involved in the business of persuasion. The primary aim of their international legal argument is to persuade peers and non-peers about the validity of their legal claims. In the quest for the optimal aesthetics of legal argument, one should certainly not overlook the role of the material container in which the international legal argument is stored and by virtue of which it is conveyed. Using data drawn from the catalogues of the main publishers of international law books, this chapter focuses on the imagery used in the design of international law books and the way it contributes to the aesthetics of international legal argumentation. This chapter zeroes in on the paintings that are reproduced on the cover of international law books, with a view to unravelling some of the dynamics of the aesthetics of international legal argumentation.


Author(s):  
Peter Goodrich

Contemporary expansion of the use of images, photographs, film, animation and other visual media in legal argument has given rise to a practice and subdiscipline of visual advocacy. Less studied and commented on, this scopic dimension to legal practice has also resulted in an increasing use of images in judicial decisions. Recent case law provides examples of an image of an ostrich with its head buried purportedly remonstrating against failure to cite binding precedent, a smiling emoji in a decision relating to child custody, numerous splash pages and online order icons in cases relating to consumer purchases over the net, and many further instances of pictures coming to play the law. This chapter directly addresses the role of the eye and the impact of the visual upon the reasoning of judgments, as also on the status and import of precedents that include pictures.


JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
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JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.


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