The Devil Comes to Kansas: A Story of Free Love and the Law

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles J. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Free Love ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Devil

Love and the Law

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Brake
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Response ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Obligation ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Marriage Law ◽  
Free Love ◽  
Love Relationships ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law

Both the free love tradition and philosophers appalled by the “love revolution” in marriage saw an antagonism between love and legal obligation. Marriage abolitionists and queer theorists have more recently argued against state legitimation of love relationships. This chapter briefly outlines the history of the concept of romantic love and its unlawfulness. It describes how law in modern liberal states has treated love, both in marriage law and in legal regulation of sex. It then turns to normative questions: Are love and legal institutions incompatible? What laws should there be regarding love or sex? The chapter considers arguments that legal institutions designed to protect love relationships wrongly burden the choice to remain in relationships, that they threaten spontaneous emotional response, that they are inherently unstable, that they are oppressive, and that love is a political virtue. I conclude that we are still witnessing the love revolution unfold.

scholarly journals Recent challenges of LBOs in Italy and institutional insights: The devil lies in the details

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 360-367
Author(s):  
Simona Zambelli
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Private Equity ◽  
Governance Reform ◽  
Actual Nature ◽  
Corporate Governance Reform ◽  
The Law ◽  
Institutional Challenges ◽  
Interest Payments ◽  
The Devil

This study highlights recent institutional challenges faced by Private equity (PE) investors in Italy. These challenges increased the debate on the admissibility of LBOs, especially with reference to the actual nature of the debt underlying LBOs and the deductibility of the related interest payments. Despite the enactment of the 2004 corporate governance reform, which legalized LBOs under specific conditions, and the introduction of the European AIFM Directive (2011/61/EU), the doubts on the admissibility of LBOs have not been fully resolved. Up until recently, the Italian Tax Authority continued to challenge LBOs by interpreting them as tools fraudulently adopted by PE investors to elude the law and evade taxes. As a result, PE investors had to face a number of fiscal challenges and sanctions, which added more uncertainty to the legal admissibility of LBOs in Italy. Recently, new fiscal guidelines and jurisprudence finally changed this perspective, confirming the legitimacy of LBOs

A Common Tradition Underlying the Temptation Pericope of Matthew 4:1–11 and the Qumran Psalm Pesher (4QpPsa, 4Q171)

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-47
Author(s):  
David Katzin
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Devil

Abstract This study posits that the Temptation pericope of Matt 4:1–11 and the Psalm Pesher (4QpPsa, 4Q171) are based on a common tradition. Underlying this tradition is a dual-tripartite construct of testing/temptation. This is based on the three Pentateuchal wilderness tests encountered by Israel which are identifiable through the root נ–ס–ה/“test:” keeping the law, false prophecy leading to idolatry, and testing God. Conflated, and individually correlated with this, are the three nets of Belial: “fornication,” “wealth,” and “profanation of the Temple,” respectively. Also going beyond the biblical narrative are the Devil acting in circumlocution for God, the venues, forms of testing, and lexicon used in corresponding testing sections of these two texts. Only through Psalm 37, together with its exegesis in 4Q171, is this shared tradition recognized. In conclusion, the provenance and diachronic history of this tradition, which resulted in differing understandings of it, is investigated.

scholarly journals Book Review - Sexuality, Disability and the Law: Beyond the Last Frontier?

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Shelley Kolstad
Keyword(s):  
Hostile Environment ◽  
Font Size ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Devil

<p><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Crisp white yachts moored upon a blue sea, verdant green mangroves framing Trinity Inlet in the distance; the sublime vision greeting me each time I glanced away from ‘Sexuality, Disability, and the Law: Beyond the Last Frontier?’</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> to reflect. Squally tropical breezes insisted on playing havoc with the menu, sending the salt shaker skidding across the harbour-side café table at which I was seated, drinking coffee. To reflect means to think carefully and deeply, and I found myself compelled to stop reading and think about the issues raised in this book often.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">In some ways I felt it was the least I could do.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Paradise was my fortunate reality and a kind of Hell was otherwise being exposed on the pages of the text before me.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Professor Perlin, you are an agent of the devil!’ Is there a more hostile environment on Earth than that of the anxious, fearful mind? My own reaction did not include ‘praying for [Perlin’s] soul,’ upon becoming cognisant of what this book was asking me to consider.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">But I realise now that even thinking, ‘it’s none of my business, is it?’ although honestly well intentioned, might actually be a morally lazy synonym for ‘not my problem,’ or even worse:</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">‘I don’t care.’</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span></em></p><div><div><p><em> </em></p></div></div>

scholarly journals The Devil is in the Definition – Definitions and their Limited Use in Legal Problem Solving

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
David Brimer ◽  
Alan Brimer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Legal Problem ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Precise Argument ◽  
The Devil

The lawyer’s usual attempt to catch the meaning of a thing by entangling it in a net of words is based on a common misapprehension of the way words work. The great minds of the ages have since time immemorial reminded us that words do not contain essences, that meanings are social constructs, and that the relation between words and meanings is slippery at best. Definitions presuppose that words have simple meanings attached to them in something like a one-to-one relationship, which is why the law can sometimes be so obtuse. It is the use of the law in a tribunal that provides the eventual understanding of how the law works. Decisions handed down in courts are embedded in a particular time and a particular set of circumstances and are the products of minds informed by a set of social experiences which other lawyers accept as qualifying those particular persons to pronounce on the law. Our legislature would do well when framing legislation to imitate those who drafted the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 which is sufficiently specific, without the support of pages of definitions, to lead to very precise argument in the Constitutional Court, and yet sufficiently general to allow the law to develop with the flux of time.

The devil and William Dabney. An epidemiological postscript

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (8) ◽  
pp. 645-648
Author(s):  
F. J. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
The Devil

Ethical Challenges: Less About Moral Wrongdoing and More About Communication Breakdown

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 72-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Leslie ◽  
Mary Casper
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Thickened Liquids ◽  
Communication Breakdown ◽  
Professional Duty ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
The Law ◽  
Personal Case

“My patient refuses thickened liquids, should I discharge them from my caseload?” A version of this question appears at least weekly on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Community pages. People talk of respecting the patient's right to be non-compliant with speech-language pathology recommendations. We challenge use of the word “respect” and calling a patient “non-compliant” in the same sentence: does use of the latter term preclude the former? In this article we will share our reflections on why we are interested in these so called “ethical challenges” from a personal case level to what our professional duty requires of us. Our proposal is that the problems that we encounter are less to do with ethical or moral puzzles and usually due to inadequate communication. We will outline resources that clinicians may use to support their work from what seems to be a straightforward case to those that are mired in complexity. And we will tackle fears and facts regarding litigation and the law.

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