Download or read book Reflections on Contemporary Issues in Nigeria Legal System written by Keji Saliu and published by . This book was released on 2001* with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections on Contemporary Issues in Nigeria Legal System written by Keji Saliu and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law and Contemporary Nigeria written by Gabriel Olu Onagoruwa and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Nigerian Legal System written by E. Smaranda Olarinde and published by Glj General Services. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflective Practice and Its Potential to Enhance Clinical Legal Education and Support Social Justice Work of Law Clinics in Nigeria written by Odinakaonye Lagi and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explored what role reflective practice has in Nigerian clinical law programmes, and aimed to understand how the concept is used in teaching and learning in law clinic practice and social justice work. The theoretical concept of reflective practice in clinical legal education is still an emerging concept in legal education, with suggestions for an integrative and expansive framework (Leering, 2014; Lowenberger, 2019; Madhloom, 2019; Seear et al., 2019; Spencer & Brooks, 2019). The theoretical framework of this study is positioned within experiential and transformative learning that recognised collective, relational, and contextual learning; and the concept that reflective practice should be an integrative process inclusive of cognitive and emotional processes. The methodological framework used a qualitative case study situated within a constructivist paradigm that incorporated contextual background of law clinics in Nigeria and the complexities law clinics face in dealing with their intervention in social justice issues. Data collection was through in-depth semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions. I interviewed six participants comprised of clinical law teachers selected through purposeful sampling, and data analysis was a comparative process moving from inductive to deductive processes by identifying meaningful and relevant themes (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). Findings indicated that in clinical legal education in Nigeria, reflective practice was identified as an integral aspect without which teaching would revert to the traditional theoretical approach. I found five major themes through which participants integrated reflective practice, and they include, a) reflective practice was integrated in classroom learning processes through various feedback tools; b) reflections occurred during out-of-classroom experiential learning at different stages of law clinic practice cycle and community outreaches; c) reflection supported learning and helped to address issues brought forward as a result of emotions triggered during law clinic activities; d) participants connected their practice to theory and provided a framing of reflective practice which had not existed prior to this study; and e) reflective practice was fundamental in assessing the impact of clinical legal education on students and teachers - in the development of professional skills and social values, and communities - in addressing legal needs. Teaching clinically was seen as reflective teaching which holistically integrated critical reflection, reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action, and created space for the role of emotions and relational learning in legal practice. Law clinic practice evoked deep emotions for students when exposed to societal harms and the criminal justice system. The study however, indicated that reflective practice was implicitly an integral part of clinical legal education that needed to be made more explicit through increased documentation of processes, to promote transferability of knowledge and practice in legal education. The study provided a theoretical guide in framing and supporting a framework for an expansive concept of reflective practice for clinical legal education and for the legal profession.
Download or read book The Military Law and Society written by David M. Jemibewon and published by Spectrum Books. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law and Social Change in Nigeria written by University of Lagos. Faculty of Law and published by University of Lagos Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections on Judging written by Richard A. Posner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reflections on Judging, Richard Posner distills the experience of his thirty-one years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Surveying how the judiciary has changed since his 1981 appointment, he engages the issues at stake today, suggesting how lawyers should argue cases and judges decide them, how trials can be improved, and, most urgently, how to cope with the dizzying pace of technological advance that makes litigation ever more challenging to judges and lawyers. For Posner, legal formalism presents one of the main obstacles to tackling these problems. Formalist judges--most notably Justice Antonin Scalia--needlessly complicate the legal process by advocating "canons of constructions" (principles for interpreting statutes and the Constitution) that are confusing and self-contradictory. Posner calls instead for a renewed commitment to legal realism, whereby a good judge gathers facts, carefully considers context, and comes to a sensible conclusion that avoids inflicting collateral damage on other areas of the law. This, Posner believes, was the approach of the jurists he most admires and seeks to emulate: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Learned Hand, Robert Jackson, and Henry Friendly, and it is an approach that can best resolve our twenty-first-century legal disputes.
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in International Law written by B.C. Nirmal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the changing nature of international law and its ability to respond to the contemporary issues related to international environment, trade and information technology. The evolution of international law has reached a stage where we are witnessing diminishing power of the state and its capacity to deal with the economic matters challenging the existing notions of territory and sovereignty. Recent trends in international law and international relations show that states no longer have exclusive control over the decision-making process at the global level. Keeping this in mind, the book brings together the perspectives of various international and national scholars. The book considers diverse issues such as, sustainable development, climate change, global warming, Rio+20, technology transfer, agro-biodiversity and genetic resource, authority for protection of environment, human right to water, globalization, human rights, sui generis options in IP laws, impact of liberalization on higher education, regulation of international trade, intellectual property rights, collective administration of copyright, broadcast reproduction rights, implementation of copyright law, communication rights under copyright law, arbitration for IP disputes, doctrine of exhaustion of rights, trans-border reputation of trademark, information as an asset, cyber obscenity and pornography, e-governance, taxation of e-commerce, computer crime, information technology, domain names, research excellence in legal education, ideological perspective on legal education, challenges for law teachers, and clinical legal education. The topics, though diverse, are closely interrelated, with the common concern throughout being that the global environment, international trade, information technology and legal education need appropriate national normative and institutional responses as well as the global cooperation of members of the international community. Presenting reflections of a number of Asian, African and European scholars on these varied facets, the book is of great value to scholars, practitioners, teachers and students associated with contemporary international law.
Download or read book Reflections on the Making of the Modern Law of the Sea written by Satya Nandan and published by National University of Singapore Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colonial Systems of Control written by Viviane Saleh-Hanna and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars and activists. While prisoners document the daily realities and struggles of life inside a Nigerian prison, scholar and human rights activist Viviane Saleh-Hanna provides historical, political, and academic contexts and analyses of the penal system in Nigeria. The European penal models and institutions imported to Nigeria during colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of most African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis. Keywords: Nigeria, West Africa, penal system, maximum-security prison. Published in English.
Download or read book African Journal of International Affairs Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in International Law written by David Freestone and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1985, the Law School at the University of Hull has hosted an annual lecture - the Josephine Onoh Memorial Lecture - given by a distinguished international lawyer. These annual lectures are funded by the Josephine Onoh Memorial Fund, established in 1984 by the family and friends of Josephine Onoh who was tragically killed in an air crash at Enugu, Nigeria, in November 1983. Josephine was a Hull law graduate, and at the time of her death was registered at the University for a research degree in the field of international law. This book contains a collection of these annual lectures. The first lecture in 1985 was given by the late Judge Taslim Elias, at that time President of the International Court of Justice. Subsequent lectures have been given by both leading practitioners and professors of international law, including Sir Robert Jennings, Bin Cheng, Sir Ian Sinclair, Philip Allott, Henry Schermers, Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, Alexandre-Charles Kiss, Dame Rosalyn Higgins, Peter Sand, Ian Brownlie, Christopher Greenwood, Marti Koskenniemi, and Ralph Zacklin. The lectures reflect some of the most significant international concerns of the last two decades. The subjects they address include new trends in international law, international courts and politics, the practitioner's view of international law, international law and revolution, the European Convention of Human Rights, European Community law concepts, the global environment and international law, the current role of the United Nations, international environmental trust funds, international boundary law, international law and imperialism, and humanitarian intervention. This important collection of essays by some of the leading international law figures of our generation will be of equal value to all interested in international law, whether the academic or the practitioner.
Download or read book Reflections on the Supreme Court of Ghana written by Samuel Kofi Date-Bah and published by JCL Studies in Comparative Law. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is intended to be a contribution to comparative knowledge on what a final and constitutional court's role and significance are to governance in a developing country. It provides a recently retired judge's insights into the substantive work and function of the Supreme Court in Ghanaian society and Ghana's legal and political system. The book throws light on the role played by the Supreme Court in the development of Ghanaian law and the laying of the foundation for Ghana's constitutional democracy. The establishment of a constitutional democracy in Ghana has been an important factor in the nation's development and the Supreme Court has had an important role to play in this process. It will also be invaluable to both academic and practising lawyers, as well as at non-lawyers interested in the function and operations of the Supreme Court. The study of the Supreme Courts of emerging democracies should be given some emphasis in comparative law. It is hoped that the material contained in this book will contribute to the facilitation of such emphasis.
Download or read book Reflections on Principles and Practice of International Law written by Terry D. Gill and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays in honour of Professor Leo Bouchez covers a wide variety of topics within the field of international law and related disciplines which Professor Bouchez came into contact with over the course of his long and distinguished career as a practising attorney. The contributions, by a distinguished group of friends and professional colleagues, reflect the diversity of his intellectual interests and professional activities, of both a theoretical and a practical nature. The essays include such topics as jurisdiction, extradition law, human rights and self-determination, the use of force and the enforcement of United Nations sanctions, territory and the law of the sea, as well as essays on municipal law topics relating to international law and on international relations. Professor Bouchez was a senior partner in the firm of Houthoff and Associates and Adjunct Professor of International Law at the University of Utrecht until his retirement in 1998.
Download or read book African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems written by Oche Onazi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a collection of essays, which aim to situate African legal theory in the context of the myriad of contemporary global challenges; from the prevalence of war to the misery of poverty and disease to the crises of the environment. Apart from being problems that have an indelible African mark on them, a common theme that runs throughout the essays in this book is that African legal theory has been excluded, under-explored or under-theorised in the search for solutions to such contemporary problems. The essays make a modest attempt to reverse this trend. The contributors investigate and introduce readers to the key issues, questions, concepts, impulses and problems that underpin the idea of African legal theory. They outline the potential offered by African legal theory and open up its key concepts and impulses for critical scrutiny. This is done in order to develop a better understanding of the extent to which African legal theory can contribute to discourses seeking to address some of the challenges that confront African and non-African societies alike.
Download or read book The Acquisition of Africa 1870 1914 written by Mieke van der Linden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over recent decades, the responsibility for the past actions of the European colonial powers in relation to their former colonies has been subject to a lively debate. In this book, the question of the responsibility under international law of former colonial States is addressed. Such a legal responsibility would presuppose the violation of the international law that was applicable at the time of colonization. In the ‘Scramble for Africa’ during the Age of New Imperialism (1870-1914), European States and non-State actors mainly used cession and protectorate treaties to acquire territorial sovereignty (imperium) and property rights over land (dominium). The question is raised whether Europeans did or did not on a systematic scale breach these treaties in the context of the acquisition of territory and the expansion of empire, mainly through extending sovereignty rights and, subsequently, intervening in the internal affairs of African political entities.
