Rethinking the Law of Evidence: a Twenty-First Century Agenda for Teaching and Research

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The Law ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Law Of Evidence

Ethics in Community in the Gospel and Letters of John

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan van der Watt
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Ethical Thinking ◽  
The Law ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Significant Data

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the question of ethics in John came under renewed consideration. As scholars applied more comprehensive analytical categories to the Gospel and Letters of John significant data became available related to the ethical dynamics of the Gospel. Reading the Gospel as narrative and reflecting on certain socio-historical and theological realities, scholars discovered that the interrelatedness between identity and behaviour is basic to the ethical thinking of John. This identity is expressed in metaphorical terms derived from familial, juridical, friendship, and royal language. The importance of ancient ethically related features, common to ordinary popular moral philosophy, like mimesis or reciprocity, are also highlighted as being part of the ethical dynamics in John. Obviously, the two major foci remain the Law and the love commandment.

1. History and sources of immigration law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Clayton ◽  
Georgina Firth ◽  
Caroline Sawyer ◽  
Rowena Moffatt ◽  
Helena Wray
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Uk

Course-focused and comprehensive, the Textbook on series provides an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. This chapter begins with a brief history of immigration law in the UK, focusing on key legislative developments and noting the themes which arise in that history. Twenty-first-century legislation is discussed in more detail, observing the trends of increasing restriction on those seeking asylum and reduction of appeal rights for all migrants. The tension between the executive and judiciary is noted as a background to much of the development. The chapter concludes with the sources of immigration law, including the immigration rules and policies, and explains that immigration law is not, as was once thought, founded in the prerogative.

scholarly journals War at sea: Nineteenth-century laws for twenty-first century wars?

2016 ◽  
Vol 98 (902) ◽  
pp. 419-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Haines
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
First Century ◽  
Hybrid Warfare ◽  
The Law ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Economic Warfare

AbstractWhile most law on the conduct of hostilities has been heavily scrutinized in recent years, the law dealing with armed conflict at sea has been largely ignored. This is not surprising. There have been few naval conflicts since 1945, and those that have occurred have been limited in scale; none has involved combat between major maritime powers. Nevertheless, navies have tripled in number since then, and today there are growing tensions between significant naval powers. There is a risk of conflict at sea. Conditions have changed since 1945, but the law has not developed in that time. Elements of it, especially that regulating economic warfare at sea, seem outdated and it is not clear that the law is well placed to regulate so-called “hybrid” warfare at sea. It seems timely to review the law, to confirm that which is appropriate and to develop that which is not. Perhaps a new edition of theSan Remo Manualwould be timely.

What is IT? Ambient dread and modern paranoia in It (2017), It Follows (2014) and It Comes at Night (2017)

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-220
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Horror Films ◽  
First Century ◽  
Mass Shootings ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Law ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Stranger Danger

This article finds its impetus in the curious convergence of three twenty-first-century horror films around the ambiguous ‘It’ foregrounded by their titles: Andrés Muschietti’s 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 novel It, David Robert Mitchell’s 2014 It Follows and Trey Edward Shults’s 2017 It Comes at Night. In each of these films, the titular ‘it’ is difficult or impossible to pin down; it can assume the form of anyone (or, in the case of Shults’s film, infect anyone) and appear anywhere; it cannot be reasoned with, explained or swayed from its course; and conventional sources of protection – the law, and particularly the family – all come up short when confronting it. In this way, the ambiguous ‘its’ of these three films can be seen as crystallizations of a twenty-first-century zeitgeist in which monstrosity seems particularly difficult to locate and defuse. In the age of terrorism, mass shootings and ‘stranger danger’, climate change, and global pandemics, these films suggest that contemporary anxieties cluster around the ambiguous nature of modern threats.

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