Throughout this text, you will encounter state statutes that were originally drafted as uniform acts. Uniform acts are model statutes drafted by private bodies of…

Because the judge-made rules of common law apply only when there is no applicable statute or other type of law, common law fills in gaps…

Constitutions, which exist at the state and federal levels, have two general functions. First, they set up the structure of government for the political unit…

The common law came to America with the first English settlers, was applied by courts during the colonial period, and continued to be applied after…

Sociological jurisprudence is a general label uniting several different approaches that examine law within its social context. The following quotation from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes…

Remarks such as these typify the school of jurisprudence known as American legal realism. Legal realists regard the law-in-the-books as less important than the law…

Unjust positive laws, then, are not valid law under the natural law view. As Cicero put it: “What of the many deadly, the many pestilential…

Assume that you have taken on a management position at MKT Corp. If MKT is to make sound business decisions, you and your management colleagues…