Others issues that are talk about in this book are the analysis of Ripstein response to various challenges to traditional legal practices. ... Another issue that was address was the concerned with defending traditional practice against Eugeny Pashukanis's Marxist critique of "the legal form. ... Other thing that I found interesting about the book was the way in which he brought ethics and the law into one big theory in which he back up with arguments and detail telling us way he believed in such a way. ...

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The article that I have selected to do my research paper talks about the legal and moral implications of human reproductive and therapeutic cloning. ... Some legal scholars have already challenged the system and their views against banning this type of technology, but others clearly see a potential for its use in the medical field. ... Yet, there is a moral issue involved as well, concerning the ethics within the societal nature of cloning a human being. ... Many seek this use for medical treatment in the form of therapeutic cloning, but others see this area of treatment as a niche in a poten...

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Discussions are viewed not with moral criticism, but with a legal aspect, in which problems are examined objectively about what the law requires. ... Due to the mounting need to bring together the theoretical and pragmatic aspects of law, many law schools have founded clinical training programs, which allow the students to directly deal with legal problems and offer legal advice to such indigents, as well as draft documents and file lawsuits. ... Without it, easy admission would allow the licensing of dishonest and incompetent lawyers, as well as more lawyers into the field than there is avail...

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Thomas Szasz, in his article "The Ethics of Addiction-, argues "for unless we are willing to hold ourselves responsible for our own behavior, and hold others responsible for theirs, the liberty to use drugs degenerates into a license to hurt others- (Szasz, 331). ... Wilson, if drugs were to become legal, it would be hard to make many addicts attend treatments. ... It is hard to tell an addict not to take drugs anymore if they are legal and can be bought without any questions. ... Many may argue that the use of cocaine and heroin are not legal just because they have not been around as long...

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• Grade Level: High School

The use of any drug whether it be legal or not is not healthy for one's body to smoke. ... Marijuana could be effective for the medical field in some ways, but there are other prescription drugs that are legal which are just as or even more effective than smoking marijuana. There are other legal prescription drugs that are just as effective as smoking dank. ... When these people who our children are taught to look up to and respect are saying it is ok to legalize drugs, this is putting bad ethics in our youth's minds. ... If these children are brought up believing that the us...

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There are no commonly accepted medical or legal terms to define a human being. ... It is questionable as to whether abortion is essentially an issue of law or one of morals and ethics. Historically religious beliefs have coloured the legal opinion on abortion. ... In addition to this, a woman in Western Australia is no longer subject to legal punishment. ... These new legal restrictions are imposed in no other State and Territory of Australia. ...

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Although society is against killing, physician assisted suicide is steady with medical ethics. ... The law did not go in effect until November 4, 1997 and now assisted suicide is legal in Oregon (Torr 98). Although it is legal there are stipulations for it, such as the physician does not self-administer the lethal medications because that would be considered euthanasia (Caplan and Snyder 9). ... Some people think if euthanasia became legal it could possibly harm society too. ... Although it is very controversial, why prolong the pain and suffering a person is going through or make them move to...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It is a tangle of current social values, ethics, procedures and equality. ... Perhaps the most important right that a person accused of a serious offence has is his right to legal representation. The right "...to have legal assistance assigned to him, in any case where the interests of justice require so- This legal assistance can come in different forms, however the courts must provide some of these free of charge if desired. ... However with the issue of legal aid and court costs the inevitable problem of funds available to the courts arises. ... As it is the police who are the investig...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this time period, in small towns where no legal system or law enforcement was put into place, a vigilance committee could have been made. Where by there is no legal officers, just normal people. ... Instead of confronting his thoughts politically or legally he swore revenge on those who died at Waco and made the bomb. ... This issue is a perfect example of where situational ethics is used. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In this time period, in small towns where no legal system or law enforcement was put into place, a vigilance committee could have been made. Where by there is no legal officers, just normal people. ... Instead of confronting his thoughts politically or legally he swore revenge on those who died at Waco and made the bomb. ... This issue is a perfect example of where situational ethics is used. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

(wclac.org) Gender discrimination is also inherent in relevant criminal legislation, whereby the crimes of rape, indecent assaults, and incest fall under the category of "crimes against public morals and ethics", and not under "crimes against individuals". ... Equality in legal and civil issues states that women should be equal with men under the law but men are allowed to marry whomever they want and not get their nationality taken away from them. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate