of a person is regulated, first of all, by the norms of the national legislation of the state in whose territory it resides. However, an important role in regulating human rights and freedoms is played by international legal acts. After all, the US Constitution states that existing international treaties are part of national legislation. Therefore, when considering the issue of the prohibition of torture in the United States, it should be emphasized that the United Nations Convention against Torture
addresses two main questions: how we got from there to here, that is, from just war theories that embraced the punishment theory to its current erasure. The second being whether the punishment theory may nevertheless be right. For decades, just war theorists realized that wars could be waged to fulfill desire, punish or avenge wrongdoings. Currently, this punishment theory of just cause has evaporated from international law, which recognizes only collective and individual self-defense as legitimate cause
ecology and international law in order to relate each other. Therefore, Ecology can be explained as the science of “correlation between all organisms living together to their surroundings” . There are several meanings given to explain ecology. In one manner, Ecology is defined as the “essence of ecology lies in giving value to the habitat as cause and the community as the effect, where they constitute a unit process” . Here, international law can be related to ecology because international law aims to
Thucydides’ belief that power rather than the laws of nature are vital for deciding the leaders in society is reiterated.
this study are mainly drawn from the structural functionalist theory, social contract theory, reinforcement theory, the UN Humanitarian Resolution 46/182 of 1991, the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 (R.A. 10121), the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Framework of the Philippines, and the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan, 2011 to 2028. The Structural Functionalism Theory by Talcott Parsons circulates around the idea that hierarchical
true and unbiased knowledge of actuality by utilizing methods of natural sciences in sociology. For positivists, reality exists individualistically in the human mind while nature is create by objective, observable, physical facts that are external to our minds. Positivists believe that like matter, humans are guided by an external factor and they act accordingly. By studying quantitative data, positivists merely pursue to find the laws of cause and effect that control human behaviour. One of the first
in ten leading trading nation. It also referred to the Theory of National Advantage. It's designed to help government to understand the competitive advantage. It suggests that the national home base of any organizations are playing a supportive role in shaping the size or scoop to which it is likely to achieve advantage on a global scale. This home base provides basic factors, which support organizations from building advantages in international competition. Porter classifies four determinants: Factor
RULE OF LAW IN INDIA India embraced the Common law system of justice liberation which owes its origins to British jurisprudence, the basis of which is the Rule of Law. Dicey superbly maintained that the Englishmen does not need Administrative law or any form of written law to keep checks on the government but that the Rule of Law and natural law would be enough to ensure absence of executive unpredictability. While India also accepts and follows the concept of natural law, there are formal and written
system, firms that maximize profits end up maximizing the difference between costs and benefits. Additionally, as the changes to technology, tastes, and availability of resources take place so does the market prices change directly to the resources. In theory, the market economy expects that profits and prices’ interaction to maintain a reasonable level in economic mistakes (Langran and Schnitzer 37). This is because profit is dependent on the selling price of services and goods and the cost of producing
Human rights are widely studied in intellectual perspectives rooted in the law, philosophy, international relations, and political science (Hunt, 2008). The approaches provide insight into the historical background of human rights by focusing on the emergence of eh concept as well as its implementation. In this case, history of human rights delves into the development of its moral ideas, legal doctrines, and political institutions (Ishay, 2008). Human rights emerged through a struggle, as a concept