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Gypsy Law: Romani Legal Traditions and Culture
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Gypsy Law: Romani Legal Traditions and Culture

by Walter O. Weyrauch. 284 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Walter O. Weyrauch

Publisher:

   University of California Press

Place of Publication:

  Berkeley, CA  

Publication Year:

  2001
Subjects:   Law, Romani, Romanies--Legal Status, Laws, Etc
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books on: (Law Romani) OR (Romanies Legal Status Laws Etc)  - 1862 results

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1.
Gypsy Law: Romani Legal Traditions and Culture
Book by Walter O. Weyrauch; University of California Press, 2001
Subjects: Law, Romani, Romanies--Legal Status, Laws, Etc
...England 2001 by the Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gypsy law: Romani legal traditions and culture / edited by Walter O. Weyrauch. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index...
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Romani: A Linguistic Introduction
Book by Yaron Matras; Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects: Romani Language
...var-des lit. three-times-ten for thirty etc., or Greek borrowings trianda thirty, saranda forty, etc. , or, in some cases, European loans cf...well as those in a sibilant and dental st etc. and in a nasal and dental nd etc. are...
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The Role of the Romanies: Images and 'Counter-Images' of Gypsies
Book by Nicholas Saul, Susan Tebbutt; Liverpool University Press, 2000
...unexplained names Egyptian, Gypsy, Gitano etc and of the story told...epistemic violence that constituted the Romanies as cunning nomads had already become...hostility, culminating in a rancorous legal entanglement. Here I sketch some...Searle's journal on the position and status of the GLS, stating we must be careful...Macfie continued to be worried by the legal wrangle, not sure he could win, irritated...histories, or the possible entry of Romanies into Europe across the Black Sea might...Archive D 1 235 , 16 March 1932. Lawyer etc.. 30 Searle later suggested that...in the 1910s, then the position of Romanies in Britain today might have been...
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Papacy and Law in the Gregorian Revolution: The Canonistic Work of Anselm of Lucca
Book by Kathleen G. Cushing; Oxford University, 1998
Subjects: Anselm--Ii--Saint, Bishop Of Lucca--1036-1086, Canon Law--History, Gregory--Vii--Pope--Ca. 1015-1085, Papacy--History--To 1309
...papal discretion. Less concerned with day-to-day working laws than with the establishment of a constitution, they set...Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition Cambridge, Mass., 1983 . Bermans work...after Conrad IIs death, restored Grados patriarchical status no. 618 . These are but a few examples. Yet they serve...understanding of his elevation to a unique position as the legal head of the universal Church. John Gilchrist showed...however, derives not from his knowledge of specific canon laws, but from his unique appreciation of the importance of...remained strong, and probably intensified with every rise in status; both Anselm, and his uncle Anselm I later Pope Alexander...
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The Early Development of Canon Law and the Council of Serdica
Book by Hamilton Hess; Oxford University Press, 2002
Subjects: Canon Law--History, Canon Law--Sources, Council Of Serdica--(343)
...being consensual agreements to their being regarded as binding laws. Their literary history is a large field of study in itself...century was combined with more ecclesiastical materials and civil laws to become the first part of a nomocanon, apparently bearing the...
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Autonomy, Interdependence, and Responsibility
Journal article by W. Michael Reisman; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 103, 1993
Subjects: Bell, Maureen Anne--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Cross-cultural studies--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Culture and law--Study and teaching, Historicism--Analysis, Weyrauch, Walter Otto--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...members of a group absorb and accept private legal traditions more readily than laws imposed by the state.(29) They suggest...should relate to groups with autonomous legal and political systems operating in its...implicitly rejects them? How should the broader legal system relate to microlegal systems--like...
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Promises Past: Marcus Atilius Regulus and the Dialogue of Natural Law
Journal article by William R. Nifong; Duke Law Journal, Vol. 49, 2000
Subjects: Natural law--Interpretation and construction, Roman law--History, Rome (Ancient)--History, United Nations. International Criminal Court--Powers and duties
...that everything is just which is found in the customs or laws of nations."). As argued later in this Note, the natural law evolves through time as a dialogue among legal theorists, philosophers, and others. See infra Part I.B...Press 1991) (44 B.C.) (confirming the Roman view of slave status as a product of fortune, not nature, and observing an opinion...in the forum," promises made to the subsequently insane, etc.). (77.) See CICERO, Pro Balbo 6.15, in ORATIONS: PRO...characteristic that native obligations at private law to non-Roman legal communities were all recognised"). (133.) CICERO, DE...the Carthaginians position and guaranteed a return to the status quo ante if, as it turned out, the Senate declined the...
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The Moral Menace of Roman Law and the Making of Commerce: Some Dutch Evidence
Journal article by James Q. Whitman; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 105, 1996
Subjects: Commercial law--History, Law and ethics--History, Netherlands--History, Roman law--Moral and ethical aspects
...On the contrary: The Dutch vernacular legal texts, here once again, merely presented...sort of thing. Even though the Imperial laws are no longer applied with such severity...mischaracterized an underlying conflict in European legal history. The critical error is that the...these large points about European socio-legal development, I would like to close with...
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Securities Fraud
Journal article by Billy Kloos, Jacob Alter, Meredith Stone; American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 43, 2006
Subjects: Securities fraud--Surveys, Securities law--Surveys
...to prove a common enterprise, but the status of the vertical commonality test remains...investment contract" under the securities laws. (135) Despite early judicial emphasis...proving unmarketability: economic and legal. (171) Economic unmarketability occurs...and an attorney violated securities laws by failing to correctly describe promoters...his previous conviction and fugitive status); United States v. Gibbons, 968 F.2d...holding interest believes that securities laws apply, is a factor in determining whether...
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The Nontrial Adversarial Model
Journal article by Joel Seligman; Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 64, 2001
Subjects: Class actions (Civil procedure)--Laws, regulations, etc., Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Securities fraud--Laws, regulations, etc., Securities law--Models
...8.) See Elliott J. Weiss, Pleading Securities Fraud, 64 LAW. CONTEMP. PROBS. 5 (Spring/Summer 2001). (9.) 421 U.S. 723...peculiarly within the knowledge of the opposing party.") (quoting Romani v. Shearson Lehman Hutton, 929 F.2d 875, 878 (1st Cit. 1991...
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magazine articles on: (Law Romani) OR (Romanies Legal Status Laws Etc)  - 14 results

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1.
Worker's Rights, Gypsies, Autonomous Regions Considered by Racial Discrimination Committee
Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 22, July 1985
Subjects: Ethnic groups--Social aspects, Minorities--Social aspects, Race discrimination--International aspects, Romanies--Social aspects, United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc.
...relations with the apartheid law. The Committee also took...conventions, constitutions and laws. The indigenous population...foreign employees had the same status as German nationals under...unemployed Germans, and a legal claim to social assistance...and they functioned freely. Legal aid was available for criminal...had a say in the drafting of laws and in the conduct of referendums...members wished to know the status of those who had returned...
2.
The Roma and Sinti during the Holocaust and Today
Magazine article by Romani Rose; UN Chronicle, Vol. 43, December 2006
Subjects: Racism--Social aspects, Romanies--Civil rights, Romanies--Social aspects
...in a comparable case, also in Romania; in all probability, however...State governed by the rule of law. The reported forced sterilization...no internationally effective legal provision against this. At the...protection of minorities through new legal arrangements are required for...
3.
Equal Opportunity in Education: Eliminating Discrimination against Roma
Magazine article by Rumyan Russinov; UN Chronicle, Vol. 44, September 2007
Subjects: Discrimination in education--Censorship, Educational discrimination--Censorship, Educational equalization--Social aspects, Equal education--Social aspects, Race discrimination--Censorship, Roma, Italy (Province)--Educational aspects, Roma, Italy (Province)--Social aspects
...from non-Romani children. In many instances, the attempts of Romani parents to enrol their children in mainstream schools are blocked...exclusion. Although school segregation has never been sanctioned by law in Central and Eastern Europe, it nevertheless still persists...
4.
All Roads Lead to ROMA
Magazine article by Chris Hellier, Chris Walsh; Geographical, Vol. 72, December 2000
Subjects: Refugees--Demographic aspects, Romanies--Social aspects
...major transit point on the illegal `Gypsy migration route from Romania to Germany. The plight of the Polish Roma was overshadowed by...strong likelihood that the Huczkos, their daughters, sons-in-law, and their grandchildren will all be sent back to Poland. "I...
5.
A Home for Roma
Magazine article; Foreign Policy, November 2001
Subjects: Civil rights--Information services, Land tenure--Information services, Romanies--Civil rights
...Roma Rights Centers (ERRC) Web site (www.errc.org) provides carefully researched information on Romani legal issues. The ERRC is a public interest law organization that monitors the human rights situation of Roma and pressures people or countries...
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1.
Gypsy 'Curse' over the Top
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), May 5, 2006
...are planning to go to Bucharest on April 20... My sister-in-law Carmen has told me there are a lot of gypsies heading to Bucharest...pickpockets." Roma Center for Social Intervention and Studies - Romani CRISS - protest against this article that sends a discriminatory...
2.
Embassy Row
Newspaper article by James Morrison; The Washington Times, June 2, 2000
...dialogue, the better," he said. Witnesses at the commission hearing will include Ina Zoon, former vice president of the Romanian League for Human Rights; Monika Horakova, a member of the Czech parliament who also serves on the European Roma Rights Center...European Roma Rights Center; Karolina Banomova, a Czech Roma who sought political asylum in Canada; and Diane Orentlicher, a law professor at American University. GOOD JOB President Clinton yesterday praised the American diplomats at the U.S. Embassy...
3.
Mwynhau'r Gwersylla Gymaint Nes Bo Ni'n Gyndyn O Fynd Adref
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 22, 2007
...niwrnod o wersylla yn yr haul, ron in awyddus i barhau ym myd y Romani, a phrynais lyfr Cool Camping (Wales). Deugain o wersylloedd...nosweithiau byw, ac mae Mabon ap Gwynfor a Nia Llywelyn wrth law ich harwain ach helpu. Maer pwyslais ar gyflwyno cerddoriaeth...noson arall mewn pabell damp wedi torri. Ond wedi tri mis o law, fedar o ddim para, ac mae gen i deimlad y byddaf mewn deuddydd...
4.
Dyddiadur Awdures a Llawysgrif Prifardd; Y CELFYDDYDAU
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 19, 2007
...gan yr awdures Marion Eames. Eitem arall ddiddorol yw llawysgrif o gerdd Gwenallt Cwmyr Eglwys, (wedii hysgrifennu yn ei law ei hun). Mae gweddill yr eitemaun cynnwys un o lyfrau Syr Kyffin Williams, wedii lofnodi ganddo. Maen debyg mair eitem ddrutaf...ffair yn Ysgol y Berwyn gan Buddug Medi, Cyn-brifathrawes, awdures, beirniad cenedlaethol, pregethwraig ac awdurdod ar fywyd y Romani. Daw stondinwyr a llyfrwerthwyr o bob rhan o Gymru i arddangos a gwerthu eu cynnyrch. Cynhelir yr ocsiwn o 2.00 tan 3.00 or...
5.
INVASION OF THE Travellers; (1) Brazenly Flouting Planning Laws and Exploiting the Human Rights Act, Gipsies across Britain Are Buying Fields and Setting Up Their Homes. So Why Doesn't This Government Give a Damn?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 6, 2004
...about the rights of anyone else. Maggie Smith-Bendall, of the Romani Gipsy Council, has put it this way: Yes, we are deliberately...Commons, announced that the Government intends to change the law to get rid of Brian Haw, an antiwar protester who has been living...


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