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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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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...
2.
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...
3.
The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C.-A.D. 235): Law and Family in the Imperial Army
Book by Sara Elise Phang; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Marriage (Roman Law), Soldiers--Rome--Family Relationships--History
...riage requirements of the Augustan laws, which required men between age twenty-five...soldier ... was not allowed to enter a legal marriage. This does not mean that the...BGU 140, the birth declarations and status examinations of soldiers ille- gitimate...officials (iuridicus, archidikastes, etc.) was common.9 But the prefect often...17-35 at 29-30. Gardner, Proofs of status (1986), 1-14. The parent did not...her to dispense with a guardian in legal transactions. Schulz (1943), 60 regards...examination was to qualify the Roman citizens status as tax-exempt.g9 BGU IV 1032 (A.D...but as depositum (?apa6?jx?). This legal dodge seems to have been quite com...
4.
Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome
Book by Thomas A. J. McGinn; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Prostitutes--Rome--Social Conditions, Prostitution (Roman Law), Prostitution--Rome
...social order and the defense of the legal systems legitimacy. The role of...Allied with these strictures is the laws edu- cative purpose, as seen in the adultery laws manipulation of the statuses of re- spectable and nonrespectable...comprehensive discussion of the civil status of pimps and prostitutes. By what...What was the nature of var- ious legal disabilities imposed on them? I propose...chapters (3 and 5) discuss the Augustan laws on marriage and adul- tery, which...received opinion linked social status to sexual behavior. For example...juristic interpretation of these laws and show how an attempt was made...9 reviews a diverse assortment of legal sources directly linking pros...
5.
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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Autonomy, Interdependence, and Responsibility
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...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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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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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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Legal Enforcement of Xenotransplantation Public Health Safeguards
Journal article by Patrik S. Florencio, Erik D. Ramanathan; Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 32, 2004
Subjects: Communicable diseases--Laws, regulations and rules, Contracts--Laws, regulations and rules, Disease transmission--Laws, regulations and rules, Informed consent (Medical law)--Laws, regulations and rules, Informed consent--Laws, regulations and rules, Public health law--Practice, Xenotransplantation--Laws, regulations and rules
...would be incompatible with fundamental legal instruments upholding civil liberties...moving to a state or province with weaker laws, the provisions of the Model Act authorizing...approach are practical, ethical, and legal. The practical difficulty is that while...general rule, conflicts between federal laws are resolved in favor of the more explicit...that conflicts arise between the two laws. To avoid confusion regarding this issue...relevant jurisdiction would be under no legal obligation to comply with the public...
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Judicial History
Journal article by Adrian Vermeule; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 108, 1999
Subjects: Judicial opinions--Interpretation and construction, Law--Interpretation and construction
...settled roles unless the costs of the status quo appear intolerable. Second, when...itself rooted in some general theory of legal interpretation. For example, it might...of this sort of local solution. The laws untheorized exclusion of judicial history...34.) See id. sections 2072(b) ("All laws in conflict with such roles shall be...see ANDREI MARMOR, INTERPRETATION AND LEGAL THEORY 159-72 (1992). (39.) See, e...Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. LEGAL STUD. 271, 283 n.30 (1998). In the same...U.S.C. sections 2072(b) (1994) ("All laws in conflict with such rules promulgated...
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magazine articles on: (Law Romani) OR (Romanies Legal Status Laws Etc)  - 16 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...
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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...
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Equal Opportunity in Education: Eliminating Discrimination against Roma
Magazine article by Rumyan Russinov; UN Chronicle, Vol. 44, September 2007
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...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.
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...
5.
Roma Then and Now
Magazine article; New Internationalist, January 2008
Subjects: Nomads--Appreciation, Nomads--History, Romanies--Appreciation, Romanies--History
...European Roma Rights Centre is an international public interest law organization combating anti-Roma racism and human rights abuses...http://gypsyunion.tripod.com The Czech-based International Romani Union has consultative status at the UN Economic and Social...
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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...
2.
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...
3.
Book Giveaway
Newspaper article; Coffs Coast Advocate (Coffs Harbour, Australia), July 25, 2009
Subjects: Books
...1837-1844 although it is an adventure saga with startling contemporary resonances. It follows the intertwined destinies of a Romani gypsy, a Currency Lad and a young convict who walk a tightrope between law and order and anarchy in 1830s New South Wales. This story will sweep you right off your feet into a time where emotions were...
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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...
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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...
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