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A reading of Brown v. Board of Education against the backdrop of the absurdist theater of the 1950s which, like the case, dramatizes the question of effective speech and action in a world dominated by empty language and thoughtless conformity.

: In today's world, agricultural production has a rising significance, but in Turkey, the productive
agricultural land surrounding metropolitan cities (which are historically nodes of agricultural production)
are now under risk of urban sprawl. Land speculation is one of the most important problems of urban
politics in Turkey and land development rights given are, in most of the cases, exceeding the need.
Agricultural production on the other hand, is suffering from scale economies and rural policies of the
government. This creates a dramatic imbalance between the pressure level of urban and rural usages on
the periphery of the city. With recent changes in the legislation, the control of rural land surrounding
metropolitan cities has been given to metropolitan municipalities (MM) in 2004, which have no experience
and consideration on the management of rural areas. These areas are considered as reserve areas for
urban development, a space that can be consumed rather than a space of production for the society and
for the future.
Within this context, this paper aims to critically ask the impact of urban growth disorder, stemming from
neoliberal urban politics, on agriculture in the areas surrounding the sixteen major metropolitan cities. By
taking 2004 as a breakpoint, the impact of regulations by Justice and Development Party (AKP), over the
amount of agricultural land will be analysed. The changes in the amount of land between 1995-2004 and
2004-2012 will be compared with reference to population growth and other social and economic aspects.
The issue at hand is multi-layered and complicated, the data related is vast in amount, and the author of
this paper also searches for new ways to piece together the data with methods. Following this, in the
conclusion, a modest policy proposal for integrating urban and rural areas while increasing the resistance
of agricultural production against urban sprawl will be made.

This article studies the influence of roman private law and roman legal science upon the most famous and the most influential legal monumet of the municipal law of the Late Middle Ages, The work of Mr. Kristian Koldin „Práva městská království Českého“. This influence is described with the help of crime theft. Particular provisions of the theft in the roman and czech municipal law was been  compared and the outcome is that Koldin´s work was greatly infuenced by the roman law. Koldin uses not only legal definition (even in latine) taken from the roman law, but also he uses the same examples and institutions and finaly he directly refers to the Corpus Iuris Civilis as the most important source of law for every christian king and kingdom.

Ronald Dworkin’s contributions to legal philosophy have been subject to severe criticism in recent years. Other legal philosophers call his arguments “deflected or discredited,” laced with “philosophical confusions,” and “deeply embedded” mistakes. As Brian Leiter writes, “[t]he only good news in the story about Dworkin’s impact on law and philosophy is that most of the field declined to follow the Dworkinian path . . . .”

This Article endeavors to show that, far from an effort beset with primitive errors, Dworkin’s challenge to legal positivism in the opening pages of his seminal work was neither misguided nor trivial. Rather, Dworkin’s challenge remains as important and thought-provoking today as it was when he first set it down. His challenge, though straightforward, has never been satisfactorily answered. Rather than grapple with Dworkin’s argument, legal philosophers have either misunderstood or trivialized his insights in the decades since. But there is a reason H.L.A. Hart, one of Dworkin’s examiners at Oxford, saved his jurisprudence examination before ever having reason to believe that Dworkin would become the primary opponent to legal positivism. Hart’s challenge—the argument from theoretical disagreement—still burns bright nearly a quarter-century on.

Furthermore, this Article seeks to explain why legal positivism’s inability to preserve the face value of theoretical disagreement makes it improbable that legal positivism offers an adequate descriptive account of the nature of law. It also endeavors to outline why this deficiency is so immensely important. To accept the legitimacy of theoretical disagreement is accept that to know what the law is one must know something about the moral and political culture in which that law resides.

Domestic Violence is a vice that has much been discussed both in academic and social circles. Whereas there is almost general consensus that domestic violence is a crime, efforts to legislate on the matter have far lagged behind especially in Kenya. This paper seeks to analyze the laws under which domestic violence matters are brought with a view to making a case for the enactment of a specific piece of legislation to deal with the subject.