I am currently undertaking my second-to-last paper in pursuit of my Bachelor of Law (LLB). Due to a complicated bunch of factors involving the potential staleness of my papers, if I do not apply to the New Zealand Council of Legal Education for a completion certificate with an LLB and a Professional Legal Studies certificate [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Law Studies'
Can State Appropriation of Minerals in Privately Held Land be Justified? Resources Needed
January 20th, 2010 15 Comments
Tags: Jurisprudence · Law Studies · Minerals · Mining Law · Property Rights · Sub-Soil Land Rights
Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part VI
December 3rd, 2009 No Comments
In my last posts, beginning Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part I, I set out the doctrine of religious restraint and critiqued some of the key arguments in support of it. I looked at the objection that the argument from respect is too thin, that applied consistently it excludes too much and Audi’s response to [...]
Tags: Christopher Eberle · Doctrine of Religious Restraint · Freedom of Religion · Jurisprudence · Law Studies · Lydia McGrew · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Phillip Quinn · Philosophy of Religion · Political Philosophy · Public Policy · Religion and Public Life · Robert Audi · Stephen Carter · Terence Cuneo
Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part V
November 30th, 2009 1 Comment
In my last posts, beginning Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part I, I set out the doctrine of religious restraint and critiqued some of the key arguments in support of it. I looked at the objection that the argument from respect is too thin, that applied consistently it excludes too much and Audi’s response to [...]
Tags: Christopher Eberle · Doctrine of Religious Restraint · Edward Feser · Freedom of Religion · Jurisprudence · Law Studies · Philosophy of Religion · Political Philosophy · Public Policy · Religion and Public Life · Terence Cuneo
Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part IV
November 27th, 2009 No Comments
In my last posts, beginning Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part I, I set out the doctrine of religious restraint and critiqued some of the key arguments in support of it. I looked at the objection that the argument from respect is too thin, that applied consistently it excludes too much and Audi’s response to [...]
Tags: Christopher Eberle · Doctrine of Religious Restraint · Freedom of Religion · Gerald Gaus · Glenn Peoples · Jurisprudence · Law Studies · Philosophy of Religion · Political Philosophy · Public Policy · Religion and Public Life · Robert Audi · Terence Cuneo
Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part III
November 25th, 2009 3 Comments
In my last posts, beginning Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part I, I set out the doctrine of religious restraint and touched on some criticisms of it. I looked at and critiqued some of the key arguments in support of the doctrine of religious restraint. In this post I will look at the objection that [...]
Tags: Christopher Eberle · Doctrine of Religious Restraint · Freedom of Religion · Gerald Gaus · Glenn Peoples · John Rawls · Jurisprudence · Law Studies · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Philip Quinn · Philosophy of Religion · Political Philosophy · Public Policy · Religion and Public Life · Robert Audi
Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part II
November 24th, 2009 2 Comments
In my last post, Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part I, I set out the doctrine of religious restraint and touched on some criticisms of it. In this post, I begin looking at and critiquing some of the key arguments in support of the doctrine of religious restraint.
II Arguments for the Doctrine of Religious [...]
Tags: Christopher Eberle · Doctrine of Religious Restraint · Freedom of Religion · John Rawls · Jurisprudence · Law Studies · Lydia McGrew · Matthew Flannagan · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Philosophy of Religion · Political Philosophy · Public Policy · Religion and Public Life · Robert Audi
Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part I
November 23rd, 2009 28 Comments
In this series I set out the doctrine of religious restraint, the idea that in a pluralistic, liberal, society religious beliefs should not be utilised in the formation of public policy. I note that this doctrine entails an asymmetrical treatment of religious and secular beliefs, which appears to conflict with the central notion of liberal [...]
Tags: Christopher Eberle · Doctrine of Religious Restraint · Freedom of Religion · Jurisprudence · Law Studies · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Philip Quinn · Philosophy of Religion · Political Philosophy · Public Policy · Religion and Public Life · Stephen Carter · Terence Cuneo
My Supervised Research Paper Grade….
November 23rd, 2009 10 Comments
Remember when I posted that I’d finally submitted my supervised research project and I wrote, “it is not allowed to come back with anything other an an A written on it and preferably not an A-”?
I logged into the University results page just now and it came back with an A!!!!
Those of you familiar with [...]
Tags: Law Studies
Of Papers, Jobs, Weddings and TV Shows
November 19th, 2009 2 Comments
We have had, and are in for, an interesting few weeks.
Last week I finished my studies for 2009 with my Legal Ethics exam and enrolled to complete the final two papers of my LLB (bachelor of law) in 2010. This week Matt handed in his final piece of assessment for his post graduate diploma in [...]
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Power Cuts and Deadlines
October 30th, 2009 7 Comments
At 12pm today I handed my supervised research project “Religious Restraint and Public Policy” across the counter at the University of Auckland Law School. It felt like quite a moment and it had been quite a morning.
Last night I was feeling quietly confident about heading to bed at a sane hour. Matt had given the [...]
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