Impaired Driving Impaired driving is a serious criminal offence these days. Driving a truck, boat, car, snowmobile, aircraft, train or other motor vehicle when the capability to control the vehicle is impaired by alcohol or some other drugs is known ...

By Werner Mensky The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law Case analysis Analysing these particular cases further, many questions arise and multiple nuances could be identified. The focus for the present paper ought to be the position of private ...

By Werner Mensky The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law This paper, providing one example each from Indian and from Pakistani law, with heavily contested litigation fallouts under English law and in English courts, discusses first why there are significant elements of ...

John Griffiths Sociology of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, Groningen 5. Other perspectives and different questions In this essay, I have described and defended a particular conception of the sociology of law, one that has guided my work ...

John Griffiths Sociology of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, Groningen 4. What, then, is sociology of law? The short answer to the question posed at the beginning of this essay can now be precisely formulated: Sociology of law ...

John Griffiths Sociology of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, Groningen 3.3. Rules as dependent and as independent variables In the sociology of law, as in every science, “explaining” something involves showing that it is a concrete instance of ...

John Griffiths Sociology of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, Groningen 3. Rules, social control and social order Every year our nation is invaded by several million ‘things’ … that … threaten total chaos. They hold no brief for ...

John Griffiths Sociology of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, Groningen 2. An empirical concept of law One cannot look for the poles of the Earth until one knows what a pole is – that is, what the expression ‘pole’ means, ...

John Griffiths Sociology of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, Groningen 1.1. Differing “perspectives” on law I can very clearly explain what a ‘catholic’ is. This is because as a sociologist I look at the church as if I ...

John Griffiths Sociology of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, Groningen Anyone who has ever introduced himself as a sociologist of law – on occasions as disparate as a cocktail party or an academic encounter with a colleague from another discipline – knows ...