Legal Bugle

The time of world wars is already over. Finally, after many years of war, world peace is close at hand. This is because there is already an international law that governs every nation with their international or foreign relations with other nations. International law is a set of rules, regulations, and practices on how different countries would interact with each other. It also entails how the countries would interact with their citizens and citizens of other countries. (more…)

During the old times when there are still no written laws, the communities maintain peace and order by doing and holding on to their beliefs and culture. In history, there are many unwritten laws during the ancient times but they were able to manage the whole community. The people act in a way that their culture told them to do. There were also elders that oversee the activities of the community. The behavior of the people was in accordance to the established pattern of behavior that their culture has brought. These behaviors are called the customs. In today’s time, there are still customary laws that exist. They are like norms that manipulate the way of thinking and acts of the people. Customary laws are still prevalent because people believe that there are benefits if they behave in ways accepted by the society. It is like a mutual behavior of citizens. (more…)

Criminal law is one of the most exciting topics in law. The generality of the subject matter is easy to understand; it is the specific details that make criminal law a very long subject matter. In general, criminal law is about crimes. We define crimes as the acts that threaten to disturb the peace and order in the society. These acts are considered to be harmful to the society that is why in criminal law, these acts have corresponding punishments depending on the weight of the offense. With this, criminal law represses the act of doing crimes. (more…)