Law According To A King

"My name is Safiya Rizvi. I will be starting year 13 this September. I want to do pursue higher studies and career opportunities in the field of law. I am trying to gain work experience, for example, I just did a law work experience program with Springpod. My interests are public speaking, debating and doing Theater. Besides English, I also know French and Hindi as other languages. I have good analytical, research and communication skills because of my A-level subjects." What is ‘Hate Speech’? First and foremost, the legal definition of Hate Speech differs from country to country. Let’s see how the Cambridge Dictionary defines it - "public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation". These aspects of a person’s identity are known as ‘protected strands’ of identity. Any form of communication that demonstrates hatred towards any individual based on, along with the th...

When it comes to the central question of legal philosophy, academics are divided. Do we have an obligation to obey the law? Crimes are committed on a daily basis, some benignly, others maliciously, and yet we are faced with the same question of whether we have a duty to follow the rules that govern our society. Wolff argues we never have such an obligation - a legal anarchist - whereas Raz approaches this from the more transactional perspective: we have an obligation to obey the law when it helps us to do something we wanted to do anyway. Shelby, on the other hand, pays particular attention to the role of society in answering the question, and argues that our obligations are differentiated on the basis of how society treats us.  Shelby writes of the ghetto: an urban neighbourhood characterised by concentrated poverty, racial segregation, violence and crime, unemployment and numerous other social issues that cast our imagination to scenes not dissimilar to those in The Wire , where ...