Law & Paneir

by Paul Craig Roberts What is the greatest human achievement? Many would answer in terms of some architectural or engineering feat: The Great Pyramids, skyscrapers, a bridge span, or sending men to the moon. Others might say the subduing of some deadly disease or Einstein's theory of relativity. The greatest human achievement is the subordination of government to law. This was an English achievement that required eight centuries of struggle, beginning in the ninth century when King Alfred the Great codified the common law, moving forward with the Magna Carta in the thirteenth century and culminating with the Glorious Revolution in the late seventeenth century. The success of this long struggle made law a shield of the people. As an English colony, America inherited this unique achievement that made English-speaking peoples the most free in the world. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, this achievement was lost in the United States and, perhaps, in England

Again the prices of consumer products are up again. There are no justifications. Consumers got shocked and surprised. There will be a domino factor. The rise of prices of other products will hampered the consumers further. What our rights as the consumers to stop the price hiking? Do we just accepted it or whether there are any provisions under the existing legislations to protect us as the consumers? Interestingly until this point, the consumer associations kept mum about this issue. Sometimes I don't understand these pressure groups' role. They supposed pressed the authority not to increase the prices of necessary goods but always keep away. Again I need pay more for my teh tarik but who cares???

By John Strawson, john.strawson@uel.ac.uk "I am here because I want Egypt to be governed by Islamic Law" "We need no lawyer God is our defence" "There is only one Court case and that's before God" "You are implementing Western Law on us" [Islamic militants on trial in a Cairo court quoted by Robert Fisk, The Independent , London, 28 June 1993.] The Western encounter with Islamic law has reached a critical moment as the contours of a new world order emerge. Islamist political movements, within the Islamic world and the West, insist that we consider the role of the West in world order. This paper explores aspects of this strident encounter through a scanning of representations of Islamic law in selected Western literature and some Islamist responses. It argues that orientalism is the dominant trend within the literature and has constructed strong and enduring images. The consequences o