Legal research
1. The judicial system’s reliance on witness testimony (especially eyewitness testimony) as opposed to relying on evidence
2. The judicial system’s approach to lying (Perjury), including punishment and enforcement capabilities (criminal and civil).
The study is divided into 2 main parts (in relation to each of the above questions separately):
A. Overview of the development of law in antiquity
B. A broad overview of the modern period regarding all (or most) countries of the world.
third. In-depth and extensive focus on a number of selected countries.
A. Overview of the development of law in antiquity
In relation to each of the methods listed below, a page-long review of the following questions must be performed:
– Determining the rule of relying on testimony (including bringing its source)
– Determining the rule on the prohibition of perjury
– The penalty for perjury
– Reference to the difference (if any) between criminal law and civil law.
– An example, if it exists, anecdotal or jurisprudential, in the context of perjury in a civil trial and its enforcement result (prosecution for a criminal trial/ignorance/civil enforcement).
1. Natural law.
2. The positivist law.
3. Hamurabi Laws
4. Assyrian law
5. Greek Law (Dakron Laws)
6. The German Civil Code
7. Laws of Or-Namo
8. Dozing rules
9. Lipit-Ishtar Laws
10. Laws of Yasa (Mongol period)
11. Code Napoleon
12. Corpus Iuris Kivilis (Justinianus)
13. The ancient Hebrew law (divided into 2 periods: the instructions of the Torah and the interpretation of the Sages).
14. Sharia law (focusing on the law in practice today).
15. Bedouin law (focusing on the law practiced today).
16. Roman law.
17. Ancient Chinese law (divided by periods)
18. Old Norse law
19. The ancient German law
20. English (common) law in its development.
22. The period of Locke and Hobbes (mainly in the context of natural law and justifications for a legal system).
23. Reference to the Hebraistic movement.
24. Tribal legal systems that have been researched in the last 100 years (at least 5-6 methods, at least one of which sees in a dream as legitimate eyewitness testimony in court).
25. The Soviet legal system (former Soviet Union).
B. A broad overview of the modern period regarding all (or most) countries of the world
Summarize as many countries as possible (in a table or in a short paragraph):
– The article of the law that establishes the reliance on eyewitness testimony in a trial (civil law preferred) as well as any regulation that deals with the subject.
– a quote of the law that states the prohibition of false testimony in court and the punishment/enforcement measures. If the law regarding perjury has changed in the last 30 years, the change must also be brought.
Each question in a separate table
a literary source in English for the article of the law
additional provision if there is a quote of the law includes a citation of it in English The state
• If there is no literary source in English, bring the quote of the article and the in the original language + a link to the source on the net.
C. In-depth and extensive focus on several selected countries
After grouping the tables and based on them, an expansion of:
The legal system’s reference to perjury (in relation to each of the methods studied above) in terms of the provisions of the law (citing the relevant sections of the law in relation to each legal system reviewed, including a reference to the rules, the punishment established by law in each legal system and more).
A review of current rulings regarding the enforcement of perjury herewith in relation to two questions:
o The average punishment in the last 20 years by each method
o The question of the certainty of enforcement insofar as this arises from the ruling
Literature review in relation to criticism regarding over/under enforcement of perjury in any legal system.
1. Modern continental law (21st century) – France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Spain.
2. The modern American legal system (21st century) – 3 states as an example and the federal system.
3. Modern British law (21st century).
4. Modern Indian law (21st century).
5. Modern Australian law (21st century).
6. Modern Canadian law (21st century).
7. Modern Russian law (21st century).
8. Modern African state law (21st century) – South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Kenya.
9. Modern Asian country law (21st century) – China, Japan, South Korea.
10. Law of Central and South American countries (21st century) – Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru
