Concepts in Law. Concepts in Law, a book advocating the understanding of the past behaviour, analysis of the present situation and a visualization of the future was released on the occasion of the Conference of Chief Justices of the World, held in Lucknow. The book is authored by Dr. Carmo D'Souza, Reader of Salgaocar College of law.
The book received favourable comments from the participants of the Conference, which included Justices of Supreme Courts and Constitutional Tribunals from 54 countries of the World including the International Criminal Court of Justice. In the initial pages, the book contains a warning that the material can be used by fanatics negatively in order to foster their own vested interests thus bringing harm to the social fabric. It advocates the positive use of the material in attempting to understand the past, which includes ridiculous and sometimes harsh behaviours of the past resulting into oppressive legal regimes. A lot of material has been used from the sixteenth century Portuguese experiences in the State of India, for the fact that the author is familiar with the area and the Portuguese left well documented records. Such records enable one to perceive the mental psyche of those days. Also trials of animals and ordeals recorded in documents from various countries of the world have been presented for a student to grasp with the past. After stepping in the shoes of those generations, it is possible for researchers to perceive the conceptual errors and use it effetely in planning the future. Chapter VI titled as 'Twenty-First Century Mega Show?' presents the various ridiculous, unreasonable behaviour of the modern day. This chapter has been developed with the newspaper and mass media reports of the present day. The objective of the Chapter is to make the reader conscious of the trends of the past that are still continuing in our society and the new exploiting trends developing in the society. The last chapter deals with Concepts for a New World Order. The book advocates the creation in academic circles of a subject called World Constitutionalism, with elements of peace, respect to Human rights and world order by various oriental and occidental techniques. It also has a suggestion for the UN reform. The book contain six annexures with different approaches to World Order problems by different personalities or organizations of the world including (1) the movement of UN Reform 2007 of Dr. Klaus Schlitchtmann (2) Prof. Johan Galtun's Transcend: A philosophy of Peace and Development (3) a New Method of Neue Methode Group of Germany (4) Toward a New World Civilization of Jan Mortier of Civitatis International (5) Approach at City Montesorri School, Luckow and (6) The Menu for the Third Millennium of Otfried Schrot.
