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--BenTrem (talk) 16:28, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
The proposed name is the Library of Congress Authorized Heading for this subject.
American lawyer's perspective. Public policy enlarges the ground of decision to include principles of equity, not some choice of which jurisdiction's law will apply. Maybe someone more academic can set me straight, but the name looks like a confusing category error to me.
Jrgetsin (talk) 04:12, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Isn't this supposed to be American English? Or is this combined with UK English. I'm not against the British, just curious. I see all sorts of crazy words like behaviour and defence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ternto333 (talk • contribs) 22:40, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was no move. JPG-GR (talk) 00:26, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Public policy (law) → Public policy — A descriptor such as (law) is not really necessary here, since "public policy" is itself a legal term. Public policy currently redirects to Policy, which I think is too broad to be satisfactory, as it discusses policymaking in more abstract, sociological terms. —Eastlaw (talk) 08:37, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
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I know something about this - I am currently enrolled in both an American law school and an American public policy school. There are two major problems with this.
1) The existence of a "public policy" doctrine within the field of conflict of laws is not unique - there are many uses of the phrase "public policy" in legal doctrines and theories. So it makes little sense to have an article that categorizes the use of the concept "public policy" in law only with regard to conflict of laws.
2) There is a distinct field of "public policy" outside of law, as evidenced by the existence of numerous public policy schools, and an Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. This understanding of public policy is currently not covered at all on Wikipedia - the page public policy links to a disambiguation page that offers only policy, a much broader concept, and this article, which is unrelated to the prevailing conception of public policy in America.
I propose moving this article to "Public policy doctrine (conflict of laws)" which will allow the preservation of the entire content of this article, and then allow for a new article which addresses the distinct field of public policy.Silentbob05 (talk) 22:01, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Akpsurat wrote at the end of the article following text:
I reverted and moved it to the discussion page. --CE (talk) 22:04, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
While conflict of laws is one important application of public policy, its more important application is to drive the application of laws in general. That is, American judges refer to whether a particular decision is sound public policy ALL THE TIME, not only in cases involving conflicts between the laws of two jurisdictions. This is one of the most important concepts in American law, without which much of American case law doesn't make sense. At some point this article has to be cleaned up, but I don't have the time, energy, or inclination to do it. --Coolcaesar (talk) 01:42, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
The whole article in fact originally started out as a piece of crackpot ([1]; although I shall make no comment upon the person, nor would the rules of Wikipedia—which had obviously been abused—allow me to do so in any case) original research penned by a fourteen-year-old Malaysian or Singaporean school pupil in a public boarding school in England—and who was obviously no retired Queen's Counsel, Senior Counsel, barrister, solicitor, notary public, advocate nor jurat, British or otherwise, judging from this edit, at ([2]), which would had been so erronoeous of an edit to be excusable for any one of the above to ever make; with his other unauthorized personal legal opinions such as the ones on England and Wales, he obviously had no real understanding of the constitution of the United Kingdom and Islands—studying for the subject of Law for his GCSEs, A-Levels, or his Cambridge IGCSEs, International O-Levels or International A-Levels, or his International Baccalaureate.
As far as this article is concerned, he originally only cited, word for word, without even Englishing the French and Dutch names of the capital city of Belgium—and the citations all remain there—obscure theses, essays and treatises of dubious authority and provenance across disparate jurisdictions with disparate legal traditions, rather than works from acclaimed and recognised authority.
Having crackpot genealogical and heraldic articles are one thing, but crackpot articles on law are much more serious of a matter, for they can can have consequences in and for the real, physical World, for unsuspecting eyes of the laymen, nay gullible souls and conspiracy, not to mention the reputation, dependability and trustworthiness of Wikipedia at stake.
Trying to "salvage" this article would be akin to renovate an eleven-story building that was never built with any proper foundations, and I am personally more inclined for the demolition of the whole article altogether by way of deletion, and let disinterested editors with a serious legal background start afresh, should they feel inclined to do so, although, as a former registered Wikipedian, I cannot be bothered with all the retentionist/deletionist off-topic ideological and also self-serving hectoring that invariably goes along with the deletion process.
From a real student of law in England. 212.50.182.151 (talk) 22:45, 28 September 2013 (UTC)