Sentences with phrase «court justice teaching»

Joe's commitment to Florida's children and families has resulted in several awards, including a statewide «Award of Excellence» from the Florida Afterschool Alliance, an Honorary Life Membership in the Florida PTA, and status as a fellow with the Florida Supreme Court Justice Teaching Institute (JTI).

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It reminds us that our most pressing constitutional questions (on slavery and secession) were settled out of court; that it took more than a wiser judge to reverse our most villainous chief justice (Roger Taney); and that our Constitution's most consequential interpreter wasn't a robed philosopher - king but a self - taught lawyer from Kentucky by way of Illinois.

As for the conclusion of Aidan O'Neill QC, that schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff who refuse to use stories or textbooks promoting same - sex marriage and that parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their children from lessons, does that sound at all unlikely, given the cases of the Strasbourg four, which were considered by the European Court of Justice in September?

They were, in Justice Scalia's words, to «be taught a lesson»» a lesson the Court forcefully applied in Madsen v. Women's Health Center, Inc., which created, around abortion clinics, a zone in which pro-choice advocates were free to demonstrate but even peaceful abortion protesters were subject to arrest.

As a Supreme Court Justice might go behind years of accepted legal precedents to appeal to the intentions of the framers of the U.S. Constitution, so Jesus went behind the teaching of Deuteronomy to the intent of God as recorded in Genesis.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American parent to the child that babbles on his or her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges — even especially in our law schools; let it be written in textbooks, spelling books, and in TV guides; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Before working for the state, Underwood taught at Yale Law School and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Brooke Blevins, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum and instruction and Karon LeCompte, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum and instruction in Baylor's School of Education studied the effectiveness of iCivics, a free online website founded by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that teaches civics concepts using 19 educational games.

WASHINGTON — A new audiotape collection of oral arguments in 23 landmark cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, promoted as a teaching tool for schools, is selling briskly despite the threat of legal action from the Justices.

We see it in important initiatives such as iCivics, where Supreme Court Justice Emeritus Sandra Day O'Connor has led a national movement to use gaming to teach civics, and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, where simulations are demonstrating how role - playing games can bring the legislative process to life for kids.

Previously, he taught for a semester at Harvard Law School, provided legal assistance during the Iran - U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague, and was a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

They are also using student courts to teach students about justice and court issues, and to provide an alternative to other forms of punishment for students who disobey rules in order to defeat the school - to - prison pipeline and engage disengaged students.

«In the earliest public schools, teachers taught and students listened,» U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has written approvingly about that simpler era in American education.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has praised the educational power of computer games, calling them a «fabulous» teaching tool.

While studying law under future U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth, Webster also attempted to teach full - time in Hartford, but the mental strain eventually became too much.

Federal Court Justice Sean Harrington found Alnaz Jiwa, a Scarborough lawyer, and his co-defendant Nagib Tajdin had breached the Aga Khan's copyright by reprinting copies of his religious teachings and that he had never given his consent to the publication.

Mr. Martin has been active with the Discovering Justice «Stand Up for Your Rights» program, which involves teaching Boston middle school students about the U.S. Constitution, courts, and the judicial system, and coaching them to present oral arguments in courtrooms before actual judges.

He has also been very active in the community, serving as a Teen Court Judge, a Justice Teaching Volunteer, a Pro Bono attorney for the Florida Attorneys Saving Homes and President for Lutz Baseball, Inc., a non-profit Cal Ripken baseball league.

On judicial review the chambers justice dismissed the application on the basis that he was bound by the Court of Appeal decision in Ostrensky v. Crowsnest Pass, 1996 ABCA 18 in regards to the effect of a tie vote and that the privative clause in the Teaching Profession Act «insulated all decisions from judicial review except on questions of jurisdiction».

She previously practiced human rights law as a lawyer, worked as a référendaire at the Court of Justice of the EU and taught EU law as a visiting lecturer at King's College London.

I am a very, very lucky lawyer, and I have been mentored and inspired by a great many lawyers, too many to list but among them: my late uncle, Daniel Golden, a solo practitioner in my hometown much respected in his jurisdiction, who rose in his career to be elected President of his State Bar and was still practicing at 90; the first partner to whom I was assigned, the late Robert Rosenman, then Managing Partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and a legendary US securities lawyer and practice leader, who taught me to think critically and the importance of attention to detail; Dame Rosalyn Higgins, later President of the International Court of Justice but long before that I was in the first class that she taught at the London School of Economics, whom I found inspiring both for her achievements and her person; and latterly Lord Woolf, former Lord Chief Justice, who has provided inspiration and encouragement for our P.R.I.M.E. Finance project consistent with so many other inspiring contributions he has tirelessly made to the profession.

Professor Marder, who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens, teaches courses on civil procedure and on juries, judges and trials.

I have also worked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Western Australia, and taught at Murdoch Law School.

It is useful because it is honest; because it leaves not even the most obscure and friendless citizen without means of obtaining justice from a neighbouring State; because it obviates occasions of quarrels between States on account of the claims of their respective citizens; because it recognizes and strongly rests on this great moral truth that justice is the same whether due from one man or a million, or from a million to one man; because it teaches and greatly appreciates the value of our free republican national government, which places all our citizens on an equal footing, and enables each and every of them to obtain justice without any danger of being overborne by the weight and number of their opponents; and because it brings into action and enforces this great and glorious principle — that the people are the sovereign of this country, and consequently that fellow citizens and joint sovereigns can not be degraded by appearing with each other in their own courts to have their controversies determined.

Prior to joining JMBM, Matthew worked for five years as an appellate attorney in the Environment & Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented federal agencies in the federal courts of appeals; for four years as an attorney at Paul Hastings, where he advised and represented corporate clients in environmental and real estate matters; for two years as a law clerk to the Honorable Consuelo M. Callahan on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; and for two years as a supervising attorney and lecturer at the Stanford Law School Environmental Law Clinic, where he taught students the practice of law and represented grass - roots and national organizations in environmental litigation and policy matters.

These documents (together with the Court of Appeal comments upon the appeal of Justice Campbell's ruling) make a significant package of materials suitable for any teaching situation concerned with professional responsibility and the limits of an advocate's role.

As it turned out, Rehnquist was one of two future US Supreme Court justices whom Neal taught at Stanford; the other was Sandra Day O'Connor.

Born 1955; studied economics, languages and law at King's College, Cambridge (1973 - 77); university teaching and research at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1977 - 80); called to the Bar (Middle Temple, 1980); Barrister (1980 - 87 and 1990 - 2005); Legal Secretary in the Chambers of Advocate General, subsequently Judge, Sir Gordon Slynn (1987 - 90); Lecturer in EC and comparative law (Director of European Legal Studies) at University College London (1990 - 92); Lecturer in the Faculty of Law (1992 - 98), and subsequently Affiliated Lecturer (1998 - 2005), at the University of Cambridge; Fellow of King's College, Cambridge (1992 - 2010); Emeritus Fellow (2011 --RRB-; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Legal Studies of the University of Cambridge (1998 - 2005); Queen's Counsel (1999); Bencher of Middle Temple (2005); Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (2010); LL.D (h.c.) Glasgow (2010), Nottingham Trent (2011) and Stockholm (2014); Advocate General at the Court of Justice from 11 January 2006.

«Consumer and Civil Justice Cases in the U.S. Supreme Court: The October 2009 Term,» Conference on Teaching Consumer Law in the New Economy, Center for Consumer Law, University of Houston, May 21 - 22, 2010

William studied and taught law at the University of Durham, UK, and worked for Judge Sir David Edward at the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg, between 1995 and 1999.