Sentences with phrase «legal traditions from»

Legal traditions from across the world have long recognized and attempted to punish fraud.

As we'll be discussing next week at Relativity Fest London, English and American courts have borrowed much from each other — Americans, of course, borrowing more legal tradition from their British cousins than the other way around.

Not exact matches

To prove their point, these Islam - is - the - problem critics tend to link specific acts of jihadi groups to a string of references from Islamic scripture, traditions, legal texts, and Muslim scholarly opinions.

In nearly every nation whose cultural heritage, moral and legal systems developed from this western, Christian tradition, he is free to insult people of faith as much as he wishes.

It turns out that the oldest codes in the Near Eastern legal tradition, Sumerian laws from the 21st century BCE, also have payment in place of retaliation.

; geography and ethnicity («if he's from Galilee, it isn't valid); government authorities (the temple police don't know what to do with him); religious and spiritual authorities (the chief priests rule him out); legal authorities (Pharisees); and tradition or historical authority («No one's ever talked like this before»).

@RUReal, «In nearly every nation whose cultural heritage, moral and legal systems developed from this western, Christian tradition, he is free to insult people of faith as much as he wishes.»

The concept of international human rights from which no country is exempt is consonant with the idea that Shari'a, the large body of legal tradition that informs the Muslim community about how God requires it to live, is in some sense the rule of God.

In his stunning new book Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Harvard University Press, 1983), Harold J. Berman argues that the roots of modern universalistic principles of law, morality, science and scholarship derive from essentially theological insights which are now in peril of being lost by neglect.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

In such a short book, Merkle can not be faulted for failing to include all the sources of Heschel's life and work, but apart from rabbinic tradition» the legal foundation and theological speculation that shaped and shapes Jewish life» he can not be understood.

But of this I remain certain: A marriage license in jurisdictions that have redefined marriage gives legal form to something very different from what the Bible and church tradition call marriage.

Based on «the heritage of Catholic moral teaching» and «our Jesuit tradition,» the statement says, «Our long - term goal remains full legal recognition of and protection for the unborn child - from the moment of conception.»

Lepard distinguishes between positivist legal traditions based upon «state - oriented» values (emphasizing state sovereignty) and the more dynamic human rights laws derived from common practices and understandings, including religio - ethical principles.

A solution had to be found, but it would have to come from sources other than the old English order [that is, the «ancient realm or the Anglican tradition»] The deep - seated tensions of early seventeenth - century English society had to be solved by some rather novel rearrangements of political and legal institutions.

Pro-lifers protest rightly that the social value of the individual enshrined in our centuries old legal tradition is being eroded by various anti-life measures, but unfortunately less importance has been placed on defending the value of human nature per se by arguments from natural reason.

Healthy Traditions Network also supports the Farm - to - Consumer Legal Defense Fund, which protects the rights of farmers and consumers to engage in direct commerce; it protects the rights of farmers to sell the products of the farm and the rights of consumers to access the foods of their choice from the source of their choice.

He previously ran the American Tradition Institute, now called E&E Legal Institute, that has harassed climate scientists and whose Senior Legal Fellow, Chris Horner, was recently exposed for receiving payments from Alpha Natural Resources, a now bankrupt coal company.

Climate researchers are in need of immediate legal assistance to prevent their private correspondence from being exposed to Chris Horner and the American Tradition Institute who are using Freedom of Information (FOI) to harass researchers.

Klein represented a break from tradition in the world of legal marketing, in that she had never worked in legal marketing.

She noted that we need to start from a personal, rather than professional standpoint and that formation of authentic relationships with Indigenous people is a necessary foundation to any understanding of Indigenous legal tradition.

California, is known as Community Property state, because the marriage laws developed from the Spanish legal traditions.

Some sameness stems from tradition, and some reflects that not much has changed in legal technology — particularly in e-discovery — over the last five years.

«It's important the faculty learn from the elders themselves about what the indigenous legal traditions of people in Southwestern Ontario are,» says Waters.

Drawing its inspiration from Lawrence Lessig and Richard Susskind, the firm's purpose is to «think about legal systems as technical ones and, in doing so, draw on a rich tradition of nerdery and hacker ethos.»

In my paper I focus, rather, on the best ways that judges can learn from other legal systems: HP Glenn's approach tocomparative law methodology as focusing on the sharing of information between legal traditions strikes me as particularly relevant in this context.

It is therefore very helpful for a single practitioner work, such as this, to gather together the most important rules, guidelines and so - called «soft law» on the subject, to set out the key principles applicable in each type of arbitration, and to provide illustrative cases from a number of different jurisdictions and legal traditions.

Taking his cue from the Christmas tradition of mummering, the Anonymous Editor of Blawg Review is offering legal bloggers their one opportunity in 2007 to unveil his identity.

New things come along from time to time, but we're still living in a legal world established by legal practice and tradition (warts and all) since the Magna Carta.

This enables parties from different nationalities and legal traditions to have confidence that their disputes will be resolved on a level playing - field, by a non-partisan tribunal.

In R. v. N.S. [2012] 3 S.C.R. 726, Justices Rothstein and Lebel referenced the living tree in their concurring opinion, but for the proposition that the living tree must grow «from its roots» and that the Constitution is rooted in its political and legal traditions — in other words, the emphasis was placed on the natural limits of growth.

In offering multinational, if not worldwide, legal services from a U.K. - regulated ABS, LegalZoom and J&M expect to benefit from a tradition of export of law and legal services, together with a regulatory environment that promotes and supports such export, and the favorable reputation and high standing in which U.K. law and its legal service providers are generally held.

From Bryan Garner to Anne Lamott, legal writing has a great tradition of celebrating books of writing advice.

We the undersigned lawyers and jurists from legal traditions around the world are extremely concerned about conflicts in the Middle East regarding the suspected proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and the possibility that force may be used in response to this situation.

It should be pointed out that Indigenous laws and legal orders are separate and distinct from common and civil law traditions that are taught in university law schools.

Benefit from the significant experience we have handling customs and foreign trade matters, both in Mexico and abroad, and have confidence in a legal team backed by global experience in legal traditions worldwide.

These are far cries from the legacy, the tradition and the conservatism expected from the legal profession.

From a scholarly perspective, I found that it's a proud part of our constitutional tradition, that it's perfectly legal and indeed was embraced by the framers as a way to protect people from too powerful law enforcement and too powerful prosecutFrom a scholarly perspective, I found that it's a proud part of our constitutional tradition, that it's perfectly legal and indeed was embraced by the framers as a way to protect people from too powerful law enforcement and too powerful prosecutfrom too powerful law enforcement and too powerful prosecutors.

«It is often observed that it is very easy to get into court in African states and can be much more difficult to get out of court,» with proceedings taking many years, he said; there being a variety of legal traditions across the continent, from common, to civil and Islamic law, as well as hybrids, such as those in South Africa and Mauritius.

Arguing in favor of unclear, hard - to - understand writing is difficult, but whether because of tradition, willfulness, or laziness, clarity in legal writing is far from the norm.

Perhaps there is some equivalent in Louisiana law, which is cobbled together from the legal traditions of the French, the Deep South, riverboat gamblers, corrupt cops, bead - and - tit based economies, and people who clean up vomit for a living.

Medical malpractice law, in Massachusetts and elsewhere, is part of the common law — the rich tradition of «judge - made law» that we inherited from our English ancestors and upon which we have embroidered our own legal doctrines.

The traditions of law publishing brands run deep and have great quantifiable value, few more so than of that other renowned work, not on this occasion from Butterworths but Sweet and Maxwell, Archbold, as we anticipate the possibility of litigation following the English Judicial Executive Board's decision that Blackstone's Criminal Practice rather than Archbold: Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice should be the standard legal reference work in the criminal courts.

French lawyers will abandon their law libraries, and allow Google to bamboozle them with formulations taken not from the European legal tradition but from Anglo - Saxon common law.

As we discussed above, the guarantee that one third of the Court's judges would be chosen from Quebec ensured that civil law expertise and that Quebec's legal traditions would be represented on the Court and that the confidence of Quebec in the Court would be enhanced.

Another tool — supported by bilateral assistance program of Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training (OPDAT)-- Criminal Procedure Code has however encountered a strong opposition from the majority of the Serbia's legal community and has been seen as interfering with its legal tradition.

Furthermore, religion does not preclude reasoned argument; its arguments are based on a more - or-less exacting hermeneutic of «revealed» texts (and, sometimes, oral traditions), which is not that much different from the practice of law, since most legal cases are not reasoned from first principles, but from precedent - setting cases like Oakes).

According to the recent legislative summary [PDF] from the Legal and Legislative Affairs Division Parliamentary Information and Research Service, the aim seems more to acknowledge and «respect» the civil law tradition than it does to correct terminology that has been... [more]

Hailing from a family of family law lawyers that have served the people of Arizona for over 60 years, Tucson divorce lawyer Steve Weinstein is proud to continue the tradition of legal excellence throughout the state.

According to the recent legislative summary [PDF] from the Legal and Legislative Affairs Division Parliamentary Information and Research Service, the aim seems more to acknowledge and «respect» the civil law tradition than it does to correct terminology that has been the source of mischief.