Sentences with phrase «as simple justice»

However this discussion develops, the way to get the moral questions into clear focus begins with a careful reading of John Coons» «School Choice as Simple Justice.»

The best single article I've seen on the moral case for parental choice in education is «School Choice as Simple Justice,» published in First Things (April 1992) and written by Prof. John Coons of the law school of the University of California, Berkeley.

Not exact matches

During his short three - year tenure as archbishop, Romero became the conscience of El Salvador, broadcasting weekly — except when jammings or bombings prevented him — his simple yet eloquent gospel - based homilies calling for justice, peace and freedom.

Systems and principles of justice are the servants and instruments of the spirit of brotherhood in so far as they extend the sense of obligation towards the other, (a) from an immediately felt obligation, prompted by obvious need, to a continued obligation expressed in fixed principles of mutual support; (b) from a simple relation of the self and one «other» to the complex relations of the self and the «others»; and (c) finally from the obligations... which the community defines from its more impartial perspective.5

When society began to treat justice as a simple historical possibility, as many American Protestants did during the Social Gospel era, the prophetic task of the next generation of «Christian realists» was to insist that there are things that society can not do, goals that must remain «impossible possibilities.»

Pursuing justice can be as simple as our choices as consumers or as involved as leading coalitions against the systemic injustices that plague our legal and educational systems here in the U.S. and abroad.

To start with, one must wonder why these two issues» both of which ought to place politically liberal evangelicals in significant conflict with the Democratic party's social platform» are presented as «controversial» matters about which faithful Christians may disagree, while issues like foreign policy, environmentalism, and economics are presented as simple matters of justice.

In simple words, human love - in - act, human concern for justice, human relief of oppression, and sound human ways of relationship are all properly to be taken as creaturely reflections of and creaturely agencies for the divine Love that is God, the primal cause and the final affect.

«Serving more than justice since 1831» is Blind Lady Tavern's motto, and among those offerings you'll find traditionals, like Bloody Marys, mimosas, and sangria, as well as unique concoctions like Hott Fuzz (made with rum, stone fruit infused spirit, lemon, simple syrup, and hot water) and Double Jeopardy (made with rye, Amontillado sherry, Cynar, local cider, and red wine).

Like many westerns, «Django Unchained» latches onto a simple, stark picture of good and evil, and takes homicidal vengeance as the highest — if not the only — form of justice.

A simple plot outline doesn't do the film justice, as Darby O'Gill and the Little People succeeds with a winning, whimsical spirit that pervades all.

Grenville blithely leaves behind his idealism in favor of a more conventional idea of success, only to have his conscience pricked by Dalrymple's unconventional daughter, Charlotte, an activist for social justice, even as he's entering into a comfortable if passionless engagement with Dalrymple's other daughter, the passive, and much simpler, Emily.

Phoenix's Joe is a hulking brute who prefers to serve out his vigilante justice with a ball - peen hammer but it's not as simple as that.

The movie perhaps best serves as a primer for those unfamiliar with the original film, which is a richer, far more complex work (The ending, in particular, not only contradicts a character's firm stance on justice but also resolves things in the simplest of ways).

Aside from a single scene set in a courtroom, in which the justices appear only as blurred, distant shapes, there's almost no debating, let alone grandstanding, in this simple but moving love story.

As Richard Kluger, author of Simple Justice, pointed out, «The Supreme Court had taken pains to limit the language of Brown to segregation in public schools only....

Books education students should read: These three foundational texts are close to the top of my long list of essential readings: John Dewey's Art As Experience, W. E. B. DuBois» Souls of Black Folks, Richard Kluger's Simple Justice.

Indeed, the simple state - versus - parents dichotomy fails to do justice to many educators» perception of themselves as emancipators of the minds of their students.

Honored by The United Nations and endorsed by The Dalai Lama, The Virtues Project is 5 simple strategies for bringing out the best in ourselves and others, including restorative justice as a way to transform bullies into leaders.

Even simple, related terms, such as equality, equity, and justice, which might seem to be the same at first glance, need to be carefully understood.

As the Department of Justice faces off with the major publishers and Apple, I want to offer up a simple statement that likely contradicts what most readers believe: Making e-books is harder than it looks.

Law, as interpreted by our subject professionals, is a convoluted system with the simplest objective, i.e. to maintain and provide justice.

The genre - bending story that follows is no simple morality tale, as it reveals the tangled complexities of gender, race, crime, justice and hope in America.

Hearth Forth, Alicia is definitely one of the most promising platform games coming next year, even though calling it a simple platform game doesn't do it justice, as it will feature a big world to explore, deep RPG mechanics and a story that will delve deep into the origins of Alicia's world and her role in it.

The mean streets of Justice Royale are filled with enemies to pummel and evade, as you use simple touch controls to unleash powerful combos.

Professor Rosenblum does himself less than justice: he is neither the simple mainline neoconservative that he pretends or the swinging elder statesman evoked by his repeated claims of solidarity with «art historians... of a younger generation» and «anyone under forty,» but an original and sometimes brilliantly eccentric critic, distinguished among other things for his persuasive work on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as well as for his astonishingly early and penetratingly intelligent recognition of Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Frank Stella.

As I write this I have become homeless, unpaid rent on my small apartment in London is just another nail in my proverbial coffin, The 8 years I waited on the register doesn't count or the 20 years with the Housing Association, so even if I were to finally have justice in court and return to the UK my status is simple... Homeless.

Others, such as Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice, assert that businesses such as Total Attorneys «are a cancer in the legal profession.»

This prompted a flurry of discussion in this post on the Simple Justice blog (written by [email protected], aka Scott Greenfield) and ultimately here on Legal Blog Watch as to the validity of Rule # 1033.

An information request by «decision» (as opposed to a «simple request») can be addressed only to «large» companies (i.e., with above 250 employees, as per the EU definition available here) and trade associations, may entail fines in the form of period penalty payments, and can be challenged before the Court of Justice of the EU.

As noted by Justice Costigan, it «would have been a relatively simple exercise to draft provisions that clearly apply» to an employer such as SyncrudAs noted by Justice Costigan, it «would have been a relatively simple exercise to draft provisions that clearly apply» to an employer such as Syncrudas Syncrude.

Today, Scott Greenfield added to this discussion on his Simple Justice blog, pointing out that big follower numbers continue to impress many Twitter users who lack «a clear understanding that followers on Twitter are too often named «Britney» or [are] themselves only interested in gathering as many followers as possible in their simplistic quest at marketing hegemony.»

At Simple Justice, Greenfield asserts that businesses such as Total Attorneys «are a cancer in the legal profession, and one that happily infects far too many lawyers who are desperate for business.»

For Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice the First Amendment «journalistic principles» aren't as clear - cut, particularly where a guy's reputation is ruined and the newspaper itself presented only part of the story by failing to note that all charges against Feyissa were dismissed.

As Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice notes, making a deal like this, even with a nonviolent offender, is a little disrespectful to the citizens of the rest of the country (and their tax dollars).

While reading the Simple Justice blog today (it must have been an old post as I know I wrote a fond «Farewell to «Simple Justice» and Scott Greenfield» post back in February 2012 when Simple Justice shut down), I saw two references to young lawyers who tried placing free ads on Craigslist but ultimately rejected this business development tactic as undignified.

As pointed out here by Scott Greenfield on his Simple Justice blog, Gradeless appears to have found a way to monetize his massive following on Twitter through a service called Sponsored Tweets, which hooks «Tweeters» like Gradeless up with advertisers who want to reach their supposedly vast audiences (although as discussed here, a person's numbers of Twitter followers can be a pretty meaningless figureAs pointed out here by Scott Greenfield on his Simple Justice blog, Gradeless appears to have found a way to monetize his massive following on Twitter through a service called Sponsored Tweets, which hooks «Tweeters» like Gradeless up with advertisers who want to reach their supposedly vast audiences (although as discussed here, a person's numbers of Twitter followers can be a pretty meaningless figureas discussed here, a person's numbers of Twitter followers can be a pretty meaningless figure).

From the point of view of this class — a class I'll just call «lawyers» — it's too clear for argument that (i) law has things to do so that some instrumentalist theory has to be adopted; (ii) few things are simple, so that no single theory will work in every case, whether it's «wealth maximization», «corrective justice», «contract as promise», compensation or deterrence; and (iii) the demands of practice, the solicitor's need to create relations which will be projected into the (uncertain) future and to control the risks his or her client faces, the barrister's need to conduct litigation at a price the parties can afford and in the context of the adversary system, powerfully limit the consideration that a lawyer can give to theory.

The second question, as to why the focus on social justice, rather than for example, legal issues connected to derivatives trading, is perhaps a simple one.

And as dissenting Justice Moldaver observed, the technicality had a simple solution: Nadon might have simply resigned and become a Quebec lawyer for a day to be fully eligible.

Our favorite reported quotes come from Greenfield, the author of the consistently good Simple Justice blog, who cast off this gem: â $ œGeneration Y uses this term life - balance as an excuse for their incompetence.â $

The OPG and Ministry of Justice have been keen to advertise the LPA as a simple document that anyone can prepare.

Justice Slatter's dismissal of this jurisprudence as «a simple disagreement by the judiciary with the public policy decisions of democratically elected officials» looks not unlike the expression of a simple disagreement by one judge with the constitutional policy decisions of his hierarchical superiors.

Speaking of settlement, Scott Greenfield's Simple Justice advised that Settlement Demands Have Their Risks — specifically the risk of a conviction for misdemeanor extortion, as happened to an overzealous young lawyer in New Hampshire.

[vii] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics offering advice, self - help webpages, phone - in services, paralegal and law student programs, family mediation services, social justice tribunals, and court procedures simplification projects, public legal education information services, programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide the whole legal service), pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases, and the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be better litigants without lawyers.

[6] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics of various types; self - help webpages; phone - in services; paralegal and law student programs; family mediation services; social justice tribunals; and court procedures simplification projects; arbitration and mediation for dispute resolution; public legal education information services; programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide the whole legal service); pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases; and, the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be better litigants without lawyers.

It's no secret that one of Greenfield's «passions,» besides connecting the dots on Simple Justice and his work as a criminal defense lawyer, is taking baby lawyers to school.

[iii] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics of various types, self - help webpages, phone - in services, paralegal and law student programs, family mediation services, social justice tribunals, court procedures simplification projects, arbitration and mediation for dispute resolution, public legal education information services, programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide all of the legal services necessary), pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases, and the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be more effective self - represented litigants.

From the get - go, the story easily hooked in players with its simple premise: take control of a socially deviant high schooler as he brings corrupt adults to justice.

The inalienability of Aboriginal land held does not necessarily significantly restrict the capacity of Indigenous people to raise capital for business ventures or to make commercial use of inalienable freehold land, as there are a number of methods of raising finance and securing loans against the land other than mortgages.137 In addition, land use agreements, similar in concept to Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), could be used to establish unique agreements within communities covering many issues.138 Government attention is more appropriately directed to assisting Indigenous people to overcome any difficulties they have in meeting financial obstacles to such solutions than to overturning legislation that has done simple justice to a people who have been deprived of their land without their consent and without compensation.