Sentences with phrase «attempt by legal scholars»

It is a rare attempt by legal scholars to praise — rather than criticize — others» work.

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Eleven years before the term genocide originated in 1944, the legal scholar Raphael Lemkin had attempted to make illegal the sort of mass killing perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire upon Armenians in the First World War.

Many legal and philosophical scholars have attempted to provide substantive content to the concept of equality by identifying several principles that equality aims to protect.

Those attempts were roundly — and deservedly — condemned by legal scholars as a tremendous and terrifying overreach.