Sentences with phrase «basic legal doctrines»

If one wants to say that rebuttable presumption is too onerous, then really one is almost arguing for the revocation of the basic legal doctrine that one is presumably innocent unless proven otherwise.

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Thus, disparate impact doctrine, which is supposed to help minority groups, will, once again, inflict punishment on minority students, who will be forced to learn from teachers who demonstrate lower levels of literacy or who perhaps even lack basic knowledge — just one more reason the Supreme Court should have sent disparate impact to the dustbin of legal history.

The externship experience is a process of discovery for many of the upper - level students, a process that includes discovery of some basic doctrine relating to analysis and writing processes that Monte, as a teacher of first - year legal analysis and writing, had been attempting to teach at that earlier developmental stage.

The exercises are the starting points, however, for discussing some basic elements of analytical and writing doctrine that have been the central subject matter in the first - year legal writing and analysis course for the past two decades.40

This course provides an introduction to the relationship between law and poverty, including the relevance of legal doctrine, policy and practice to the significant inequality in income, assets and basic social goods impacting tens of millions of people in the United States.