Sentences with phrase «because legal culture»

This is largely because our legal culture seems obsessed with seeing the lawyer as a warrior, lacking empathy for the other side.

Not exact matches

«The Athletes» Village is close to my heart because I worked on both the bid and the closing, and I helped the team when I was working in the legal department with a lot of the contracts,» says Rosemarie Lipman, senior vice-president of people and culture.

In contrast, «cultural relativism,» which Professor Arkes equates with legal positivism, holds that there are «no moral truths which hold their validity across cultures... [So that statutes or constitutional provisions] have the standing of law only because they are «posited» or set down by the authorities in any country.»

In part, as Noah Feldman's Divided By God suggests, the «legal secularism» of the Warren Court emerged precisely because of the failure of a secularist program for the broader culture.

A better treatment would have downplayed the legal side and answered, «Judges skip it because our elite culture wants them to.»

I think this is partially because in some Western cultures, it was half - acceptable if not legal to let unwanted or sickly infants die from either malnutrition or intentional suffocation.

As a result of his having won their support, he was appointed in 1988 for a seven year term, which was renewed in 1995 and 2002, and then this year [2008] determined by them to be a permanent post because of changes in employment law — an interpretation questioned on both legal and ethical grounds by lawyer and Stuckist artist, Leo Goatley, who has written to the Culture Minister to express his concerns.

But when one contrasts the Canadian reaction to the explicit insertion of religious views into the Republican Party and the recent book attempting to argue that the US Constitution (notwithstanding the separation doctrine) is a Christian text because of the beliefs of the Founding Fathers — then it becomes clear just how different the two legal cultures are.

The consequence of these choices are that they feel pressured by the culture of the legal community to avoid advocacy because to do otherwise may inadvertently offend colleagues and partners from more privileged and insulated backgrounds.

Overview of Annulment Annulment is a frequently misunderstood legal concept, because popular culture and religion have presented differing and often inaccurate views of what an annulment means in terms of family law.

Commerce & Finance is able to bridge business cultures because we have a diligent team of attorneys who have acquired training and exposure in diversified areas of legal practice.

If they leave, it won't be because of The Legal 500, it will be to do with firm culture or lack of access to clients, or other issues.

Well, as I suggested last week, your answer to this question probably depends on the sort of judicial review we are talking about, because your assessment of both the costs and the benefits of judicial review probably varies depending on the circumstances — and your legal culture and ideology.

Grammar changes slowly, but because humans keep inventing new things and our culture keeps moving forward, new vocabulary pops into existence on an almost weekly basis», Richard Tromans writes for Legal Geek.