Students will learn basic conceptual building blocks of American law, including the hierarchy of court systems, how lawyers and courts make distinctions
between facts and law, the relationships among common, statutory, and constitutional law, the interactions between procedural and substantive law, legal precedent, the interactions between federal and state law, the adversarial process, and the ethics and social norms that govern and shape the behavior of American lawyers.
Not exact matches
One of the main differences
between crowdfunding in Hong Kong
and other regions is the
fact that there are no
laws regulating these activities in The Pearl of the Orient.
Someone could say a lot on the connection
between Raj's relative «normalcy»
and the
fact that his parents are together
and his dad lays down the
law (with somewhat indulgent
and very uneven success).
In
fact, he makes me suspect that what I really need for my Five Conceptions of Liberty project (see below) are books or essays that discuss the relation
between the «libertarian» con -
law guys I mention,
and such fusionism.
Examples of one or other of the two kinds of divine
and unchangeable
law would be, that a marriage
between brother
and sister is now invalid independently of the will of the Church; that a validly consummated marriage
between baptized persons is indissoluble
and that the Church has no power to alter the
fact; that the Church can not abolish the
fact that there are seven sacraments, nor alter the ultimate features of the Church's own constitution.
Besides the
fact that blasphemy
laws are abusive tools of oppression, besides totalitarian religious states being unused to freedom of speech, besides the differences
between Islam
and Christianity... Putting all that aside, how does one human being rejoice that another is going to be killed?
In his reply to «Die Bauleute» Buber makes a distinction
between revelation
and the giving of the
law which Rosenzweig has failed to make: «I do not believe that revelation is ever lawgiving,
and in the
fact that lawgiving always comes out of it, I see the
fact of human opposition, the
fact of man.»
In
fact, moral freedom is a way to break the bond
between the
law and our sense of morality.
There is a difference
between saying that the ideology people hold no longer gives adequate expression to the
law which St. Paul says is «written on their hearts» (Romans 2:14 - 15),
and saying, instead, that it is not in
fact written on their hearts.
In an interview with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice
and founder of the Oasis cultural centre for understanding
between Catholics
and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope
and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology
and law... The
fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important
and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteem.
On the other hand, God must so act in the interests of both the self
and all others as thereby to establish the cosmic order of natural
law that sets the optimal limits of all other action, where by «optimal limits» I mean limits such that, were they to be set otherwise than they are, the ratio
between opportunities for good
and risks of evil would be less rather than more favorable than it in
fact is.
in
fact, the church was fully aware of its theological position as it came to realize the sharp distinction
between the
Law of Peter
and the
Law of Thomas.
This is clear from the
fact that the Old Testament Scripture —
laws, historical books
and prophecies — were for Judaism a unity, that the distinction
between different stages of Old Testament religion
and morality was not felt at all.
the distinction
between unrestricted universals of
law and mere universals of
fact is to be accounted for in terms of the epistemic
and contextual support which unrestricted universals receive within a system of scientific theory.
Boehm said Donahue's selection had nothing to do with the
fact that her husband, Dan, worked on Mayor Dan McLaughlin's election campaign two years ago
and her brother - in -
law David Donahue was hired last year as the village's legislative liaison, a newly created position designed to foster communication
between the village
and state
and federal lawmakers.
As long as the
law maintains only a hazy line
between, on the one hand, verifiable allegations of
fact and, on the other hand, expressions of opinion, speakers
and writers remain unsure about what they may
and may not say.
The JPost
and Haaretz have carried reports for months about the
fact that the coalition agreement
between Likud Beytenu
and Bayit Yehudi (with the knowledge
and consent of Yesh Atid) mandates the passage of the «Basic
Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People», e.g. link to jpost.com
The mayor's office in
fact has already released a tranche of emails
between the administration
and Rosen, which revealed that the consultant had sat in on key discussions of de Blasio's housing plan, which controversially overhauled the city's zoning
laws.
The lawyer argued in the third grounds that the CCT erred in
law «when it abandoned the main purport of the recusal (disqualification)
and ignored the submissions of counsel thereon only to begin to write a ruling comprised of
facts and arguments that are only know to Justice Umar
and not raised or introduced by any parties in order to arrive at a conclusion not urged upon him by any of the parties concerning the constitutional
and statutory relationship
between the AGF
and the EFCC».
Prometheus discovered an (alleged)
FACT (
law of nature) about the correlation
between optimal drug dosage
and metabolite levels.
The title referring to the line of
law enforcement that separates civilization from chaos, The Thin Blue Line is almost better read as the line
between fabulism trusted as
fact,
and fabulism accepted as fantasy.
Whilst the parents remembered some key
facts like pH values
and the difference
between exothermic
and endothermic reactions, they struggled to recall Newton's
Laws or the meaning of terms like «Oxygen debt».
Only if
facts were «phenomena» in the former sense would the antithesis
between facts and conceptions be valid; only if «phenomena» are understood in the latter sense can causation be said to be a
law of phenomena.
The
fact is that
laws and interpretations of those
laws make separate distinctions
between fees
and interest.
The Underwriting Agreement
between the Trust
and Northern Lights Distributors, LLC («NLD») provides that the Registrant agrees to indemnify, defend
and hold NLD, its several officers
and directors,
and any person who controls NLD within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act free
and harmless from
and against any
and all claims, demands, liabilities
and expenses (including the reasonable cost of investigating or defending such claims, demands or liabilities
and any reasonable counsel fees incurred in connection therewith) which NLD, its officers
and directors, or any such controlling persons, may incur under the Securities Act, the 1940 Act, or common
law or otherwise, arising out of or based upon: (i) any untrue statement, or alleged untrue statement, of a material
fact required to be stated in either any Registration Statement or any Prospectus, (ii) any omission, or alleged omission, to state a material
fact required to be stated in any Registration Statement or any Prospectus or necessary to make the statements in any of them not misleading, (iii) the Registrant's failure to maintain an effective Registration statement
and Prospectus with respect to Shares of the Funds that are the subject of the claim or demand, or (iv) the Registrant's failure to provide NLD with advertising or sales materials to be filed with the FINRA on a timely basis.
The Underwriting Agreement
between the Trust
and Ceros Financial Services Inc. («Ceros») provides that the Registrant agrees to indemnify, defend
and hold Ceros, its several officers
and directors,
and any person who controls Ceros within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act free
and harmless from
and against any
and all claims, demands, liabilities
and expenses (including the reasonable cost of investigating or defending such claims, demands or liabilities
and any reasonable counsel fees incurred in connection therewith) which Ceros, its officers
and directors, or any such controlling persons, may incur under the Securities Act, the 1940 Act, or common
law or otherwise, arising out of or based upon: (i) any untrue statement, or alleged untrue statement, of a material
fact required to be stated in either any Registration Statement or any Prospectus, (ii) the breach of any representations, warranties or obligations set forth herein, (iii) any omission, or alleged omission, to state a material
fact required to be
This, together with the
fact that P = rho RT (The ideal gass
law) determines that pressure decreases with altitude
and also determines the link
between pressure
and temperature within the atmosphere.
In
fact, the debate in this country over land use has become emblematic of American democracy: a struggle
between competing special interest groups to influence common
laws and policies through elections.
Negotiations
between utilities, the solar industry trade association MDV - SEIA,
and the group Powered by
Facts produced three pieces of legislation that appear likely to become
law (
and all of which I've discussed previously).
In the past, Exelon opposed fixing the Illinois» renewable energy
law (RPS) despite the
fact that the fix could save ratepayers up to $ 280 million
between 2014
and 2017.
Lawyers prefer to use alternative dispute resolution processes in family
law, which cost the client less, take less time
and make for longer - lasting co-operation
between the parties after the
fact, according to a recent study.
If the
fact pattern is a squabble
between a human
and a corporation, discuss the
law, but lean towards the human's position.
In
fact, the Carnegie Report's recommendation to this effect acknowledges that it is «building on the work already underway in several
law schools...» 49
And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating writing with doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about
And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating writing with doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers
and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about
and about the relationships
between doctrine, analysis,
and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about
and writing; 51 there is a strong connection
between writing
and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about
and thinking; 52
and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about
and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine
and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about
and writing therefore sends an explicit message that
law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine,
and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about
and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about it.
In
fact, EU
law has found that communications
between in - house lawyers
and a company's staff don't warrant the protection of legal advice privilege as in - house lawyers are viewed as «insufficiently independent — structurally, hierarchically,
and functionally» from their employers.
There is an added dimension of statutory interpretation which could mean that because of the word «
and»
between the two situations when the powers are permitted to be exercised (i.e. making
laws and exposing corruption), the power is in
fact only exercisable when both circumstances are present.
Premises liability
law in Indiana can be complex,
and the standard applied by the courts depends heavily on the
facts as well as the relationship
between the parties.
Let's try to compare the point 50 of the opinion: «While the movement of citizens of the Union
between Member States is governed by EU
law,
and in particular by Article 21 TFEU
and Directive 2004/38, the same does not apply to visits to Member States by Heads of State» which basically says that the movement of diplomats falls outside the scope of EU
law, with the judgment of the Court in paragraph 51: «Accordingly, the
fact that a Union citizen performs the duties of a Head of State is such as to justify a limitation, based on international
law, on the exercise of the right of free movement conferred on that person by Article 21 TFEU.».
52 Where the analysis of a type of coordination
between undertakings does not reveal a sufficient degree of harm to competition, the effects of the coordination should, on the other hand, be considered
and, for it to be caught by the prohibition, it is necessary to find that factors are present which show that competition has in
fact been prevented, restricted or distorted to an appreciable extent (judgment in Allianz Hungária Biztosító
and Others (EU: C: 2013:160), paragraph 34
and the case -
law cited).
There's a big difference
between providing information about the
law and applying
facts to the
law.
«[The] application to products from other Member States of national provisions restricting or prohibiting certain selling arrangements is not such as to hinder directly or indirectly, actually or potentially, trade
between Member States within the meaning of the Dassonville judgment (Case 8/74 [1974] ECR 837), so long as those provisions apply to all relevant traders operating within the national territory
and so long as they affect in the same manner, in
law and in
fact, the marketing of domestic products
and of those from other Member States» (Keck, para. 16)(emphasis added).
50 That case -
law arises from the
fact that certain types of coordination
between undertakings can be regarded, by their very nature, as being harmful to the proper functioning of normal competition (see, to that effect, in particular, judgment in Allianz Hungária Biztosító
and Others (EU: C: 2013:160) paragraph 35
and the case -
law cited).
He investigates the similarities
and differences
between the national judicial treatment in applying
and interpreting EU
and ECHR
law and concludes that accession will not render these differences moot: in
fact, the CJEU clarified in the Kamberaj case that EU
law does not require the disapplication of domestic
law conflicting with the Convention — the effects of the ECHR will therefore continue to depend on the national constitutions, not the
law of the EU (pp. 156 - 158).
So far as I am aware Wood's ruling is perfectly consistent with the
law: attorney - client privilege protects communication
between a client
and his or her lawyer but it does not protect the
fact that such communication occurred.
This,
and the
fact that I too am in the process of hiring a research assistant for the summer, got me thinking about the relation
between law schools
and law firms.
The international
law question has already been authoritatively discussed in this journal, most recently by Professor Greer
and Dr Tsagourias (NLJ 2010 p475) I would respectfully suggest that the comparison in their last paragraph
between Iraq
and Kosovo is the key point,
and in
fact renders much of the public debate on Iraq (
and indeed the Chilcott inquiry itself) misplaced.
Considering that McCormick engaged in productive work (providing legal services to clients on behalf of the partnership)
and that Faskens could
and had, in
fact, affected his ability to have full
and meaningful participation in economic
and social life by imposing a mandatory retirement policy, the Code applies to his relationship with Faskens
and generally to the relationship
between a
law firm partner
and a
law firm partnership.
Despite the
fact that all EU states are party to the 1970 Hague Evidence Convention (Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters or hereafter Hague Convention)
and have transposed the EU Data Protection Directive into national
law, stark differences in the legal regime applicable to international transfers for the purposes of e-discovery exist
between EU Member States.
Applying the Restatement (Second) of Judgments § 27, the Court noted that «subject to certain well - known exceptions, the general rule is that when an issue of
fact or
law is actually litigated
and determined by a valid
and final judgment,
and the determination is essential to the judgment, the determination is conclusive in a subsequent action
between the parties, whether on the same or a different claim.»
Of course, being obsessed with justice, common
law has left many loopholes that allow contracting parties to require a deeper inquiry into the
facts and the
law of the dispute by claiming unconscionability, mistake, rescission,
and other legal ways of rewriting the original contract to satisfy buyer's remorse or a similar regret about the way risks were originally allocated
between contracting parties.
But for the past 30 years, we've taken for granted that we can also offer the benefit of all these European instruments
and that English judgments will be enforceable across the EU —
and as soon as those are stripped back, one may need to consider the balance
between the general reputation of English courts
and English
law and the
fact that we may need to say to clients that it may potentially become harder to enforce your debt overseas in the EU.