Sentences with phrase «black letter law in»

As states everywhere turn increasingly to transnational soft law instruments to complement national and international black letter law in the field of human rights, companies count on their lawyers to provide them with effective guidance through the complex mix of emerging standards to which they are being held to account.

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Much of the total Obamacare «system» is not set in black - letter law but in rulings by unelected federal agencies.

«As you know... the Commissioner is empowered to grant a waiver to an «exceptionally qualified» candidate who does not meet all the graduate course or teaching requirements in law if he finds that the candidate has «exceptional training and experience» which are the «substantial equivalent» of such requirements,» Steiner wrote in the letter addressed to Brooklyn Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and several other officials who expressed concern about Black's qualifications.

In a recent letter to Secretary DeVos, members of the Congressional Tri-Caucus — made up of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus — wrote that the Secretary and her department are approving ESSA plans that «don't comply with the law's protections» for vulnerable student groups.

Other states would follow the letter of the law, but not the spirit, shutting down schools in black neighborhoods instead of providing what was then considered to be high - quality education.

The dopey Greens in this case were always asking for a leap too far and Alsup is blowing them off with black and white letter law.

The Black Letter Law feature is useful in several contexts, Arredondo says.

Although the Court of Appeal shared the sympathies which Mr Justice McCombe had previously expressed for police officers «who have to confront day in and day out the realities of life rather than the black letter law which this court has to apply» (see Bonner v DPP [2004] EWHC 2415 (Admin), [2004] All ER (D) 74 (Oct)-RRB-, it recognised, as indeed it must, that if the law were to be changed, it was to be achieved by Parliament using the legislative process rather than by the courts according the statutory provision a «liberal» (or illiberal) interpretation.

Mine is a legal academic and law publishing background steeped in black - letter law, in which case and statute law and drawing upon analysis thereof and expertise therein, are paramount.

Increasingly, legal advice (in the form of black letter law) without a sound commercial context is seen as being of comparatively limited value.

In our 2011 edition, Pandora's Box explores the complex tension between the slow evolution of black letter law and the relatively swift progression in social moralitIn our 2011 edition, Pandora's Box explores the complex tension between the slow evolution of black letter law and the relatively swift progression in social moralitin social morality.

The committee's proposal «moves beyond the comment to craft a distinct rule within the black letter of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct prohibiting lawyers from engaging in harassment and knowing discrimination in conduct related to the practice of law» against people on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or socioeconomic status.

But the language raised concerns for several ABA entities because comments may not be enforced in the same way as black - letter rules, and because the language is not broad enough to adequately address discriminatory behavior by lawyers in the context of law practice.

Although TAR is now so widely accepted that it has become — as Judge Peck said — black letter law, there remains significant uncertainty over the degree of transparency and cooperation required with respect to the training sets used in TAR.

While in the UK the market was growing from # 505m in 1995 to # 1.4 bn in 2013, the proportion of that nestling in the citadel of «black letter law» dropped from 41.7 % in1995, to 28 % in 2013.

The art of being a lawyer in this area is having the courage to look beyond the black letter of the law relative to a specific post and put the entire situation in the context.

Technology - assisted review (TAR) is now so widely used in e-discovery and so widely accepted by judges that one federal magistrate - judge recently declared it to be «black letter law.»

Residential property has historically been perceived as the less glamorous ugly sister of commercial property, but in actual fact it has a considerably greater amount of technical black letter law around it.

«On his feet, Stephen has the priceless ability to inspire trust in judges, who recognise his first - class knowledge and understanding of complex points of black - letter law.»

Technology Assisted Review (TAR) is now so widely used in e-discovery and so widely accepted by judges that one federal magistrate - judge recently declared it to be «black letter law,» write Catalyst's Thomas C. Gricks III and Robert J. Ambrogi in «A Brief History of Technology Assisted Review.»

One of the fun parts of being a lawyer (yet also one of the most challenging parts) is sorting through all of these decisions, analyzing what facts made the cases come out different, and crafting an argument to suggest the black letter law should be interpreted in your favor.

Rather, it relates to the formulation of these principles and rules in black letter texts and the reproduction of the comparative law materials evidencing a particular principle or rule.

Juniors do research into black - letter law as well as «drafting motions for summary judgment and documents in support of motions to dismiss.»

Tips for Lawyers is a new legal blog where we try not to get caught up in black letter law so much as some ways to help improve the practice of law.

We attempted to respond to the needs of the bench by including current issues in social context education as well as black letter law.

A basic business course would benefit most lawyers in their law practice, and should be taught along with the black letter law courses in school.

In the proposals both of Briggs and the Master of the Rolls, there will be no advocates to elucidate the black letter law or effectively to test the evidence.

Peck aptly notes in Rio Tinto that since his Da Silva Moore order, the case law has developed to the point that it is now «black letter law that where the producing party wants to utilize TAR for document review, courts will permit it,» citing to courts in jurisdictions across the country that have all followed his lead.

Tomorrow's Naked Lawyer focuses on the positive and negative effects of Artificial Intelligence and robots in society and the impact Artificial Intelligence is currently having and will inevitably have on legal jobs, legal roles and «black and white letter of» the law (NewLaw).

Learning opportunities should include a balance of doctrinal, black letter law courses, and opportunities to apply knowledge in practical ways, one of which is internships and clinical practice.

Pursuit by some state governments of a black - letter law approach to deal with native title in a legally minimalist way,