Sentences with phrase «constitutional law professor»

That has held true even as the number of guns in circulation has grown enormously, from 0.36 per person in 1948 year to 1.13 in 2014, notes David Kopel, an adjunct constitutional law professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

By way of background, 12 current or former constitutional law professors filed an amicus brief on behalf of Scooter Libby, raising constitutional arguments regarding the appointment of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who investigated Libby and secured his conviction.

Like most constitutional law professors, Carter is sharply critical of the Supreme Court's 1990 decision in Employment Division v. Smith.

A brief from constitutional law professors in defense of RFRA is here.

But in 2014, something changed: A little - known, poorly funded Constitutional law professor named Zephyr Teachout ran against Cuomo in the Democratic primary and captured a third of the vote, proof that not only was a restive progressivism already brewing in the pre-Trump, pre-Sanders era, but that the party's liberals didn't care much for their governor.

There's a downloadable study guide at the film's web site, but on the DVD there's 32 minutes of additional interview material with author Susan George, professor Chalmers Johnson, University of Nairobi constitutional law professor Okoth Ogendo and Gitu wa Kahengeri, leader of Kenya's Mau Mau uprising.

President Obama's constitutional law professor called it «the curvature of constitutional space.»

Noted constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe ’66 has made headlines with his Congressional testimony that the EPA's Clean Power Plan is unconstitutional.

But in reading the commentary and debate surrounding the school's decision to invite Mukasey, I was surprised to find this comment posted by my one - time constitutional law professor, Arthur L. Berney.

As my first year constitutional law professor, Prof. Brian Slattery, used to say: «There sure are going to be a lot of well - educated laptops by the end of the term.

Among the expert witnesses advancing this approach were constitutional law professors Peter W. Hogg, Peter Hogg, Scholar in Residence, Blake, Cassels and Graydon, Patrick Monahan, Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School and Prof. Scott.

UCLA constitutional law professor Eugene Volokh says that as a general legal rule, items agreed to in a contract are enforceable, but with respect to issues like these, the gotcha factor is critical.

Democrats dismissed the GOP charge, arguing that Obama - a former constitutional law professor - would tap a candidate committed to equal justice and not use a high court opening to pursue a partisan political agenda.

According to Stephen Scott, a constitutional law professor at McGill University, the original point of the law was to ensure courts in colonial America had the same traditional powers as those in England.

from John Eastman, a constitutional law professor at Chapman University, is chairman of the National Organization for Marriage:

His challenger, Zephyr Teachout, might strike some as an unusual candidate — a constitutional law professor and community organizer, Teachout is not a politician in the traditional sense.

President Obama's constitutional law professor and mentor at Harvard, Laurence Tribe, calls Obama's attempt to flout the Constitution in order to get his way on the «Clean Power Plan» (CPP) a «trifecta» since it attempts to go around three major institutions of government: Congress, the courts, and the states.

«It's a bombshell, there's no other way to describe it,» says Benoît Pelletier, a constitutional law professor at the University of Ottawa and a former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister.

But Louis Seidman, a constitutional law professor at Georgetown, seemed to take that argument in a new direction recently when he asserted in the New York Times that our Constitution is the real cause of our problems, and that we should get rid of it.

Choudhry is a constitutional law professor who has had increased profile in Canada in recent years working as intervenor in a number of cases and commenting in the media on public affairs issues.

We talk it over with Charles «Rocky» Rhodes, a constitutional law professor at South Texas College of Law Houston.

«What the firms did when the recession hit is they laid off a lot of associates, and they found ways to terminate a number of partners who they thought were not productive enough,» said Robert Reinstein, former dean of Temple Law School and a constitutional law professor there.