Sentences with phrase «debating points of law»

Later we will have title cards introducing important figures, sunlight slanting through dusty air, John Williams» reliably intrusive music telling us how to feel, and many — far too many — scenes of men in chin whiskers sitting around debating points of law.

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It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

Per the Book of Galatians, the question of «sin or not» is a valid point to debate in Elementary School; but we can graduate from elementary debates of the Law, and enter into the great dialog about «how» to live the Law of Christ and «how» to experience the Unity of All Believers.

From my perspective the focus of the abortion debate should be sentience; however, even if we are at some point able to determine definitively when during pregnancy fetal sentience begins, we would still be faced with dealing with the ethical issue of law denying women autonomy.

Still, Long became tripped up a bit on the same - sex marriage issue in the NY1 / YNN debate this month, saying that as a U.S. senator she wouldn't advocate against repeal of the New York law at all, allowing for Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos to score a point in the forum.

Competing in an American Parliamentary Debate Association tournament late last month at Smith College, the Cardozo law student launched into an impassioned plea for the teaching of masturbation in sex - ed classes, outlining his plan to extend a helping hand to frustrated kids and touching on more general themes in the field («a friend of mine just got chlamydia,» he says in an aside at one point).

As a national debate continues to simmer over the best methods for protecting students from gun violence, a state senator from Southern California points out that a large number of school districts are failing to develop or update school safety plans — as required by law.

But all that this does is sharpen one of the debating points down to a finer edge, and it asks: «does going to law school make sense financially?»

But I do know that, on the days when you know the facts of your case, and when you know the area of applicable law as well as you can, then the intellectual debate which can develop with a High Court judge or in the Court of Appeal is fascinating — and for my money, it represents the high point of my career.

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.

Two weeks ago, we pointed out that the debate over the new healthcare law had resulted in some infighting, with several states» governors on opposite sides of the issue from their own attorneys general.

Like most of the criminal law, the area is in a mess, and several points of policy and principle need to be debated before we legislate.

Like all areas of life and law, there is debate and change, and one change will be the stepping off point for the next.

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A moot is a legal debate, the formal presentation by two teams of students before judges of the opposing arguments on a particular point of law.

In law school, most upcoming lawyers are exposed to the so - called «Socratic Method,» in which the professor — generally in modern dress and typically not speaking Greek — seeks to compel the student to find or discover or discern or make a lucky guess at the point of doctrine under consideration, much as the character we know as «Socrates» in the Dialogues of Plato does with his students or debating partners.

I think this debate on the role of law schools in North America has clearly reached a point where the profession and law schools need to have a serious conversation.