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The lectures were in promotion of Sharafi's forthcoming book, «Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772 - 1947,» to be published in early 2014 as part of the American Society for Legal History's «Studies
in Legal History.»
The article also received mention
in Legal History Blog and Legal Theory Blog, where it was described as «short, intriguing and highly recommended.»
The 1990 CBA delegation left behind a bench and plaque to commemorate Paisley's place
in legal history.
It was the first time
in the legal history of Cyprus that a Court acknowledged the rights of an unmarried couple.
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The inquests, which lasted over two years, were both the longest inquests and the longest jury case
in legal history.
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Started in November 2006, this blog has been consistently covering the academic scene
in legal history, including the publication of new treatises, for some time.
2017 has marked yet another milestone
in legal history: in the last months, we have seen the arrival of the first online courts.
Leading the way
in legal history, he was given the title of president of the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) in 2004 and was the first African - American to do so since the association began 114 years prior.
It was attended by numerous legal luminaries with an interest
in legal history, including most notably Andromache Karakatsanis, the newly appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Or perhaps a required course
in legal history, or a capping exercise that addresses some aspect of legal history or foundations.
As a historian who takes an interest
in legal history, I'm a bit surprised by your take on this.
I think we will look back on this period
in legal history and reflect on the amount of time wasted chasing down blind allies.
The function of
this in the legal history of Israel is evident in the work of the prophets.
But defenders of church - state separation point out that years before, another homemaker and mother, Vashti Cromwell McCollum of Illinois, played a key role
in legal history.
Not exact matches
But the developments on Monday make it clear that, as this and the other threads surrounding the multiple investigations into Trump and his associates continues, the boundaries of
legal precedent are being tested
in ways unlike any other point
in modern
history.
While this
legal history does not necessarily mean that attorneys representing hedge funds can't win
in court, it suggests that victory is not assured.
Golf has had a rough
history in China, but as of this week it's officially
legal to play the game again, according to The Guardian.
Last June, the Supreme Court made
history by granting LGBT people
in the U.S. the
legal right to marry their loved ones.
It's perhaps the noblest reason for cooking the books
in movie
history, but of course still a
legal nightmare.
A little - known former prosecutor with a doctorate
in medieval
history will play a central role on U.S. President Donald Trump's
legal team.
A little - known former prosecutor with a doctorate
in medieval
history will play a central role on U.S. President Donald Trump's
legal team, as many top - tier lawyers shy away from representing him
in a probe into Russia's meddling
in the 2016 election.
«That was the other opportunity — to make a difference within not just the
legal profession but corporate Canada at large,» says Saguil, who was drawn to TD
in part because of its
history of sponsoring Pride events.
«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the
legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote
in a memo about Section 301's
history earlier
in August.
But as Temin and Vines show,
history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political,
legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways
in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of
history we lose so much complexity
in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.
The chief
legal analyst for ABC News and
history buff is putting his condo
in an 1830s - era Greek Revival townhouse on the market.
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His work has been published
in numerous journals, including Business
History Review, Australian Journal of
Legal History, and Reviews
in American
History.
If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge
in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you'd echo John Doerr's famous quote from 1999 that, «The Internet is the greatest
legal creation of wealth
in history.»
In addition to payment
history, Experian examines
legal filings, public records, and collection agency data to determine a company's credit quality.
The Post's Brian Fung and Sari Horwitz: «Justice Department officials told AT&T that its $ 85 billion bid to acquire Time Warner is unlikely to be approved without major changes, a move that is driving the two sides toward a high - stakes
legal battle over one of the biggest media deals
in history.
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Patricia Adams has conveniently collected the
history of law and
legal theory regarding such debts
in her book Odious Debts.
A federal court deal this week ended the latest
legal skirmish resulting from what the Environmental Protection Agency describes as the costliest inland oil spill
in U.S.
history — and one of the largest.
His work on indigenous land use and harvesting among the Western James Bay Cree, first presented at the economic
history meetings, was later used
in legal proceedings regarding land sovereignty.
There is also the question of
history and systems of legality — the church has no formal
legal system that can invoke prison sentences (
in my experience); the military system does have a
legal system and the ability to invoke prison terms.
In 1886, Taylor «nailed himself to the mast» on the issue of polygamy, says Ken Driggs, an attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, who has written extensively about fundamentalist Mormons and their legal histor
In 1886, Taylor «nailed himself to the mast» on the issue of polygamy, says Ken Driggs, an attorney
in Atlanta, Georgia, who has written extensively about fundamentalist Mormons and their legal histor
in Atlanta, Georgia, who has written extensively about fundamentalist Mormons and their
legal history.
Interestingly enough, the addressee of the Commandment is always the second person singular, «you shall not,» «you shall,» and that second person singular is not often found
in a
legal series
in this period of
history.
The Bible is,
in reality, a complex collection of historical documents, written over the course of at least 1,500 years, which represents various literary genres (everything from
history to parables, poetry to pastoral letters and
legal code to visions of the future), worldviews, languages, cultures, agendas and opinions.
Against the law student's disaffection, the Civil War experience shows that careful
legal interpretation can be an engine of
history in its own right — a real motive and limit, not just an instrument of judges» will to power.
With the good news that the Catholic religion is
in steep decline here and losing political and
legal influence it never should have had, fairly soon those definitions, and the religion itself, won't matter as anything other than a sorry footnote
in history.
(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b)
legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and
history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work
in theology (church
history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.
Any society
in history will need structures which balance enhancement of freedom and self - determination with checks on it by long - established
legal and moral traditions of keeping power
in the service of order and mutual responsibility, as well as creation of new structures of public morality.
Professor Hittinger seems to think that natural law reasoning
in deciding cases has safeguards: «Virtually no one holds that natural law can be a tool of
legal interpretation completely independent of texts and
history.»
As one example, before he took the bench, Brandeis and his
legal partner Sam Warren penned «The Right to Privacy,» one of the most influential law - review articles
in history,
in the Harvard Law Review.
Like Olson, the justices had to make their arguments
in light of U.S.
legal history, past and present religious pluralism, and variegated religio - political support of the God - phrase
in the pledge.
The story is true to
history, of course,
in that former President Nixon declared political and even
legal war against The New York Times and The Washington Post for myriad reasons, including the publishing of government secrets exposing lies about the Vietnam War.