Sentences with phrase «included constitutional law»

His main areas of practice included constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law and international and public law.

His practice covers a broad array of subject matters, including constitutional law, sovereign immunity, arbitration, enforcement of arbitral awards, business litigation, securities fraud, criminal law, and intellectual property.

Other blogs weighing in include the Constitutional Law Prof Blog, Balkinization, and SCOTUSblog.

Not exact matches

A key reason for this is because a number of China's main commercial partners in South America have strict laws, sometimes including constitutional restrictions, against importing foreign labor.

That includes taking real responsibility for the politicized bullying by his bureaucrats and admitting that he himself had gone way beyond the bounds of our constitutional system by creating the perception that it was somehow being «on the dark side» or outside the law to be his political opponent.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Nevertheless, a nation should include at least such elements as common commitment to the rule of law, generally accepted limits on political power and rhetoric, belief in constitutional governance, the rights of citizens, etc..

He has published numerous articles on contemporary democratic theory, Florentine political and constitutional thought, and twentieth - century German legal, political and social theory in scholarly journals, including the Modern Law Review, the American Political Science Review and Political Theory.

First, it appointed in 2009 a seven - member Constitutional Committee comprising mostly academics from a range of fields, including law, literature, and science, thus implicitly acknowledging that the constitution is not exclusively, and not even principally, a legal document, but primarily a social compact, a political declaration that supersedes ordinary legislation by virtue of the fact that the people are superior to Parliament.

The people can not ratify any constitutional change in conflict with Federal law, including the U.S. Constitution.

Without coming to agreement on how to proceed, legislative leaders considered several legal options, including passing statutes to delay the implementation of Goodridge, a strategy outlined by Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard Law School, until a referendum on a constitutional amendment could be held in November 2006.

Haren's past work includes working on civil rights and constitutional law cases while serving as chief counsel to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - Calif.)

The 52 - year - old Takoma Park resident, who is a professor at American University Washington College of Law, has focused his energy on a number of civil rights and constitutional issues in both the academic and legislative arenas, including marijuana legalization, campaign finance, and voting rights.

Grayling will take on responsibility for the Government's constitutional reforms including the further devolution of powers to Scotland and legislation to give English MPs a veto over England - only laws at Westminster.

The Missouri Supreme Court «agreed with the trial court's decision to dismiss several counts (including partisan gerrymandering claims), but remanded for a determination of whether the congressional districts (particularly districts 3 and 5) were sufficiently compact under state constitutional law.»

Simply writing the religious affiliation into the law would likely violate constitutional restrictions against making laws which include obvious religious discrimination.

Otherwise, the decision to implement cessation clause will result in the violation of a number of fundamental rights, including the right to life, to equality, to human dignity and to freedom from ill - treatment and torture; all lies at the heart of the 1951 Refugee Convention, human rights law, and constitutional frameworks.

Providing a general law practice for a specialized clientele, Harben, Hartley & Hawkins meets all of the legal needs of school districts including: fair dismissal personnel issues, allegations of employment discrimination and EEOC complaints, other personnel disputes, student discipline issues, student tribunal hearings, civil rights claims, personal injury actions, federal and state constitutional claims and other litigation, special education and other legal issues involving disabled students, contracts, leases and other business needs, policy and rule development, construction disputes, bond and SPLOST issues and other financial matters.

His professional and academic interests include civil procedure, federal and state constitutional law, employment law, and education law.

His teaching and scholarly interests include American legal history, constitutional law, federalism, separation of powers, the federal courts, conflict of laws, and civil procedure.

In this capacity, Mr. Geier has been responsible for developing DOT's positions in numerous Supreme Court and lower federal court cases that have included a wide range of constitutional and administrative law issues as well as regulatory challenges.

Just because they state this, does this mean that those policies, etc. supersedes Federal Copyright laws and all laws, including Constitutional regarding right to privacy.

They include international instruments such as treaties and declarations; nationally based standards such as constitutional provisions and national laws; certification schemes such as the Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production (WRAP); and voluntary initiatives that are adopted by businesses on a voluntary basis (Report 4).

In Canada, student loan debt can't be included for discharge under a bankruptcy during the ten years after graduation (it used to be two years, but they quietly changed the law back in the late»90s and the constitutional challenge to the legislation failed).

ADLA was also part of coalitions that defeated damaging ballot referendums including a constitutional «right to hunt» measure in 2009 that could have overturned the law that banned traps and poisons on public lands.

The nuanced complexity of video games has resulted in an inconsistent application of legal principles drawn from multiple fields, including Intellectual Property Law, Constitutional Law, and Business Law.Loading Law launched in October 2013 with the purpose of providing both current and practical analysis of developing legal issues in video games.»

Constitutional law: Redwater Energy Corporation is a bankrupt company that held licences in oil and gas properties, including «orphan» wells that are no longer producing.

Other research interests include EU law constitutional law, the EU legal order, fundamental rights in the EU and Eurocrisis law, especially as it applies to Ireland.

She has published widely on different aspects of EU external relations law and EU constitutional law, including the monographs EU Counter-Terrorist Policies and Fundamental Rights - The Case of Individual Sanctions (Oxford University Press, 2009) and EU Powers under External Pressure - How the EU's External Actions Alter its Internal Structures (Oxford University Press, 2018 forthcoming).

The legal opinion provided to the law society on Nov. 16, 2016, which I've made available here, spells out the constitutional basis far more clearly than anything I've seen thus far, including some quite embarrassing commentary from legal academics (i.e. Pardy).

In its judgment, the SCC explained that even though EU law is not itself part of the constitutional canon, «both international treaties and agreements, including European secondary legislation, may provide valuable interpretative criteria of the meaning and scope of the rights and freedoms that the Constitution recognises,» taking into account the interpretive decisions rendered «by the bodies of guarantee established under those same international treaties and agreements.»

Joshua also devotes substantial time to pro bono matters relating to important criminal and constitutional law issues, including successfully representing a woman charged with reckless endangerment for allegedly using illegal drugs while pregnant and a client charged with various crimes for sending «harassing» emails.

He chairs the firm's Supreme Court and appellate practice and has experience in areas including insurance disputes, criminal law and constitutional law.

Douglas Hallward - Driemeier of Ropes & Gray LLP is famed for his headlining work in significant civil rights and constitutional appeals, including recent work representing medical associations and physicians at the Eleventh Circuit to successfully challenge a Florida law prohibiting physicians from making inquiries of patients over firearm ownership.

Fintan's practice areas include administrative and constitutional law, statutory interpretation, privacy and information law, and litigation.

With the support of the RCBA Board and the Barristers, the planning committee created a three - part program for its inaugural year that includes: (1) Legal Careers Day; (2) a mock preliminary hearing argued by a District Attorney and criminal defense attorney before Judge Bernard Schwartz; and (3) a «teach the class» series where guest attorney / judge lecturers will help prepare students for the AP Government exam by hosting discussions on various constitutional law issues.

Topics in the 2016 Edition include: Special Considerations in Representing Noncitizen Defendants, Federal Firearms Offenses, International and Foreign Law, Crime in Indian Country, Federal Sex Offenses, Common Constitutional Issues that Arise During Trial, International Border - Crossing Offenses, Mental Health Issues in Federal Criminal Practice, Evidence, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Plea Agreements, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and more!

His scholarly interests center around legal writing and laws that impact the craft beer industry, including constitutional issues such as the First Amendment and tied - house laws.

Harrisonburg constitutional attorney professionals are knowledgeable in all areas of general constitutional law, including but not limited to violations of the First Amendment and Fifth Amendment in Harrisonburg Virginia.

The free version of the app includes the courts 100 most important constitutional law cases.

(1) Access to the s. 96 courts is a fundamental premise of the constitutional arrangement of Canada which can not be materially hindered by anyone (BCGEU)[British Columbia Government Employees» Union v. British Columbia (Attorney General), [1988] 2 S.C.R. 214], including either Parliament or the legislatures, just as public and political discourse may not be abrogated by law (Alberta Reference)[Reference re Alberta Statutes, [1938] S.C.R. 100].

His areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, constitutional law, federal practice, and civil rights.

The plaintiffs in Flint raise several different constitutional claims, including allegations that officials violated residents» rights to due process of law by endangering their «fundamental liberty interest to bodily integrity,» as well as claims that officials engaged in racial discrimination.

Mark, not to be a nit picker, but you don't go back far enough in Canada's constitutional history, and at the very least I would also include Canada's «declaration of independence» the Statute of Westminster, 1931 (UK), which ended the ability of the UK parliament to legislative for Canada and gave Canadian's complete freedom to make their own laws, and thus the right to make their own way in the world (borrowed from the Canadian Encylopaedia)

Advice on public powers, including statutory interpretation and prerogative powers, constitutional and public law requirements, and advising on adopting new policies and ways to deliver public services within existing statutory frameworks.

The social uproar that followed the ruling led to the German constitutional legislature taking a significant step aimed at protecting animal welfare with the 2002 constitutional reform, by including Article 20a in the Basic Law:

John also has a strong background in public law cases, including human rights, administrative, regulatory and constitutional law.

Ryan Teschner is a member of Heenan Blaikie's Litigation group in Toronto with a litigation and advocacy practice that emphasizes administrative, regulatory and constitutional law matters, including appellate litigation and judicial review.

This reasoning would apply anywhere in the U.S. and is not specific to a particular state or territory as double jeopardy is a principle of U.S. Constitutional law that applies directly in federal courts (including the courts of territories and commonwealths) and indirectly through selective incorporation against the states via the 14th Amendment.

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