Sentences with phrase «jurists at»

Cornell Law School center to be dedicated in Paris in July The Cornell University Center for Documentation on American Law in Paris will be dedicated July 17 before an audience of the world's leading jurists at an international judicial conference.

And in so doing, we'd begin to propagate the important notion that so long as our laws are true in both languages, it makes sense to have jurists at all levels who see that nothing (or nothing much, at least) gets lost in translation.

Jessica Chastain criticized what she called «disturbing» representations of women in movies after serving as a jurist at Cannes.

Not exact matches

Yale only trumps other schools because its expenditures per student are greater than other schools, Brian Leiter, a law professor at The University of Chicago, argued to National Jurist magazine in 2013.

At the same time he maintained that he was still a follower of the Prophet of Islam and a non-lawgiving prophet, and since he brought no new law and adhered to the law of Islam as interpreted and codified by the jurists, he claimed to be a good Muslim.

It is perhaps not without some significance that the Wittenberg jurist Hieronymous Schürpf served as best man at Luther's own wedding to the former nun Katherine von Bora.

This conception of just war was passed to the early modern age and known and used by such theorists as the Neoscholastics Vitoria, Soto, Molina, and Suarez, by the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, the Puritan theologian William Ames, the theologically trained jurist Hugo Grotius, and others at the dawn of the modern era.

Judge Andrew Napolitano, a distinguished jurist and professor of law, will speak on the importance of Catholic schools for the Church and society - at - large in a secular culture.

«American Muslims should enjoy the freedom to build their places of worship wherever permitted by local zoning laws,» the retired Supreme Court jurist said at a luncheon where he was honored by the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation.

It is cited amongst other places in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam issued in 1981 on the initiative of the Islamic Council of Europe, by Pope Benedict XVI in his lecture at the University of Regensburg, and then in thefollowing Open Letter to him from authoritative Muslim theologians and jurists.

When John T. Noonan, Jr. died last week at the age of 90, the American people lost not only a distinguished jurist, scholar, and man of letters.

In recent weeks, the list of potential candidates has grown to include Mohr, the county's Republican elections commissioner, Kloch, a veteran jurist; Guerra, a career prosecutor; and McCabe, a Democrat and former prosecutor now working at Delaware North.

Members of the New York State Legislative Women's Caucus were among the legislators who attended the Bronx - born jurist's address at SUNY Albany after the Democratic - led Assembly gaveled out of session for the evening.

Judge Robert Smith, a well - respected jurist appointed by former Gov. George Pataki, will leave the Court of Appeals at the end of 2014 because he's reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.

Will he just look at the list and say «well, I think this individual will be an absolutely fabulous jurist.»»

But on Friday, the Assembly unveiled a plan with a peculiar benchmark: It would allow legislators to earn 40 percent of the annual salary of New York State Supreme Court justices, which starts at $ 174,000, though some jurists earn more.

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara will join a distinguished panel at the fourth annual Jurist in Residence program at The College of Saint Rose in Albany on Thursday, Oct. 6.

Another source indicated State Supreme Court Justice Donald F. Cerio Jr., a Madison County jurist assigned to the case, has reserved a local court room for proceedings at 11 a.m.

Here's a comforting thought for any scientist feeling overlooked by the Nobel jurists this month: At least you didn't win an Ig Nobel, the spoof prize given by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research.

Lazarus pointed to Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as an example of a jurist who «is not ready to give EPA a lot of deference if they're taking language which was crafted at one time and trying to push it at the edges to deal with a problem of another time, like climate change.»

Eventually, at each grade level, the editors distill their notes into detailed outlines, a task roughly comparable to what sixth - century jurists in Byzantium must have faced when they carved Justinian's Code out of the jungle of Roman law.

NEW ORLEANS — Tulane University will award honorary degrees to best - selling mystery writer Walter Mosley, philosopher and Parliament member Onora O'Neill and renowned jurist Hein Kötz at its spring commencement, the university announced Tuesday.

«Municipal by - laws should facilitate the reduction of companion animal overpopulation, ensure for responsible animal ownership and regulate the general way in which citizens and animals interact in the community» says Alanna Devine, jurist and Director of Animal Advocacy at the Montreal SPCA.

For now, at least one real - world jurist is making himself available to residents in Second Life, if only as a lecturer — 7th U.S. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner.

At least, that's the conclusion of a recent survey by the National Jurist, which found a wide disparity between those factors that are considered influential in the US News & World Report law school rankings and those factors that matter to students.

Mark Hamblett has the story at the New York Law Journal, and here's a link to the opinion, Byrne v. Rutledge, authored by a panel consisting of three of the four female jurists on the court — Judges Amalya Kearse, Reena Raggi, and Debra Livingston (this fact mentioned for purposes of trivia only; I am not suggesting that the gender makeup of the panel had any bearing on the outcome of the case, so calm down).

Author: Bernard Hibbitts, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is JURIST's publisher and editor - in - chief.

On the Nigerian equivalent of a national legal portal, there are some law reports — see http://www.nigeria-law.org/LawReporting.htm, the Constitution is at http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm, and the usual Jurist links are helpful at http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/world/nigeria.htm as is the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/nigeria.html and Lex Mundi at http://hg.org.master.com/texis/master/search/+/Top/Regional/Africa/Nigeria.

Based on that data, National Jurist found that for the 576 full - time students at Yale, the school offered an astounding 520 positions.

Jurist's Paper Chase is a regularly updated legal news service edited at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law by Professor Bernard Hibbitts and a volunteer staff of more than 30 law students.

OTOH, all lawyers and jurists are supposed to know that law isn't a necessarily a logical code, and there are times that the law is not logical at all.

His love for this Nation is evident from his distinguished service in World War II, his years at the bar, and his career as a jurist.

Criminal defence lawyer Edward Greenspan, also from Niagara Falls, recalls how Roberts stood out as a fine jurist whose decisions were occasionally reported in the Canadian Criminal Cases, a rare occurrence at the time for the magistrates» bench.

The National Jurist looked at schools that have excelled in moot court competition.

The Sedona Conference ® exists to allow leading jurists, lawyers, experts, academics and others, at the cutting edge of issues in the area of antitrust law, complex litigation, and intellectual property rights, to come together — in conferences and mini-think tanks (Working Groups)-- and engage in true dialogue, not debate, all in an effort to move the law forward in a reasoned and just way.

Many American jurists and commentators, such as Justice Antonin Scalia, have talked at length about the important distinctions between «original meaning» and «original intent», the former of which is a species of textualism (and is therefore more legally sound in my view), while the latter may best understood as a species of purposivism.

Jurist reports that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco yesterday issued an executive order to delay all court deadlines until at least Sept. 25.

McGill Law dean Robert Leckey moderated the panel of jurists: Jean - François Gaudreault - DesBiens, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Université de Montréal; Shahir Guindi, national co-chairman of Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP; Louise Otis, a civil and commercial mediator and arbitrator and an adjunct professor at McGill's Faculty of Law and a former judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal; Juanita Westmoreland - Traoré, a retired judge of the Court of Quebec and a former dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor; and Kim Thomassin, Executive Vice-President, Legal Affairs and Secretariat for the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.

Hughes Hubbard's Product Liability and Mass Tort group is widely recognized by leading legal publications, jurists, clients and the products bar at large as a «go to» defense team for a company's most complex and challenging products litigation.

For his work at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Andrew was awarded a coveted Revson Fellowship and was the subject of a feature article in the nationwide law school publication, the National Jurist.

He has lectured on criminal law topics at the University of Ottawa Law School, at Carleton University and for visiting foreign jurists.

It is therefore safe to say that the Roman jurists were much more interested in the contents of the rescripta, which had a more general character, and that they made up the core of the law making at the Roman imperial court during the Principate.

LONGTIME JURISTS MARKS, THOMPSON AND MOLLEN RECOGNIZED BY JUDICIAL SECTION OF NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Friday January 27, 2017 at 04:00 pm

The National Jurist article quotes Professor Daniel Martin Katz, director of The Law Lab at Chicago - Kent, who notes that tomorrow's lawyers should understand technology, process improvement, analytics and workflow optimization to increase the value of their services.

To conclude otherwise is to suggest that LSUC essentially decided the North did not matter, that students at Lakehead's school of law did not deserve an equal chance to become the future leaders of the profession, jurists, and possibly even deans of law schools in their turn.

A little digging will turn up more usages of the adage by noted Ontario jurists such as Farley J. in National Trust Co. v. Furbacher [1995] O.J. No. 3566 at para. 7 and Lerner J. in Jones, Gable & Co. v. Scott, [1972] O.J. No. 940 at para 10 (H.C.J.); even as far back as 1908 which is the first reported usage I could find in Ontario case law by Falconbridge C.J.K.B in Loughead v. Collingwood Shipbuilding Co., [1908] O.J. No. 101, 16 O.L.R. 64 (Div.

While the source of the money used to make the gift was masked from the public, a trail of clues puts the contribution at the doorstep of some of the same actors — most notably Leonard Leo, an executive vice president at the conservative Federalist Society — who have helped promote Trump's mission, and that of his White House counsel, Don McGahn, to fill judicial vacancies as quickly as he can with staunchly conservative, preferably young jurists.

«The Roberts court: Seeing is believing; At the Senate confirmation hearings for Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, critics feared that the glossy image of the two jurists being put forth did not reflect their true leanings; How right the critics were.»

the totality of the evidence and the peculiar factual circumstances of a given case will lead an experienced jurist to conclude that the fact - finding exercise applied at trial was flawed in light of the unreasonable result that it produced.

JURIST Guest Columnist Patrick Poon, a China researcher at Amnesty International, discusses the tactics used by Chinese authorities to keep lawyers from changing the political and social environment...