Sentences with phrase «law professors»

As law professors Joanna L. Grossman and Lawrence M. Friedman write:

In 2002, the American Law Institute, an influential group of lawyers, judges, and law professors, recommended that divorce law be changed to compensate caregivers for a «loss in earning capacity.»

«Polyamory is deeply threatening to the mainstream in several psychological and historical ways,» write law professors Hadar Aviram and Gwendolyn Leachman.

The world will little note nor long remember what most law professors and judges say about today's constitutional issues.

The most disturbing aspect is that we are supposed to take it as gospel (so to speak) because some law professors tell us to.

A few years ago, at a meeting of law professors from many nations, some leftish American professor was engaging in our commonplace trashing of the rule of law, saying that all law is and must be politics.

Yet American programs such as Fulbright have taught the world's leading judges and law professors that Legal Realism is the only sophisticated way to think about law, with frequently disastrous results.

Ziegler writes: «[F] or the better part of a decade after the Court's decision, the vast majority of lawyers, law professors, and grassroots activists in the antiabortion movement opposed efforts to strip the Court of its authority or to return the abortion question to democratic politics....

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

The Swedish colonial rulers in this metaphor comprise the American intellectual elite, including the law professors and judges who seem to be Carter's primary intended audience.

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

I've found that most people — including many law professors — have a great deal of difficulty wrapping their minds around the idea that the Court would permit the intentional destruction of a healthy infant who was capable of living outside his or her mother's body, when the mother's health (in the ordinary meaning of that word) is not in serious danger.

Law professors still repeat the adage in class.

Now comes an even more comprehensive claim about the positive impact of these schools: For, according to two law professors at the University of Notre Dame, Margaret F. Brinig and Nicole Stelle Garnett, inner - city Catholic schools are important factors in urban renewal as builders of «social capital» on inner - urban areas.

For many practicing lawyers and law professors such images represent the surface of a deeper and unamusing reality, an archaic system of legal thought.

Second, the esoteric, self «referencing nature of much of contemporary legal theory is a product of the «professionalization» of the legal academy, where law professors have become a profession separate from that of the bench or bar.

Law professors write solely for other academics, but since their underlying religious / ideological / political positions are relatively conventional, they can also reassure their co «ideologues outside of the academy that someone really smart who speaks the language of modern moral / legal theory is on their side.

If they're not, however, libertarian law professors won't be the only ones wondering about the inconsistency.

Now, some constitutional law purists (not to mention a number of criminal law professors) maintain that the criminal law power should not be used for matters of regulation as opposed to outright prohibitions based on grounds of morality.

That petition challenges a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision that, as the Cato Institute, Reason Foundation, and a group of law professors explained in a supporting amicus brief, exacerbates a «system» already «stacked in favor of the government.»

University of Chicago law professors Frank Easterbrook and Daniel Fischel have taught that when it comes to making profits, executives not only may violate the law but should do so if it enhances the bottom line.

«Students get to not only have the advantage of having some of the best law professors in the world instruct them, but they also get to benefit from that sort of tremendous exposure in a more collegial and less cut - throat environment,» Jack Zaremski, president of New York attorney placement firm Hanover Legal Personnel Services, told Business Insider.

Corporate filings are often more legalistic and technical than what executives say during presentations to analysts and investors, when they may sound optimistic about the company's outlook, law professors and private lawyers noted.

There were 3,400 legal defenses mounted by small businesses in 2011 for patent cases, a 32 % increase over the prior year, according to research paper from 2012 by Boston University law professors James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer.

«The high - level women I talk to very consistently say they spend a lot more time than their male colleagues did getting to know people, getting to know about their personal lives,» law professor Joan C. Williams tells Fortune, seconding the idea.

«The Philippines has found a way to pay tribute to our president,» said Kathleen Clark, a government ethics lawyer and law professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

Meanwhile, another labor law professor, Temple's Brishen Rogers, told me, «I wouldn't rule out an appeal to the 9th Circuit, which could then push the trial back quite a bit, but also set up an interesting comparison case with the FedEx case from 2014.»

«Seldom does a single crisis embody such a wide range of issues that go to the heart of the character of a regime,» University of B.C. law professor Pittman Potter commented this month on the website of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, of which he is a senior fellow.

«It's OK to exclude people who can't follow the law and their oaths as jurors, but you can't say that anyone with qualms about capital punishment is ineligible,» Richard Re, an assistant law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, told Business Insider in an email.

California Western School of Law professor Leslie Culver says she's seen this occur several times in a professional setting.

Penelope Simons, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, finds this unsatisfactory.

«There is a widespread and completely erroneous belief out there that there is some sort of legal duty that corporate managers have to «maximize profits» or «maximize shareholder value,»» said Cornell law professor Lynn Stout, author of «The Shareholder Value Myth.»

«The tax numbers in corporate filings are mostly fiction,» Alison Christians, a law professor at McGill University who specializes in tax matters, told us.

«It's not too difficult to portray the policy as just being flat - out irrational,» Temple University law professor Peter Spiro told CNN on Monday.

«Those statements are definitely relevant, because there's a longstanding doctrine that there can be laws or executive orders that on their face don't discriminative on the basis of race or religion but that is their motive — and if that is their motive, they can be struck down,» Ilya Somin, a George Mason University law professor, told CNN on Tuesday.

The White House has already slapped down the idea, likely because Obama, a former constitution law professor, figures that «authorized by law» phrase refers to Congress.

Robbins Geller pressed forward and on March 9, the DOJ issued a more complete document, requesting «to resolve the lawsuit in a piecemeal fashion» which would allow the SEC «to draw out the litigation for many months, if not longer,» Law 360 reported.The article quoted University of Denver law professor Margaret Kwoka saying that «the SEC's position «is outrageous.

That is a shame because the benefits of those rules exceed their costs by a substantial margin — not just nationally but within each individual electricity market region — as demonstrated in my latest paper with UT Austin Law Professor David Adelman.

Law professor James Kwok, for instance, recently cautioned on this blog that, while a humanities degree from a top - tier school often opens doors, if you don't come from the sort of background that allows you to study at an elite institution and undertake a few prestigious (probably unpaid) internships, then the calculus rapidly becomes much more difficult.

They purchased the creamery for $ 69,000 and lived above the factory for the first seven years, raising their young family: daughter Frances, now a law professor, and son Ashley, a chef who joined the family business two years ago as a vice-president.

(For the record, it's Jose - Manuel Barroso, a former Prime Minister of Portugal, law professor, and one - time student at Georgetown.)

Harvard Law professor Michael Sandel has been crusading for all of us to seriously think (and then act if so inclined) on the controversial ways that money has influenced us.

Reached by Business Insider initially after Comey's comments, Richman said he had «no comment» on Comey's testifying that the source was a Columbia law professor.

A Columbia law professor, Richman was previously quoted in The New York Times as a «close friend of Mr. Comey's who helped woo him to Columbia in 2013.»

«I think of these as high - tech Beanie Babies or 21st - century tulips,» says Robert Hockett, a law professor at Cornell who gained notoriety after the financial crisis for proposing that cities use «eminent domain» to buy out underwater mortgages.

«If [R3's] only duty was to provide assistance, and it breached this duty in a significant way (the latter qualification is important since this duty could be breached in trivial ways), for example by doing nothing when it could have done something, then the breach looks material to me,» said Stephen Smith, a law professor at McGill University, in an email to Fortune.

That is basically the legal definition from these laws,» Michael Foreman, a clinical law professor and director of Penn State's Civil Rights Appellate Clinic, told ABC News.

Trump's supporters also took grievance with Comey's stunning acknowledgment that he instructed a good friend — a Columbia University law professor — to leak information on his memos to the news media because he felt the investigation may have reached the point at which a special counsel needed to be appointed.

Jed Shugerman, a Fordham law professor, told Business Insider in an email that Republicans» claims in the aftermath of the Comey hearing were «not good - faith arguments» based on the testimony.

Danielle Keats Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland, states in the New York Times, «Hateful, offensive and distasteful ideas enjoy constitutional protection.»