Sentences with phrase «legal culture by»

The legal education system that trains our lawyers reinforces the current legal culture by offering little to no information on arbitration as a form of dispute resolution.

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Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

Thinx has denied the harassment allegations, made by a former employee in a legal complaint, and says other allegations about the company's culture are inaccurate.

Until now free speech claims have been safe against such erosions, by a virtual consensus of our legal culture that political speech needs most protection precisely when it offends.

FYI — re spiritual / legal wife — I would not equate this with polyamory as this relationship structure has been explained to me by people in sex positive cultures.

Do not doubt for a second that if more of us left our bubbles, abandoned culture wars, locked up our guns safe behind our legal right to own them and brought the physical presence of Christ into the communities stricken by violence, we would see dramatically less devastation — by gun or otherwise.

What should we expect, however, when the ambient public culture becomes toxic, anti-biblical, Christophobic (to use the sharp term most recently made prominent by an Orthodox Jewish legal scholar, Joseph Weiler)?

There are a few main explanations: 1) long term failure in leadership by the Irish Catholic church, and connected with this, the awful Jansenist culture; 2) Europe — or rather, political interference from European Community institutions; 3) American money; 4) the claim of the «Yes» campaign that the Referendum was won by «the stories,» that is, the constant appeal to emotion and the complete refusal actually to think about the legal consequences of passing such a change not merely into law, but also into the Irish Constitution, the foundation of that law.

They also hoped to build indigenous roots for them in the various religions and cultures of India by reforming them from within and also by legal intervention and developing a composite culture supportive of a State which is common to all peoples living in India equally and a modernized society with dignity and justice for all.

In contrast, «cultural relativism,» which Professor Arkes equates with legal positivism, holds that there are «no moral truths which hold their validity across cultures... [So that statutes or constitutional provisions] have the standing of law only because they are «posited» or set down by the authorities in any country.»

In part, as Noah Feldman's Divided By God suggests, the «legal secularism» of the Warren Court emerged precisely because of the failure of a secularist program for the broader culture.

In our culture the legal bond that once held marriages together has largely been replaced by the emotional one.

Here's another, scarcely less oratorical in character, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: the title of this document (another wonderful example of Vatican bogus academic language when what is needed is a competent journalist used to writing informative headlines) is «Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons» (2003): The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognised as such by all the major cultures of the world.

GFI works to affect legal change through lobbying policy makers, writing op - eds, providing information to congressional offices, and researching potential regulatory pathways for cultured products.23 GFI also organized an event on Capitol Hill to promote plant - based meat that was co-sponsored by Beyond Meat.

In some cultures, people who have been breastfed by the same woman are milk - siblings who are equal in legal and social standing to a consanguineous sibling.

Today, the New York Times used vivid details to show New Yorkers that Albany remains awash in money and utterly dominated by a cynical, pay to play culture that exploits every possible legal loophole, and often seems bereft of basic ethics.

The suit was originally filed by the Legal Aid Society, and was eventually joined by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who wrote in a scathing report that there was a «culture of violence» against inmates in the city jails.

He became a pop - culture as well as a legal star during his nearly eight years in office — not just by convicting Wall Street fraudsters, international arms dealers, and two of New York state's top - three politicians, but by doing it with a flair for the headline - stoking phrase.

Sini, a Democrat who campaigned as a reformer, in his inaugural speech pledged that he and his prosecutors will be guided by a «culture of compliance with our legal and ethical obligations.»

The trio have been left in a state of legal limbo by the privileges committee following serious accusations made against them in 2012 by the Commons culture, media and sport select committee, which was then investigating phone hacking at the News of the World.

Western culture is characterized by a host of artistic, philosophic, literary, and legal themes and traditions; the heritage of Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Jewish, Slavic, Latin, and other ethnic and linguistic groups, as well as Christianity, which played an important part in the shaping of Western civilization since at least the 4th century.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 27, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Crossing Over (R for sexuality, nudity, graphic violence and pervasive profanity) «Crash» - like ensemble drama chronicles the clash of cultures in L.A. resulting from the flood of immigrants attempting to attain legal status in the U.S. Cast includes Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd and Alice Braga.

14 Humankind maintains a legal way of thinking about equality, which was created by Aristotle: legal equality is to treat similarly situated people alike.15 Therefore, «equality» becomes the right to be treated like the white male given that white man's culture is the dominant culture.16 In this way, when people are not similarly situated we should not treat them equally.

The «culture of can't» is unchallenged, if not encouraged, by the authorities on education leadership, who dismiss talk of levers, contracts, and legal strategy.

It strives to suggest an approach informed by the experiences of democratic societies with different norms and legal cultures; one that harnesses the strengths and capabilities of the public and the private sectors in offering practical solutions to pressing problems.

Huntington is right to argue that our legal and political system, and in large measure our culture, were defined by the original settlers from England, not by later immigrants.

The presence of conflicting elements, all protected by our political and legal system, in our schools leads many parents to select private schools that they find more coherent, better capable of instilling and transmitting a common culture than the public schools can.

Whatever the statutory and contractual hurdles leaders face, these are dramatically worsened by the socialization, training, and legal culture of the K — 12 environment.

The idea of universal access to research, education, and culture is made possible by the Internet, but our legal and social systems don't always allow that idea to be realized.

The culture of reading depends on some level of book buying, but it is also friendly to any legal means by which a reader can acquire a book (note: both the culture of buying and the culture of reading suffer from geo - restrictions, but that's another discussion).

Please note that all such forms and policies should be reviewed by your legal counsel for compliance with applicable law, and should be modified to suit your organization's culture, industry, and practices.

He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.

Considering the enduring popularity of police procedurals and legal dramas in popular culture, the formula behind Capcom's Ace Attorney might read like a sure - fire money - maker — a game where you play as a rookie defense attorney named Phoenix Wright who shields his obviously innocent clients from the wrath of increasingly aggressive prosecutors by pointing out the holes in the state's case, inevitably producing the real culprit just in the nick of time.

Paws that Draw also will have an exhibit the entire month of January in the concourse gallery at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, where the legal eagles can mingle with artwork by the cultured pups.

As a result of his having won their support, he was appointed in 1988 for a seven year term, which was renewed in 1995 and 2002, and then this year [2008] determined by them to be a permanent post because of changes in employment law — an interpretation questioned on both legal and ethical grounds by lawyer and Stuckist artist, Leo Goatley, who has written to the Culture Minister to express his concerns.

The exhibition proposes a type of legal futurism in which the societal and political system is defined by un-adapted norms and codes of the local culture.

Our personal and public life is increasingly influenced by legal and corporate culture, end - user agreements being an integral part of new consumer technologies.

Minister of culture Christine Albanel, who was «surprised» by the SOS - Racisme legal complaint, has promised to study the possibility of extending the policy to include non-EU citizens living in France.

, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing diversity in the legal profession by educating legal organizations on how to create cultures of inclusion, and even

Pearson's Bjarne Philip Tellmann was named general counsel of the year for overhauling the company's legal team and culture, reducing controllable legal spend by almost half and saving millions of pounds on non-controllable spend such as M&A.

Once the lines are drawn between those who are for LLLTs and those against LLLTs, be prepared for a growing culture of lawyer derision and devaluation of the role lawyers play in our legal system by those who zealously support LLLTs and other reforms.

While the legal profession has long been afflicted by a deeply ingrained culture where high levels of stress are often viewed as «normal», there are signs that things are changing.

In a culture ruled by virality, pithy memes like #IDontNeedFeminism threaten to have more firepower than sober observations — such as those of the former chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Patricia M. Wald — that gender inequality in cultures like the legal profession owes less to overt discrimination, and more to «subtle differences in how much more difficult it can be for women to locate and manipulate the levers of personal influence inside and outside the firm, with supervisors, senior partners, and clients.»

The consequence of these choices are that they feel pressured by the culture of the legal community to avoid advocacy because to do otherwise may inadvertently offend colleagues and partners from more privileged and insulated backgrounds.

Many law schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culture.20

See e.g. Maxeiner, supra n. 1, at 44 (arguing that a globalized legal education is no longer subject to the cultural barriers that were once dominant in society, allowing students to focus on the legal cultures that they will likely encounter in an increasingly globalized economy); see also James E. Pfander, Book Review, (reviewing Thomas Main, Global Issues in Civil Procedure (Thomson / West 2006)-RRB-(describing the case for globalized Civil Procedure courses by emphasizing how such an approach would lead to a greater understanding of American procedure).

There are over 60,000 legal practitioners employed in this sector and despite what the media say about the UK having a so - called «compensation culture», to process claims even of low value still requires skill by both by the Claimant's and the Defendant's representatives.

Choice of law and forum, differences in treatment of secured and priority creditors, differences in legal systems and cultures, conflicts of law, competing claims of jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement by one country of rulings and judgments entered in another country are just a few of the challenges likely to arise in many such proceedings.

Beside the Forbidden City, TianTong situates in a courtyard surrounded by ancient walls with green tiles, presenting both traditional elegance of Beijing and legal culture of the modern society.

Indeed, the relationship between the big law departments and big firms is often bedeviled by prickly issues relating to power, money, culture, and, ultimately, the foundational question of who controls the corporation's legal matters.