Sentences with phrase «legal culture with»

Calunius partner Christian Stuerwald and fellow speakers will discuss at a seminar organized by the Swedish Arbitration Association (SAA) the use of and room for growth for dispute funding in Sweden and the Nordics; these countries have a business environment that creates relatively large disputes by the numbers and a sound and transparent legal culture with reliable courts and commercial arbitration.

This collaboration also aims to foster an intellectual legal culture with an interdisciplinary, comparative, and global focus.

Not exact matches

Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations: long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking culture» is also part of the problem.

«The Athletes» Village is close to my heart because I worked on both the bid and the closing, and I helped the team when I was working in the legal department with a lot of the contracts,» says Rosemarie Lipman, senior vice-president of people and culture.

Dana Beyer, executive director of Gender Rights Maryland, said she is encouraging transgender people, and the parents of transgender youths, to move to «safe spaces» — cities and states with legal protections and a supportive culture.

Social Media Success Policy Template The hyper - speed and incredible reach of modern social media makes for uncharted territory that many companies are still floundering with, when it comes to what can and can not be said to avoid legal liabilities, how to handle a crisis in the public eye, and standard procedures and guidelines for creating the kind of culture you want on all your social channels.

As mentioned, a recent legal probe exposed a work culture that is filled with problems such as sexual harassment and discrimination that resulted in the firing of 20 employees.

When new legal obligations come into conflict with Christian faithfulness, as is increasingly common in our legal culture, Christians can sometimes find ways to avoid formal cooperation and keep their organizations afloat.

Schooling serves to make common sense explicit where this is thought necessary, but also to correct common sense with respect to the technical beliefs and institutional practices that constitute the reigning science, criticism, and legal system of the culture.

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.

The resulting stalemate illustrated the ambivalence with which our contemporary legal culture regards the proposition that there exists some objective standard of right and wrong against which human legal standards can be measured.

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.»

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

Developed cultures contribute additional layers of differentiation, replacing myth and tradition with unified cosmologies and higher religions, articulating well - codified moral precepts, and positing universalistic principles as modes of legal and political legitimation.

To enact these principles we believe there would have to be a statutory right to independent living (with the right to the support required to achieve that), a culture change to respect people's existing rights, such as ensuring those with learning disabilities are not denied their legal right to vote, and supporting people to have friends and relationships.

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.»

with Susan Edwards, dean of law at the University of Buckingham; Christina Hoff Sommers, writer and host of the weekly video series, The Factual Feminist; Kaitlynn Mendes, author of SlutWalk: feminism, activism and media; and chair Luke Gittos solicitor, Hughmans Solicitors, legal editor of Spiked and author of Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth.

And unless that culture — with its disinterest and legal hindrances — is addressed, no true solution can be found.

«This system required an international web of exchange of information and has created a corrupted body of information which was shared systematically with partners in the war on terror through intelligence cooperation, thereby corrupting the institutional culture of the legal and institutional systems of recipient states,» he wrote in an earlier report.

He used the cover of the Lib Dems to press ahead with bold reforms at the heart of his modernising project: making gay marriage legal, introducing Free Schools, overhauling Britain's something - for - nothing benefits culture and — controversially — committing to spend 0.7 per cent of UK national income on foreign aid.

Based on an actual incendiary legal case that was a sensation in Ethiopia a decade ago, «Difret» not only deals with an abhorrent practice that is still going on, it provides a dramatic yet nuanced window into a culture we almost never see.

Dialogue whips past in huge, devastating chunks, dense with pop - culture quotes, literary allusions, legal and financial jargon, elaborate and often profane metaphors... and a ton of brutal bon mots... The pacing and writing reflect the culture of its characters.

The Pop Culture Passionistas recently spoke with Kathy Bates about her role as the title character on the legal drama Harry's Law.

Play as one of many famous, but for legal purposes, slightly different pop culture icons and verbally spar with other Hollywood elitists using a deep battle system.

It's effective, at least in the fictional culture of TV law, where legal theatrics are tolerated with a patience unknown to the real world.

The drama side offers a little something for everyone with the supernatural «The Passage» based on Justin Cronin's trilogy of the same name, ball culture period piece «Pose» from Ryan Murphy, «Sons of Anarchy» spinoff «Mayans MC» and the legal drama «Proven Innocent.»

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.

Hot on the heels of the Centre for Policy's report on the UK's litigious culture curbing educational trips, October will see teachers and adventurers, travel, legal and safety experts congregate at the annual Stretching Horizons» conference to discuss some of the ways schools can enrich education, mitigate risk and raise funds for educational journeys with a view to changing lives.

Through qualitative research, legal analysis, and collaboration with educators, we investigate how the culture of digital natives — a culture of connectivity, of public display, of sharing, of feedback, of constant availability and of global citizenship — impacts and will continue to impact our world.

Mill's «Subjection of Women» is an essay favouring equality of the sexes, written in 1869 in coordination with his wife Harriet Taylor, the essay presents arguments opposing the social and legal inequalities of that time... In some cultures, such still exists...

However, the possible gain comes with a challenge: Trading with ever more business partners, across territories, cultures and legal systems, with an increasing complexity of formats and channels, turns into a serious management challenge.

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.

While many young people visit Amsterdam for the marijuana scene — and perhaps to peek at the legal prostitutes in the Red Light District — the city is teeming with high culture, from the world - class art in the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseumn to P.C. Hooftstraat, the shopping street where you can find plenty of the contemporary, cutting - edge design that has become a source of pride in Amsterdam and the Netherlands.

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.

Much much better business to get on with doing three good projects in a year with congenial clients and a culture of success than struggle with one awful government one for three years and an inevitable years long legal case at the end.

As someone on the outside looking in (I'm the Director of a branding agency and we work for a lot of legal clients) I think it's key to find a middle ground where you retain that bespoke, personalised approach to client relationships but with a consistent company culture behind it without everything becoming cold or impersonal.

This is a legal blawg of interest to lawyers who occasionally or regularly deal with clients, plaintiffs, defendants, and witnesses from other cultures or who encounter foreign - language evidence requiring foreign - language document translation in the course of litigation.

«Posts cover a wide range of legal topics, from in - depth analyses of U.S. Supreme Court rulings to the latest news in intellectual property law to the intersection of law with feminism, technology, sports, and pop culture.»

Good old boy networks and the legal profession have been tied together in popular culture, most memorably in my mind with Boss Hogg and the Dukes of Hazard.

Some deal more than others with the relevant legal issues and some, perhaps to justify their academic aspirations, spend time on the history and culture of publishing.

This is largely because our legal culture seems obsessed with seeing the lawyer as a warrior, lacking empathy for the other side.

When I work with a company over a long period of time, I get a sense of its unique corporate culture and history, which is beneficial in providing legal guidance.

Egan Nelson learns its clients» legal needs, and connects them with specialist attorneys with the right experience, pricing, and culture for the task.

A first - year law student who has never had the opportunity to disagree with a professor or to independently form opinions about cultures based on their art, literature, or music will almost certainly struggle to synthesize seemingly inconsistent judicial opinions into a cogent legal principle.

The ongoing debate [including on this blog] about the whether women in the law should conform to the dominant male legal culture often plays out as a question of what is the correct attire, in court, in the office and with clients.

«Avvo's culture of rapid innovation with the mission of serving both consumers and attorneys mirrors the strategy that has guided the Internet Brands Legal portfolio to strong growth over the past decade,» said Bob Brisco, CEO of Internet Brands.

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.»