Sentences with phrase «legal discourse»

For example, when developing their position on freedom of expression, they looked to the most robust and liberal legal discourse on the subject and borrowed freely from American case law.

Such an understanding denies human rights their deontological force as legal rights, which can be demanded by the subject from the state, and thereby destroys what Jürgen Habermas called the «firewall» erected in legal discourse by human rights.

«By launching a law blog, we're able to post immediate reactions to legal cases and headlines, providing an accessible source for legal discourse from a wide range of qualified experts,» Jacob Weisberg, Slate's editor, said in announcing the blog.

The indeterminacy of identity need not lead to political paralysis — on the contrary, it could dislocate feminist practice productively, from sterile engagement with legal discourse and hegemonic cultural productions of selfhood to a realm of radical doubt and constant negotiation of what constitutes «me» as a «woman» in some contexts.

As Professors Rideout and Ramsfield note, «The classroom itself must foster dialogue, for if writing is a social activity, then social interaction in the classroom is an important component of students» entry into legal discourse.»

With the new site, the Review joins a growing list of legal publications, practitioners, scholars, and bloggers who engage in legal discourse online.

In fact, legal discourse serves as model for situations less codified by social ritual but in which we can recognize the fundamental traits of the trial.

The distinction between civilised and uncivilised states lives on in contemporary international legal discourse.

and the loss of a freedom on the other, creates a challenging?balance, which undoubtedly?produces?lively legal discourse.

This Thesis is devoted to terminological analysis of the term «arbitrability» which constitutes an important part of specialized legal discourse focusing on arbitration law.

The case, moreover, sheds light on the role scientific expertise plays in domestic and supranational courts, and the interplay between legal discourse, scientific knowledge, rights and identity politics.

By implementing the one justice rule, minority voices on an appeals panel won't so easily be squelched and will foster legal discourse and allow the competing views to «hone legal theory, concept and rule.»

U. J.L. & Policy 63 (2003); Clark D. Cunningham, The Lawyer as Translator, Representation as Text: Towards an Ethnography of Legal Discourse, 77 Cornell L. Rev. 1298 (1992); Ann Shalleck, Pedagogical Subversion in Clinical Teaching: The Women & the Law Clinic and the Intellectual Property Clinic as Legal Archeology, 13 Tex..

Established by Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, the award is given to «those who have advanced legal discourse, through excellence of advocacy and commitment to causes.»

«The Constitution is not a suicide pact» is a phrase in American political and legal discourse.

Permit me to begin this legal discourse by expressing unreserved gratitude to the Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Executive Governor of Kaduna State,...

The tools of these different fields act as material for her installations, text works and photographs, as well as for videos in which absurd relationships develop between the performer and the rhetoric of political, commercial or legal discourse.

Can Alcorn's model inform our understanding of ethos in legal discourse?

But it doesn't mean that we shouldn't continue to value religious diversity across the bench, for the contribution it makes to the legal discourse.

As Dr Vakulenko, an expert on the Islamic dress in legal discourse, says: «although it might be argued that it's direct discrimination because it affects adherents of religions more than it affects secular employees, the courts were unlikely to interpret direct discrimination that way.

A discussion of female madness or monstrosity in lawyer films necessitates an exploration of the links between madness, monstrosity, gender, and legal discourse.

Our reading of law films through the literary metaphor of monstrosity is a calculated maneuver — legal discourses and cultural representations of monstrosity share a preoccupation with questions of knowledge and power.

Although much case law is now available online, Plaxton maintains that at a time when access to justice issues are at the forefront of the legal discourse, bricks - and - mortar libraries that are accessible to anyone remain essential.

There is no greater condemnation in legal discourse than to describe something as risky.»

This contrast between texting and legal discourse in style, purpose, and audience expectations may exacerbate what has already been for some students a difficult transition — or, students» increased writing experience (albeit informal) may smooth the way to learning another kind of writing.

Tomson also referenced the important public interest and access to justice component to online legal discourse,

«Fists and the Voices of Sorrowful Women»: Race, Gender, Violence, and the Reconstruction of the Word in Toni Morrison's «Jazz», African American Culture and Legal Discourse 131 (2009).

I guess that is where the legal discourse is going too.

Contrary to current practice and dominant socio - legal discourse in Canada, when parents disagree over the living arrangements of their children after separation, new evidence suggests that these conditions are best achieved by means of a legal shared parental responsibility presumption, defined as children spending at least 40 per cent of their time with each parent, rebuttable only when a child is in need of protection from a parent.