Sentences with phrase «legal history»

How much of Canadian legal history is available through the web.

As a historian who takes an interest in legal history, I'm a bit surprised by your take on this.

Our attorneys have handled some of the largest and most complex personal injury cases in American legal history.

This was a landmark result in British legal history but is just one of the firm's many successes.

The case made Canadian legal history when it became the largest human rights settlement.

We would like to hear about legal history courses, articles, books, conferences, problems, ideas....

Much attention is focused towards studying legal history and philosophy.

Much attention is focused towards legal history and philosophy, while application of law and practical legal skills are totally neglected.

Perhaps legal history is somehow incorporated in legal research and writing courses today, but I don't recall this being the case when I was in law school.

For the first time in Canadian legal history, a definition for «terrorist activity,» together with several new terrorism - related offences, was written into our Criminal Code.

Our attorneys have handled some of the largest and most complex cases in American legal history.

I think we will look back on this period in legal history and reflect on the amount of time wasted chasing down blind allies.

I can give two examples, one from personal experience, of the importance of knowing something about legal history to properly represent clients today.

Mitra Sharafi presented «Forensic Experts in Colonial India: Handwriting Analysis as a Suspect Science» at a one - day workshop on Legal Histories of Policing and Surveillance, sponsored by the new Stanford Center for Law and History in April.

«Fourth Amendment via Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History Main Sweeten your law dept: Publish pay ranges»

Most law schools have at least one committed legal historian, sometimes moreIt is inexplicable to me that the Law Library at York's page on legal history doesn't even acknowledge the existence of the Osgoode Society.

Annette Gordon - Reed is Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School, Professor of History in the History Department, and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute.

If Tallio's appeal were to be successful, it would make Canadian legal history as the longest prison sentence served by someone found to be wrongly convicted.

Toronto, ON: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press

Mr Charman appealed the decision but the pay out, which made legal history at the time, was upheld in 2007.

The special three - article forum, edited by Elizabeth Kolsky and with comment from Sally Engle Merry, is the product of the Law and Society Association International Research Collaborative on South Asian Legal History that Professor Sharafi organized.

I would be amiss to point out that BC legal history did not come east from Ontario but is distinct in its own right and involves the two former colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island.

The Kansas City, Missouri, case, known through its long legal history as Jenkins v. State of Missouri, was perhaps the most notorious of the tortured efforts to overcome state - sanctioned segregation.

««A Woman of Strange, Unfathomable Presence»: Ida Platt's Lived Experience of Race, Gender, and Law, 1863 - 1939,» European Society for Comparative Legal History Conference, Gdansk, Poland, June 28 - July 1, 2016.

Landmark inquest verdicts On April 26, 2016, the longest - running inquest in UK legal history concluded in Warrington with determinations of unlawful killing in the case of each and every one of the 96 victims of Hillsborough - a landmark day in the long battle for justice.

If the emphasis is on history, if legal history means the full workings of the common and statutory law over time, placed in its social, political, and economic context... that is even less likely to serve our clients in most cases, though it is of enormous importance intellectually and academically.

AustLII is doing just that with the Australasian Colonial Legal History Library: As cases are added to the Library, they are provided with a neutral citation.

AustLII, the Australasian Legal Information Institute, has launched the Australasian Colonial Legal History Library, a free online collection of databases containing legal information from the colonial period of Australia and New Zealand.

The Max - Planck Institute for European Legal History's virtual reading room features 19th century periodicals such as the Zeitschrift der Savigny - Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, dissertations, and texts, plus a collection of German, Austrian, and Swiss books on private law and civil procedure.

In 2004, Ken was awarded the Osgoode Society Legal History Book Prize for excellence in legal historical writing

Mitra Sharafi presented a chapter from her book, «Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772 - 1947,» at the University of Virginia Legal History Workshop in February.

While legal history was undoubtedly made, the social perception of gay marriage will likely forever start with Prop 8.

Like Olson, the justices had to make their arguments in light of U.S. legal history, past and present religious pluralism, and variegated religio - political support of the God - phrase in the pledge.

Hein's online product, HeinOnline, is a subscription - based database that provides access to more than 100 million pages of legal history available in a fully - searchable, image - based format.

If the emphasis is on legal, if legal history means the doctrinal and historical origins of current law, it can be useful in certain cases, such as arguing about the signficance of a past amendment to a statute.

The Women's Legal History website is home to a searchable database of articles and papers on pioneering women lawyers in the United States.

He has acted for the Health and Safety Executive in major inquiries and recently acted for the claimants in Hamilton v Ferguson Transport which resulted in the largest bereavement awards in Scottish legal history for a husband and his daughter.

It is a striking fact of recent legal history that the nearer anyone gets to implementing auctions for legal aid cases, the more cautious they are.

The blog also covers useful legal websites, legislative updates, library news and some Ontario legal history.

Richard J. Moore created legal history when he successfully challenged a state law, arguing that a sex offender could not be convicted for soliciting an undercover officer masquerading as a young girl on the Internet.

Mitra Sharafi published an article titled «The Marital Patchwork of Colonial South Asia: Forum Shopping from Britain to Baroda» in a special forum issue of Law and History Review, a leading legal history journal.

List for discussion of modern Chinese law and Chinese legal history owned by Professor Donald C. Clarke at George Washington University Law School.

The Future of Digital Legal History: No Magic, No Silver Bullets, Eric C. Nystrom and David S. Tanenhaus 150

Legal history really does have cachet after all.

The Illustrations of the Sachsenspiegel: A Medieval German Law Book (2000) by Guillermo F. Margadan, the inaugural volume of the Tarlton Law Library Legal History Series, includes English - language descriptions of black - and - white versions of the images.

In 2013 Coleman made legal history becoming the first person in almost a century to be allowed to sketch inside the Supreme Court, despite the fact that filming has been permitted in the country's highest court since 2009.

The beginning of the end of 170 years of legal history happened on 15 March 2011, the day Barlow Lyde & Gilbert's highly - rated aviation team handed in its notice to move to Holman Fenwick Willan.

Indeed, they posit that one of the potential reasons the five bonds were selected for transfer is that they were issued out of the bank's Lisbon headquarters rather than out of international branches such as London (where pari passu has its own distinct legal history).