Sentences with phrase «legal tradition saw»

So here's a picture by Jean - Baptiste Mauzaisse that pretty much sums up how the civil legal tradition saw the legacy of the great innovations of 1804:

Not exact matches

«We've seen men and women disciplined for wearing modest symbols of Christian faith at work, and we've seen legal challenges to councils opening their proceedings with prayers, a tradition that goes back generations, brings comfort to many and hurts no one.

Despite an illustrious tradition of great criminal defense attorneys — perhaps even because of it, I suppose — Houston has seen fit to rely on court appointments to satisfy its constitutional obligation to provide legal representation to the poor.

Stephen Gillers, an expert on legal ethics at New York University Law School, sees many more missteps in the future, as young people who grew up with Facebook and other social media enter a profession governed by centuries of legal tradition.

The attorneys at The Cochran Firm Ft. Worth are proud to carry on in the tradition of Johnnie L. Cochran, to see that everyday citizens are afforded the most effective legal representation available today.

So this isn't something that they kind of took lightly, this is something that gave them some mixed emotions and some pause as to what they were doing, but on the other hand they saw it as an opportunity to help try to bring in American legal traditions and respect for the rule of law, and they feel like it's a good way to kind of if not bring about change in Cuba, but to kind of push Cuba towards accepting at least some of these changes to liberalize the country and open it up for following generations.

Another tool — supported by bilateral assistance program of Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training (OPDAT)-- Criminal Procedure Code has however encountered a strong opposition from the majority of the Serbia's legal community and has been seen as interfering with its legal tradition.

That being the case the Friday before Labour Day weekend is like New Year's Eve and my tradition for academic New Year's Eve is to take a look at the incoming class of law students to see what their mindset is and try to figure out how to relate to them (I dropped my Dragnet reference with regards to legal writing «just the facts» years ago, which was a shame because I really liked that one).

It is also of interest to see how this balance is struck in a neighbouring jurisdiction, moreover one which follows a different legal tradition.

(55) Cohen saw the doctrine of domestic dependent nations as reflecting the twin international legal traditions of attribution of sovereignty to Indigenous peoples and the guardianship principle.

Suzanne LaFont, The Emergence of An Afro - Caribbean Legal Tradition: Gender Relations and Family Courts in Kingston, Jamaica 207 - 09 (1995); see also Nancy E. Dowd, Stigmatizing Single Parents, 18 Harv.