Sentences with phrase «legal traditions»

We also teach them the Canadian law with respect to Indigenous peoples and, in the best programs today, introduce some dimensions of Indigenous legal traditions.

While independent regulatory agencies are increasingly common, national approaches reflect different political and legal traditions in each country as well as different models of organisation of the electricity supply industry.

American legal traditions properly recognize people's rights to protect their lives, even when that requires killing.

Different legal traditions There is the obvious distinction that one decision was under German law and the other under English law.

Legal traditions from across the world have long recognized and attempted to punish fraud.

Our common law legal tradition rests upon the idea that we will adhere to what we decided in the past.

The court's constitutional goal of reconciliation, which bridges legal traditions, is one of the motivating foundations for this dual degree.

Indigenous legal traditions provide concrete solutions to contemporary environmental [and other] problems.

They must appreciate that ours is an inherited legal tradition, and that we live on lands that were owned by others before us.

Most countries today follow one of two major legal traditions: common law or civil law.

More importantly, there are practical solutions available for any potential problem, even within the parallel legal traditions we are examining.

Indigenous law flows from living legal traditions, where the past is brought into the present to address future needs.

Teaching indigenous law must also take into account the complexity involved in teaching the variety of indigenous legal traditions that exist across the country.

There is a rapidly expanding interaction between national and regional legal systems and international law as well as among national and regional legal systems themselves in spite of their often quite different legal traditions.

That's about as far as it will go — although in accomplishing this trivial aim it will overturn centuries of British legal tradition of criminalising specific acts, rather than criminalising everything and demanding the citizen demonstrate whatever he is doing is lawful.

Eminent domain has been part of Western legal tradition for centuries.

This recognition of Canadian legal pluralism was also reflected in the Canadian Bar association's (CBa) 2005 resolution (Resolution 05 -01-a) calling for representation of all Canadian legal traditions when making judicial appointments.

In Laporte, the House of Lords said rights to protest were protected by Arts 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights and had long been enshrined in British legal tradition.

Indigenous law exists as a source of law apart from the common and civil legal traditions in Canada.

Jesus wasn't saying marriage in a new age didn't exist, but that angels had freedom of choice and that women would not be bound by the Jewish legal traditions concerning marriage arrangements, but they would be free to accept or reject someone for marriage, just like angels were.

Among the many ideas that have continued to resonate with me since the conference were Tanya Kappo's comments about how lawyers can learn about Indigenous legal traditions as set out in Call to Action # 27.

While they did not entirely conquer England, they occupied substantial portions, and many stayed, and of course brought their own legal traditions, known as Danelaw, along.

The Editor and Board of Roman Legal Tradition welcome submissions for the forthcoming issue.

Pro-lifers protest rightly that the social value of the individual enshrined in our centuries old legal tradition is being eroded by various anti-life measures, but unfortunately less importance has been placed on defending the value of human nature per se by arguments from natural reason.

Just a short post (since I'm on the road) but the O'Quinn Law Library has launched a site called The Anglo - American Legal Tradition which reproduces images of legal documents from Medieval and Early Modern England from the Public Records Office in London.

urge judges, lawyers, law - makers and legal academics to recognize and value Indigenous legal traditions within the Canadian legal system;

She and her graduate student Hadley Friedland developed a methodology through which they and their collaborators work with Indigenous communities to identify resources within the communities» legal traditions for addressing the challenges they face.

Beyond Methodological Eurocentricism: Comparing the Chinese and European Legal Traditions, Taisu Zhang 195

The Canadian Bar Association calls for representation of all Canadian legal traditions when making judicial appointments, it affirms s. 35 promises, and calls for recognition and compliance with UNDRIP.

This idea is a huge shift in legal thinking because it challenges uncritical understandings of Aboriginal law doctrine and asserts that the Eurocentric common law is not the only valid legal tradition in Canada.

She takes a practical, solutions based approach to her work that is respectful of Aboriginal legal traditions and culture.

There was also discussion of the role played by Africa's differing legal traditions and cultures in serving client needs, and a timely discussion of the role of investment arbitration and bilateral investment treaties (BITs), which have traditionally offered that protection to international parties.

By this reaffirmation of the distinct legal traditions and social values of Quebec, the Supreme Court may not have made us easier to govern.

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:

Americans» right to elect their Sheriffs comes from ancient English legal tradition.

most legal traditions within the UK, Canada, and other Commonwealth realms) what...

In my paper I focus, rather, on the best ways that judges can learn from other legal systems: HP Glenn's approach tocomparative law methodology as focusing on the sharing of information between legal traditions strikes me as particularly relevant in this context.

Through its unique «transsystemic» curriculum, which simultaneously exposes students to the Civil and Common legal traditions, students engage in comparative law analyses that promote a more critical understanding of the judicial system and, also, to examine international legal systems in a global context.

Studying indigenous legal traditions also involves learning central concepts that are quite different from the ones on which European legal systems are founded.

An example of how a lawyer can take Indigenous legal traditions into account is offered in the reasons for decision in Lemaigre v. Première nation des Dénés de Clearwater River (2015 FC 601 (CanLII)-RRB-.

(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.

Since Malik's writing takes account only of the traditions which bear on legal matters, Walliyulla seems to confine genuine Hadith to purely legal traditions and to treat the rest of the corpus with all its complexities as of subsidiary importance.

For example, Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who is greatly honored by many Iranians (and opposed by others), repeatedly invokes Islamic legal tradition to support women's rights and other human rights.

Lepard distinguishes between positivist legal traditions based upon «state - oriented» values (emphasizing state sovereignty) and the more dynamic human rights laws derived from common practices and understandings, including religio - ethical principles.

In consulting my faith and its rich legal traditions, I found that my thinking was much in line with orthodox Jewish law on the morality of abortion.

The Vice President remarked that Nigeria's formal legal tradition is over 100 years old, adding that the tradition had three established components: the Bar, Bench and Academia.