Sentences with phrase «legal traditions as»

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.

Reinhold Niebuhr recognizes this secular wisdom in the western legal tradition as he traces the development of democratic government.

Not exact matches

In an April, 2003, speech, Harper defined social conservatism as «respect for custom and traditions (religious traditions above all), voluntary association, and personal self - restraint reinforced by moral and legal sanctions on behaviour.»

Indeed, the legal tradition of Islam includes explicit rulings against Kharijites, classifying them as unbelievers who should be fought and killed.

In nearly every nation whose cultural heritage, moral and legal systems developed from this western, Christian tradition, he is free to insult people of faith as much as he wishes.

@RUReal, «In nearly every nation whose cultural heritage, moral and legal systems developed from this western, Christian tradition, he is free to insult people of faith as much as he wishes.»

Speaking in Westminster Hall in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI spoke movingly about Britain's heritage of constitutional government: «Your common law tradition serves as the basis of legal systems in many parts of the world, and your particular vision of the respective remains an inspiration to many across the globe».

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

Any society in history will need structures which balance enhancement of freedom and self - determination with checks on it by long - established legal and moral traditions of keeping power in the service of order and mutual responsibility, as well as creation of new structures of public morality.

So I don't doubt that Yale Law School has taken notice of the Catholic tradition of legal and social teaching, the tradition that five sitting justices have explicitly acknowledged as important in their own thinking» even to the point of reading Pope Benedict XVI, giving a seminar on Catholic social thought, and (imagine!)

The first group has clearly worked out principles of jurisprudence as a guide, with accepted procedures for legal actions, while the second group uses only testaments and Tradition as guides for their actions.

Even more significantly, this persistent Mosaic tradition in law also would appear as partially responsible for the high ethical presuppositions which, by and large, pervade the legal framework.

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.

Isaiah Berlin thus deserves considerable credit for identifying the perversion of liberty that was at the root of the totalitarian project, and for defending a concept of liberty - as - noninterference that, in setting legal limits to coercive state power, has deep resonances in the American political tradition.

Most Americans probably support the implicit moral position of mainstream Protestantism and perhaps of America's religious traditions in general: permit as few legal abortions as possible without damaging women's rights and without making it necessary for women to perform abortions on themselves or seek clandestine and possibly dangerous abortions.

When you display the commandments in a public place you «must include» a description of the Ten Commandments as the Kentucky counties described them, as «the moral background of the Declaration of Independence and the foundation of our legal tradition.»

Even Deo says so (my husband) * you will make your parents extremely happy (we are Europeans, if that matters) * you will have a honey moon, which you may turn into a tradition (we travel abroad every year as a new honey moon, it's a tradition we created for ourselves, but we love it) * every woman wants to be a bride, even if Luise says she don't want to, don't trust her:)-RRB- * you will have all legal rights in front of banks, the country administration, etc for just about anything

As Attorney General, should ownership of the Columbus Crew initiate a move of the team without complying with Ohio law, I am prepared to take the necessary legal action under this law to protect the interests of the State of Ohio and the central Ohio communities which have all invested to make the Columbus Crew a proud part of our Ohio sports tradition and help Mapfre Stadium earn its reputation as «Fortress ColumbuAs Attorney General, should ownership of the Columbus Crew initiate a move of the team without complying with Ohio law, I am prepared to take the necessary legal action under this law to protect the interests of the State of Ohio and the central Ohio communities which have all invested to make the Columbus Crew a proud part of our Ohio sports tradition and help Mapfre Stadium earn its reputation as «Fortress Columbuas «Fortress Columbus.

Indeed, I am not only worried but I'm also very concerned over the setback to our electoral system, and speaking generally in the best tradition of our legal profession, not being specific on matters before any court, the implication of some of the tribunals outcome intended to shoot down the use of the card reader as some of my fellow lawyers involved in petition matters are determined to achieve is worrisome.

In the true tradition of the legal profession, the fact that the President had been deceived by the Vice-President and Dr. Oteng Adjei into granting an executive consent, did not intimidate me as the Attorney - General to grant the indemnity requested.

The E&E Legal Institute, formerly called the American Tradition Institute, describes its mission as «free - market environmentalism through strategic litigation.»

Western culture is characterized by a host of artistic, philosophic, literary, and legal themes and traditions; the heritage of Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Jewish, Slavic, Latin, and other ethnic and linguistic groups, as well as Christianity, which played an important part in the shaping of Western civilization since at least the 4th century.

Directed by Duccio Tessari (Death Occurred Last Night, A Pistol for Ringo), The Bloodstained Butterfly melds the lurid giallo traditions popularized by Dario Argento and Mario Bava with courtroom drama, resulting in a film that is as concerned with forensic detail and legal process as it is with grisly murders and audacious set - pieces.

Directed by Duccio Tessari (Death Occurred Last Night, A Pistol for Ringo), The Bloodstained Butterfly melds the lurid giallo traditions popularised by Dario Argento and Mario Bava with courtroom drama, resulting in a film that is as concerned with forensic detail and legal process as it is with grisly murders and audacious set - pieces.

He concluded that among «inclusive displays on places like the courthouse lawns, the Ten Commandments can convey a «secular moral message» about the primacy and authority of law, as well as the «history and moral ideals» of our society and legal tradition.»

Off the circuit, the road - legal R8 has been accessible and easygoing ever since its early days as a V -8-only model, and the new car continues that tradition.

Known as the Committee to Save Cooper Union, the group is pursuing legal action after the Board of Trustees announced plans to abolish the school's 150 - year tradition of providing free tuition for all students.

In May 2014, CSCU «is pursuing legal action as a last resort after Cooper Union's Board of Trustees and administration proceeded with their plans to abolish a 150 year tradition of free tuition, refusing alternatives that would preserve free tuition».

He formerly served as director of litigation at the American Tradition Institute's Environmental Law Center (now the Energy and Environment Legal Institute).

But as industry encroached deeper into the natural world, a new legal movement emerged to end the centuries - old American legal tradition that defined nature as property.

According to Sourcewatch, E&E Legal was originally known as the American Tradition Institute, which was a «sister organization» to the 501 (C)(4) organization «American Tradition Partnership» (ATP) or «Western Tradition Partnership» (WTP).

Operating as the American Tradition Institute (ATI), The Energy and Environment Legal Institute filed a federal FOIA request with NASA seeking information on how climate scientist James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies «has complied with applicable federal ethics and financial disclosure laws and regulations, and NASA Rules of Behaviour.»

Milloy joins the American Tradition Institute (now renamed the Energy and Environment Legal Institute) as a senior policy fellow.

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.

California, is known as Community Property state, because the marriage laws developed from the Spanish legal traditions.

As one of the most tradition - bound aspects of the legal profession, CLE could use some shaking up, especially as provider options multiply and prices continue to droAs one of the most tradition - bound aspects of the legal profession, CLE could use some shaking up, especially as provider options multiply and prices continue to droas provider options multiply and prices continue to drop.

As we'll be discussing next week at Relativity Fest London, English and American courts have borrowed much from each other — Americans, of course, borrowing more legal tradition from their British cousins than the other way around.

With respect to judicial interpretation, therefore, while the national legal traditions on which the articles and rules in question are modeled can provide some guidance, over-reliance on a narrow inquiry can lead to the perpetuation of the default position, according to which, as Byrne («The new public international lawyer and the hidden art of international criminal trial practice», 25 Connecticut Journal of Int» l Law (2005) 243) notes, some international judges «interpret legal norms through the lexicons of their respective traditions», rather than through a truly sui generis prism.

As I said before I feel very privileged to be able to practise maritime litigation in a place like Gibraltar, which has such a rich tradition in this area, partly because of its geography, but also because of our practical and effective legal system which is based on the English legal system and which is so much more efficient than that of neighbouring countries.

Drawing its inspiration from Lawrence Lessig and Richard Susskind, the firm's purpose is to «think about legal systems as technical ones and, in doing so, draw on a rich tradition of nerdery and hacker ethos.»

The pursuit of a shared personal interest in a new edition by both the publisher and editor came over time to be marketed as a «tradition» in legal publishing.

Legal writing in plain English seems sensible, unless you're a lawyer that clings to tradition, and to your elite status as a lawyer.

We do provide legal services in a certain tradition (of our British forbears, as transplanted in this part of North America), and affinity for a historic name evidences a respect and admiration for that tradition as well as a desire to carry it forward.

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.

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.

It is not just Metock which rejects this philosophy, it is also alien to the legal tradition which claims that when a person becomes French, they acquire the Gauls as ancestors.

It is therefore very helpful for a single practitioner work, such as this, to gather together the most important rules, guidelines and so - called «soft law» on the subject, to set out the key principles applicable in each type of arbitration, and to provide illustrative cases from a number of different jurisdictions and legal traditions.

And though the tradition of televised attorneys that began with Perry Mason is still going strong today, with no less than 6,000 primetime legal dramas on each and every night *, no lawyer was ever as gloriously inept as Lionel Hutz.

There are two important reasons for which London is an international forum for dispute resolution: one, English law as the chosen law for international contracts, particularly in financial and maritime sectors; and two, a long tradition of legal practice with judges committed to promote London as a dispute resolution centre, as demonstrated by Mr Penadés in his article «Commercial Choice of Law in Context: Looking Beyond Rome».

As a matter of access to justice, it is in keeping with the best traditions of the legal profession to provide services pro bono and to reduce or waive a fee when there is hardship or poverty or the client or prospective client would otherwise be deprived of adequate legal advice or representation.