Sentences with phrase «legal traditions for»

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

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.»

Those who created the conditions for Martin's killing - those who, one might say, invited it - were the Florida legislators who voted for a law that undid not only decades of positive law regarding self - defense but also centuries of legal tradition.

Most of the time, the just war tradition is used to test a particular war (or a strategy or a weapon) for its moral and legal acceptability.

Multiple appeals by ownership to higher courts have been denied, and there seems to be very little legal recourse left for the team and its supporters who seek to keep the name for the sake of NFL tradition.

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.

In such a short book, Merkle can not be faulted for failing to include all the sources of Heschel's life and work, but apart from rabbinic tradition» the legal foundation and theological speculation that shaped and shapes Jewish life» he can not be understood.

Based on «the heritage of Catholic moral teaching» and «our Jesuit tradition,» the statement says, «Our long - term goal remains full legal recognition of and protection for the unborn child - from the moment of conception.»

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.

His book, The Sense of Injustice, shows how legal terms for human relationships have been won painfully and slowly out of long experience, guided by the religious tradition.

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.

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.

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.

(Second ed., Strassburg, 1903) And these traditions, be it observed, were the traditions of legal interpretation or of Bible hermeneutics, for the most part, handed down in schools of Jewish law.

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.

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.

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

In some European nations, there are more equal gender laws concerning public nudity but those nations have LESS sexual assault and violence against women than in the United States - so there is no legal rationale for this double - standard - it's simply an unconstitutional tradition that has never been challenged in court by ACLU attorneys.

But there will be a couple of modifications: firstly, on British troops serving abroad during a conflict, and secondly to tilt the balance of rights more towards a British legal tradition, for instance by emphasising free speech over privacy.

Nalder said he will reintroduce his «Respect for Marriage Act,» to repeal DOMA and «ensure that committed, loving couples can rely upon the legal responsibilities and security that come with the time - honored tradition of marriage.»

«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.

Outlining her qualities, «hard work, discipline, capacity for detailed research, intimate knowledge of the law, independence of mind and spirit, honesty and integrity, deep - seated respect for the rule of law and for the best traditions of the legal profession, abiding belief in the sovereignty of Almighty God», the President stated that these will serve her well in her new office.

The director of the Initiative on Islam and Medicine and a faculty member of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Padela was honored for his scholarship in the Islamic ethico - legal tradition and the ways it influences the health behaviors of Muslim patients and the lives of Muslim physicians.

Legal Sea Foods provides patrons with a taste of tradition by serving trademark chowder enjoyed by several presidents during official ceremonies for more than 20 years — the perfect dinner for a classy girl interested in quality.

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.

It was a tradition in printed books, for legal and aesthetic reasons.

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.

The Committee to Save Cooper Union 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.

He previously ran the American Tradition Institute, now called E&E Legal Institute, that has harassed climate scientists and whose Senior Legal Fellow, Chris Horner, was recently exposed for receiving payments from Alpha Natural Resources, a now bankrupt coal company.

The American Traditions Institute (Chris Horner) now called the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute has sued UVa for release of Michael Mann's Emails.

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.»

Sorbonne's global leadership in legal education and its rich heritage in the civil law tradition make it an ideal partner in our quest for trans - systemic legal system development.»

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.

After all, the legal profession is grounded in tradition and for years, lawyers practiced law quite well without the benefits of technology, thank you very much.

The translation we do is therefore a meticulous process, requiring not only precision but also a thorough knowledge of the two legal traditions to guide us in our search for the mot juste.

Luckily, for virtual workers and legal process outsourcing, this tradition is not the case.

Here at Legal Blog Watch we like to mark the passing into obscurity of certain trappings and technologies of the lawyer's life (for better or worse, there are always a few tradition - bound codgers who refuse to let things become completely obsolete).

The program also features a new «Indigenous Legal Lodge,» a publicly accessible educational resource for engagement, debate, public education and partnership on Indigenous legal traditions and relationships between Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous individuals including students, educators, businesses, governments and judges nationLegal Lodge,» a publicly accessible educational resource for engagement, debate, public education and partnership on Indigenous legal traditions and relationships between Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous individuals including students, educators, businesses, governments and judges nationlegal traditions and relationships between Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous individuals including students, educators, businesses, governments and judges nationwide.

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.

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-.

And according to aboriginal legal scholar Hannah askew, for non-Indigenous learners, understanding Indigenous legal traditions will require not only finding a way to access the content of these traditions, but also learning how to interpret a completely different style of legal system − one that substitutes «a set of interlocking and overlapping processes» for rigid rules, and that requires that those processes be understood via the full range of senses: sound, touch, sight, taste and smell.

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.

In R. v. N.S. [2012] 3 S.C.R. 726, Justices Rothstein and Lebel referenced the living tree in their concurring opinion, but for the proposition that the living tree must grow «from its roots» and that the Constitution is rooted in its political and legal traditions — in other words, the emphasis was placed on the natural limits of growth.

Currently, the third generation of the El - Aref family is continuing the tradition, maintaining its inherited sense of client service and subject - matter expertise, whilst keeping the firm on the cutting edge by setting up modern technology tools for Legal practice and management.

That recommendation calls urgently for institutional structures that can deepen our knowledge of Indigenous legal traditions, develop our comprehension of Indigenous institutions, and explore how those traditions might be worked with and built upon today.

They are exploring responses within Indigenous legal traditions to severely damaging interpersonal conduct, so they can fashion means for addressing that conduct that have legitimacy within the communities.

Lawyer and legal technologist Dennis Kennedy is making an annual tradition of his «Blawggie» awards for best law - related blogs, and this year's results are now in.

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 more people participate in understanding and applying Indigenous norms, the potential exists for the widening of our interpretive legal communities and the improvement of each legal tradition.