Sentences with phrase «like constitutional law»

EU law affects nearly every aspect of national life, from grand concepts like constitutional law and foreign relations to the shapes of valves and how multi-national families can stay together.

Not exact matches

The notion that constitutional - moral ideals, like equality and liberty, are ones that reason can analyze and apply comports with the notion of a natural law that is accessible to all people of good will («written on the heart,» in Paul's words).

Fishon, I'll call you what you are: you are a troll and a bully, and the RIGHT churches with absolute standards are full of bullies like you who are not content to follow your exacting standards in your churches; you are trying to make total strangers in the world at large subject through them in the secular courts and laws, flipping your middle fingers at the principle of constitutional separation of church and state.

In general, based on the 2003 interview, it doesn't look like Santorum knows how to talk or think about this issue very well; he doesn't, for example, appear to know how to distinguish the three levels of the right to privacy debate: a) the natural rights level, b) the Constitutional level, and c) the plain - old law level, state and federal.

Human Rights NGOs like the Centre for Governance and Development, Citizens Coalition for Constitutional Change, Human Rights Commission and Mazingira Institute, Law Society and the NGO Council helped to popularize the gospel of accountability as a culture of democracy.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Like most constitutional law professors, Carter is sharply critical of the Supreme Court's 1990 decision in Employment Division v. Smith.

We know that something fundamental is being tampered with when a solid conservative like Sam Ervin of North Carolina denounces the Washington laws as violating constitutional rights.

In the twentieth century, led by lawyers like Leo Pfeffer, Jews and like - minded Americans fought through the courts to translate this ill - defined wall into a hardy bulwark of constitutional law.

Constitutional law should not be treated like standard legislation.

Given that a state statute like the one passed in Florida can overcome another state statute, and that no federal law in place currently prohibits the imposition of this age limit; the absence of a constitutional limitation preventing a twenty - one year old age limit to buy guns means that the law is constitutional and valid.

Guangdong's top censor, Tuo Zhen, didn't like the New Year's editorial that called for constitutional rule of law.

The constitutional change agenda gained momentum after the 1997 Labour landslide, when important changes were passed, like devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Human Rights Act that incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into British law.

Although the Liberal Democrats also envisage the CC considering the question of English votes on English laws in the UK Parliament, the CC they propose sounds to me a lot like a tidying up exercise once the main lines of constitutional settlement have been determined.

It should have some people on it who really know what they are talking about when it comes to Britain's half - written constitution and complex political system: people like the former senior law lord Thomas Bingham, the Oxford constitutional expert Vernon Bogdanor, and the lawyer and veteran political activist Helena Kennedy.

«Under an unconstitutional government, you can just lock up someone just like that, and seize all their assets; but we live in constitutional governance and democracy, and so the law must work.

He has conducted himself with something very like contempt for our constitutional arrangements and the very concept of law itself.

As a result it has recently happened that the Constitutional Court had to issue a decree reminding the judges that there are statutory laws governing their decisions, so they can't just define «justice» as they feel like.

By so doing, he is making himself a superintendent and overseer and an appellate court over decisions of a court of competent jurisdiction which under a constitutional democracy like ours and under the rule of law can never be possible.»

Op - Ed by Tom DePrisco NYS law mandates voters be asked every twenty years, or at other times, if they would like a Constitutional Convention.

«We must always evaluate policy proposals in light of principles like rule of law and the logic of our constitutional system.

There are states like Missouri, Virginia, perhaps even Pennsylvania, where the constitutional provisions might be such that funding it using general fund dollars may not fit with the way the constitution or state laws are already arranged.

Though the law was initiated and signed by a Republican president, presidential candidates like Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, who once supported it, now talk about getting the federal government out of education, echoing Tea Party members who deem federal involvement a constitutional travesty.

In this episode of the Modern Law Library, professor Adam Winkler, author of We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, shares what he learned from his investigation into how corporations have achieved constitutional protections ranging from the right to sue and be sued, to individual rights like religious liberty protections and free speech.

Like the heated question of whether a non-entrenchment clause could be dug into our law to protect UK parliamentary sovereignty, this one wasn't about law, or even constitutional theory; it was essentially about differing ideological positions vis a vis judicial power.

Concerning the perspective of comparative constitutional law you suggest in your title, I would like to know if you have registered another case in Europe (or outside Europe) where a Constitutional Court orders the suspension of a meeting to be held by a regional parliament: this is what happened last October 5th, when the Tribunal Constitucional of Spain adopted its decision, ordering the suspension of a meeting of the Parliament in Catalonia, scheduled for October 9 (see full text of this decision at: http://hj.tribunalconstitucional.es/docs/BOE/BOE-A-20constitutional law you suggest in your title, I would like to know if you have registered another case in Europe (or outside Europe) where a Constitutional Court orders the suspension of a meeting to be held by a regional parliament: this is what happened last October 5th, when the Tribunal Constitucional of Spain adopted its decision, ordering the suspension of a meeting of the Parliament in Catalonia, scheduled for October 9 (see full text of this decision at: http://hj.tribunalconstitucional.es/docs/BOE/BOE-A-20Constitutional Court orders the suspension of a meeting to be held by a regional parliament: this is what happened last October 5th, when the Tribunal Constitucional of Spain adopted its decision, ordering the suspension of a meeting of the Parliament in Catalonia, scheduled for October 9 (see full text of this decision at: http://hj.tribunalconstitucional.es/docs/BOE/BOE-A-2017-11409.pdf).

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised — legal research doesn't hold the appeal of some topics, like constitutional or criminal law.

In the summer, NGS runs a 6 - week Summer Academy where the students can take college level courses, like Epidemiology and Constitutional Law.

The substantive law sections, like Introduction to Constitutional Law and Introduction to Torts Law were very valuable to Alllaw sections, like Introduction to Constitutional Law and Introduction to Torts Law were very valuable to AllLaw and Introduction to Torts Law were very valuable to AllLaw were very valuable to Allan.

In 2003, Texas passed a constitutional amendment reforming medical malpractice law and placing punitive damages caps (like pain and suffering) on med - mal lawsuits.

A book like the one you describe will be useful throughout the common law world, not just in Canada; and whilst Canadian constitutional pieties might just about justify not translating the relevant passages for a Canadian audience, it makes the book potentially far less useful in the rest of the Common law world where such pieties do not obtain, and it can not be assumed that the readers will have any second language, let alone that any such second lanaguage would French.

A solid, experienced lawyer like Miers, with no real background in constitutional law, might look at the text, the precedents, the briefs, and use the standard lawyer's methods to resolve the problem at hand.

This too highlights why it is important to ensure that one's law school transcripts are not devoid of important core courses or do not have an over-concentration in a specialized area like Aboriginal or constitutional law.

As with many states, there are a multitude of laws and tiers that make up Florida state law — everything ranging from constitutional, regulatory, to tort law — so it's no surprise to see the prevalence of Florida law blogs (or «blawgs,» as the ABA Journal likes to call them).

These included fundamental cases like R. v. Oakes, a case decided by the Supreme Court in 1986 dealing with what the reasonable limits are on constitutional rights — and specifically, how those limits apply to criminal laws that put the burden of proof on the defence rather than the Crown.

My underlying concern is that a purist public law approach could constitute a break in the legal order, if you like a revolution imposed by intellectual persuasion, that could «pull the constitutional rug» from under the feet of investment treaty law.

«like Charles Evans Hughes, Sr., later Mr. Chief Justice Hughes, who stood up for the constitutional rights of socialists to be socialists and public officials despite the threats and clamorous protests of self - proclaimed super patriots — men like Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., and John W. Davis, who, while against everything for which the Communists stood, strongly advised the Congress in 1948 that it would be unconstitutional to pass the law then proposed to outlaw the Communist Party — men like Lord Erskine, James Otis, Clarence Darrow, and the multitude of others who have dared to speak in defense of causes and clients without regard to personal danger to themselves.

It will explore the WTO's interaction with different sources of international law, including regional trade agreements like the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), as well as Bilateral Investment Treaties and analyze relevant U.S. constitutional and statutory provisions concerning domestic and foreign trade.

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I don't know who MLPII is, but he / she sounds like a much better nominee: «As a lawyer for 42 years and a law prof for 34 years, teaching a number of Constitutional Law seminars but many more practice oriented courses such as Evidence and Civil Procedure.&raqlaw prof for 34 years, teaching a number of Constitutional Law seminars but many more practice oriented courses such as Evidence and Civil Procedure.&raqLaw seminars but many more practice oriented courses such as Evidence and Civil Procedure.»

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Moving on to privacy rights of a Constitutional nature, Jotwell (the Journal of Things We Like (Lots), a relatively new publication which is to law review articles what Blawg Review is to blawg posts, takes a look at group searches and Fourth Amendment rights.

Working in a an academic law library that is open to the public I've found that it is often on Friday, and more specifically, Friday afternoon that the individual who wants to challenge the constitutional validity of income tax arrives at the library looking for an orientation to our legal system and advice on the best way to prove that income tax is illegal, or substitute whichever conspiracy theory you like in here.

The hard cases involve grants of regulatory authority subject to further approval by a subpart of Congress like a committee, as opposed to a full fledged act of law (something called a «legislative veto») which has dubious constitutional status despite being common.

Secondly, the Supreme Court tries very very hard, even when it strikes down particular laws, to avoid saying what would pass constitutional muster instead (which is what it sounds like you're proposing).

Indlaw is part of the Indianlawonline project which was launched in April 1997 as a collaborative exercise between professionals and academicians based in U.K. and in India to build an electronic legal library to enable solicitors, advocates, students and clients to have access to information on various primary and secondary legal documents like the constitutional texts, parliamentary debates, case law, Parliamentary and State enactments and delegated legislation in both India and the U.K. Indlaw is today a leading provider of easy - to - use comprehensive and cost - effective legal, tax and regulatory information on the Internet.

The legal community still often treats IT law like a red - headed stepchild and, therefore, doesn't let it permeate through the carefully constructed walls of «classic» legal spheres (contracts, liability, criminal law, constitutional law, etc.).