Sentences with phrase «of constitutional law»

A professor of constitutional law and a doctor write about dying and death from their respective points of view.

As a matter of constitutional law, the federal government has ample authority in this area.

Artists and writers interested in issues of constitutional law, contracts, property, free speech and intellectual property are especially encouraged to apply.

«We have sought the best Constitutional legal advice in the country and, certainly in terms of the Constitutional law of this country, it fits within that law,» he said.

He is in the end a public philosopher with a solid knowledge of constitutional law, not an expert in technical institutional reforms.

Through televised hearings that engaged the public to a rare degree, the debate became a national referendum on the modern course of constitutional law.

There must be, as a matter of constitutional law.

Cases he has handled have centered on issues of constitutional law, securities regulation, class action and intellectual property.

Adrian Vermeule is Ralph S. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and author of Law's Abnegation: From Law's Empire to the Administrative State.

From this small acorn has a great body of constitutional law grown.

««Plagiarist» magistrate refuses to quit, reports the Courier - Mail Main World Congress of the International Association of Constitutional Law 11 - 15 June 2007 - Call for Papers»

Journals — Constitutional Forum — Review of Constitutional Studies — National Journal of Constitutional Law.

It will be interesting to see what the Supreme Court of Canada says about deference on questions of constitutional law in its decision, expected next year, in the Trinity Western University litigation.

Ms. Genesen is nationally recognized in the area of constitutional law relating to the interstate sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages, particularly with respect to wineries.

Michael McConnell, the director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School who formerly served as a judge on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, said «evidence of subjective bad motivations» on the part of the executive might not be enough to question an otherwise «neutral» government action.

These positions seem to contradict fundamental principles of constitutional law.

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Douglas Kmiec --- former dean of the law school at the Catholic University of America, the current chair of constitutional law at Pepperdine University, and the man who chaired Mitt Romney's Committee on the Constitution --- wrote this article for Slate:» Reaganites for Obama?

Whatever the political fallout for the prime minister, the Court's advisory opinion merits careful attention by those who study sources of constitutional law, amending formulae, and how institutions» constitutional status may change over time.

And so, precisely because the rules of constitutional law create some faint possibility of gaining special consideration, the question the religion must ask itself becomes (to take Needham as our example) not What form of counseling does God require?

And when it comes to immunizing such «choices» from legal restriction or even private remonstration, the Court's liberals can be counted upon to flip on the switch of what Justice Antonin Scalia, writing in dissent, describes as «the ad hoc nullification machine that [is] set in motion to push aside whatever doctrines of constitutional law stand in the way of the highly favored practice of abortion.»

«Five tasks to unite the country and revitalize the American dream,» its subtitle, is semi-biographical, but contains elements of Constitutional law, campaign strategy and conservative philosophy.

According to the report, Üskül likely «was dismissed as the head of the constitutional law department» because of a petition he had brought «to the Turkish parliament's Human Rights Commission objecting to an optical fingerprint scanning security system installed on campus on the grounds that it harmed academic freedom.»

Posts cover «42 U.S.C. section 1983, perhaps the most important federal civil rights statute, and on constitutional law (especially the First Amendment), the teaching of constitutional law and other law - related topics.»

A constitutional lawyer at Krevolin & Horst, LLC provides professional legal counsel and extensive experience in many aspects of constitutional law.

In the process, we have strived to and have achieved a balance between the ardent defense of our clients and the serious application of Constitutional law.

«His broad experience, deep knowledge, and a nuanced understanding of constitutional law will enhance the leadership of FMC's constitutional practice.»

Indeed, the entire narrative arc of our constitutional law saga is full of surprise, mystery and plot reversals worthy of a great novelist.

As the case moved through the court system, it merged with R v. Bédard and mounted a significant challenge against the patriarchal (male - dominated) and sexist nature of constitutional law in Canada.

Its objectives are to increase the amount of interdisciplinary cooperation between law and political science in the field of constitutional studies and to raise the profile of the academic study of constitutional law and politics.

The film isn't really out to explore the nuances of Constitutional law, however, and these performers roles could have been played by people off the street at lower cost and to similar effect.

Legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin famously compares the evolution of constitutional law with the writing of a chain novel in which a group of writers creates new chapters built upon the choices made in previous chapters by other authors.

But in terms of constitutional law, then-B.C.

Only by knowing this, can present - day Canadians know the meaning of our constitutional law.

Moreover, the Supreme Court's declaration of constitutional law is binding upon the entire polity.

A theory of constitutional law that may be out of fashion in today's legal academy, but that fits comfortably within the modern conservative and the traditional liberal views of the courts, begins with certain basic premises: the existence of law and the possibility of meaningful rules of law.

«Today's opinion dismantles the structure of constitutional law that has permitted a distinction to be made between heterosexual and homosexual unions, insofar as a formal recognition in marriage is concerned,» wrote Scalia.

The metaphorical wall of separation of church and state (which is only a metaphor, although we sometimes pretend is a part of our constitutional law) seeks to capture this idea: there is the sphere of religion and the sphere of the state, and a mighty wall protecting each from the other.

Justice Antonin Scalia, perhaps the leading exponent of this criticism, emphasizes the purely procedural quality of the argument by declaring abortion, for example, to be a matter entirely outside the purview of constitutional law and, therefore, beyond the jurisdiction of courts.

Ronald Dworkin celebrates a «fusion of constitutional law and moral theory.»

What we object to is, first, the judicial manufacture of constitutional law to displace without constitutional warrant the duly enacted judgments of the people and their elected representatives, and, second, the idea of judicial supremacy that treats the executive and legislative branches of the federal government as impotent to do anything but bow down before unconstitutional exercises of judicial power, however blatant and destructive of the constitutional order.

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.

For this reason, most parliamentary democracies have developed rules to govern these situations, often in the form of constitutional laws.

However, due to the UK's uncodified constitution and unlike most EU member states, the UK has no definition of constitutional law.

A group of constitutional law and government professors have signed on to a letter outlining why they back a constitutional convention, arguing that holding one will positively restructure state government and expand protections for the environment and local governments.

I wish first and foremost to thank Your Excellency, Mr. President, for the very fact of considering me as a fit and proper person for this position even though I come from the opposite pond of social democracy and in the past, we have been very strong and robust professional adversaries in the development of the constitutional law of our dear country from its inception.