Sentences with phrase «on modern law»

What is the impact of data and technology on the modern law firm and lawyer?

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The U.S. Supreme Court is clear and straightforward on this, she says: «Modern corporate law does not require for - profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.»

Before joining West Coast, Gavin practiced Aboriginal law at a private firm where he represented Indigenous Nations on issues related to land use and management, environmental assessments, provincial regulatory decision - making, implementation of modern treaties and Indigenous governance.

Commercial rules, as well as expertise in payments law to craft them, are key for new technology to push on to become a mature enterprise infrastructure for a truly modern...

Law professors write solely for other academics, but since their underlying religious / ideological / political positions are relatively conventional, they can also reassure their co «ideologues outside of the academy that someone really smart who speaks the language of modern moral / legal theory is on their side.

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

Modern study of the Pauline letters has shed important light on the specific circumstances of his teaching on the law, faith, and justification.

The project of Grisez - Finnis is to save natural law by reestablishing it on a secular foundation that does not appeal directly to those metaphysical claims that modern science rejects as outdated.

The purpose of the Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradition.

Relying on memories of his friend Fly's work as a law - copyist in 1840, and of the office at 10 Wall Street where he visited his brother Allan after returning from sea in 1844, Melville sets his story in a modern, nineteenth - century office building.

The latest issue of Modern Age (Winter 2009) is now available for general consumption and features a symposium on Remi Brague's amazingly erudite book The Law of God.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

I think we agree on the fact that it is by faith that all are saved i have no problem with that and its in that that there is unity.You find within any christian modern church law can be mixed with Grace that is not peculiar to any domination maybe it is more extreme in some.Where there are believers there are works of the flesh such as pride and self reliance.I was thinking today the word says if we believe in our hearts and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord then you shall be saved.Its not a hard doctrine to believe thats in its basic form.The seventh day have tacked on to that belief adherence to the sabbath that is sadly how denominations spring up.In the anglican church we still recite the apostles creed how many church still do that today as a basis for there faith in Jesus Christ.Your statement that some are saved is just as true to those who go to modern christian churchs who say they are christian but walk according to the flesh..

The mere fact that this law is applicable also to Jams, Buddhists and Sikhs clearly shows that from the beginning it should have been called Civil Code rather than Hindu Code» He adds, that it is not based on any Hindu Scriptures but on «modern concepts and progressive values and is applicable to all citizens irrespective of religion».

These modern miracles are accomplished not by any suspension or contravention of natural law but by fulfilling the conditions on which it will operate in the direction and way we desire.

Perhaps a summary of the basics of Catholic teaching on each issue, arguments from scripture, arguments from natural law and empirical evidence from modern society and scientific understanding?

Although this example has a modern ring to it, there is nothing really new about the problem it presents, which is: How is it that freedom and purpose that determine so much about us arise in a world that seems to run entirely on mechanical laws?

In declaring itself legally autonomous and creating the first body of codified law since the collapse of Rome, the Church took on all the aspects of a modern State.

The inequality of laws concerning punishment of suspicion of adultery, the pervasiveness of polygamy, the fact that women were viewed as property, the lesser value ascribed to baby girls, and the suggestion that women are more easily deceived than men are all striking problems for modern readers... and as Christians we should not underestimate the impact they may have on unbelieving seekers.

The story of philo «Semitism is not presented as an alternative way of considering the modern Jewish experience: indeed, as the Rubinsteins show, it arose in large part in response to worldwide persecution and violence against Jews» from the infamous Damascus «blood libel,» to the institution of anti «Jewish laws in Italy, to pogroms in Russia, to the Dreyfus case, and on into the Nazi era.

For a «Supreme Court justice to express himself so freely on religious matters is unequaled in the modern era,» observed Stephen Gillers, a professor of legal ethics at New York University Law School, one of many alarmed respondents cited by Chandler.

So I want to take what for moderns is the most scandalous of these scandalous laws as our hard case — those related to sexual sins — and press Jesus on his claim that these and other laws in Moses reveal him and his grace, mercy, forgiveness, and love (Lk 24:27, 44, cf., John 5:46).

Jacobs» brooding ruminations on modern consciousness and the halakhah appear in a Judaism magazine symposium (Winter 1980) devoted to a discussion of Robert Gordis» essay, «A Dynamic Halakhah: Principles and Procedures of Jewish Law.»

Gordis rests his case for a dynamic halakhah on the findings of modern critical scholarship, the «past two centuries of brilliant and dedicated research in Jewish law, literature, and life.»

When you look at modern cultures that have strict gun control laws, the crazy maniacs who are set on killing people just use other tools to kill people, like bombs, machetes, and cars.

Wine Retailers Throw Down Gauntlet Against Direct - Shipping Restrictions: The book on modern direct - to - consumer wine - shipping law was written at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 with the Granholm v. Healddecision...

What We've Learned From the Evidence» (Oxford University Press, with co-author Prof. William Eskridge of Yale Law School), sharing insights on a modern family growth trend.

The early modern period saw the rise of social contract theory (agreement replacing reason or faith), a focus on laws and institutions (rather than the unitary leader).

He has published numerous articles on contemporary democratic theory, Florentine political and constitutional thought, and twentieth - century German legal, political and social theory in scholarly journals, including the Modern Law Review, the American Political Science Review and Political Theory.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

That's why we announced on Saturday that we're going to review our laws to make sure that, in our modern and flexible economy, people are properly protected at work.

He visited Oxford as a guest of the State of the State lecture series, which focuses on the transformation of the modern state from the perspectives of political science, philosophy, law, history, economics and sociology.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo is saying «cheers» to new legislation that will loosen regulations on the state's craft beverage industry and bring the state's 80 - year - old Alcoholic Beverage Control Law up - to - date with modern demands.

Introduction of modern, consolidated bribery law, based on the recommendation of the Law Commission Creation of a discrete offence of bribery of a foreign public official in order to obtain or retain business Offences would cover the offering, promising or giving or a bribe and the agreeing to receive or accepting of a brilaw, based on the recommendation of the Law Commission Creation of a discrete offence of bribery of a foreign public official in order to obtain or retain business Offences would cover the offering, promising or giving or a bribe and the agreeing to receive or accepting of a briLaw Commission Creation of a discrete offence of bribery of a foreign public official in order to obtain or retain business Offences would cover the offering, promising or giving or a bribe and the agreeing to receive or accepting of a bribe.

«This working group will help continue these efforts providing both perspective and first - hand experience on how to bring out laws into the modern era and further aid in the growth of this great New York industry,» Cuomo said in the release.

Cuomo is saying «cheers» to new legislation that will loosen regulations on the state's craft beverage industry and bring the state's 80 - year - old Alcoholic Beverage Control Law up - to - date with modern demands.

The Governor said it is a widely acknowledged fact that all modern and civilized societies thrive on the quality of laws which regulate and guide the actions of government, organizations, individuals and institutions, and that the dynamics of law relative to time and circumstances however demands that such laws are revisited periodically to ensure their relevance and effectiveness.

The report recommends foreign policy follows five guiding principles: to actively work to protect civilians; to challenge abuses of humanitarian law and human rights; to deliver on policies like the Arms Trade Treaty which save lives through international agreement; to meet the challenges of the modern world, including new threats like terrorism; and strengthening multilateral institutions, with the UK taking the lead to reunite the UN.

«The purpose of our consultation is to ask how, in a modern, internet - connected society, the law of contempt can continue to support the principles that criminal cases should be tried only on the evidence heard in court,» Professor David Ormerod, who is leading the consultation, said.

Rather than going into a lengthy catalog of Article 2 powers and the attendant case law that shows an historical accretion of power in the Presidency, along with perhaps the growth of the Executive Department and administrative state (those are easily catalogued, but my college text on the matter ran over 2000 pages), I will turn to the resource modern scholars use, Richard Neustadt's, summarized as

Executive orders in modern times are supposed to justified by existing law and essentially be a clarification or explanation on how a particular law or set of laws will be enforced, though there are many examples of orders going beyond this limit.

The past president of the Prison Governors» Association said: «The blanket ban on sentenced prisoners» voting is out of step in a modern prison service and runs counter to resettlement work which aims to ensure that prisoners lead a responsible, law - abiding life on release.»

This, Mr Hague said, would use «modern technology» to allow the public to give its views on laws.

Laws has previously been sceptical about wealth taxes but - if reporter Robert Watts is correct - the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury has decided that the greater evil is leaving low earners to struggle on through one of the nastiest income squeezes of modern times.

«This working group will help continue these efforts, providing both perspective and first - hand experience on how to bring our laws into the modern era.»

OccupyGhana in a statement said the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), must focus on introducing new laws that take modern trends into consideration.

«What we really need to work on is enforcement of current laws and examining ways to make the workplace more flexible to better accommodate the tremendous pressures on the modern family in a bipartisan manner.»

Researchers have built a modern - day Enigma machine that relies on the quirky laws of quantum mechanics instead of the rotors and levers of the famous World War II — era code machines.

Yet the cognitive power on display here can trigger chills.Principia marks the dawn of modern physics, beginning with the familiar three laws of motion («To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction» is the third).

On 16 September 2011, President Barack Obama signed into law HR1249, the Leahy - Smith America Invents Act, which has been described as the most important change in U.S. patent legislation since 1952, when the structure of modern patent law was established.