Sentences with phrase «under modern law»

Under the modern law, the judicial discretion is not whether or not to attach a penal notice, it is whether or not to make the contact order itself.

Not exact matches

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.»

Curiously, however, the demand for the term «social justice» did not arise until modern times, in which more complex societies operate by impersonal rules applied with equal force to all under «the rule of law.»

Modern science has developed in the main under the concept that nonliving matter is wholly mindless and is subject to completely deterministic laws of nature.

«We know that the system as it's currently structured under our state law literally can not keep up with the reality of our modern democracy,» de Blasio said, bemoaning the state's «arcane» electoral laws kept in place by entrenched lawmakers in Albany.

NAKED singularities and cosmic censorship may sound like lurid terms from the tabloids, but in fact these phrases lie at the heart of a troubling question for modern cosmology: what happens when our known laws of space and time break down, as happens in the final moments of a star collapsing to a point under its own gravity?

Illinois would continue operating under the original 1915 pension laws until 1939 when the modern - day Teacher Retirement System was created.

(I will under modern copyright law and standard genre midlist contracts, get my book back in 35 years no matter what the contract says.)

There is little recent guidance on this issue and it isn't clear that this rule should apply to accounts established under the more modern version of the custodial account law, because UTMA contains language designed to prevent parents from being taxed on custodial account income when the account is used for purposes that fall within the parent's support obligation.

In the late 60s Law moved to the black paintings that were exhibited in 1974 at the Oxford Museum of Modern Art and subsequently the Whitechapel Art Gallery (both exhibitions under the directorship of Sir Nicholas Serota).

Under the circumstances, it's no surprise that modern students» legal research proficiency is hindered by what commentators have accurately identified as «shallow reading» and «cut - and - paste» analysis.62 And there is data aplenty to establish that today's law graduates are generally inefficient researchers.63 But is a return to the books the only antidote?

Actively monitor and advise clients on new legislation, regulation and case law trends, globally, related to supply chains, outsourcing, procurement, false advertising and product safety, among other issues, including recent class actions brought under the California Supply Chain Transparency Act and the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015

The amicus brief argues that the notion that an infringer's entire profit (on an infringing article) should be recoverable goes back to the 19th century, when only knowing infringement resulted in liability, while «even independent designers are [under today's strict liability regime] on the hook for patent infringement in modern design patent law».

Lawyers advising First Nations on these issues should have a strong background in employment law principles and human rights, particularly since the Canadian Human Rights Code applies to all aspects of Indian band governance, including governance structures under modern land claims agreements.

Modern investment law, by contrast, is characterized by the investor's right to initiate arbitration directly against host States based on the States» prospective and generalized consent to arbitrate any matter under the governing treaty.

While at this point there is not yet a crystal clear general legal requirement in Canadian law to consult with Indigenous peoples on the negotiation and ratification of international treaties, a number of «modern'treaties, called comprehensive land claims settlements, include explicit obligations on Canada to consult with the Indigenous party in advance of new international treaties that might affect rights under these agreements.

Under modern U.S. law, suicide is no longer a crime.

In law school, most upcoming lawyers are exposed to the so - called «Socratic Method,» in which the professor — generally in modern dress and typically not speaking Greek — seeks to compel the student to find or discover or discern or make a lucky guess at the point of doctrine under consideration, much as the character we know as «Socrates» in the Dialogues of Plato does with his students or debating partners.

As an international business with global supply chains, we adopt the international law definitions of forced labour [1] and human trafficking [2] to frame our response to modern slavery as part of our Responsible Business strategy and in fulfilling our responsibilities under the Act.

This then leads to the main point of this piece: #MeToo makes for captivating human interest stories and an empowering political movement, but it is irreconcilable with civil justice under our modern employment law system.

Could a football player who suffers brain damage from repetitive concussions caused by a style of play that is encouraged and enabled by the modern helmet sue the helmet manufacturer and win under Massachusetts law?

It would most likely be up to a jury to consider whether modern day football helmet has any design defects and, in weighing that question, a Massachusetts jury would be asked to weigh several factors: - the gravity of the danger posed by the current football helmet design - the likelihood that head injury will result from the use of the helmet - the technical feasibility of a safer alternative design - the financial feasibility of that alternative design, and - any other consequences likely to result from the alternative design However, even if a jury were to conclude that there exists a cost - effective design that would be more effective in preventing head injuries than the current football helmet design, the manufacturer might still have a few defenses under Massachusetts law: the so - called Vassallo defense and Correia defense.

There's an effort under way «to motivate the legislature to create modern laws regarding law enforcement access rights and a definition of how to balance privacy vs. law enforcement needs.»