Word: law
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of disgruntled welfare recipients, supported by young sympathizers, swarmed onto the stage while Finch was completing a formal talk sponsored by the Harvard Law School Forum...
...Efforts to reinterpret the statute, Peters said, had only muddied it with elusive psychological considerations. For example, one California appeals court recently upheld a doctor who had performed an abortion on a woman who psychiatrists said might commit suicide if she did not have one. Thus the law did not clearly define the boundary between criminal and legal abortion...
...court did not deal with constitutional issues raised by California's new law, the Therapeutic Abortion Act of 1967. The decision did suggest, though, that the new act makes it easier for a doctor to decide when he may legally perform an abortion. Roy Lucas, a lawyer on the board of the Association for the Study of Abortion, believes that the new act is still too vague, but applauds the new ruling. He believes that it provides a weighty precedent for court action in other states and affirms a legal trend in recent years that would make all such...
...fears hell," a fellow cleric once summed up Richelieu, "he loves theology, he does not entirely lack interest in the things of God, but in the final analysis his kingdom is of this world." The judgment is thoughtful, and O'Connell, an Australian professor of international law, endorses it. He sees Richelieu as a remarkable pragmatist who "combined in a completely unique fashion an iron resolution and a gift for seeing both sides of a question...
...Student strike, the string of investigating committees began to proliferate. First the Faculty appointed the Committee of 15, composed of both students and faculty, with the triple purpose of investigating causes, disciplining students, and recommending changes in Harvard's governance. Immediately after, the Freund Committee, headed by Law Professor, Paul Freund, began to study the possible "misconduct" of 14 teaching fellows or faculty members arrested during the take-over of University Hall...