Word: legalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Canadian Bar Association President Walter S. Owen: "Perhaps the most important task of lawyers today is to help to build the international legal order on which the hopes for world survival so largely depend . . . Creating a satisfactory system of world law means raising legal standards and promoting as much uniformity as possible so that international investment and commerce and the free movement of people can be carried on in an atmosphere of confidence and security...
...Manhattan Lawyer Grenville Clark, 76, as he received an A.B.A. gold medal for his book, World Peace Through Law: "I hope to continue to work on a feasible plan to substitute law for violence or the threat of it. It is lawyers' work, predominantly lawyers' work. The legal profession in every country in the world must be ultimately summoned to a great conference of lawyers if we are to succeed. The stake is so great the goal is worth the effort...
...dressed in a ceremonial blue robe and a monkey-hair headdress, officially received the chieftainship from Tanganyika Governor Sir Richard Turnbull, and resplendent British uniforms mingled with the Dogpatch garb of spear-carrying Masai elders and tribesmen. Edward's coronation speech was a simple statement of Masai needs: legal recourse against farmers squatting on Masai lands, improved water facilities, a share in the profits of the tourist-frequented game reserves given up by the Masai...
...trickiest and most disputed questions in the nebulous world of international law is legal jurisdiction in the air. If a Swiss citizen slips arsenic into his wife's martini on a British airliner flying from Frankfurt to Paris, which country should prosecute-Great Britain because the plane is British, France because the plane landed there after the crime, Switzerland since Swiss citizens were involved, or Germany in whose airspace the crime was committed...
...careful study of Brazil's immigration laws. Recently, he rescued U.S. Promoter Earl Belle from deportation by stalling long enough for Belle's wife to have a baby in Brazil; parents of Brazilian-born children are not deportable. For Birrell, Chaloupe began by starting a flock of legal actions that blocked immediate expulsion. Then, as U.S. embassy officials explained to Assistant D.A. Hallisey, Birrell received a shipment of cash, and Brazilian newsmen began receiving invitations to cocktail parties where the talk favored Birrell...