Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...board of directors. he can place his name on the ballot by submitting an endorsement petition with 100 members' signatures. Only if someone challenges the stockholders slate will there be an election. Moreover, a quorum of at least five per cent must vote to make a contested election legal...
Over 150 Harvard law students will go to Washington this weekend to serve as law marshalls during Saturday's anti-war march. As marshalls they will walk along with the marchers, keeping demonstrators on the prescribed route and giving on-the-spot legal assistance in case of arrests...
...hope the presence of law marshalls will deter authorities from using excessive force or making illegal arrests," said Edward Radlo, a first-year law student and one of the group's organizers. He added that although few arrests are expected, the law students wanted to have adequate legal representation available...
...proposals already made do not mention any changes that would give Harvard legal jurisdiction over the Cliffies living in Harvard houses. They do, however, specify that these women would still be responsible to the Radcliffe administration in terms of academics and discipline. Harvard men living at Radcliffe would also remain under their senior tutors' jurisdiction...
Even if it is both economically and socially desirable, it is often legally prohibited, or more accurately, not sanctioned (New York City, as a legal entity, exists and functions only at the mercy of the State). And even if it is economically and socially desirable as well as legally permissible, it invariably runs into pressure group and ethnic politics rendering it politically untenable. Yet the question remains whether the Mayor can know what is economically and socially optimal...