Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Generally speaking, many lawyers have a widerange of experience because legal practice getsyou into a diverse set of human experiences,"Steiner said...
...School program is training students to serve as legal advocates for women seeking safety from abusive husbands through the courts, organizers said last week...
...Battered Women's Advocacy Project, begun by two law students last November, instructs volunteers from the Law School on informal court intervention for women who may be unaware of legal options or too frightened...
Advocates, unlike lawyers, cannot represent clients or make legal arguments in court. Instead, advocates informally intervene on behalf of individual victims to obtain restraining orders, usually by presenting relevant facts before the presiding judge. Advocates also provide additional support to women, such as emotional support or help completing legal forms...
...that gun ownership is an inalienable right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which reads, "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Actually, the wording is ambiguous; legal scholars have been quarreling for decades over whether it guarantees the right to bear arms to citizens individually or collectively -- that is, as members of a "well-regulated militia." The Supreme Court has never ruled squarely on that issue and has not even faced it indirectly since the 1930s. Then...