Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while Dalton has claimed that the faculty discriminated against her in part for her adherence to Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of legal thought, she said she did not want the courtroom to be a forum for a debate over...
According to Bussey Professor of Law and Associate Dean Frank E. A. Sander, one subcommittee has already drawn up recommendations for the school's clinical program. He said the suggestions include, "creating additional fieldwork centers," "establishing a research institute," and the "possible expansion of legal services to non-indigent people...
Bird has never been completely comfortable, either, with the legal establishment. She has the formal backing of many lawyers but not the sort of fiery protective outrage her campaign badly needs. And judicial propriety makes it impossible for her to answer blow for blow...
...practice of dispensing judgeships as trophies of political patronage. But the fervent campaign against Bird points up a conundrum. While it is sensible to be able to recall judges for corruption or incompetence, is it desirable for them to have to worry about voters when they make their legal judgments? Courts were never intended to reflect the popular will in the manner of legislatures. In judicial elections, says Berkeley Law Professor Franklin Zimring, "you walk the tightrope between democratic accountability and popular passion. Everybody agrees that accountability is fine and passion stinks, but how do you tell the difference...
...method of birth control among Chinese married couples, the state refuses to make contraceptives available to single people. Many unmarried women are thus driven to seek dangerous back-alley abortions rather than risk the scandal that would arise from exposure of their illicit affairs if they chose legal channels. "If we teach them how to prevent pregnancies, maybe premarital sex will become even more common," frets Liu. Still, Dr. Wu labels Beijing's stand hypocritical, pointing out that government hospitals in the Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, have become profitable abortion mills by guaranteeing confidentiality to affluent...