Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that 1) the constitutional norms allow Jackson's campaign; 2) the precedent of presidential candidates without prior office as governor and congressman is on his side; 3) the precedent of presidential campaigns seeking to empower marginal strata and policies is no his side. Thus, since there is no factual, legal, or normative support for Joseph's claim. I deduced, rather reasonably I think, that Joseph doesn't favor a Black candidate or at least a Black candidate who is progressive on issues relating to Blacks and other marginal strata or issues. This I call "neoracist...
...There are plenty of other ways of doing clinical work on a less extensive scale, like the Jamaica Plain Clinical Center, where you only do clinical work for a semester," Agoglia says. The Law School also places students in other legal service centers around the Boston area...
...Legal Aid Bureau also suffers from a problem that inevitably plagues student legal services programs: litigation often lasts longer than the three years law school program most students attend...
...There are normal turnover problems," Haire says. "You naturally lose some continuity. It's hard to work on some cases when you have exams or vacation. But that's going to come up in any academic legal services program...
...There is always criticism from some parts of an ecclectic faculty on most issues," Greenberg says. "I think it is fair to say that one of the excellent things to remember as the Legal Aid Bureau celebrates its 75th birthday is that it is steeped in a great deal of tradition but is flexible enough to change and to grow...