Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evidence cited in this document does indeed prove any legal transgressions, Reagan and Bush should be held accountable for violating the law. The top two officials of the United States government and their subordinates condoned and even practiced deception, both towards Congress and the American people, the shredding of government documents and the misuse of taxpayer money...
Twersky, who received a full year fellowship, said he planned to study "the relationship between Jewish law, which is the core of Judaism and various meta-legal systems." His research will culminate in a book about Jewish law, philosophy and mysticism, he said...
...Derrick Bell's sit-in protest against suppression of critical views (Bell is one of two tenured Black professors at the Law School). Said Clark, "This is a university--not a lunch counter in the Deep South." President Bok's continued efforts to purge the Law School of Critical Legal Studies (itself an outgrowth of '60s critical thought) threaten to polarize the faculty and entrench very conservative, corporate-oriented legal education. When will Harvard start to encourage rather than to suppress independent and political thinking? When will Harvard abandon its unseemly subservience to corporate and political power...
...attempt to collect $7.25 million owed to the Cambridge Hospital by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the City Council voted last night to take legal action against the state if Gov. Michael S. Dukakis does not respond to an invitation to discuss the issue...
Duehay said the amendments have not been written in proper legal form yet but should be by the next council meeting...