Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political response of American society...has been a lot more sensitive and mature than people thought it was going to be," Frank said during a weekend-long conference entitled "Sexual Orientation and the Law: Implications for Legal Education...
Nathan M. Pusey '28, the 82-year-old former president of Harvard, offered his perspective on recent events at the Law School to a Crimson reporter in a recent interview. Pusey, who drew fire for calling in the police to arrest student protesters 20 years ago, compared the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement at the Law School to the student protesters of a generation ago. CLS, a radical school of legal thought that stresses the law's biases toward the economically privileged, has divided professors at the Law School and prompted Bok's intervention twice in recent years...
Ehrenreich said that, as one of 22 million women who have had abortions since the procedure was made legal in 1973, she felt extremely relieved because she was able to abort...
...brief topped by the most signatures is astatement on behalf of 2887 women who have hadabortions and 627 friends of women who have hadabortions. "I chose an abortion," reads thebrief. "I was able to get a safe legal abortion,unlike my maternal great-grandmother who abortedherself with a knitting needle....My motherwhispered the story to me late one night, stillafraid...
...argument is the same today, accordingto many pro-choice adherents. Pro-choicers alsosay that briefs submitted by anti-abortionistsrely on religious and philosophical arguments,rather than legal and historical ones...