Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Child's play, apparently. He is more interested in the broader possibilities. "It would be relatively straightforward," he says, "to compile dictionaries for distinct historical periods, to produce something, say, that would present only the vocabulary available to Shakespeare. The same thing could be done with reference to important legal documents, pointing out what the words of the laws actually meant at the time they were written...
Last week's hearings came at an important time for both sides in the abortion fight. Next month the Supreme Court will hear the first serious challenge to Roe v. Wade since it became law. The original decision was based in part on the court's conviction that legal abortion is a safe option. Since then, pro-life forces have chipped away at the decision's medical premises. "These are extremely important conclusions," said Democratic Congressman Ted Weiss of New York, who organized the hearings. Conceded Koop: "It's very difficult to separate abortion the moral issue from abortion...
...Legal scholars pointed out that two of the opinions O'Connor cited actually do not promote the concept of a Christian nation. The embarrassed Justice said she regretted that her letter had been "used in a political debate." It was a weak excuse. Conant had stated that a letter from O'Connor would be "beneficial" since "Republicans are making some interesting advances in this heavily controlled Democratic area...
Three of them were adherents to the radical school of legal scholarship, Critcal Legal Studies (CLS), which holds that the law is an instrument of social injustice. CLS has divided the academic community, and many right-wing professors nationwide have pushed to keep CLS professors off of law faculties...
Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, who led a sit-in in 1987 to protest the denial of tenure to Critical Legal Studies adherent Clare Dalton, said the nationwide protest promised to be be "very effective...