Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impact of the ruling could take years to determine. Left in question was whether the copyrights, though now known to be legal, can serve as effective protection...
...leading destination for legal and perhaps illegal ivory is Asia. Hong Kong is a major manufacturer and exporter of ivory jewelry, and 30% of the colony's output goes to Americans. "People in the U.S. just don't connect ivory with elephants," says Mark Stanley Price, a director of the African Wildlife Foundation, "but every bracelet represents a dead elephant." Another top consumer is Japan, where ivory has long been used for personalized seals called hanko. But under pressure from conservationists, Hong Kong and Japan have begun to check closely the documents on ivory imports to weed out illegal shipments...
...total ban on the ivory trade. But that would be no easier to enforce than the laws against selling cocaine and heroin. Dealers bold enough to defy the embargo could anticipate higher | profits than ever. Moreover, poor African countries need the revenue from at least a limited amount of legal trading...
...other half of the problem. Many law faculty members, and here the critical legal studies people are clearly the worst offenders, not only do not appreciate or understand what it means to prove something, but they believe it is wrongheaded to try to do so. For the defenders of critical legal studies, the type of scientific inquiry praciticed in the natural sciences is a misguided thing to attempt when inquiring into the social world...
...think that both of the CLS dogmas--that scientific knowledge is impossible or meaningless and that the attempt to get it inevitably leads to defeatism and illegitimate justifications of the status quo--are deeply pernicious, and have to be combatted in legal education. It is very bad to indoctrinate students with these attitudes. --from a symposium at the 1984 Federalist Society Meeting, printed in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Spring...