Word: legalism
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...English Literature major in college, Alemany said she originally planned to go into law and took a job in the legal department at IBM after graduation...
Changes in the legal job market have pushed more students towards pursuing public service positions, and the Law School’s Summer Public Interest Funding for students who wish to engage in such work during the summer has been stretched to meet the demand. In the summer of 2008, about 375 students received funding, whereas last summer 495 received funds. Administrators expect over 600 students to request funding next year...
...York City federal court. Holder and President Obama say they expect prosecutors to push for the death penalty. Critics slammed the decision, claiming that the defendants' presence in New York will create a media circus and put the city at risk of another attack. Experts also noted the legal issues a civilian trial will raise--including the use of evidence obtained through waterboarding, to which Mohammed was subjected 183 times, and the difficulty of finding an impartial jury in a Manhattan courtroom just blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood...
...award infuriated the country's hard-liners, but the regime privately acknowledged that it had also earned Ebadi the admiration of most Iranians. Reluctant to arrest or openly target such a popular figure, the government tolerated Ebadi's activities and limited itself to low-level harassment of her legal office...
...spoke, Knox, whose compulsive journal-writing in the early days of her incarceration inadvertently provided authorities and media 300 pages of a "prison diary" to examine for clues to her mentality, scribbled on a legal pad, "In prison, you do not become a beautiful person unless you have an inner light that guides you." Italian photographers captured her note-to-self. (Read about Amanda Knox's testimony in court...