Word: legalism
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...break a whole host of moral values.” “The fact that a worker can be notified with less than one day’s notice...is part of a systemic problem that is at its core [representative of] the very limited legal protections” enjoyed by American workers today, Becker said. —Staff Writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and other prominent female legal figures urged audience members to continue the fight for women’s rights at a conference given by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study yesterday afternoon...
...everyone saw al-Zaidi as a political scapegoat. Nibras Maamorie, a correspondent with Iraq's Sumaria television station, said al-Zaidi's actions were an embarrassment to the country and to his profession. "He's set a bad example for journalists in Iraq," she said. "I'm not a legal expert - I don't know if he should have been sentenced - but as a journalist, I reject his actions...
...parliament, would create a new Internet surveillance system to combat online piracy - one that critics call a Big Brother-like attempt to police people's Web activity. Introduced by Sarkozy's Culture Minister, Christine Albanel, the bill seeks to enlist Internet service providers (ISPs), entertainment-industry organizations and French legal authorities in an effort to identify and dissuade illegal downloading of copyrighted music and video. A monitoring agency would send Web users who illegally download media a cease and desist notice. Should two warnings go unheeded, ISPs would be forced to cut Web access for one to 12 months...
...that again. Judicial experts and consumer groups say the bill's proposed policing system will generate many legal challenges - especially regarding invasion-of-privacy issues, and the identification of IP addresses to track people who illegally download. That's especially true in a world where the most prolific pirates - hackers and computer geeks - can hide their identities behind hijacked ones. "The bill violates the principle of presumption of innocence," noted consumer group UFC Que Choisir in a statement, "because the onus would be on the Internet users to prove their good faith...