Word: legalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...defendants abruptly offered to confess to coordinating the attacks--in effect, pleading guilty to the murder of 3,000 people. With family members of some of the 9/11 victims looking on, Mohammed told the judge he had no faith in the Guantánamo trials, in his Pentagon-appointed legal adviser or in the judge himself. "I don't trust you," Mohammed said. "We don't want to waste our time...
...first thought upon hearing of Sunny von Bulow's death was of how distressed she would be to have become a household name. But some in her family decided to turn a medical tragedy into a legal nightmare. They accused her husband Claus of twice injecting her with insulin in an effort to cause her death and gain her wealth...
...case; it wasn't until the right-wing Law and Justice party came to power in 2005 that prosecutors pushed to bring Jaruzelski to trial. Still, it's not clear when, if ever, the court will reach a decision. Some lawyers say the declaration of martial law was legal, and documentary evidence from the period is spotty at best. With Poles still divided, the judgment of General Jaruzelski may yet be left to history...
...could do from a journalistic perspective, and decided that I want a different set of tools,” Long said. “Law school for me is about gaining those tools—figuring out how to affect change from an advocacy standpoint and from a legal standpoint...
...anti-genocide initiatives, were discussed in a commemorative speech given by Visiting Professor of Law Richard J. Goldstone, followed by a panel discussion yesterday evening. The event, “The Genocide Convention at 60 Years: New Challenges or the Same Ones?” analyzed legal and humanitarian effects of the post-World War II convention—“its impact, its meaning, its relevance for the next 60 years,” said panel moderator Jennifer Leaning, a Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health professor. “Genocide was appropriately called by Winston...