Word: legalism
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Lindsay M. Bigoness, a student at the Graduate School of Education, said that she had come to see Dershowitz speak because she had read his legal cases. Calling Dershowitz “a big icon,” Bigoness she admired Dershowitz because of his strong commitment to his cause. “It’s really inspiring to see someone who champions his ideas,” she said...
Finalsclub.org is facing heavy opposition from the University, starting with legal concerns. Harvard’s general counsel writes in an email to a professor, “Under the federal Copyright Act of 1976, a lecture is automatically copyrighted as long as the professor prepared some tangible expression of the content—notes, an outline, a script, a video or audio recording...
...enforced. But on Oct. 1, schools chancellor Joel Klein used his monthly newsletter to principals at New York's 1,500 schools to remind them of the policy and warn that disciplinary action could be taken against staff who choose to ignore the rule, prompting the union to take legal action to overturn...
...National Convention in August. Yet, rather than focusing on the limited options women possess after giving birth, Richards highlighted the preventative measures that safeguard women from having to make difficult choices in the first place. Not surprisingly, the FFL refuses to opine on whether or not contraception should be legal. On the scant occasion when the group has addressed the issue of birth control, it has only perpetuated misconceptions about the side effects of the pill. By implicitly rejecting contraception and explicitly denouncing abortion, FFL gives women no other options but to give birth and deal with the financial...
...Legal misunderstandings are one thing, but some registrars seem to make political decisions about whether students get to vote locally. In Virginia, for example, where the law stipulates that voters must establish "domicile" in their precincts to register but never defines that term, youth-voter advocates say it's no accident that registrars' rulings are often strictest in small towns, where students could potentially swing a local election. In 2004, after a voter drive registered 2,000 William and Mary students in Williamsburg - home to fewer than 12,000 residents - the local registrar announced that students no longer had domicile...