Word: legalism
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Silvio Berlusconi's critics used to worry about what he might do once in office: slant media coverage, rewrite laws to favor his own business and legal interests, embarrass Italy with gaffes on the world stage. Many of those fears, though perhaps not the worst of them, were realized in the media mogul's last term in office, from 2001 to 2006. But now that Berlusconi has swept back to his third term as Prime Minister with an impressive victory over former Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, Italians are more concerned about what he might not do. Italy faces difficult public...
...desk would completely contort relationships—everything would be tinged with a faint hint of menace and paranoia. Although the stringent criteria for gun ownership are supposed to weed out the irresponsible or deranged, we must remember that Seung-Hui Cho obtained his handgun in a perfectly legal manner...
...federal job aside from clerkships.Indeed, HLS has been putting a great deal of effort into steering its students towards more public-service related work. For example, HLS has instituted a pro bono requirement, which requires that students to do a minimum of 40 hours of public-service related legal work, such as legal research or working for non-profits, (a requirement which, according to Assistant Dean for Public Service Alexa Shabecoff, is greatly exceeded: the average HLS student performs an impressive 400 hours of public service before graduation). And on top of an already-generous loan forgiveness program, HLS just...
...other professional service firms,” said Law School Dean Elena Kagan in a press release on Tuesday. “He is the perfect person to lead our executive education programs and to conduct research on, and teach our students about, important aspects of the legal profession.” Nanda teaches courses that do not pertain to just theory of law, reflecting the Law School’s attempt to better prepare students for the legal profession. “I am a student of the professions,” he said. “I look...
...pornography and violence can be viewed in so many homes through media widely available today?" It remains to be seen which Catholics will find most meaningful: Benedict's groundbreaking but guarded admission or his contextualization of abuse in what he sees as a general U.S. trend toward loose, if legal sexual practices...