Word: legalism
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...don’t mean this merely literally—three years of studying case law could make anyone lose their memory, if not their mind—but in the sense of forgetting passions and interests not strictly related to legal training. The HLS experience induces a kind of “perpetual deferral” state, in which students are always forced to think at least one step ahead for their career, so much so that it is not unusual for us to find ourselves at the end of three years wondering when, exactly, we would have time...
...Reeve added that although researchers at Harvard had cooperated before, there were inherent difficulties in coordinating work between multiple institutions, all of which have their own organizational, legal, and reporting structures...
...June 20, will be housed by El Concilio Hispano, a Massachusetts non-profit. According to an SCAS press release, the group was founded in 1973 “to provide free, quality information and assistance to underprivileged members of our community in order to help them to defend their legal rights and improve the quality of their lives.” The Massachusetts Small Claims Court settles disputes of less than $2000—typically cases involving automobile law, landlord-tenet law, consumer law, and debt law. The Spanish-speaking contingent rose in the 1980s, said SCAS Executive Director Marco...
...bill does cause some concerns," says Marv Johnson, legal counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C. "It's a bit too broad and does raise some First Amendment issues by affecting protected activity...
...struggling for a free and independent judiciary and supremacy of law. Your struggle is unprecedented in the history of Pakistan," he said. "It is the basic responsibility of the courts to protect the fundamental rights of the people." Not once did he mention his case; under Pakistan's legal system, Chaudhry is prohibited from commenting on it while the matter is before the courts. But even in that, his message was clear. No man is above the law. Not even a Chief Justice - or a President...