Word: legalizations
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...White Witch of the Narnia films and as the soaring, fallen Angel Gabriel tempting Keanu Reeves in Constantine. Recently, and notably, Swinton has had on-screen affairs with Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and George Clooney (Burn After Reading). She was also Clooney's legal antagonist, an agribusiness executive, in Michael Clayton - a film that earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. (See pictures of Oscar's leading ladies...
...Writing in The New Republic, Gordon Silverstein labeled Souter a “judicial conservative,” explaining that, “Judicial conservatives generally have great respect for the law, and for legal decisions that have been made. This is the essence of what is called stare decisis—let the decision stand. Upholding precedent staunches the forces of change—and typically, that generates conservative results. But when the precedent you are upholding is precedent set by the Warren Court, holding back the forces of change means enforcing liberal decisions against radical demands for change...
...While all of these individuals are well-qualified legal minds, their race, gender, and sexual orientation should not be considered among their qualifications...
...online footprint or his copyleft orientation. It was this mischievous-looking 70-year-old law professor who served a decade ago as the motive force behind the founding of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society—an organization that grapples with the developing legal issues surrounding the use of the Internet and has been dubbed “a den of copyleft activists” by copy-conservatives...
...legal side, similar reactions have followed several of Nesson’s antics—a stable that includes posting internal legal documents and e-mails online for comment and revision, continually seeking to record his interactions with opposing counsel, and seeking to publicly depose the opposing side’s lawyer (a rarity in its own right) in the Ames Courtroom on the Harvard Law campus, so that an audience could attend. It’s not easy, perhaps, for the uninitiated to sort out the strangeness of these measures, but in the legal world, a profession where...