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...would think it would take a miracle for the two opposing attorneys of Bush v. Gore (2000) to find common legal ground on anything. But Perry v. Schwarzenegger, an ongoing trial in California that finished hearing witness testimony late last month, has united Ted Olson, an “icon” of the conservative legal movement, and David Boies, his former “liberal adversary,” on perhaps the only ideology they share. Both lawyers believe that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, and both are willing to take their...
According to Wilkins, shifts in both student interest and in the legal profession toward entrepreneurship prompted administrators to focus on funding social ventures when developing this latest program...
...talked to students all the time who are searching for a new way of approaching legal practice that can provide important and sustained contributions to the public,” he said. “Our students see a huge gap in our legal system...
...cases of moral judgment that fall outside the norm—martyrdom, for instance—Hauser and co-author Ilkka Pyysiäinen of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies propose that religion, much like legal institutions, exerts its own pressure on people’s moral judgments after it emerged from natural cognitive processes...
...School professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 added that Souter’s Court opinions are well respected in the legal community...