Word: monrad
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Dangers. The concept is not simply arbitrary. "Aristotle separated parental rule from constitutional rule for good reason," observes Monrad Paulsen, dean of the University of Virginia Law School. "He said parental rule is superior because it is based on the personal wisdom of the parents, and because it is guided by love." Unfortunately that is not always the case. Says Professor Sanford N. Katz of the Boston College Law School: "It is in the home that a child's rights are least protected...
...Court of Appeals upheld a Mexican divorce in 1965. Citing the inflexibility of New York divorce laws at that time, and pointing to the legal chaos that might result from nonrecognition of thousands of quickie divorces, the court said that a balanced public policy required recognition. But Dean Monrad G. Paulsen of the University of Virginia Law School, an expert on domestic relations law, does not think that the public-policy argument holds for the Caribbean laws. First, says Paulsen, divorce laws in the U.S. have been relaxed. Second, the number of Caribbean divorces is still too small to create...