* Legal positivism, by contrast to natural law, holds that there is no necessary connection between law and morality and that the force of law comes from some basic social facts although positivists differ on what those facts are.

The Christian Legal Society holds an annual convention in the United States.

) from Boston University School of Law where he wrote for the Legal Follies, a sketch comedy group composed of Boston University law students which still holds annual performances.

ELSA holds several high-profile partnerships, among them CMS Legal, Council of Europe, European Voice, Thomson Reuters, Westlaw, World Trade Institute and WTO.

Legal doctrine also holds that a retailer incurs the risk that merchandise will be destroyed by placing it where customers can handle it and not doing anything to discourage them.

He also holds the Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Center in Kampala.

Justice Benham holds membership in numerous professional organizations, including eight national, state, and local bar associations, the American Judicature Society, the Lawyers ' Club of Atlanta, the National Criminal Justice Association, the Georgia Bar Foundation, the Georgia Legal History Foundation ( Trustee ), and Scribes-The American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects.

Estimates are produced by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research ( INPE ) for the entire Brazilian Legal Amazon by visually interpreting satellite imagery from the Landsat Thematic Mapper.

Legal meaning of the terms bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation and dissolution are contested in the Indian legal system.

Legal and not punishable crime are all acts in self-defense or otherwise determined by the illegal or criminal conduct of others that happened in the first place ( or omission adequate to protect the staff member who is a victim of illegal crime ).

Legal constraints are dependent on

Classical approaches to International legal theory are the Natural law, the Eclectic and the Legal positivism schools of thought.

There are different definitions of legal insanity, such as the M ' Naghten Rules, the Durham Rule, the American Legal Institute definition, and various miscellaneous provisions ( e. g., relating to lack of mens rea ).

Legal trades by insiders are common, as employees of publicly traded corporations often have stock or stock options.

Clive Stafford Smith, Legal Director of the UK branch of the human rights group Reprieve, said " We are told that al-Libi committed suicide in his Libyan prison.

His most famous television roles are those of the colorful attorney Alan Shore in The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal, for which he won three Emmy Awards, and Robert California in The Office.

" Legal positivism is the dominant theory, although there are a growing number of critics, who offer their own interpretations.

Legal questions are deemed to be justiciable, while political questions are nonjusticiable.

Legal injuries are not limited to physical injuries.

South Campus is also the site of the Buhr library storage facility ( the collections of which are undergoing digitization by Google ), the Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and the Student Theatre Arts Complex, which provides shop and rehearsal space for student theatre groups.

A number of other online versions are freely available, such as Cornell's Legal Information Institute.

* Legal systems Children are pressured from both parents and peers to conform and obey certain laws or norms of the group / community.

* Legal rights, in contrast, are based on a society's customs, laws, statutes or actions by legislatures.

Legal rights are sometimes called civil rights or statutory rights and are culturally and politically relative since they depend on a specific societal context to have meaning.

Legal far-right groups are also numerous, and include the Bloc identitaire, created by former members of Christian Bouchet's Unité Radicale group.

Assisting the Attorney General in the performance of his duties as Principal Legal Adviser to the Government are:

Notable examples of this type of legal drama are Ally McBeal and Boston Legal.

Article 109 also stated, " Legal privileges or disadvantages based on birth or social standing are to be abolished.

* Samuel Ireland publishes a collection of Shakespearean forgeries in his Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare ( dated this year but actually produced on 24 December 1795 ).

On 24 December 1795, Samuel Ireland published his own book about the papers, a lavishly illustrated and expensively produced set of facsimiles and transcriptions of the papers called Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare ( the book bears the publication date 1796 ).

After a failed attempt to be elected for the senate, he was appointed Legal Secretary of the Colombo-Venezuelan Border Commission to determine the limits with Venezuela, there he had the opportunity to travel through the Colombian jungles, rivers, and mountains, giving him a first hand experience of the subjects he would later write.

* Lax, Jeffrey R. " Constructing Legal Rules on Appellate Courts.

Legal allegiance was due when an alien took an oath of allegiance required for a particular office under the Crown.

The Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms defines the term Alford plea as: " A plea under which a defendant may choose to plead guilty, not because of an admission to the crime, but because the prosecutor has sufficient evidence to place a charge and to obtain conviction in court.

Legal scholar Jim Drennan, an expert on the court system at the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told the Winston-Salem Journal in a 2007 interview that the ability to use this form of guilty plea as an option in courts had a far-reaching effect throughout the United States.

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The Arkansas Education Standards Committee, chaired by Clinton's wife, attorney and Legal Services Corporation chair Hillary Rodham Clinton, succeeded in reforming the education system, transforming it from the worst in the nation into one of the best.

Legal transplants of Roman-Byzantine law became the basis of the Serbian medieval law.

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* Shipley, David E. Thin But Not Anorexic: Copyright Protection for Compilations and Other Fact Works UGA Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-001 ; Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Vol.

In an attempt to address this, the Government entered into the Narcotics Agreement of 1984 and the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty of 1986 with the United States, in order to reduce the use of their facilities associated with these activities.

; Legal independence: The independence of the central bank is enshrined in law.

Legal sanctions vary widely in their severity, they may include ( for example ) incarceration of temporary character aimed at reforming the convict.

The Prince and the Law, 1200 – 1600: Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition.

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* Critical Legal Thinking A Critical Legal Studies website which uses critical theory in an analysis of law and politics.

* John Beisner and Charles Borden, On the Road to Litigation Abuse: The Continuing Export of U. S. Class Action and Antitrust Law, U. S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, Oct 2006