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1 May 2024, 6:01 am
Past Law Day themes have included the Magna Carta, Separation of Powers, the 14th and 19th Amendments, and the role that the courts play in ensuring access to justice.This year’s theme is Voices of Democracy. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 12:25 pm
This is particularly striking given that no statute has had a bigger impact on the internet than Section 230, often called the “Magna Carta of the internet. [read post]
26 Mar 2024, 9:54 am
Supreme Court has long relied on the language of Magna Carta in interpreting the U.S. [read post]
26 Mar 2024, 9:54 am
Supreme Court has long relied on the language of Magna Carta in interpreting the U.S. [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 4:44 am
” This provision is “the modern-day counterpart of a statute dating from the first decades after Magna Carta; its language virtually (and remarkably) unchanged from that of a law adopted by New York’s Legislature two years before the United States Constitution was ratified” (Amalfitano v Rosenberg, 12 NY3d 8, 14 [2009]). [read post]
21 Feb 2024, 9:30 pm
Supreme Court has long relied on the language of Magna Carta in interpreting the U.S. [read post]
19 Feb 2024, 1:38 pm
If you deleted a comment as uncivil, it was common to hear howls of outrage that months ago jukeboxgrad had a substantially similar comment somewhere that is still up, so that under the principles of due process and the Magna Carta it would be despicable to moderate this comment now. [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 9:30 pm
First, although there is a long tradition of associating Magna Carta with the common law, Magna Carta is not a text that is primarily about the common law. [read post]
29 Dec 2023, 7:17 am
It was Henry II's feckless youngest son John, of course, who was forced to issue Magna Carta in 1215. [read post]
20 Dec 2023, 5:21 am
It was augmented with an abstract of Magna Carta, and the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 – contents that reflected the popularity of another pamphlet, English liberties, or The free-born subject’s inheritance; that title was published many times in England after its first appearance in 1682 and was printed in American for the first time in 1721. [read post]
10 Dec 2023, 4:22 am
The home of Magna Carta and so many democratic values would overwhelmingly reject suffrage for women at roughly the same time that a territory in the Western United States would embrace it. [read post]
26 Nov 2023, 9:30 pm
Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has focused on statute and theory, drawing from the instantiating texts of English law: acts of Parliament, judicial treatises, the Magna Carta. [read post]
9 Nov 2023, 9:01 pm
Most notably, the Magna Carta, issued in 1215, expressed the idea that a country should be governed by the rule of law.[1]The declaration that “no free man shall be seized, imprisoned, dispossessed, outlawed, exiled or ruined in any way, nor in any way proceeded against, except by the lawful judgment of his peers and the law of the land” runs through key parts of the U.S. [read post]
21 Oct 2023, 9:55 pm
From the Magna Carta in 1215 to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, and the 2015 Paris Agreement, contracts have shaped the world as we know it. [read post]
19 Oct 2023, 2:01 pm
Another important and transformative event, the signing of the Magna Carta, happened in 1215. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 8:09 am
And this agreement that settled all these disputes and laid out a structure for that country going forward, including guarantees of the right to trial by jury, is a document many of you may have heard of called the Magna Carta. [read post]
1 Oct 2023, 1:13 pm
Pix credit hereIf people are not able to settle in our countries, and start to think of themselves as British, American, French, or German, then something is going badly wrong. [read post]
5 Sep 2023, 12:33 am
Historically, there was some protection from poverty afforded through various statutes, tracing back to the Magna Carta, which prohibited ‘disproportionate fines and deprivation of the means of livelihood. [read post]
24 Aug 2023, 11:29 am
Notable excerpts include the Chinese Code of T’ang (600), the Magna Carta (1240), the Iroquois Nations’ Book of the Great Law (1450), Marbury v. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 7:11 am
In 1215, King John I (the “bad king” in Robin Hood) was forced to sign the Magna Carta, which barred the King from interfering with the courts and provided that no free man may suffer punishment without “the lawful judgment of his peers. [read post]
