How Diversity Makes Us Smarter Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative‚ more diligent and harder-working. Sep 16‚ 2014 |By Katherine W. Phillips 0 The first thing to acknowledge about diversity is that it can be difficult. In the U.S.‚ where the dialogue of inclusion is relatively advanced‚ even the mention of the word “diversity” can lead to anxiety and conflict. Supreme Court justices disagree on the virtues of diversity and the means for achieving it. Corporations
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JS6557 Professor Pratt §16‚ Thursdays‚ 10:00 a.m. X Mailbox # 406 Final Draft Closed Memo September 5‚ 2012 Word Count: 2‚975 On my honor‚ I submit this work in good faith and pledge that I have neither given nor received improper aid in its completion. /s/ JS6557 JS6557 Memorandum To: Managing Partner Salvo From: JS6557 Date: September 24‚ 2012 Re: McAnzen Case QUESTION PRESENTED DUI Under Mississippi law‚ can McAnzen establish a defense of necessity
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We talked about the superiority of the parliament‚ and that only the parliament can make laws in the legislation. But‚ there is something that confuses the sovereignty of the parliament‚ which is the “judge-made law”. Is there such thing as a judge-made law? What is a judge-made law? A judge-made law is when a judge applies or extends an established rule to new facts‚ or decides that the particular rule do not take effect on certain situations‚ thus‚ making a change in the law. However‚ when
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Do clothes make the man? We have always been told that its what`s inside that counts‚ and "the clothes don’t make the man "‚ I totally agree with this statement. In today`s world media influence people a lot about their body image‚ men constantly feel to have a muscular body‚ and wear new brand clothes. Moreover they encounter muscular and well dressed and modish men as example of their ideal body image. Even women see skinny models with fashionable clothes‚
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DO JUDGES MAKE LAW? There are two main sources of English Law- legislation and cases. When interpreting legislation judges must ascertain the intention of Parliament and‚ except insofar as they apply the mischief rule of interpretation‚ they do not make law. Traditionally and due to the doctrine of the separation of powers judicial role is really not properly legislative at all‚ but consist merely in stating what the existing law actually is‚ and interpreting authoritatively doubtful points as
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Judges do make law — it’s their job By Erwin Chemerinsky and Catherine Fisk Misleading and silly slogans about what judges do are dominating the debate about Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. President Bush and Republican politicians constantly repeat‚ as a mantra‚ that Roberts is a desirable choice because he won’t "legislate from the bench" and will merely "apply the law‚ not make it." But every lawyer knows that judges make law — it’s their job. In fact‚ law students learn in the first semester
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argument about it: judges make law. The declaratory theory is more or less nonsense.” Student Number: 120448995 Candidate Number: 150573 Historically there are lots of arguments by the philosophers and the critics that judges make law or not. Actually judges are meant only to interpret the law. This can be seen that somehow they are making law but the question arises whether this is lawful or not. Declaratory theory is ignored by various ways. Judges make law by stating that the fact
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Parliamentary sovereignty is the key stone in the British Constitution. If judges were to make law then they would be contradicting this doctrine. The legislative supremacy disqualifies the courts power to review the validity of legislation‚ refer to British Railway Board v Pickin . The objective of judges is to not make law but simply declare what the law had always been. Acts of Parliament are the highest form of authority and the courts hands are tied by it. But through the doctrine of precedent
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countries’ affairs claiming that it served the interests of all peoples and were motivated by Idealism. In reality‚ the United States was mostly after its own self-interest. The Spanish-American War‚ the United States’ Open Door policy‚ and the control over the Panama Canal zone make it unclear if the United States was pursuing its own self-interest or was inspired by Idealism. <br> <br>In the Spanish-American War the United States was supposedly
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One Door Closes‚ as another Door Opens Growing up in San Diego‚ California in a full blooded Portuguese family‚ complete with the grandparents from the old country and the western more contemporary parents was a very colorful upbringing. My grandmother and mother had many old wives sayings and tales that were the foundation of they way the reacted to life. Although raised in the fear and guilt that is known as the Catholic religion‚ my mother always reminded me that even when something bad
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