William Blackstone

The Constitutionalist and Utilitarian Justifications for Strong U.S. Patent and Copyright Systems (The Heritage Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016

(Source. The Heritage Foundation). June 21, 2016 . Legal Memorandum on Legal Issues. By Alden Abbott. The popular notion that U.S ... Rather, as Sir William Blackstone observed in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, the purpose of civil law is to fulfill natural rights of property by expanding property, creating new forms of property as society progresses, and ensuring mutual enjoyment of property rights by all persons.[14] ... Wilder.[25]....

Is Peter Thiel right about Gawker?

Edit CNN 27 May 2016

(CNN)There is a Klingon saying that "revenge is a dish best served cold." There is another saying used by parents everywhere ... Read More ... We were concerned that the wealthy would, as English jurist William Blackstone warned in the 18th century, "buy up claims, and, by means of their exalted and influential positions, overawe the courts, secure unjust and unmerited judgments, and oppress those against whom their anger might be directed."....

European refugee crisis

Edit Deseret News 16 May 2016

The European refugee crisis is a world crisis ... We ought not to reject our long-held belief in that which William Blackstone so succinctly penned when he wrote ... Dillon Kinser. Clinton ....

TYLA launches campaign to fight wrongful convictions (State Bar of Texas)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Apr 2016

(Source. State Bar of Texas). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. April 4, 2016. Contact. Amy Starnes. Public Information Director, State Bar of Texas. (800) 204-2222, ext. 1706, or (512) 427-1706. astarnes@texasbar.com. TYLA launches campaign to fight wrongful convictions. AUSTIN - In 1765 Sir William Blackstone famously proclaimed ... Blackstone's formulation, as it came to be known, is a theme repeated time and again in conscientious societies ... - - - ... (noodl....

Criminals or Victims? Donald Trump and the Anti-Abortion Puzzle

Edit Huffington Post 03 Apr 2016

The furor over Donald Trump's comments this week about punishing women who have abortions raised an interesting question. Trump asserted that, if abortion were once again made a crime, women who have abortions should be punished. Trump was simply being logical ... As the great English scholar William Blackstone observed in 1765, human life "begins in contemplation of law" only after the "infant is able to stir" in the woman's womb ... ... ... ....

Marbury v. Madison: The Supreme Court claims its power (National Constitution Center)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Mar 2016

But the rush of presidential transition led to the administration's failure to deliver several of those commissions, including that owed to William Marbury, who had been named a justice of the peace for the District of Columbia ... Citing the great William Blackstone's Commentaries, the Chief Justice declared 'a general and indisputable rule' that, where a legal right is established, a legal remedy exists for a violation of that right....

Do Animals Have Legal Rights?

Edit Huffington Post 28 Mar 2016

Gandhi taught that "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by the way its animals are treated." ... This is especially true in legal settings ... One of the earliest challenges to this precedent came from Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), who, skeptical of the legal philosophy of Sir William Blackstone, the foremost exponent of the common law, established the philosophy now understood as Utilitarianism ... Rabbi Dr ... ....

Does the United States Still Exist?

Edit CounterPunch 28 Mar 2016

To answer the question that is the title, we have to know of what the US consists. Is it an ethnic group, a collection of buildings and resources, a land mass with boundaries, or is it the Constitution. Clearly what differentiates the US from other countries is the US Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people. Without the Constitution we would be a different country ... William Blackstone wrote ... Today the law is cut down ... ....

The Constitutional Foundations of Intellectual Property: A Natural Rights Perspective (The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Mar 2016

The criticisms of natural law theory predate that time; most famously, Jeremy Bentham quipped, with William Blackstone as his major target, that 'natural rights are nonsense upon stilts.' Bentham, however, fell short in his attack, because his own preferred rules for the acquisition of property track to the letter the same conclusions that were earlier reached by natural law thinkers....

Birthright Citizenship: Two Perspectives (The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Mar 2016

As the 18th century English jurist William Blackstone explained ... 19 William Blackstone, Commentaries, The Founders' Constitution, available athttp.//press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_4_citizenships1.html ... 38 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries *373, available athttp.//press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_4_citizenships1.html....

International Expert Programme in Investigative and Legal Psychology Turin, 8 March 2016 (UNICRI - United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Mar 2016

(Source. UNICRI - United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute). Turin, 8 March 2016 ... As explained by the Scientific Coordinator, Prof ... The academic curriculum is designed to equip young professionals and post-graduate students with cross-cutting proficiency in the field of forensic psychology ... Students were thus stimulated to reflect on the words of another prestigious jurist, Sir William Blackstone, who stated that....

The Controversial History of Abortion

Edit The Atlantic 02 Mar 2016

Wade in 1973 ... This is no idle academic spat ... In a rebuttal to Dellapenna published in the William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law in 2007, Spivack argues that when abortion was prosecuted, it was mainly done as a way of either cracking down on illicit sex or punishing a man who injured a pregnant woman ... “The people who wrote about the law in 17th, 18th, 19th centuries—Matthew Hale, William Blackstone—we read them today,” she said....

Make Your Marriage Work: Gain Insight From These Husband and Wife Quotes

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016

The First Phase of Marriage. The moment a couple ties the knot and says, "I do," they embark on a journey that is full of exciting twists and turns. The first couple of years after marriage are bliss. It is a period of romantic passion. The couple discovers more about each other, and builds a bond of companionship ... When Marriage Takes a Wrong Turn ... Parenting and Marriage ... B. R ... Leo J ... H ... William Congreve ... William Blackstone ... William Penn....

The Objective Standard by Which to Judge Laws