Mr. McConnell, a former federal judge, is a law professor and director of the Constitutional Law Center at the Stanford Law School, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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He finished law school in 1991, having served as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, and then returned to Chicago to teach constitutional law and practice as a civil rights lawyer.
She is a visiting professor at Chapman Law School and co-teaches the advanced Constitutional Law Clinic.
President JACQUES CHIRAC (France): (Through translator) The parliament and the country's elected officials voted on this law and the Constitutional Council has just upheld it.
"He has all of the qualifications needed: intellect, knowledge and experience in constitutional law, integrity, competence, humility and judicial temperament, " said Jan LaRue, chief counsel for Concerned Women for America.
He was passionate about constitutional law and frequently spoke to legal and medical associations, his family said.
Lewis worked for 32 years as a columnist for the Times, taking up such causes as free speech, human rights and constitutional law.
So even though the Constitution favors religious practices over merely moral preferences, constitutional law and American common sense approve of defending shared lifestyle commitments and convictions.
Robert Levy, a scholar of constitutional law and the chairman of the conservative Cato Institute, finds in the decision something to reassure lovers of freedom, even though it upheld an intrusive law.
The prosecution's filing does not address other arguments being put forth by the defense that are far broader, largely uncharted territory in the courts and could eventually land in the U.S. Supreme Court, according to attorneys involved in the case and constitutional law professors contacted by The Associated Press.
It is important to note, too, that as distasteful and harmful as Super PACs and their affects are, under the precedent set by Citizens United and current law, they are perfectly legal and constitutional.
As constitutional law professor and blogger Eugene Volokh writes, caving in to bullies only accelerates the rate and scale of their ambitions.
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"Of course it hurts, any nick to a public perception that's not favorable to begin with is a problem, " said Jo Potuto, former chairwoman of the NCAA infractions committee and a constitutional law professor at Nebraska.
Recently, it has become fashionable to play down that progress by pointing out that many of the new democracies have not gone beyond elections to build the other, essential, protections for liberty: an independent judiciary, equality before a well-enforced rule of law, and constitutional limits on the abuse of political power.
Some of the Republican split on the vote reflects the difference between the metropolitan view framed by urban gun violence and the rural perspective where guns are mostly associated with law-abiding hunters and the constitutional rights.
In 2009, after a string of such killings, the chairman of PNG's Constitutional Review and Law Reform Commission said defendants were using accusations of witchcraft as an excuse to kill people, and called for tougher legislation to tackle the issue.
And in matters of constitutional law, as with taxes, substance generally governs not form.
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At this point the issue ceases to be one of international law and becomes an American constitutional question.
The constitutional court asked Mr Gauck to delay signing the ESM and fiscal-compact bills into law so that it can consider several constitutional challenges to them.
And we are confident that the law is constitutional.
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Its foundation is a healthy respect for property rights and a constitutional-based rule of law.
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However, Baduel in a declaration a month later explained that he was committed to the constitutional order and the rule of law.
The test questions for the MBE (Multistate Bar Examination) portion focus on Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property and Torts.
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As an official member of the ruling classes, first in a BigLaw firm and then as a Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago, he was able to make the contacts necessary to make serious bids for political office.
The first is because we remain committed to the belief and are confident in the belief that the law is constitutional.
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The states claim the individual mandate exceeds its constitutional powers, and that the entire law must be stricken if the court strikes down the mandate.
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Upon graduation, he returned to Chicago to help lead a voter registration drive, teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and remain active in his community.
But the country's supreme and constitutional courts have both ruled against challenges to the law.
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The constitutional law expert entered parliament as a Socialist in 1993 and was in cabinet within a year as media minister.
"The fact that other people might break the law and cause involuntarily deaths is not in itself good constitutional justification, " Mr Murray said.
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