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.
And we are confident that the law is constitutional, and I think that's what the President has been referring to, and that's why we're focused on implementing the law.
"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.
And the need for an effective law preserving constitutional rights against the enforcement of unconstitutional foreign law is both real and urgent: an independent study found fifty cases in 23 states where shariah law had been introduced into state court cases, including many appellate and trial court cases where the judges ruled for shariah law over U.S. law.
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He was passionate about constitutional law and frequently spoke to legal and medical associations, his family said.
But constitutional law and the language of the Constitution seem to have diverged.
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.
By all means those who are instigating and provoking such turmoil and who would like to go against the Constitution, should be dealt with by those who are guarding constitutional law and order.
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.
By taking such a path, the court would be spared from imposing a single nationwide definition of marriage as a matter of constitutional law, and from having to rule, for all time, that there is or is not a constitutional right to same-sex marriage a momentous step that some justices might be reluctant to take.
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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.
Increasingly, however, the line between constitutional law enforcement and unconstitutional military force is being blurred.
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.
With only one presidential candidate now and a constitutional law that demands a "run-off" (since no one candidate got the 50 percent plus one votes needed to win) what should happen when one of the two contenders drops out of the race?
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.
The appeal presents the court and its shaky conservative majority with two of the most hotly debated issues in politics as well as constitutional law -- race and federalism.
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.
"Our call for an independent investigation of this disturbing incident is not just about the victim and his family, but is also about constitutional rights and the rule of law, " said CAIR-Tampa Executive Director Hassan Shibly.
So, again, the President and the team believe strongly that what we're about to pass and sign into law will meet constitutional muster.
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.
Yesterday, I got the first report on the top priority constitutional amendments proposed by the committee of justice system and law experts and that I have set up to look into the required constitutional and legislative amendments.
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.
In this way, Mr. Koh and his fellow transnationalists - who evidently include one-time University of Chicago professor of constitutional law Barack Obama - seek to amend our Constitution and statutes.
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