Mr. Barnett is professor of legal theory at Georgetown Law School and the author of "Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty" (Princeton University, 2005).
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It has been rigorous in the development of antitrust theory and an energetic enforcer of the law.
Connecticut, in which the Second Circuit affirmed the right to sue carbon dioxide emitters under a common law theory of nuisance.
Theory ran afoul of antitrust law in the Carecore case, however, where executives there were accused of refusing to deal with New York-area radiologists who provided upright MRIs, a new system that allows patients to be positioned in weight-bearing posture to see what might be causing them pain.
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The growing body of Constructal Theory, which follow from the law, resolve many of the cultural debates of the 20th cantury.
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Ilan Meyer, a senior scholar at UCLA's School of Law, offers an explanation for these disparities through the "Theory of Minority Stress, " which suggests that these health inequities may be rooted in discrimination, with negative health behaviors acting as coping mechanisms for repeated exposure to stigma-related stress.
The theory builds on earlier approaches developed at the University of Chicago law school that sought to harmonize regulatory law with free-market economics.
The whole theory of judicial review is based on the idea that the law is out there, a fixed structure to be interpreted by judges.
Lead-paint cases sprouted around the country after Rhode Island pioneered the litigation, for example, even though the legal theory behind them struck many as a dangerous extension of nuisance law to hold manufacturers responsible for a product that they sold legally decades earlier.
In theory, there's a law against that kind of thing, passed in order to avoid a lot of killing and maiming, but since Maria Shriver, the state's first lady, has been photographed at the wheel with her mobile phone, it must be all right.
In addition to the study of terrorism and political violence, his research interests lie at the intersection of international relations, international law, political theory, and ethics, with particular concentrations on the implications for United States foreign policy and African states as well as religion and global politics.
In theory, as Greece's slick restructuring of its domestic-law bonds shows, domestic-law debt should be easy to restructure.
His work has recast the very terms of discussion and debate in multiple areas of law, ranging from intellectual property to constitutional theory.
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Parliament is also considering a new media law that would, in theory, give Myanmar one of the most liberal reporting environments in the region.
More recently the court upheld a federal law prohibiting the private cultivation of marijuana under the theory that even private cultivation has an impact on the price of a commodity that is subject to intensive federal regulation.
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In addition, the theory of homeopathy actually defies conventional scientific understanding--in particular, the law of mass action, which demands that the rates of chemical reactions be proportional to the concentrations of substances involved.
Future lawyers must also be capable of connecting law with collateral disciplines ranging from corporate finance to game theory to cognitive psychology.
Nonetheless, Mr. Harper charges that academics like me, who are obsessed with high theory, cause "institutional inertia" in law schools and prevent the sort of evolution necessary to gear students up for the 21st-century legal market.
There are a handful of private schools where boys and girls are taught together: In theory, the new law will mean that is no longer possible.
The original theory underlying the Rahn Curve assumed that as the size of government increased from zero, supplying law and order and some basic services, economic growth rates would increase until government reached some optimal size.
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Since the passage of a new law in 1997 guaranteeing the Bank its independence, it can in theory ignore this pressure.
Most law schools' offerings cover a wide range of topics, but clinical placements often students' first chance for a taste of real law work are usually optional and far fewer in number than theory-based courses.
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Street stops increased substantially in New York in the mid-1990s, when, faced with overwhelming crime, then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani made stop and frisk an integral part of the city's law enforcement, relying on the "broken windows" theory that targeting low-level offenses helps prevent bigger ones.
In theory, that would create an incentive for rapists, some of whom at least are specialists in the law, to beat up their victims as well as violate them.
In theory, the controversial law he passed in California impacted the very Terminator 3 games he made money off of.
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In theory (although clearly not in practice) we are all subject to North Korean law on the wonderfulness of the dictatorship of the Kim family.
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If it did, then they would be able in theory to pursue Israel for its settlement policies on the West Bank - widely seen as a clear breach of international law.
The suit on Myfortic is a significant expansion of the Anti-Kickback Statute that is inconsistent with law and policy in this area and the theory in this case threatens to undermine pharmaceutical company discounting practices that benefit both consumers and payers, including the government.
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