The trial found high school teacher John Scopes guilty of violating a state law banning the teaching of evolution.

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"The only hope now is broader interpretation and evolution in international law, which is moving in the direction of universal jurisdiction for crimes against humanity and war crimes,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

In 1981 Ayala joined a legal battle as an expert witness in the challenge against an Arkansas law mandating that the biblical story of creation be taught in schools, alongside Darwin's theory of evolution.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

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.

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Yet proponents question whether copyright law alone can adapt with the evolution of technology.

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