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Constitutional law

John Entick's house was searched and ransacked by Sherriff Carrington.

Encyclopedia of Mormonism

For example, articles on Constitutional law, Sports, Science, and Freedom discuss LDS perspectives and contributions to various fields.

Harada House

The 1916-1918 case of California v. Harada was an early constitutional test of the California Alien Land Law of 1913.


Abrogation doctrine

The Abrogation doctrine is a constitutional law doctrine expounding when and how the Congress may waive a state's sovereign immunity and subject it to lawsuits to which the state has not consented (i.e., to "abrogate" their immunity to such suits).

Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei

After Wallachia was occupied by Imperial Russia following the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829, general Pavel Kiseleff promoted him to the central government, where he served as president of the Wallachian commission charged with drafting the Organic Regulation, the first form of constitutional law ever implemented in Wallachia.

Courts in Austria

The system of courts in Austria interpreting and applying Austrian law is marked by a division between ordinary courts, dealing with criminal and civil cases, and public law tribunals for constitutional law, administrative law and asylum law.

Jotwell

Currently the sections—each of which is organized as its own independent blog—are: Administrative Law, Classics, Constitutional Law, Corporate Law, Courts Law, Criminal Law, Cyberlaw, Equality, Family Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property Law, Jurisprudence, Legal History, Legal Profession, Tax Law, Tort Law, Trusts & Estates, and Work Law.

Van Orden v. Perry

The appeal of the 5th Circuit's decision was argued by Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar and the Alston & Bird Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, who represented Van Orden on a pro bono basis.


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Ahmet Taner Kışlalı

He got his PhD on "Çağdaş Türkiye'de Siyasal Güçler" (Political Powers in Contemporary Turkey) from the University of Paris, Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science.

Anahit Manasyan

Anahit Manasyan (in Armenian Անահիտ Մանասյան) graduated from the Law Faculty of Yerevan State University gaining a Master's degree in Constitutional Law in 2010.

Antoni Peretiatkowicz

Under the influence of Georg Jellinek, Peretiatkowicz came to a decision to concentrate on constitutional law and political doctrines as his main area of research.

Barry Strayer

He eventually became the Director of the Constitutional Law Division of the Privy Council Office.

Carlos Mendoza Davis

He earned a law degree with honors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1992, for which he wrote the thesis Human rights and their protection in Mexican constitutional law. In 1994 he attended the Institute of International and Comparative Law summer school in France, sponsored by the Cornell Law School and the University of Paris.

Censorship in Sweden

A committee, with former liberal minister of justice Natanael Gärde as chairman and well-known journalists and authors as the socialist Rolf Edberg, and the liberals Knut Petersson and Axel Brusewitz among the members, wrote a proposal for a revision of the Constitutional Law on the Freedom of Printing.

Chapman University School of Law

John C. Eastman, former Dean of Chapman University of Law and current professor of constitutional law is the Chair of the Board of the National Organization for Marriage, a non-profit organization committed to preventing the legalization of same-sex marriage.

Charles Fincher

In 2008, Fincher was commissioned by the ABA’s Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys (CASA) to paint a fantasy illustration of Constitutional law professor Erwin Chemerinsky as a shortstop with the Chicago Cubs, the scholar's favorite team.

Constitutional theory

William Howard Taft (b. 1858 - d. 1930), 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930); 27th President of the United States (1909–1913); Kent Professor of Constitutional Law and Legal History, Yale Law School, Yale University (1913–1921); Dean and Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati Law School; Solicitor General of the United States

Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

Kenji Yoshino, the author, is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at the NYU School of Law.

Cristian Moreno Panezo

Cristian Moreno Panezo (born September 22, 1970 in Bogotá) is a Colombian politician and lawyer from the Universidad del Atlantico with a specialization in constitutional law from the National University of Colombia.

Derek Bell

Derrick Bell (1930–2011), professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law

Dorothy Roberts

Professor Roberts is the author of the award-winning books Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Random House/Pantheon, 1997) where she describes the use of Norplant and other contraceptives in population control and Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books/Civitas, 2002), as well as co-editor of six books on constitutional law and gender.

Edneer

Shri Keshavananda Bharathi is also the most referred name in the Indian Constitutional Law.

Edneer Mutt

Sri Kesavananda Bharati is also the most referred name in the Indian Constitutional Law.

Edward Jolley

The following year he gained final honours, and won the Wyselaskie prize for constitutional law.

Elisabeth Kehrer

In 1984 Kehrer was awarded a Doctorate of Laws (LL.D.) from the University of Vienna, and during 1984 and1985 undertook postgraduate studies in Comparative Constitutional Law for which she was awarded a Diplôme Supérieur by Panthéon-Assas University in France.

Henry M. Hart, Jr.

Philip Bobbitt cites Hart's process approach to constitutional law as archetypal of one of two strands of the "doctrinal" mode of constitutional jurisprudence, the other being the substantive approach taken by the American Law Institute's Restatements and Model Code efforts of the late 1950s-60s.

Hugues Portelli

Portelli is also the mayor of Ermont, a city located in the North of Paris (Val d'Oise department) as well as a Professor of Political science and Constitutional Law at the prestigious Panthéon-Assas University.

International Order of the Rainbow for Girls

Other famous members include U. S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, former Miss America and actress Lee Meriwether, United States Astronaut Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, inspirational speaker Jill Kinmont, actress Shauna McLean Tompkins, florist to the Presidents Lynn Lary McLean, AIFD, and Senior Consultant/Constitutional Law of the Canadian Department of Justice Luanne Walton.

Issa G. Shivji

Born in Kilosa, Tanzania in 1946, Shivji was for 36 years a distinguished professor in constitutional law in the University of Dar es Salaam's Faculty of Law.

Jean-Jacques Chevallier

From 1951 to 1956 he also taught constitutional law at the Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC).

Jus soli

In an August 2010 report, the Center for Immigration Studies, through direct communication with foreign government officials and analysis of relevant foreign law including statutory and constitutional law, was able to confirm that 30 of the world's 194 countries grant automatic birthright citizenship (although they were not able to obtain definitive information from 19 countries).

Michael McConnell

Michael W. McConnell (born 1955), American constitutional law scholar and former appellate judge

Philip N. Diehl

In January 2013, the platinum coin law received widespread media attention when Paul Krugman, a Noble Prize winning economist, and Laurence Tribe, a prominent constitutional law professor at the Harvard School of Law, endorsed a proposal to use the law to mint a trillion dollar coin.

Robert Araujo

Araujo, Robert John,“The Role of International Law in US Constitutional Law - A question that might be posed by John Courtney Murray: Is it really law?,” 4 Journal of Catholic Social Thought 35 - 58 (2007).

Robert G. Richards

Richards was Director of Constitutional Law for the Saskatchewan Department of Justice (1985–90) and a partner with MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman in Regina from 1990-2004, when he was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan.