If you think about the average person and their interaction with law enforcement, their whole perspective on who we are and what we stand for - our brand, if you will - might be defined by just one interaction or encounter, a traffic stop, a visit to a school, or a response to a call for help.
I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.
One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
I used to practice criminal law, and it was so sexist.
Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, 'The Red Road' blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act.
Had my parents not had visas, had my parents not had the resources to hire lawyers, I would be a DREAM Act kid, too.
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button.
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
People should have fear of the law.
The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
I'm a lawyer; I win arguments for a living.
My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.
It is always necessary that we point out our flaws for the betterment of our country. If we do not, how can our conditions improve? But the atmosphere is such that if we criticize the government we are branded as anti-nationals.
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.
When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
Order is heaven's first law.