Law in Action Emory University School of Law

Both also involve the right of asylum and the problem of stateless individuals. The G20 meetings are composed of representatives of each country’s executive branch. Law professor and former United States Attorney General Edward H. Levi noted that the “basic pattern of legal reasoning is reasoning by example”—that is, reasoning by comparing outcomes in cases resolving similar legal questions. Supreme Court case regarding procedural efforts taken by a debt collection company to avoid errors, Justice Sotomayor cautioned that “legal reasoning is not a mechanical or strictly linear process”.

  • For an analysis of the role of law in the administration of government, see administrative law.
  • We asked eight members of our faculty about the big ideas that drive their work, how these ideas can be used in our society today, and how legal scholarship can make a real impact.
  • They argued it was necessary to kill the cabin boy to preserve
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