CALIFORNIA LAWYERS ASSOCIATION ISSUES STATEMENT DEFENDING THE RULE OF LAW

Letter to the Editor | How the rule of law serves all Iowans - The Daily Iowan

We are lucky to spend our days teaching and talking with you about the role of law in our state and nation. As individual citizens, we hold a range of views about contemporary political debates, but as law professors we share a commitment to ensuring that the next generation of lawyers understands the bedrock principles that sustain our legal system. In that spirit, we write to share our collective concerns about the unprecedented pressures faci…

CALIFORNIA LAWYERS ASSOCIATION ISSUES STATEMENT DEFENDING THE RULE OF LAW

SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- California Lawyers Association (CLA) announced today it has issued the following statement defending the rule of law.

CT politicians divided on Trump's commitment to rule of law

The Connecticut State Capitol building. (Molly Ingram / WSHU)A group of Democratic lawmakers at the Connecticut state Capitol called on the Trump administration to “abide by the rule of law.”Some state Republican leaders think he already is.State Senator Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox (D-Bridgeport), a constitutional law professor at Quinnipiac University, said the administration’s actions — like deporting people without a hearing — are illegal.“Today, we…

The Oath of Office: A Pillar of the Rule of Law - Penn Law Review

Keynote Speech Thank you for inviting me to be the keynote speaker at the University of Pennsylvania Law Review’s Annual Banquet—a banquet which I attended thirty-two years ago when I was an Articles Editor for the Law Review. Tonight, I would like to focus on a rite of passage that may appear, at first blush, to be somewhat prosaic, but which in fact carries deep meaning and bears tremendous weight; and which—if ignored or minimized—can have co…

On 31 March, after long years of proceedings and a contradictory judicial debate, the National Assembly and the elected officials and officials of the extreme right-wing movement were sentenced for embezzlement of public funds. Marine Le Pen, who was president of the party and European parliamentarian at the time of the events, is the most heavily condemned person: 5 years of ineligibility with provisional execution and 4 years of imprisonment, …

Representatives of eight member states of the OSCE Permanent Council presented the Young Lawyers' Association of Georgia (SAIA) with the Defender of Democracy Award. According to reports, the SAIA Award was awarded for its outstanding contribution to strengthening human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Georgia. For reference, the member countries of the Permanent Council of the OSCE are Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Denmark, Montenegro, t…