Word: laws
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Professor Jeremy Waldron of New York University gave a series of three lectures on “Dignity and Defamation: The Visibility of Hate” as part of the Holmes Lectures held every three years at the Harvard Law School...
...earlier version of the Oct. 8 news article "Waldron Gives Holmes Lecture" incorrectly quoted law student Christopher J. Szabla as saying he found it "stimulating" that Professor Jeremy Waldron rehashed an "old theme" in his lectures. In fact, the word Szabla used to describe the theme was "intriguing...
...People in the US are ignorant about laws in other countries,” he said. Waldron pointed to the United States Constitution’s inherent protection of hate speech under the first amendment, calling the US “an outlier” in that it is one of the few nations from those he discussed that overlooks international law prohibiting racial commentaries...
Some students had even harsher replies. Christopher J. Szabla, a student at Harvard Law School, said that “it is intriguing that he tried to rehash an old theme. But his arguments lack development...
...When I entered university, I had no economic knowledge,” he says by phone at 6:30 a.m. from his native Azerbaijan. “In our nation, books are difficult to understand, [there are] no economic pictures or graphs. When I read a chapter [on the law of supply and demand] in our nation’s book, I am afraid of this and I cannot pass exam. Then I read this chapter in Mankiw. Very easy to understand and this book encouraged me to continue...