Word: legality
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...Yale's teaching is probably somewhat less oriented to legal doctrine than Harvard's; but the differences are not large," says Gordon. "Maybe YLS has a few more courses whose relationship to traditional legal subjects is oblique: courses with titles like 'Justice' or 'Capitalism'. It's often said that Yale students don't learn as much 'law' but that's only true if you define law narrowly as legal doctrine...
...Harvard teaching practical legal skills, certainly not," Isbell says. "None of the top tiered schools do. The mid-tier school are much better at 'black letter' law and the mechanics of writing a memo or conducting legal research...
...teenage years, as formerly defined, were a time for people to get away with things, to make mistakes and not really have to pay for them. The legal system has changed all that by trying kids as adults for serious crimes. And teenagers have contributed to this shift by committing so many of them--or at least so many horrific ones. In the future, however, even minor infractions once considered normal high jinks will draw severe reactions from the authorities. In 1999, brawling at a football game could get a kid expelled from school for years; in 2025, a spitball...
Recent incidents, such as the projectile-throwing tantrum at the Yankees-Red Sox game at Fenway Park and the abuse of European golfers at the Ryder Cup in Brookline, Mass., suggest an answer: legal hooliganism. Teams will sponsor cells of well-trained, remorseless thugs ready at any moment to storm the field and waylay players. Athletes will be expected to hone those skills necessary to contend with this exciting new variable...
Serious moral and legal questions are already being raised by these gene experiments. For example, if a clone of comedian Don Rickles were to grow up and entertain a whole new generation of audiences by insulting them with the term hockey puck, would the Rickles estate be entitled to royalties? Or could Ricklebaby claim them as his own, since it was his natural instinct to use the term? And for that matter, can anyone at all claim ownership of the term hockey puck, including the National Hockey League...