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The controvertible role of kava (Piper methysticum G.
Kava hepatotoxicity solution: a six-point plan for new kava standardization
An interesting, and arguably controvertible, prelude to their discussion is their approval of the approach taken to statutory and literary interpretation of Charles Fried, whom they describe as 'the conservative at the Harvard Law School,' (9) no doubt intending to suggest that he is the only conservative in that venerable institution.
Back to the future: retrogression and the high court's decision in Byrnes v Kendle
A consensualist approach, in contrast, reads the Constitution in a manner calculated to maximize the consent of the governed, viewing the Constitution as a standard form agreement between unequals, offered on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, and supported by only weak and controvertible proofs of assent.
Graduated consent in contract and tort law: toward a theory of justification
This is controvertible in the case of the striking drawing, yet the underlying notion reemerged in a number of pieces, such as Martens's, that take place in the gray area between producing, documenting, and exploiting a situation.
6th Berlin Biennale: various venues
Buttressing the above quotation, it is an in controvertible fact that societal sustainable development depends essentially on a solid family structure.
Power and womanhood in Africa: an introductory evaluation
It is controvertible that a financial return is not, and should not be, the whole or main incentive to owning a racehorse, and that there are other benefits that arise from participation in the sport we love.
Letter: Trickledown effect vital
Dr Richard Lewis, Welsh secretary of the British Medical Association, said, 'There is in- controvertible evidence that passive smoking kills and yet it is still legal for tobacco smoke to be produced in enclosed public places to which the public has access.
Why public smokers in Wales could be pariahs in three years
Whether they, in fact, reflect controvertible (that is, value- or empirically based and hence challengeable) grounds for the approach, or whether they are only rationalizations (a kind of homage to dominant nonautonomist views of law) for an underlying belief system, for a deep view of what law is (like that of earlier doctrinalists), is hard to say.
An introduction to legal thought: four approaches to law and to the allocation of body parts

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