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  2. Sweatt v. Painter - Wikipedia

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    The 'separate' law school and the college became the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University (known then as "Texas State University for Negroes"). The Dean of the Law School at the time was Charles T. McCormick. He wanted a separate law school for black students.

  3. History of the American legal profession - Wikipedia

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    Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper 213 (2010). online; Nash, Gary. "The Philadelphia Bench and Bar, 1800–1860," Comparative Studies in Society and History 7 (1965):203-20. Newman, Roger K. The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (2009) Oldman, Mark, ed. The Vault.com Guide to America's Top 50 Law Firms (1998 ...

  4. Civil law (legal system) - Wikipedia

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    Civil law is sometimes referred to as neo-Roman law, Romano-Germanic law or Continental law. The expression "civil law" is a translation of Latin jus civile, or "citizens' law", which was the late imperial term for its legal system, as opposed to the laws governing conquered peoples (jus gentium); hence, the Justinian Code's title Corpus Juris Civilis.

  5. Legal history - Wikipedia

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    Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilisations [1] and operates in the wider context of social history.

  6. Natural rights and legal rights - Wikipedia

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    The Church considers that: "The natural law expresses the original moral sense which enables man to discern by reason the good and the evil, the truth and the lie: 'The natural law is written and engraved in the soul of each and every man, because it is human reason ordaining him to do good and forbidding him to sin . . .

  7. Sources of law - Wikipedia

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    Sources of law are the origins of laws, the binding rules that enable any state to govern its territory. The terminology was already used in Rome by Cicero as a metaphor referring to the "fountain" ("fons" in Latin) of law. Technically, anything that can create, change, or cancel any right or law is considered a source of law. [1]

  8. Rule of law - Wikipedia

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    The rule of law is enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union as one of the common values for all Member States. Under the rule of law, all public powers always act within the constraints set out by law, in accordance with the values of democracy and fundamental rights, and under the control of independent and impartial courts.

  9. Substantive due process - Wikipedia

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    Substantive due process is a principle in United States constitutional law that allows courts to establish and protect substantive laws and certain fundamental rights from government interference, even if they are unenumerated elsewhere in the U.S. Constitution.