Sentence examples for Legal actor from inspiring English sources

"How can a mere machine, a carcass devoid of consciousness, feelings, thoughts or its own will, become an autonomous legal actor?

The "Star Trek"/"T.J. Hooker"/"Boston Legal" actor will be joined for the live performances by prog-rock group Circa, which features Billy Sherwood and Tony Kaye, both former members of Yes.

Police are moral, as well as legal, actors.

Courts and associated legal actors must implement a coherent, user-centered signage system.

Rather than the usual focus on legal norms and legal institutions, this approach directs attention to the law-related meaningful actions and understandings of legal actors and of non-legal actors.

Secondly, it examines how agency and power relations between social and legal actors engaged in legal processes affect women's access to justice and the progression of claims.

Benforado suggests reforms such as relying more on technology and less on human memory, limiting the discretion of legal actors, and reducing the adversarial nature of the trial system.

By exploring how legal actors advocate, regulate, and adjudicate the issue of abortion, this timely volume seeks to build on existing developments to bring about change of a larger order.

Whereas the public at large tended to view drug-addicted criminals chiefly as a social menace, judges and other legal actors were more comfortable treating (nonviolent) offenses committed by drug addicts as a medical problem.

The Influence of Legitimacy and Social " by Andrew V. Papachristos, Tracey L. Meares et al. Research on procedural justice and legitimacy suggests that compliance with the law is best secured not by mere threat offorce, but by fostering beliefs in the fairness of the legal systems and in the legitimacy of legal actors.

The findings suggest that while criminals as a whole have negative opinions of the law and legal authority, these offenders are more likely to comply with the law when they believe in (a) the substance of the law, and (b) the legitimacy of legal actors, especially the police.