And, though she acknowledged that the code did not technically apply to the justices, she noted: "They have publicly stated they follow it, and its norms are ones they should follow".
Once a treaty is established, states help give it life by creating domestic legislation to implement it, conforming their conduct to its norms, and using it as a standard for domestic and international evaluation and criticism.
Victims groups said they were still waiting for concrete action more than words, and the Vatican has not yet announced whether it will change its norms for handling abuse.
When the basic structure of society is just, individuals should support it and conform to its norms and rules, and if the basic structure is not just individuals should cooperate with others to bring about a just basic structure so long as they can do so at moderate cost and risk to themselves (Rawls 1999, chapters 2 and 3).
Many of them seem bound and determined to make their case that their imaginary made-up countries really do exist and deserve to be considered part of the international system, even if they have to trash the international system and its norms and agreements to do it.
Women and individuals coded as 'too feminine' or in other ways breaching heterosexual and masculine norms are, according to the material, not able to get inside the box but could be close to it and could orientate themselves to its norms – or not.
At present the law recognises a marriage as unique and different from all other forms of love and commitment – and it "discriminates" against those unable to meet its norms, in order to preserve that meaning.
For essential to morality is that its norms apply with equal legitimacy to everyone; moral relativism, it has always seemed to me, is an oxymoron.
FOR the time being, the experience of visiting Saudi Arabia includes conforming to its norms.
I felt no connection to the city of my birth – no familiarity with its norms.
Obama, however, seems determined to invite him in and hope he will conform to its norms.
