Legal debate

A legal debate is a discussion between lawyers, legal academics, jurists, politicians, and others who might have an interest or expertise in the law, about a particular legal issue.

Legal debates can take many forms, and do not necessarily need to be face-to-face debates. Most legal debates take place on paper—judges within a court, for example, might debate each other most effectively when the court publishes a decision. Legal debates include (but are not limited to) the following:

Debates in Western societies often follow broad themes, including

In the United States, legal debates over the past decade have concerned the following important topics:

In general, the variety of debates—ranging from basic social policy to grander theory about constitutional design and democratic theory—suggests that legal debates overlap with several other social institutions and expectations.

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