Sentences with phrase «american law schools»

Later, our legal writing curriculum set the standard for American law schools.

The conference was sponsored by the Association of American Law Schools in April.

She has been involved as a speaker, moderator, or panelist in numerous professional conferences, for law school colloquia series and for regional and national groups such as the Association of American Law Schools, the Southwestern Association of Law Libraries (SWALL), the Colorado Association of Law Libraries (CoALL), and the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).

Professor Ohnesorge was invited as an authority on Asian legal studies in American law schools, and his presentation reviewed the growth of the field, as well as its current trajectories.

AALS provides the latest public interest related news and information in American law schools.

The tuition law schools charge is outrageous — even though Canadian law schools charge less than American law schools, it is still an enormous amount.

As Bruce MacEwen notes (and as I've been saying for some time now), this story has only one ending: many American law schools will close or will become so small as to turn into veritable cottage businesses.

He is a past president of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), and he is currently a council member of the American Law Institute, on the Board of Directors of the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services.

Presenter, «The «New» Corporate Governance and Compliance,» Business Section Paper Competition, Association of American Law Schools, Washington D.C. (Jan. 2012).

Association of American Law Schools Advancing Excellence in Legal Education 1614 20th Street, N.W. Washington D.C. 20009 - 1001

For while the large urban public defender and district attorneys offices have been a mainstay of employment for graduates of American law schools since the war on crime began in the late»60s, the long war may be winding down (at least in growth terms).

Panelist, «Enriching Globalization Studies with Low Cost Tech & Social Media: Serving More Than 1 Goal at a Time,» Association of American Law Schools, Washington, DC

I agree completely and take judicial notice of the developments in American law schools, including my own, to focus on modalities of such training.

Consistent with the long - overdue trend within American law schools to provide students a more practice - based legal education, C - K Law Group introduces students to the experience of working on sophisticated litigation and transactional matters while exposing students to real - world experience within a superb «teaching law firm,» allowing them to begin their experiential legal careers learning from highly experienced, competent and ethical practitioners, all the while enhancing their own resumes in preparation for their pursuit of post-graduation success.

The traditional emphasis on legal education as delivering public value has led to a focus on quality of legal education as an overriding goal by law schools, the ABA Section of Legal Education, and the Association of American Law Schools.

The Task Force recommends that participants in the legal education system, but particularly law schools, universities, the Section of Legal Education, the Association of American Law Schools, and state bar admission authorities, pursue or facilitate this increased diversification of law schools as they each develop plans and initiatives to address the current challenges in legal education.

The award will be presented during the 2017 Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in San Francisco, California, on January 4, 2017.

The Association of American Law Schools is accepting proposals for programs for the 2019 Annual Meeting on Jan. 2 - 6, 2019.

Linda is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, American Bar Association, Association of American Law Schools, and more than a dozen additional library and law - related organizations.

Laurel S. Terry, North American Cross-Border Practice and the Law Schools, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, New York, Jan. 7, 2008 (See also 2006 - 2007 Transnational Legal Practice article)

Laurel S. Terry, International Initiatives Relevant to Transnational and Cross-Border Higher Education, Association of American Law Schools» Annual Meeting 2011, San Francisco, Jan. 6, 2011

The award is named for Professor Emerita Mary S. Lawrence, longtime Director of the Legal Writing and Research Program at the University of Oregon School of Law and an early Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section (AALS) on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research.

The award is named for Professor Emerita Mary S. Lawrence, longtime Director of the Legal Writing and Research Program at the University of Oregon School of Law and an early Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research.

She has served as a leader on faculty governance committees (e.g., Curriculum; Faculty Selection; Promotion & Tenure) and national legal academic organizations (Association of American Law Schools (AALS); Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA)-RRB-.

Following a survey of American law schools, the fall 2017 issue of National Jurist magazine names Chicago - Kent among 20 schools with the most «innovative curricula, programs and approaches to preparing students for the future.»

To continue to serve, through its Council, as the nationally recognized accrediting body for American law schools.

To provide a fair, effective, and efficient accrediting system for American law schools that promotes quality legal education, and

Meanwhile, a Michigan State University initiative launched November 2 tracks the teaching of legal services innovation and technology at 38 American law schools and ranks Chicago - Kent one of two schools performing at the highest level.

The average student - loan debt for graduates of many American law schools now exceeds $ 150,000, while half of all lawyers make less than $ 62,000 per year, a significant drop since a decade ago.

; Steven I. Friedland, How We Teach: A Survey of Teaching Techniques in American Law Schools, 20 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1, 7 (1996)(«[A] student who appears to have a writing problem may in fact have a thinking problem»).

18 For a thorough history of the evolution of legal writing instruction in law schools, see Romantz, supra note 5, at 127 — 36 (tracing the evolution of legal writing instruction in law schools from the early days of moot court exercises under Dean Langdell at Harvard Law School, through the ABA's formal recognition of legal writing as a law school subject in 1947, and through the widespread adoption of legal writing programs in American law schools); Jeffrey D. Jackson & David R. Cleveland, Legal Writing: A History from the Colonial Era to the End of the Civil War, 19 Leg.

For those of you who think legal surveys and rankings are a new phenomenon, an Austrian academic named Joseph Redlich divided American law schools into two categories in 1914, according to a National Law Journal article

To judge from what I see at the annual conference of the Association of American Law Schools — it's a diagnosis of sorts to see so many members of an academic discipline attending this conference for the sole purpose of subsidized dining with friends — a substantial number are indifferent not only to talk of law school reform, but to talk on almost any subject.

Persuasive Authorities is a blog by faculty at various American law schools.

This comes at crucial time, when enrolments in American law schools are sharply down due to decreased demand for graduates.

She has spoken on national CLE and law - related programs for the American Bar Association, the Association of American Law Schools, the National Conference of Bar Presidents, and many other legal organizations.

I've previously mentioned the use of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) by some American law schools for the public.

In part this change may be prompted by declining enrollment rates in American law schools.

Its purpose was simple: to push law schools to tell the truth about their graduates» employment, and to push the ABA and the Association of American Law Schools to require it.

My nephew Sushil was one of the team that won the Jessup Moot a few years back, so don't anyone make the mistake of thinking that these graduates aren't the equal of North American law schools.

He developed this theme during his session at the Inaugural NIFTEP Workshop in September 2005 and expanded it as a NIFTEP presenter at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Conference on New Ideas for Law Teachers held in Vancouver in June 2006.

Sander found that only two percent of students at the top twenty American law schools came from the bottom socioeconomic quartile of the population, while more than three - quarters came from the richest socioeconomic quartile.

Greater innovation has taken place in some American law schools than many in England and Wales due to the existing prescriptive nature of law courses here (see Prof John Flood's post on The Missing Middle in Legal Education for a couple of innovative examples.

Empirically, it is based on the rapid increase in transnational2 interaction (both business and personal) and the resulting development of increasingly complex and increasingly frequent legal problems that raise transnational legal issues as well.3 Normatively, it rests on the view that legal education has an affirmative obligation to expose students to other nations, cultures, and legal systems.4 Legal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curriculum.

Indeed, the pace of globalization among American law schools has become a flashpoint for institutional competition, with numerous institutions jockeying to lay claim to leadership in this arena.5 Not surprisingly, the case for globalization has spawned a variety of explicit proposals for curricular reform.6 These include proposals for both significantly expanding transnationally focused upper - level electives7 and incorporating transnational legal issues into the traditional domestic curriculum, 8 including first - year programs.9

As matters presently stand in most American law schools, it is quite possible to obtain a J.D. without ever having taken an international law course or without having considered how other countries might approach or solve a legal problem.

This focus on doctrinal rules created a formalist center for the dominant pedagogical approach that subsequently came to dominate in American law schools.

Next, Professor Susan Duncan summarized key developments in the standards governing American law schools focusing on those that directly impact the teaching of legal writing.

Furthermore, a number of American law schools have attempted to expose students earlier to international and foreign law, often by adding international law offerings to the menu of first - year courses.21 Many institutions now include international and / or comparative law somewhere in their first - year curriculum, sometimes as a free - standing course, and sometimes as an element of more traditional first - year courses such as contracts, torts, and property.

The Hannover Report on Incubators further details efforts by American law schools to advance these goals.