Sentences with phrase «law as an elective»

I have a real love for villainous characters — the selfish, willing - to - do - anything, desperate geniuses who see law as an elective, not a required course.

A number of top law schools in the United States such as Harvard, Yale, and Stanford already offer corporate law as an elective for first - year students and have done so for a number of years.

Not exact matches

Legislator Mills added that the elective process must be respected and all laws adhered to as to ensure the public is allowed every opportunity to participate.

«Any person, including a town officer, official or employee, may be appointed deputy supervisor provided that the person appointed shall possess the same qualifications as an elective town officer,» the law reads.

A subjective body that — as a general rule — must be addressed before the passing of law for royal assent can be no bad thing whereas the risk of a elective dictatorship could be.

«For example, I've got one teacher who is currently doing Law as well at university, a second degree, so he has started a debating elective.

The legislative backfire gallery — laws intended to achieve an admirable goal such as reducing neighborhood nuisances, stray cats or discarded dogs but which often achieve the opposite effect — include arbitrary pet limit laws, bans against specific breeds, penalties against feeding neighborhood cats, outlawing elective veterinary procedures like debarking and declawing or charging exorbitant licensing fees for intact animals.

Given the control that governments are able to exert over Parliament — it was not for nothing that the former lord chancellor, Lord Hailsham, referred to the UK's system of government as an «elective dictatorship» — the content of the Queen's Speech takes on an added significance in that it enlightens us about the laws which are likely to be enacted during the forthcoming Parliamentary session.

While I was at law school, I remember hearing time and time again from junior lawyers that it was not necessary to worry about what electives one took or how much one learned or did not learn during those three years of legal education as «the real learning, unless you are planning on pursuing a career in academia, starts once you enter the workplace.»

See e.g. Murphy & Atik, supra n. 6 (describing transnational law course required by University of Michigan and offered as an elective in the first year; recommending that schools require public international law as a first - year course).

Family law is an area of law that you can study as an elective module at university and an area of law that you can practise professionally as a lawyer.

A survey of law schools in England and Wales finds that just four advertise any «forensic» modules (though some may possibly be available as electives within other departments).

In addition to the upper class writing and research requirements, the Writing in Law Practice series offers writing electives covering topics such as advanced appellate advocacy, federal civil litigation, advising government agencies, animal law advocacy, drafting negotiated agreements and pretrial litigatiLaw Practice series offers writing electives covering topics such as advanced appellate advocacy, federal civil litigation, advising government agencies, animal law advocacy, drafting negotiated agreements and pretrial litigatilaw advocacy, drafting negotiated agreements and pretrial litigation.

As a law student at McGill University in Montreal in the early 1990s, he was among only a few interested law students who showed up for «poorly attended elective courses» on aboriginal law.

Effectively, law schools began with the apprenticeship model and moved to the scientific approach «whereby research is at the center of the faculty and practice - based courses are viewed as add - on electives, at best, or absent in many cases.

Niche decisions are essential in selecting your law school electives, but most lawyers missed the opportunity to start branding themselves as experts while still in law school.

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The course covers the following continuing education topics as required by the SAFE Act: Federal Law (3 - hours); Ethics (2 - hours); Non-traditional Lending (2 - hours); and Federal Elective (1 - hour).

The following campus locations are now offering the 6 core courses required by the Texas Real Estate Commission (Principles 1, Principles 2, Law of Agency, Law of Contracts, Finance, and Promulgated Contract Forms) as well as several 30 - hour elective courses that can be used towards your first license renewal (SAE).