Sentences with phrase «about legal academics»

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There is often excellent blogging in more specialist spaces - academic, scientific, liberties / legal, environmental - which sometimes the political blogs pick up on, but there isn't that much linkage, and there might sometimes be some value in thinking specifically about the linking spaces.

There has only been one legal case in which academic privilege and researcher - participant confidentiality were on the table: In 2014, CAUT funded a legal challenge on behalf of two University of Ottawa criminology professors resisting police efforts to obtain records related to a study about male escorts.

That question is about to test the jurisdiction of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a landmark legal battle — and is fuelling a war of words between doctors marketing such therapies and academics who urge caution.

But about 5 months later, the decision was reversed on the grounds that, in the eyes of the Spanish system, McBride did not hold a master's degree or a Ph.D. «The forwarded documentation,» said the official rejection letter, «has not gone through any of the two legal processes, neither of homologation nor of recognition, for the mentioned title to be valid in Spain, neither for academic nor for professional purposes.»

Assistant Professor Natasha Warikoo, who recently wrote an L.A. Times op - ed about affirmative action, points out that although race - based affirmative action is still legal, universities can't rely solely on academic freedom to justify admissions policies.

Learn more about legal information on standardized tests, high - stakes testing, and academic honors.

The new law significantly reduces the legal authority of the education secretary, who is now legally barred from influencing state decisions about academic benchmarks, such as the Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluations and other policies.

Lawyers go through the standard academic legal training, pass the bar exams, nothing that unusual about that, but finding one that truly understands insurance law well is tough.

Adds Jutras: «Obviously, academics and students, both graduate and undergraduate, will find much to reflect upon at this conference, but lawyers, judges, arbitrators must also think carefully about the multiple layers and intersecting bodies of norms and rules that constitute the law today, and what it means to have and to maintain legal expertise.

A blog about all things academic law libraries and legal research.

Just a month ago, I posted here about the debate among legal and academic bloggers over whether the co-author of Bush Administration memoranda condoning torture should be allowed to retain his professorship at the University of California's Boalt Hall School of Law.

Although articling doesn't exist in the U.S., there is considerable discussion between academics there about practical legal education.

Are we worrying about a trivial legal issue to gin up material for an academic issue to write about at length?

«[M] ost of what people take the time to write is legal analysis, law current events, opinions about these things, etc.» Again, he is talking about academics, but the point is true of a range of legal blogs.

L. Rev. 887, 924 — 25 (2002)(discussing the need for consistent legal - writing terminology, or «jargon,» to effectively communicate about writing and about the substance of the academic discipline of legal writing).

An election was held in April 2014 and the ballots cast by the workers were «impounded» and not counted while the NLRB grappled with the joint employer issue — an issue that quickly became a lightning rod in academic, political and legal circles about access to unionization, generally, and meaningful collective bargaining, specifically.

And apropos that, there is an unfortunate convergence with the topic of arrogance that I feel must be pointed out, partly because I am very concerned about the degree to which legal academics are choosing to do far more than hold up mirrors.

Canada is going through its own debate about the separation between the executive / legislature and the judiciary, and legal academics and politicians are already weighing in.

The Volume concludes with a practical piece by Samantha A. Moppett about academic poster presentations, providing practical advice for submitting such posters for legal writing conferences.

Also, it seems that some UK legal academics who know what they're talking about believe the trial judge got the law wrong, even if the result is right.

Three things strike me about international law in the work of a government lawyer today: first, it is all - pervasive; second, the questions that arise and the context in which they are considered are extraordinarily complex; and, finally, I am struck by the intense scrutiny these legal issues are subjected to by states and courts around the world, academics and the public.

Posts about legal writing and litigation strategies, news about legal conferences and the occasional academic job announcement.

Woolley, an outspoken academic who writes about legal ethics and professionalism, also has a background in administrative law.

It would also be helpful if the Commission were more transparent about the evaluations of third country law that it conducts when preparing adequacy decisions, which typically include legal studies by outside academics.

Some academics are complaining about the quality of the legal writing of others?

If Elsevier's and ACS» suits had little to do with the recovery lost revenue, it might seem as if their legal strategy is about reminding the academic community that such publishers own the better part of this body of knowledge and, as such, have a legal right to determine the financing of access to it now and into that uncertain future.

By the time I meet law students, they have had the benefit of learning about legal research in the academic setting.

I think that law schools have been getting better at providing practical training, for example, on Wednesday I met a lot of legal academics in London, and there are definitely schools there where the academics are serious about legal tech.

This is true from both the business perspective where it saves time and money, but also from the academic perspective, where AI can tell us new interesting things about legal knowledge.

One of the things progressive legal academics love to angst about is the relationship between minority rights and the courts.

Back in October, I wrote about the impact the U.S. News and World Report rankings continue to have on on the behavior of law schools and how many academics now believe the tail of USNWR rankings is wagging the dog of legal education.

I truly think it's wonderful that legal academics often have great ideas about ways that lawyers can either earn less or give away our earnings to make the legal system more accessible.

5 In the fantasies of legal academics, jurors think about Blackstone routinely.

It is our hope that these promising students will continue to learn about the EB - 5 visa throughout their academic and legal careers.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the academic, legal and media worlds began to research and write about the Provincial Courts — both family and criminal — identifying the importance of the work and the difficulties the judiciary and the courts were experiencing.

At a moment at which there are many serious criticisms of liberalism and / or questions about its future, combined with substantial unanimity among legal academics about various progressive values (as seen, to be clear, through an establishment lens) and the routine invocation in current scholarly and public writing of things like «rule of law,» faith in judicial review, and so on, there is a lot of room for interesting and valuable work questioning those assumptions and premises.

I have often worried here about how small the American legal academic community is, especially given its multiple connections to the few elite schools.

And some of it will have to do with the fact that whatever liberal legal academics used to say about Posner, his recent views and his opinion (mostly a very good opinion, in my view) in Baskin v. Bogan will wash away any former ill - will in a tide of good feelings.

This is not a knock on the fine academic work done by legal scholars or criminologists, but the policy academy and practitioners have a lot to say about sentencing that really hasn't been reflected in usual discussions, as much the fault of the latter as the former.

Supreme Court lawyer Eugene Meehan, Q.C. of Supreme Advocacy LLP is quoted in Legal Feeds, the blog of the Canadian Lawyer magazine, «With the court's current workload mainly criminal, he will adjust, but his academic experience of critically analyzing and writing about the law will serve him well».

This question is being asked more broadly in Law Schools as legal academics and lawyers bring design principles to the question of where and how people access legal education, where and how people learn about law, and where and how people solve the problems that matter most in their lives.

It's called The BCLI / Boughton Great Debate and its put on every year in Vancouver by the British Columbia Law Institute and Boughton Law Corp. as a witty debate about law reform performed in a lighthearted and amusing manner in a room filled with judges, lawyers, and legal academics.

As part of a new Academic Success and Wellness program at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School, Ronda Bessner, the Assistant Dean of the Juris Doctor (JD) Program, led a session this past Monday called From Keele Street to Bay Street: Learning About the Writing & Research Skills Necessary to Succeed in the Legal Profession.

Maybe what's needed is greater academic discourse about the pedagogue of legal education.

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One should strive to be clear - eyed about such things, and admittedly, legal academics often are not.

Particularly in sharing in print his unfolding thinking and decision - making about pedagogy, in a profession where so few legal academics talk in print about Socratic case method teaching, Bainbridge remains a must - read.

As passionate about developing skillful and caring lawyers as they are about their pursuit of legal scholarship, the faculty and staff of Campbell Law School are committed to the academic and professional success of every student.

But is constitutional theory tainted by ideology because legal academics are intellectually corrupt, or because they are completely misguided about legal philosophy and fail to recognize the overwhelming arguments in favour of legal positivism, as prof. Brennan suggests?

Academics, judges and lawyers, some quite famous, others just gifted, contribute pithy essays on a wide range of topics about the operation of the law: insights on legal history, legal thought, important precedents and bobbleheads all fall within its purview.