Sentences with phrase «academic lawyers»

It's a job for a young academic lawyer writing for tenure or promotion.

Those of you who aren't academic lawyers should consider registering and attending if it's convenient.

Willy talks us through his firm's experience and leadership in the employment sector, and details the importance of academic lawyers in advising the Supreme Court on certain aspect of law.

I'm tempted to say either Rupert CrossAs Tony Honoré put it in the DNB «Cross was unusual among English academic lawyers in the degree to which he spoke the language of judges and practitioners without sacrificing scholarly rigour or theoretical insight.

Regardless of anyone's views on the vacuity of the Athey material contribution test — many academic lawyers and at least one practitioner might have gone on too long about this — it was used more than once by judges (trial and appellate) deciding tort cases across common law Canada.

The degrees were awarded by chairman of the college governors, David Yates to Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger; Dr Mark Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association; and leading academic lawyers Professor Sir Roy Goode and Professor William Twining.

As some of you know, I have another life in which I occasionally crank out more words (spill ink and post pixels, if you will) than people who are formally academic lawyers.

It's also surprising that the book doesn't consider the possibility of separating legal academic study from legal professional training, with fewer, less highly compensated, and more academic legal scholars teaching in departments of law, and more practical, doctrine - and instruction - oriented academic lawyers working in law schools.

Baroness Deech is a very experienced academic lawyer and it was a pleasure to discuss very topical issues with her.

Canada's law fraternity recognized her signal contribution to the legal profession with the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for outstanding research in law (2006) and election as a «bencher» of the Law Society — an honour accorded few academic lawyers.

I think many judges and lawyers, and especially academic lawyers (law school professors) will be astounded to now find out that, prior to Feb 7/07, a claim in negligence could succeed in Canada without proof of factual causation on the balance of probability.

Makri, Stephann et al. «Investigating the Information - Seeking Behaviour of Academic Lawyers: From Ellis's Model to Design» (2008) 44 Information Processing and Management: an International Journal 613.

Those of you who sometimes act for plaintiffs in Canada, and still remember the era before February 2007, will remember that Athey material contribution (at least as it was understood by the plaintiffs» bar, common law trial and appellate judges and many academic lawyers) was supposed to be a relaxed, easier for the plaintiff to satisfy, test for proof of factual causation in tort actions.

«He is very good - quality - an academic lawyer who understands the nuts and bolts of the law so when you come to cutting - edge areas he has a very strong grounding.»

So we (or at least some of we — we being the practising portion of the profession: I include bench and bar in this — think the output of our academic lawyers is too often too detached from reality, even in the areas that concern the practice of law?

While Lord Carnwath in Marks and Spencer considered that Lord Hoffmann's approach had not diluted the requirements for an implied term, Lord Neuberger's concern that Belize Telecom could be interpreted in that way was well - founded: as Lord Neuberger pointed out, both academic lawyers and judges had treated Belize Telecom as changing the law; and the tenant in Marks and Spencer contended that it had led to a more liberal approach.

It publish international work that is accessible to the full range of membership in the American Law and Economics Association, which includes practising lawyers, consulting economics and academic lawyers, and academic economists from around the world.

James Barr Ames, appointed to teach at Harvard in 1873, was the first of these academic lawyers.

In truth, what every litigator should know, and every academic lawyer does know, is that law is not logical at all.

I have been frustrated for years by the dis - connected and siloed character of future - oriented conversations among both academic lawyers and legal professionals.

As I have argued elsewhere, «Academic lawyers are concerned with research regarding how law underpins our social world in order to shape and guide society through the enforcement of rules and regulations.

Additionally, research can be balanced with clinical learning in that academic lawyers may actually engage in applied research whereby their research is grounded in the day - to - day application of law at the grass - roots level».

In this respect the opinion of an academic lawyer can hardly be underestimated.

It's a job for an academic lawyer.

PS... I am coming to the conclusion that academic lawyers may know more law than the practitioners.

A bi-monthly journal with commentary and analysis on domestic and international insolvency and restructuring law, edited by a panel of practising and academic lawyers.