Sentences with phrase «as academic law»

I hear from those in large law libraries that are somewhat open to the public, such as academic law libraries, that they get a number of pro se litigants — i.e. people who intend on representing themselves in court — trying to do legal research.

She has also worked as an academic law librarian, a professor, a Director of Content Management...

Throughout the entirety of my career as an Academic Law Librarian and Legal Research Professor, my colleagues and I debated with the question of whether or not we should be (1) tenure track and, if so, (2) considered part of the law school faculty and invited to participate in the governance of the school.

Not exact matches

Edgar also serves as the academic director for law and policy in Brown University's Executive Master in Cybersecurity program and a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

Conversely, the law and economics movement (yes, it's a political platform as much as an academic one) takes a decidedly dim view of government and regulation, treating those things as sand in the gears of the market.

The Harvard law professor, who is locked in a tight race against Republican Scott Brown, has lost ground in recent weeks as she struggles to shake off stories about whether she used her unconfirmed Native American heritage to bolster her academic career.

Academic research suggests the real impact of the laws is not nearly as dramatic as the debate suggests.

The centre acts as a catalyst to exploit the concentration of academic and health sector talent in the private sector, at the University of Toronto (in medicine, law, economics, and bioethics among others) and the Rotman School.

I am familiar with the Trans - Tasman application because the hearing took place during my stay in New Zealand as an academic visitor with the Te Piringa Faculty of Law at the University of Waikato.

An accomplished author as well, Mr. McCourt's academic articles have been published in the Alberta Law Review, Saskatchewan Law Review, Manitoba Law Journal, Canadian Family Law Quarterly, Legal Medical Quarterly, and The Barrister.

Before joining GW in 2007, Professor Cunningham taught at Boston College Law School, where he served a two - year term as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

As an academic specializing in contemporary Japan (law and constitutional politics), and as a member of a partly Christian (Catholic) Japanese family for close to forty years, perhaps I might add a few facts and comments for perspectivAs an academic specializing in contemporary Japan (law and constitutional politics), and as a member of a partly Christian (Catholic) Japanese family for close to forty years, perhaps I might add a few facts and comments for perspectivas a member of a partly Christian (Catholic) Japanese family for close to forty years, perhaps I might add a few facts and comments for perspective.

Catholic schools, for example, used to think of academic freedom as in the service of the truth we find in natural law, the truth about abortion, the relational person, and so forth.

The case represents the latest volley in a culture war of sorts as courts and academics — not to mention employers and employees — try to reconcile the law's fundamental commitment to two principles increasingly emerging at loggerheads: religious liberty and women's health.

Richard Posner, well «known as both a federal judge and legal academic, is generally recognized as one of the chief originators of the law and economics movement.

It is unfortunate that there are some academic bioethicists who approach Catholic moral theology as if it were a discipline akin to tax law, where anything not yet expressly forbidden in magisterial documents may still be allowed.

The common misconception, among judges as well as some academics, is that the natural law is a «theory» that may be adopted or ignored in certain cases.

But as cases of academic fraud and evidence of steering continue, it's becoming easier for those attacking the NCAA to point to substantive evidence that the NCAA does promote education enough to allow it to blatantly violate antitrust laws.

Become open to learning about the law and policies pertaining to your office and ask questions often, and partner with local universities» academic as they know more about your ministerial needs and guides understand the domestic culture than an expatriate of Euro / American background.

The law, which bases as much as 50 percent of teachers» job ratings on student test scores, was strengthened during a time when more rigorous standardized exams, based on the national Common Core academic standards, were being introduced into classrooms.

In real terms, these rules which exist in virtually every jurisdiction, include laws and regulations which forbid the unauthorized use of state resources for political purposes, contributions from dubious sources, violation of campaign funding limits as prescribed by enabling laws, the use of money to influence voters and election outcomes, non-disclosure of campaign spending, abuse of media, broadcasting and political advertising rules, and rules on declaration of assets, academic qualifications, health and other disclosures and internal party guidelines and rules.

The decision of the school authorities came as a proactive measure to forestall break down of law and order on the campus as a result of protests embarked upon members of the Non Academics staff union and Senior staff association of Nigerian polytechnics in the institution.

As states relaxed laws related to fireworks sales during the past decade, emergency doctors saw an increase in both the number of fireworks related injuries among children and the severity of those injuries, according to new research being presented at the Pediatrics Academic Societies 2016 Meeting.

According to the report, Üskül likely «was dismissed as the head of the constitutional law department» because of a petition he had brought «to the Turkish parliament's Human Rights Commission objecting to an optical fingerprint scanning security system installed on campus on the grounds that it harmed academic freedom.»

Young researchers on short - term contracts in particular view the law as the last — or at least the latest — blow to their professional ambitions at the hands of the Italian academic research system.

But the real dearth — the lack of clear pathways into careers that could enable today's generation of gifted young Americans to become the researchers who make tomorrow's great discoveries — is convincing more and more of the nation's best students not to seek careers in fields such as law, finance, medicine and other fields that offer much better short - and long - term career prospects instead of dedicating an average of seven years to PhD study plus an additional five years or more of postdoctoral training now considered necessary to compete for an academic career in many scientific fields.

Several high - profile lawsuits have prompted prominent researchers and U.K. groups such as Index on Censorship and Sense about Science to complain that U.K. libel laws — and the high costs of defending a libel action — are forcing researchers and scientific journals to censor or edit academic material.

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And even if a new law were a pretty good one, as laws establishing massive new federal entitlements go, it would run up against the inconvenient truth that social - service interventions, whatever their other benefits, have limited academic payoffs.

He served as academic associate dean from 2005 — 09 and founded and directed the school's Program in Law and Public Service.

The strategy followed by nations throughout East Asia and much of Europe has been to base admission to specific universities and academic programs (such as law and medicine) largely on students» performance on a battery of subject - specific examinations devised by a nation's ministry of education.

Students with increased NAPLAN scores are more skewed towards subjects such as interest in science, law, engineering, architecture, social work and arts, and students who consider their academic performance to be above average are more likely to choose medicine, a study of 6492 students from years 3 to 12 across 64 NSW public schools has found.

For example: (1) teachers in charter schools have certification requirements as do other public schools; (2) charter schools are subject to academic standards set by the state; (3) charter schools must comply with local, state, and federal laws related to health, safety and civil rights; and (4) charter schools are «subject to the supervision of the superintendent of public instruction and the state board of education.»

The new law also requires states to use, as part of their rating systems, an indicator of academic achievement «as measured by proficiency on the annual assessments.»

As of 2002, a total of 24 states had adopted laws authorizing a state education agency to displace a school board and take over the operation of a school district in cases of protracted problems with academic performance, fiscal mismanagement, or corruption.

Academic learning that comes to mind includes more prosaic elements of law, such as contract vs criminal vs administrative law; the developmental history of their own city; recent (50 years) political history of their city; basics of land law; current vs past thinking in urban planning; specific budgetary investigations at both the state and local level; school funding law in their state; essentials of Leadership, EPA impacts on dismantling abandoned structures; economic price theory; or the competitive strengths and weaknesses of their own city or region.

Unfortunately, for all of the noise Prof. Greene makes about proper academic standards, he simply stoops to waving the red flag of anti-communism when he concludes by suggesting that our assertion, «the only reason the superrich have these massive billions, and hence a major voice in policy, is because of unfair tax laws that allow them to keep the vast wealth their employees have created,» reveals us as, uh oh, Marxists!

Like many academic libraries all over the world, Harvard's law library was «good at getting people their books when they came through our door,» he said, «but not as good when they came through our virtual door.»

[10] In general, these LEA amounts may be reduced by state educational agencies to account for funds reserved for state administration, program improvement, and academic achievement awards; to adjust for recent shifts in LEA boundaries; and to provide grants to charter schools treated as separate LEAs under state law (such charter schools are not considered in the calculation of grants by USED).

The accountability system, policy experts argue, is largely responsible for the law's most negative consequence: Allowing states to «dummy down» their academic standards so that more students could be classified as proficient each year.

This means our schools must meet the same academic performance standards as traditional district schools, as required by federal and state laws.

The project unites the expertise of the Public School Forum with the Massachusetts Trauma & Learning Policy Initiative at Harvard Law School and the Duke Center for Child & Family Policy, as well as other nonprofit and academic institutions.

In 1999, the state legislature amended the law, named after the late Republican state senator John Stull, to require that «the governing board of each school district shall evaluate and assess certificated employee performance as it reasonably relates to: the progress of pupils toward the standards established pursuant to subdivision (a) and, if applicable, the state adopted academic content standards as measured by state adopted criterion referenced assessments.»

Proponents of Prop. 227 say English immersion is essential to students learning the language as quickly as possible, pointing to increases in academic performance by English learners on state tests since the law passed.

After Congress passed the historic law, educating all of America's children well gained momentum as a moral imperative... The reformers insisted upon raising academic standards for all students and ensuring that students of all backgrounds meet them.

«As the Senate reaches the home stretch for consideration of ESEA, NSBA will continue to advocate on behalf of America's 90,000 school board members for an education law that restores local governance, allocates targeted investments in Title I, and authorizes the resources needed to improve academic achievement for all public school students.»

In addition, no person shall be discriminated against in admission to Brooke Charter School or in obtaining the advantages, privileges and access to the courses of study and extracurricular activities offered by the School on the basis of race, sex, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, socioeconomic status, housing status or homelessness, special need, proficiency in the English language or a foreign language, or prior academic achievement, as required by federal and state law, including M.G.L. c. 71, § 89 (l); 603 CMR 1.06 (1); M.G.L. c. 76, § 5 and 603 CMR 26.00: Access to Equal Educational Opportunity.

The Obama administration, in response, announced that it would waive the law's academic requirements so long as states adopted Common Core standards, a national set of learning goals for students.

Desert Trails Preparatory Academy in Adelanto, Calif., will open for the academic year on Monday as the first school in the nation to have been remade under a law that gives parents the power to take over a low - performing public school and fire the principal, dismiss teachers or bring in private management.

The Academic - Year Governor's Schools are established as «joint schools» by Virginia school law.