Sentences with phrase «as legal academics»

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.

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McLachlin pointed to Brown's previous role as a legal academic and said it's common for people to express their opinions before their appointment to the bench.

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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.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

The process of draining logic and meaning from everything came to full fruition in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began to be felt profoundly in the daily lives of many Americans, with such things as the proliferation of «alternative lifestyles,» the diluting or jettisoning of academic standards at every level, the increasing inability of the legal system to make in practice sufficient or consistent distinctions between victim and victimizer — among many others too familiar to all of us to need spelling out.

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.

Here's another, scarcely less oratorical in character, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: the title of this document (another wonderful example of Vatican bogus academic language when what is needed is a competent journalist used to writing informative headlines) is «Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons» (2003): The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognised as such by all the major cultures of the world.

There has been some academic and legal debate as to whether the Acts of Union 1707 place limits on parliamentary supremacy.

Critical factors such as a minimum of 4 BTEch Degree Programmes in Science and Technology based disciplines, academic and professional qualification of teaching staff, stock of equipment, strategic partnership with industry and a well crafted legal regime just to highlight a few are all crucial elements that infrastructural provision alone can not satisfy.

The group, which now has more than 100 members (including Hatzikirou), was officially launched in June 2016 after an initial meeting of seven Greek researchers and academics, including scientists as well as legal scholars, economists, and strategic communication specialists.

Although academics don't warrant a «class privilege,» she said, academic - participant confidentiality can be awarded on a case - by - case basis, provided it meets the criteria of an existing four - step legal principle, known as the Wigmore test, which balances public interest in maintaining confidentiality against the court's interest in getting at the truth.

Funded by MacArthur, Oak and Open Society Foundations, SITU has undertaken collaborations with a diverse range of partners, including the International Criminal Court, the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'tselem, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), as well as projects with international legal teams, award - winning journalists and leading academic institutions such as Carnegie Mellon and Princeton Universities.

Also, the number of interdisciplinary projects is increasing, involving researchers from different legal fields, as well as from other academic disciplines.

The kind of data schools are likely to collect, and therefore need to be wary of, include personal data on members of the school community, including names, addresses, contact details, legal guardianship contact details, disciplinary records; academic data such as class lists, progress reports; professional records of employment history, taxation, national insurance records and appraisal records.

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.

But that idea, which was formalized into an application for the Girls Academic Leadership Academy (GALA) as a district experimental Pilot Schools, has been in legal limbo two years running.

This program will include a panel of experts to provide writing - lab assistance for the charter application, as well as a panel of experts to provide various final reviews and check - lists for applicants in the areas of legal, finance, academics, and governance to help ready school developer members for the school start - up process once their application is approved.

However, DOE continued to approve Community Service hours for home educated students for the 2011 - 12 academic year as they had in the past, but now they have explicit legal authority to do it.

Nearly all of the state's charter school principals, board members and service providers will be in attendance as the conference explores several areas — academic performance, succession to college, tools for successful schools, and legal issues — surrounding the state's charter schools.

My ample experience as a Legal Expert has helped several law scholars achieve brilliant grades in their academic career.

Independent An independent student is at least 24 years old as of January 1 of the academic year, is married, is a graduate or professional student, has a legal dependent other than a spouse, is a veteran of the US Armed Forces, or is an orphan or ward of the court (or was a ward of the court until age 18).

So, even if you kit it out with the necessary accessories to make it street legal you probably don't want to vary far from the recommended applications such as in planned communities, golf courses, resorts, commercial business or academic campuses, etc..

I've published relevant articles in peer reviewed literature, acted as an IPCC reviewer, been cited in IPCC AR4, been invited to present to a NAS panel — my use of data is «academic» by any legal standard.

Steve: many academics misunderstand the word «vexatious» which (as you know) has a technical legal meaning.

Originally introduced by Representatives Jared Polis (D - CO), Thomas Massie (R - KY) and Earl Blumenauer (D - OR), the amendment allows State Agriculture Departments, colleges and universities to grow hemp, defined as the non-drug oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis, for academic or agricultural research purposes, but it applies only to states where industrial hemp farming is already legal under state law.

The standards for copyright infringement are not set by academics but by legal statutes as interpreted by courts.

J. Int» l L. 15, which details efforts by 25 legal and military academics and specialists to develop an «intellectual infrastructure» for lawfare as well as some definitions and strategies to prevent the misuse of the term.

Second, my approach would improve legal scholarship because the only people producing scholarship would be those who are highly skilled in doing research (and who therefore understand the difference between research and advocacy) and the scholarship would be evaluated in the same way as scholarship in other academic fields.

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.

In a jurisdiction that has prided itself on the importance of «doctrine» in interpreting the law, the fact that the major French language university opts for content with the lowest common denominator, while a foreign owned commercial publisher offers an authoritative work by leading academics and legal practitioners, is a remarkable case of role reversal, as well as a reflection on how times have changed.

«Commentary on legal and policy issues as well as highlights of the academic pursuits of the Loyola community.»

In the article, The Market for Bad Legal Advice: Academic Professional Responsibility Consulting as an Example (also here on SSRN), Simon postulates that clients sometimes want bad legal advice and lawyers sometimes obLegal Advice: Academic Professional Responsibility Consulting as an Example (also here on SSRN), Simon postulates that clients sometimes want bad legal advice and lawyers sometimes oblegal advice and lawyers sometimes oblige.

MIAS works to encourage international arbitration in Miami by supporting appropriate legislation, relevant academic programs at area universities, local international arbitration conferences, featuring distinguished practitioners as guest speakers, and providing training and legal updates to its members on the latest developments in international arbitration.

The blog was intended to discuss the role of women in the law, in legal education, as students, as academics, and within the legal profession, and we also discuss other issues.

The project aims to promote and support the integration of social media into legal education, starting as a resource and repository for the ongoing explorations of academic collaborators, Kate Galloway, Kristoffer Greaves, Melissa de Zwart and Melissa Castan; others will be involved too.

Champerty and maintenance rules both came under attack from legal academics and influential commentators during the general rise of pro-litigation sentiment in the decades after 1950, and were dismissed as outdated and ethically wrongheaded.

According to these statistics, as women climb the legal academic career ladder, their chances of obtaining a leadership position on the next rung declines significantly.

She is also a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and has worked as a legal secretary at the Court prior to her academic career.

In the article, «The Market for Bad Legal Advice: Academic Professional Responsibility Consulting as an Example» (also on SSRN), Simon postulates that clients sometimes want bad legal advice and lawyers sometimes obLegal Advice: Academic Professional Responsibility Consulting as an Example» (also on SSRN), Simon postulates that clients sometimes want bad legal advice and lawyers sometimes oblegal advice and lawyers sometimes oblige.

In the last several years, as hiring rates have weakened and schools have placed more focus on preparing students to practice, the academic community has experimented with ways to address these concerns of students by blending small - business entrepreneurship with low - bono legal access.

A number of these measures rely on the use by others of LCO discussion papers, reports and the like as research materials by academics and legal researchers for government, not only in Ontario, but also in other jurisdictions, and the judiciary.

As well as holding multiple academic leadership roles, Black - Branch is also involved in the legal professioAs well as holding multiple academic leadership roles, Black - Branch is also involved in the legal professioas holding multiple academic leadership roles, Black - Branch is also involved in the legal profession.

A letter published by the Canadian Council of Law Deans in November 2016 countered that «any decision to approve and fund such a program must be based on an accurate picture of the dynamism and innovation at existing law schools, as well as their long - standing commitment to academic and educational excellence, not the caricature of Canadian legal education that Ryerson has advanced.»

I reccomended that they consult with the legal research and academic communities on features, specifically on being able to note up foreign cases in Canadian courts, as this is now a significant aspect of Canadian legal research.

Substantive approaches to evaluating online legal information are being proposed in academic journals as blogs, wikis and other forums attract serious legal commentators.

When legal academe instead chooses to evaluate how judges have conformed to the academics» personal opinions — and worse, to their belief systems — as I have seen happen in critical discussions among law professors of the Wagar case and, god help us, of the very legally correct Ghomeshi decision as if it were regrettable, it is legal academe that is being arrogant, not the judges in question.

As technology is increasingly used within law practices to streamline legal processes and more efficiently deliver services to clients, an important question has arisen within legal professional and academic circles: Do lawyers and law students have the technical skills to meet the needs of future legal jobs?

Professor Woolley's academic articles have discussed lawyer billing, the good character requirement for law society admission, the regulation of extra-professional misconduct, legal ethics teaching, access to justice, the regulation of civility, independence of the bar, the lawyer's duties as fiduciary and as an advisor, criminal lawyer ethics and the theoretical foundations of the lawyer's role.

34 And, much can be gained from reaching out to academics in other specialties who do have expertise in empirical work, potentially leading to interdisciplinary work that could reach a broader audience.35 Long sums up the point well: «If we want legal writing as a discipline to be taken seriously, we must be able to show, throughrigorous studies, that we engage in serious legal writing scholarship.»