Sentences with phrase «by legal educators»

Despite concerns expressed by legal educators, the LSUC has endorsed an «approved law degree» that effectively consists of nothing more than a list of about 10 mandatory courses.

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I have been told by numerous educators and administrators about a legal impediment associated with the free lunch programs.
But Cuomo's sympathies for the legal rights of labor are heightened by his desire for peace with the United Federation of Teachers, which represents the city's educators.
Although these rules are most appropriate for educators at the building level, governing boards and central office personnel need to be aware of them in order to ensure school safety by developing sound policies in consultation with their legal advisors to better protect the safety of all students in their care.
The legal action taken by these seven Florida educators will undoubtedly add to the growing momentum against misguided accountability systems that rob students of actual learning and tangle up teachers» performance evaluations with unreliable test scores.
WASHINGTON — The approval by the Congress last month of the most comprehensive revision of U.S. policy on legal immigration in decades has left educators unsure about the bill's impact on schools, with some experts warning that certain districts could see a new mix of immigrant students they are ill - prepared to handle.
Since 2005, Slaw.ca has been Canada's online legal magazine, written by and for the Canadian law community: lawyers, librarians, technologists, marketers, students, educators and everyone in between.
One educational intervention that has received attention from legal educators is the assignment of a mid-term writing exercise accompanied by formative feedback from the instructor.14 The current study introduces such a writing assignment — one that was designed to engage students in cross-case reasoning.
And the changes law schools are making may be uninteresting to those who are not legal educators, but law faculty and deans have chosen to respond to our challenges by innovating.
Created by a team of legal writers and educators, PLEA's high school resources can fulfill objectives for a wide variety of subject areas.
The downturn in the legal market, the decline in enrolments in the law schools, and the questioning of the value and relevance of an expensive law degree are issues faced by law firms, educators and regulators.
As a would - be adjunct, consider pitching an upper - division seminar course, rather than a first year class or large survey course (which are usually taught by full - time faculty or experienced legal educators).
Volunteer attorneys can protect First Amendment rights and support juror rights education by assisting FIJA pro bono in securing injunctions against these types of legal arrests, representing juror rights educators who are falsely prosecuted for jury tampering, and so on.
Tina L. Stark urges legal educators to respond to this recognition by developing what she has termed an «integrated transactional curriculum» 7 to prepare law students for transactional practice, much like the integrated litigation curriculum that exists at many law schools.
The project also developed the Legal Research Record («the tool»), which is a software program that supports researchers and educators in learning the research process by facilitating detailed and thorough tracking of research results.
A 13 member LLLT Board, appointed by the Washington Supreme Court and consisting of nine attorneys, four non-attorneys, and at least one legal educator, will oversee implementation of the rule, LLLT licensing, and administration of the program.
The event is led by an experienced lawyer and legal educator with many years of experience and covers all aspects of:
The Lawyer Portal's Mock Trials, designed by lawyers and legal educators, are designed to simulate all the drama and excitement that students will face in a real courtroom.
It is our mission here at ROSS Intelligence to democratize the law by making AI technology easily accessible to all legal service providers and educators.
Law professors are uniquely poised165 and well - positioned166 to shape the future lawyers of our nation, in terms of ethics, professional integrity, and humanity.167 Legal educators can start by identifying the «silent but gifted» in their classrooms, and providing the right coaching to give them the confidence to find their «lawyer voice.»
Many legal educators, attorneys, parents, and even students35 themselves view the rise of and reliance on informal writing through clenched teeth, dreading and tracking anecdotally its impact on our ability to write more formally as is required by legal discourse.
One of the strengths of this report is that it brings an outsider perspective to the discussion of legal education.12 Certainly major legal educators participated, including Judith Wegner, the former dean of the University of North Carolina School of Law, but this report is not identifiable as inspired by legal education insiders with a particular agenda, such as the clinicians with respect to the MacCrate Report.
It forces legal educators to make sense of the teaching program — how it fits together and how it relates to the people who come to and are produced by a given school.
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Focused on clinical legal issues broadly defined — understanding lawyering skills, training students in them, and encountering the realities of the world of law practice — these workshops draw faculty from the many law schools of the New York metropolitan area to meet and discuss papers presented by clinical educators from around the country.
The Carnegie Foundation, long a leader in American higher education, released a comprehensive report on law school in March, and will follow up by partnering with legal educators in an effort to implement some of the ideas in its report.
The award is presented annually to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to improve the field of legal writing by demonstrating an ability to nurture and motivate students to excellence; a willingness to help other legal writing educators improve their teaching skills or their legal writing programs; and an ability to create and integrate new ideas for teaching and motivating legal writing educators and students.
Too often, law school legal clinics are staffed by young clinical educators who are intelligent, highly - motivated and competent but who have simply not been practicing or teaching long enough to be either senior practitioners or outstanding coaches.
The program in Bosnia and Herzegovina recognizes the critical role that legal educators and legal education play in promoting a fair and effective justice system that is trusted by the public.
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By drawing on theoretical insights from the emerging field of critical emotion studies, I argue that a critical analysis of the role of moral anger in clinical legal education reveals its potential as an agent of transformation, but also signals a need for clinical educators to be wary of an uncritical understanding of this strong emotion.
CPD is something studied by educators outside of the legal field, and the efficacy of different programs varies.
legal educators can completely eradicate this terrible tail - wagging - the - dog dynamic by releasing school - level data (in spreadsheet format) that reveals detailed information about what students care about: employment by practice setting, salaries, interviews, and bar passage.
EFF is also seeking one clear, easier - to - use exemption for video excerpts that would allow educators, libraries, documentary filmmakers, remix artists, and others to use video snippets without fear of legal repercussions by copyright owners.
The Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario fully supports the recommendations and amendments put forward in the submissions by the Workers» Action Centre and Parkdale Community Legal Services, Decent Work and Health Network, Migrant Workers» Alliance for Change, Injured Workers» Consultants Community Legal Clinic and the Ontario Federation of Labour as part of the Fight for $ 15 and Fairness.
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