Sentences with phrase «done by legal scholars»

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.

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Deborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor and leading scholar on legal ethics, argues in her book, Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice (2005), that lawyers bear an ethical duty to ameliorate «their monopoly's deleterious effects» by doing more pro bono work for those who are disenfranchised.

The word «genocide» was coined in 1943 by Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish Polish legal scholar, although it didn't enter common usage until the Nuremberg trials (the criminal prosecution of those responsible for the Holocaust).

In 2009, only 24 of the 166 responding schools offered a writing center staffed by teaching assistants as part of their legal writing programs.74 The few legal scholars who have advocated for a peer - staffed law school writing center have done so with the assumption that it is a place to send students with low - level writing problems.75