Sentences with phrase «for academic law»

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One role for academic law librarians in promoting access to justice is to provide training to p...
If a law school curriculum already has such a requirement, this is a ripe opportunity for academic law librarians to seize.
It has been a tough year for academic law librarianship in the United States.
The concept of real tenure for academic law librarians becomes a shining artifact of the past.

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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.
He's been an academic and an executive; now Robert Prichard discusses his new act — practising law for the first time, 36 years after graduating from law school.
Calls for new digital privacy rights in American law have increased after disclosures that the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica obtained data on more than 87 million Facebook users from quizzes that were supposed to be for academic research.
And even though these are merely proposed restrictions for now — it's hard to test the constitutionality of a press release, one environmental law academic noted — they could well become a second front in the ongoing battle against transporting bitumen across rivers, alongside lakes and toward oceans.
Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...
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.
Law professors write solely for other academics, but since their underlying religious / ideological / political positions are relatively conventional, they can also reassure their co «ideologues outside of the academy that someone really smart who speaks the language of modern moral / legal theory is on their side.
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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 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.
One of the brightest lights in the academic firmament is the annual fall conference hosted by the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame — a two - day feast of reason and revelation begun by the CEC's founder, philosopher David Solomon, and continued by his successor, law professor Carter Snead.
The symbolic significance of the Army's murder of the country's leading academic and religious figures can not be overstated: the deaths signal that, once again, no one is safe from Army and death squad violence... The Bush Administration has taken the position that the Jesuit murders were a dramatic departure from Salvadoran army policy, and represent an opportunity for President Cristiani to demonstrate that the army is not above the law.
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.
One of the most active athletic trainers» association at the state level is in New Jersey, which was the first state to require by law that coaches receive safety training, is among the 40 states that have enacted strong youth concussion safety laws, and has been a leader in advocating for academic accommodations for concussed student - athletes.
Colin Hawes is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney and an academic visitor at the Centre for Socio - Legal Studies, Oxford University.
In his early academic career he excelled in degrees in law, politics and economics and passed several of the most competitive exams for recruitment in Franco's Public Administration before becoming a professor of state theory, a lawyer to the Congress and a diplomat.
But does their economy or society suffer any drawbacks for having such laws, according to academic research?
The party's activist wing, however, fed up with a Wall Street — friendly centrist, wanted to defy Cuomo and support Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham University law professor known for her academic work on political corruption.
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.
Following the legislation, the SED also put in place a «Parents Bill of Rights,» allowing parents to review their children's academic records and affirm that their children's information is protected by federal and state law and would not be sold or used for commercial purposes.
The E&E Legal Institute then weighed in, responding to the claims of the university and the public record's custodian in stating that it is in the public interest to ensure «transparency» of academic research that taxpayers finance and that the state's public record laws allow for such public disclosure.
The new law gives enough time for academic qualification; it is rather generously long than too short.
Corporate social responsibility, or CSR — a name for the actions companies take to advance social good, above and beyond that which is required by law — continues to draw interest from practitioners and academics alike.
In a case that explores questions of academic integrity and the intricacies of copyright law, biotech entrepreneur Andrew Mallon is suing Brown University professor John Marshall, Mallon's former postdoc adviser, for an alleged breach of copyright.
President Barack Obama recently enacted changes that allow states to request waivers for some of the legal requirements of NCLB, including the 2014 deadline, stating that the strictures of the law were hampering academic progress in some schools.
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.
Last month activists opposed to genetically modified food rattled academic scientists working in that field by submitting requests for their correspondence under state open records laws.
His analysis was backed up by Nicholson Price, an academic fellow at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who found that few, if any, DNA patents would be infringed by companies or clinics sequencing whole genomes of individuals for medical insight.
Google is calling for applications to its 2012 Google Policy Fellowships, which offer undergraduate, graduate, and law students interested in Internet and technology policy «the opportunity to spend the summer contributing to the public dialogue on these issues, and exploring future academic and professional interests.»
Patent agents typically work for academic institutions, industry, and patent law firms.
He has earned academic degrees at the University of Maryland (B.A., Political Science), St. John's University Law School (J.D., Law), University of San Diego Law School (LL.M., Taxation), College for Financial Planning (C.F.P.) and Lewis and Clark College (M.A., Counseling Psychology).
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This special report on ESSA looks at what the law will mean for virtually every aspect of public schooling when it takes full effect in the 2017 - 18 academic year.
The public also strongly favors laws allowing states to take control of local districts where academic performance has been low for several years.
For instance, states might assign separate ratings to each of the five indicator types the law requires: academic achievement, student growth, graduation rates, progress toward English language proficiency, and other indicators of school quality and student success.
Districts receive $ 800 from the state for each graduate who earns an «academic honors diploma,» and the law says the district may pass the money directly on to the student.
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 strategies of that era — including high academic standards for all students, measuring academic progress, improving teaching, and introducing school choice to a monopoly system — found reinforcement in federal law with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001.
The SMART Grants — for National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent — and the Academic Competitiveness Grants were signed into law in early 2006 and became available to students starting in the 2006 - 07 school year.
On the contrary, requirements for the reporting of extensive information on academic outcomes and basic characteristics of schools, including their demographic composition, have been embedded in federal and state laws.
(The law is named for its sponsor, now - deceased Republican Assemblyman John Stull of San Diego, who received bipartisan support at the time for this statutory requirement that teachers be held accountable for the academic achievement of their pupils.)
This interpretation of the law requires a minimum of 8 different indicators (math achievement scores, reading achievement scores, another academic indicator, and a school quality or student success indicator, plus participation rate for each of these four measures).
Leading academics from the University of Winchester have also authored chapters — Professor David Birks, Dean of the Faculty of Business, Law and Sport with Stella McKnight, Director of Employer Partnerships at Winchester Business School; and Professor Bill Lucas, Director of the Centre for Real - World Learning.
Laws that provide for public schools reflect a commitment to the concept that all children should have access to an excellent K - 12 education, regardless of their race, socioeconomic status, language proficiency, academic readiness, or special education needs.
All these tallies well with our academic and professional backgrounds in Laws, political science, project planning and management and development communication and I guess has played no small way in African Centre for Community and Development getting a special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations».
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