Sentences with phrase «how legal doctrine»

Enhance students» understanding of how legal doctrine and institutions operate in individual cases.

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The First Sale Doctrine is a US legal statute that essentially states that once a person buys a copyrighted item, the copyright owner's control over how the new owner uses and transfers that item largely ends.

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.

Each version involves integrating legal writing with doctrine; the differences come down to the question of how much doctrine suffices for a meaningful integration.

By integrating writing and doctrine in the first semester, we are sending a message to our students, at outset of their legal education, that there is no real divide between analyzing legal doctrine and the writing that communicates that analysis.54 By writing within a doctrinal context, students are able to see the ways in which the law and how it is structured influence their writing choices.55 Moreover, students tend to develop a deeper understanding of the connected doctrinal course because of the writing that occurs in that doctrinal area.56 Thus a number of the benefits that result from integrating the two courses arise from the synergies that come from teaching both courses together.57 What follows are some specific synergies that I have observed in teaching the integrated LA&W and Introduction to Torts courses.

There have been stories dicussing actual legal doctrine, and less stories dealing with how cool AmLaw 100 law firms are.

But when one contrasts the Canadian reaction to the explicit insertion of religious views into the Republican Party and the recent book attempting to argue that the US Constitution (notwithstanding the separation doctrine) is a Christian text because of the beliefs of the Founding Fathers — then it becomes clear just how different the two legal cultures are.

This result depended on no legal doctrine but on an understanding of how, in some cases, minds might work and it might affect the proportionality of removal.

39 See, e.g., Ralph L Brill, et al., Sourcebook on Legal Writing Programs 16 (1997)(describing that learning how to «read a series of cases and extract from them their common doctrine and policy» are «part of any first - year [legal writing] course»); Amy Vorenberg & Margaret Sova McCabe, Practice Writing: Responding to the Needs of the Bench and Bar in First - Year Writing Programs, 2 Phoenix L. Rev. 1, 6 (2Legal Writing Programs 16 (1997)(describing that learning how to «read a series of cases and extract from them their common doctrine and policy» are «part of any first - year [legal writing] course»); Amy Vorenberg & Margaret Sova McCabe, Practice Writing: Responding to the Needs of the Bench and Bar in First - Year Writing Programs, 2 Phoenix L. Rev. 1, 6 (2legal writing] course»); Amy Vorenberg & Margaret Sova McCabe, Practice Writing: Responding to the Needs of the Bench and Bar in First - Year Writing Programs, 2 Phoenix L. Rev. 1, 6 (2009).

Let's start with doctrine: — Current copyright literature Next to Genie Tyburski and the wonderful Virtual Chase — Virtual Chase Legal Research guide: Intellectual Property Law From Slaw's own Ted Tjaden, some Canadian links — Intellectual Property Law — Canada Pausing only to suppress my occasional cynicism about the length of time that Canada's policy - making on copyright has been going on, at least they have good resources explaining the process — Copyright Reform Process A few comparative links: the United Kingdom — Copyright on the UK Patent Office Site Next New Zealand — New Zealand Copyright Law How to do research on Australian copyright law — Intellectual Property Research in Australia Now two important US sites: first the authorized version — The US Copyright Office Next, a wonderful site that reflects some of Larry Lessig «s thinking at Stanford — The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center And finally, reflecting the fact that so much law in this area reflects not domestic policy - making, but hard - fought international consensus, an Index to what the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency has accomplished — WIPO Index And to conclude with an American and a European take on international copyright, since I was just in Chicago, look at Irene Berkey's links — International Intellectual Property and finally a European source (actually it's Swiss, but that's not obviousRobert Kraft, in his Diaries, quotes Stravinsky, la justice — c’est une invention suisse)-- Swiss Legal Research Center International IP Links, run by CMS von Erlach Henrici And finally, a nice and quirky piece on the oddities of copyright called — Digital Copyright & Copywrong by Peter Jacso.

Backgrounder discusses how these policies reject the legal principles (including the thin skull doctrine) and instead try to «medicalize» the decision - making process through not only challenging causation but use of «expected recovery times» — rather than individualized assessment — as a tool to cut off benefits.