Sentences with phrase «in academic law»

Now, as a public services librarian in an academic law library, I do little targeted legal research.
Does anyone think this resource would be useful in an academic law library?
This is especially so in academic law libraries, where we are losing or have already lost our connection to the «technical» aspects of our profession and are unfamiliar with resources outside of law.
Ideally, one of our colleagues in an academic law library in Canada would take ownership of this type of customized search engine since Google search engines customized by Universities are eligible for «ad - free» sites (the foregoing link includes Google ads as part of the search results, something which I would prefer to do without).
Working in a an academic law library that is open to the public I've found that it is often on Friday, and more specifically, Friday afternoon that the individual who wants to challenge the constitutional validity of income tax arrives at the library looking for an orientation to our legal system and advice on the best way to prove that income tax is illegal, or substitute whichever conspiracy theory you like in here.
Another source of pressure for judges is the lifetime responsibility system, which two Chinese judges writing in an academic law journal called the «sword of Damocles hanging over judges» (法官办案责任追究是时刻悬挂在法官们头上的 «达摩克利斯之剑»), analyzing the drawbacks with the standards and their implications for judges.
I've worked a long time in academic law librarianship, some say too long, and I found your remarks and observations refreshing.
Working in a an academic law library that is open to the public I've found that it is often on Friday, and more specifically, Friday afternoon that the individual who wants to challenge the constitutional validity of income tax arrives at the library looking... [more]
In law, the interesting action seems to be with further retrenchment by CCH, this time in academic law publishing in Australia, the likes of venture capitalist - held ALM and the strategic directions that they are taking and, of course, with Bloomberg.
Ideally, one of our colleagues in an academic law library in Canada would take ownership... [more]
The discussion was mostly around digital preservation, in the course of this it became apparent that the biggest growing concern in academic law libraries is wholesale tossing of print book and journal collections in favour of databases such as the «Making of Modern Law» [http://www.galeuk.com/trials/moml/] in addition to the plan of Google and large research libraries (Harvard, Yale, Oxford, etc.) to digitize their entire collections.

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Writes the Telegraph «s Andrew Hough in «Philip Morris: tobacco firm using FOI laws to access secret academic data ``:
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.
Gregory Simon, the chief executive of large - scale crowdfunding site Poliwogg, told the Washington Post: «There's another kind of fraud, and that's when Congress and the president pass and sign a law, and thousands of companies organize according to the principles in that law... but academics and people in consumer groups who disagree with the law make it their mission to prevent the law from going into effect.»
Conversely, the law and economics movement (yes, it's a political platform as much as an academic one) takes a decidedly dim view of government and regulation, treating those things as sand in the gears of the market.
The Harvard law professor, who is locked in a tight race against Republican Scott Brown, has lost ground in recent weeks as she struggles to shake off stories about whether she used her unconfirmed Native American heritage to bolster her academic career.
«Yale also enrolls the top law school applicants in the country, and has maintained the highest reputation among both academic peers and lawyers and judges / hiring partners,» Morse continued, circling back to subjective assessments that factor into the ranking.
The centre acts as a catalyst to exploit the concentration of academic and health sector talent in the private sector, at the University of Toronto (in medicine, law, economics, and bioethics among others) and the Rotman 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.
I am familiar with the Trans - Tasman application because the hearing took place during my stay in New Zealand as an academic visitor with the Te Piringa Faculty of Law at the University of Waikato.
In her book Law and Reorder, published by the American Bar Association in 2010, she describes a legal profession «where the billable hour no longer works»; where attorneys, judges, recruiters, and academics all agree that this system of compensation has perverted the industry, leading to brutal work hours, massive inefficiency, and highly inflated costIn her book Law and Reorder, published by the American Bar Association in 2010, she describes a legal profession «where the billable hour no longer works»; where attorneys, judges, recruiters, and academics all agree that this system of compensation has perverted the industry, leading to brutal work hours, massive inefficiency, and highly inflated costin 2010, she describes a legal profession «where the billable hour no longer works»; where attorneys, judges, recruiters, and academics all agree that this system of compensation has perverted the industry, leading to brutal work hours, massive inefficiency, and highly inflated costs.
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.
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.
One of the four panelists at the hearing, Peter Conti - Brown, an Academic Fellow at Stanford Law School whose forthcoming book, The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve, will be published by Princeton University Press, also weighed in on the Fed's General Counsel.
In 1705, Law published an academic paper in which he argued against the use of precious - metal backed currency in favor of «paper» or fiat currency, claiming that the use of fiat currency would stimulate commerce (Smant, 2001In 1705, Law published an academic paper in which he argued against the use of precious - metal backed currency in favor of «paper» or fiat currency, claiming that the use of fiat currency would stimulate commerce (Smant, 2001in which he argued against the use of precious - metal backed currency in favor of «paper» or fiat currency, claiming that the use of fiat currency would stimulate commerce (Smant, 2001in favor of «paper» or fiat currency, claiming that the use of fiat currency would stimulate commerce (Smant, 2001).
The new natural law has established itself in a niche in a rarefied corner of the academic world, and this in itself was no easy accomplishment.
A symposium of church leaders, law and justice professionals and academics of different races has taken place in Westminster looking at ways to tackle the problem.
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.
The case represents the latest volley in a culture war of sorts as courts and academics — not to mention employers and employees — try to reconcile the law's fundamental commitment to two principles increasingly emerging at loggerheads: religious liberty and women's health.
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.
There is no law against daydreaming, but science must not indulge in it [Evolution of Living Organisms (Academic Press, 1977)-RSB-.
This intellectual formation works against the metaphysical foundations of natural law reasoning, and therefore most people find the arguments remote and unconvincing — «academic» in the bad sense of being about something other than the real world we live in.
It is unfortunate that there are some academic bioethicists who approach Catholic moral theology as if it were a discipline akin to tax law, where anything not yet expressly forbidden in magisterial documents may still be allowed.
These academic programs enable students to complement their theological and biblical studies with secular skills in public management and policy, law, music, social work, business administration, information and library science or health - care administration.
He was a Belgian trained in law who lived in Taiwan, where he studied Chinese language, culture, and literature, and then made an academic career in Australia.
The common misconception, among judges as well as some academics, is that the natural law is a «theory» that may be adopted or ignored in certain cases.
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.
Here you will find articles about information on the latest research about the long - term effects of concussion on an athlete's cognitive function, articles on whether the new state concussion safety laws are increasing concussion safety, advice on the academic accomodations concussed student - athletes often need when they return to the classroom, and about the latest in concussion research.
Or perhaps because my academic love language is found in reading, writing, and analyzing the written word while formulas and laws have a numbing effect on my thought processes.
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.
Its objectives are to increase the amount of interdisciplinary cooperation between law and political science in the field of constitutional studies and to raise the profile of the academic study of constitutional law and politics.
First, it appointed in 2009 a seven - member Constitutional Committee comprising mostly academics from a range of fields, including law, literature, and science, thus implicitly acknowledging that the constitution is not exclusively, and not even principally, a legal document, but primarily a social compact, a political declaration that supersedes ordinary legislation by virtue of the fact that the people are superior to Parliament.
Wu is a Columbia law professor, an academic, a pragmatic liberal which are few and far between in such high office.
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 diplomaIn 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 diplomain 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 diplomain 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 diplomain Franco's Public Administration before becoming a professor of state theory, a lawyer to the Congress and a diplomat.
The Lebanese Community scholarship scheme was instituted in the 2012/2013 academic year and covered the some of the best students in the Ghana Institute of Journalism and the law schools of the University of Ghana and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
In rare cases, where charter schools violate laws or face serious problems with academics or safety, charter authorizers may move to close schools.
The 52 - year - old Takoma Park resident, who is a professor at American University Washington College of Law, has focused his energy on a number of civil rights and constitutional issues in both the academic and legislative arenas, including marijuana legalization, campaign finance, and voting rights.
After a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white NYPD officer in the death of Garner, a black Staten Islander, last year, critics in political and academic circles charged that local district attorneys, who often work closely with the police to prosecute crimes, are too close to law enforcement to consistently bring charges against them when they run afoul of the law.
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