Sentences with phrase «in doctrinal courses»

Professor as Facilitators / Guides — Some professors may decide to use videos to help integrate practical lawyering skills in doctrinal courses.

Foundations 2 will build on the substantive law they have learned in their doctrinal courses in the first term, and give them the opportunity to deepen that learning through performance.

Indeed a recent article calls for inclusion of transnational law in doctrinal courses focused on reproductive rights.

Students learn theory in their doctrinal courses and learn to apply it in a meaningful way toward the resolution of a client's legal issue in legal writing classes.

Not exact matches

A Church That Can and Can not Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching by john t. noonan, jr. university of notre dame press, 280 pp., $ 30 Doctrinal development follows a different course in social ethics than in the realm of revelation.

Of course doctrinal implications are at work here and operative in the gospel as a whole — just as in the entire early Christian witness.

Which is why the Church has always been in a position of preserving a doctrinal heritage, not trying to invent one, unlike Protestanism, which has as a matter of course divided the rock of Christian faith into 30000 separate pebbles of our Lord's teachings in the mere matter of 500 years.

This of course is a serious doctrinal error ingrained in the practice of the group.

A congregation serving in a worldly context would not, of course, be primarily interested in an understanding of mission as the conversion of peoples to either doctrinal or morphological fundamentalism.

Not only do the lines between different types of faculty members become blurred, the lines between the subjects of writing and the connected doctrinal course become blurred as well, both in terms of program design and the various ways in which the connected courses are taught together.

The question of whether the consolidated Legal Method course was preferable to a dedicated legal writing course with a small doctrinal component was taken up by a special committee appointed in 2003 to evaluate the three - semester LAWR sequence.

As originally designed, LAWR I courses in the evening division continue to be built around a doctrinal component of the faculty member's choice.

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.

In addition, compared to the Legal Method version, the credit structure has been flipped — the Legal Analysis and Writing course is a three - credit course, and the doctrinal course is only two credits.

Having two separate courses makes it less likely that the doctrinal subject will take over the writing instruction — a big reason that the courses were disconnected in the first place.

In addition, the program supports inter-curricular faculty work by having traditional «doctrinal» faculty teach LA&W while at the same time traditional «legal writing» faculty teach a doctrinal course, with members of both groups working together in regularly scheduled teaching meetings and in less formal settingIn addition, the program supports inter-curricular faculty work by having traditional «doctrinal» faculty teach LA&W while at the same time traditional «legal writing» faculty teach a doctrinal course, with members of both groups working together in regularly scheduled teaching meetings and in less formal settingin regularly scheduled teaching meetings and in less formal settingin less formal settings.

A number of well - written articles chronicle at least some of the history of legal writing in the law school curriculum.1 However, those articles were written with a different purpose in mind: the authors sought to employ history to show the pedigree of legal writing and argue for an equal place in the curriculum with doctrinal courses and an equal position for its teachers with other «case - book» faculty.2 Because of this purpose, they understandably focused a large part of their historical narrative on legal writing in the «modern law - school,» an entity that has existed only since the late 1800s.3 The articles paid considerably less attention to the era that preceded it, beyond brief mentions of the Inns of Court in England, apprenticeship in America, and the private law schools and early attempts at law teaching that preceded Langdell's introduction of the case method.4

What's needed is a change in the structure of the traditional doctrinal courses.

Davis and Withers analyze how «a transnational perspective might enhance the teaching of sexual and reproductive health in all of the law school course and doctrinal settings in which this topic [is] treated.»

Where globalization is taking place in a wide range of first - year doctrinal courses, it would seem anomalous for LRW instruction to be omitted from that effort.

Looking Ahead: Balancing the Use of Technology with Traditional Teaching Method A. Use of Technology in Doctrinal Classes B. Technology in Applied Learning Courses C.

Part of gaining the respect and attention of students and other faculty has been to grade the course in the same manner as other courses.168 The thought has been that students will not put the same effort or see the same value in a course that is not as significant in the doling out of rewards and that «[n] on - legal writing faculty may see legal writing as less substantial than the doctrinal courses.»

In the past two decades, the field of legal writing has made great strides within the academy.51 The course is now a required part of the law school curriculum, pursuant to the ABA's Standards for Approval of Law Schools.52 It is taught, most often, by full - time faculty who specialize in teaching legal writing, and who, increasingly, have similar titles, benefits, and rights to participate in school governance as faculty who teach doctrinal courses.In the past two decades, the field of legal writing has made great strides within the academy.51 The course is now a required part of the law school curriculum, pursuant to the ABA's Standards for Approval of Law Schools.52 It is taught, most often, by full - time faculty who specialize in teaching legal writing, and who, increasingly, have similar titles, benefits, and rights to participate in school governance as faculty who teach doctrinal courses.in teaching legal writing, and who, increasingly, have similar titles, benefits, and rights to participate in school governance as faculty who teach doctrinal courses.in school governance as faculty who teach doctrinal courses.53

The ABA's Sourcebook on Legal Writing Programs has noted that grading legal writing the same as other courses, and including it in GPA and class rank calculations, helps both students and doctrinal faculty view the course as a serious and integrated part of the first - year curriculum.

Now in 2010, I work as a tenured professor with colleagues on the tenure track; teach 30 students in the legal writing courses and others in doctrinal classes and seminars; have a «chair» attached to my job title; and am paid on an equal scale with other faculty.4

Immediately before joining the School of Law's faculty, she was a Visiting Clinical Professor of Law at Florida International University's College of Law, where she taught in - house clinics in the areas of immigration and human rights and a doctrinal course on immigration law.

He calls for a bigger role for clinical faculty, including in such «doctrinal» courses as evidence and civil procedure.

Sometimes, in the course of my more theoretical research, we may come across a discrete doctrinal issue and consider writing on that topic.

Since I began teaching in the doctrinal classroom six years ago, I have been committed to developing practical lawyering materials for each of my courses (Legislation and Statutory Interpretation, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law II, Administrative Law, and Education Law and Policy).

Learning opportunities should include a balance of doctrinal, black letter law courses, and opportunities to apply knowledge in practical ways, one of which is internships and clinical practice.

All first year doctrinal courses, and some upper year courses (in the winter term), will be taught in shorter (10 week) terms with longer class times to allow professors to use innovative and interactive teaching methods.