Sentences with phrase «in substantive areas»

First, there are few lawyers who are genuinely specialists in both substantive areas of law (such as environmental law, planning law, prison law and so on) and the general principles of judicial review of administrative action.
Tactic: Give those attorneys opportunities to work either directly or on a shared basis in substantive areas and on teams where work which leads to trials is more prevalent.
And it certainly makes sense for smaller law departments which do not have the resources to hire top talent in all substantive areas in which legal work is done.
They set up their practice groups based on technical expertise in substantive areas.
In fulfilling its role outlined in Article 19 TEU to «ensure that in the interpretation and application of the Treaties the law is observed», the Court has not only functioned as a «motor of integration» in substantive areas of the law, including citizens» rights, but has also ensured its own position at the apex of the interpretative hierarchy through establishing and refining the doctrines of direct effect and the supremacy of EU law.
The Office of General Law coordinates the DEEP Networking Group, which connects lawyers throughout the Department of Transportation who practice in the substantive areas of equal employment and personnel law.
The Law Guide may also be included in its entirety, or the content can be sliced to support a specific dedicated portal in a substantive area.
Expertise in the substantive area in dispute also allows a mediator to quickly focus on the issues in dispute.

Not exact matches

The area's more substantive pitch emphasizes its workforce, universities and «booming downtown,» she told the Arizona Republic in an email.
The importance of research in these areas as a foundation for substantive theological reflection should not be underestimated.
The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.
Antipathy for de Blasio runs strong in the area, with de Blasio having lost the assembly district to both Nicole Malliotakis and Joe Lhota, but the town hall audience engaged with de Blasio on many substantive topics.
I only hope when the time comes that David Cameron has the definitive substantive «bold and radical» conservative policies to back up this somewhat empty speech because in many areas the policies so far announced seem somewhat lacklustre and timid or have already been diluted by facsimiles already introduced by the Labour Government.
I now read articles in research areas well outside of my expertise, and I often don't need more than superficial knowledge of the substantive content.
This is just one example of how Statistics Without Borders and the AAAS On - call Scientists initiative are applying scientific methods, knowledge, and tools in one substantive area — understanding and addressing disparities in access to justice — and the service of human rights.
Flagship missions such as the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory occur about twice per decade and produce outstanding science that defines substantive new areas of research in astronomy.
In its final audit, the OIG concludes that WGU is out of compliance in three areas, the most significant of which it says is that students do not engage in «regular and substantive interaction» with faculty in a majority of WGU's courses — a requirement to receive federal aid as a «distance education» program, as opposed to a «correspondence program,» which is not eligible for federal student aiIn its final audit, the OIG concludes that WGU is out of compliance in three areas, the most significant of which it says is that students do not engage in «regular and substantive interaction» with faculty in a majority of WGU's courses — a requirement to receive federal aid as a «distance education» program, as opposed to a «correspondence program,» which is not eligible for federal student aiin three areas, the most significant of which it says is that students do not engage in «regular and substantive interaction» with faculty in a majority of WGU's courses — a requirement to receive federal aid as a «distance education» program, as opposed to a «correspondence program,» which is not eligible for federal student aiin «regular and substantive interaction» with faculty in a majority of WGU's courses — a requirement to receive federal aid as a «distance education» program, as opposed to a «correspondence program,» which is not eligible for federal student aiin a majority of WGU's courses — a requirement to receive federal aid as a «distance education» program, as opposed to a «correspondence program,» which is not eligible for federal student aid.
Part of being successful as a scholar is in recognizing powerful strategies that can be modified and brought from one substantive area to another»» with appropriate credit being given, of course.
While we are being a little glib here, in the way that we are framing them, these are truly the most central questions that anyone can ask of the human condition, and they reoccur time and time again across all the major areas of substantive scholarship from education, to economics, to psychology, to sociology, to psychiatry and medicine, and beyond.
Moreover, in several substantive areas Congress has shown its willingness to mandate carrying out controlled studies, especially in early - childhood education and job training.
In addition, some of the substantive policy changes that Obama administration wants to put in place, through the conditional waivers, are in the area of a national curriculuIn addition, some of the substantive policy changes that Obama administration wants to put in place, through the conditional waivers, are in the area of a national curriculuin place, through the conditional waivers, are in the area of a national curriculuin the area of a national curriculum.
First, many one - semester courses, designed to be highly relevant, differed widely in rigor and content, ranging from potentially substantive courses in areas such as African American literature to trendy offerings like «Rock Poetry.»
Successful union - management collaboration in public school reform must focus on substantive areas affecting the quality of teaching or student achievement.
Teachers and administrators will be provided with specific substantive feedback that is accompanied by targeted professional learning opportunities to improve in needed areas.
SQR includes substantive feedback in the form of findings and recommendations across critical school focus areas, leading to action plans for improvement and data for the district and stakeholders to inform future planning.
Effective, rigorous teacher - evaluation systems provide substantive, tailored feedback to individual teachers that could be coupled with targeted professional development in teachers» weakest areas in order to improve teachers» practice and, by extension, student achievement.
To reflect the diversity of its pupils, the school has used its free school freedoms to offer the International Primary Curriculum, a thematic curriculum which connects areas of knowledge in substantive topics and has a broader, more international focus.
We hope the District has been making substantive (rather than accounting) changes in this area since the ERS report came out last year, and we would love to hear more from District staff on this.
The recommendation is based on aggregate evaluation data generated during the application process, considering the following key elements: (1) the quality of the proposed program as measured against the criteria contained in the charter school application; (2) the substantive issues surrounding the overall feasibility and reasonableness of the application in terms of the likelihood of the opening and operation of a successful, high quality public school; (3) the degree of public support for the proposed school; and (4) the CSDE's recommendation that the SBE give preference to the applicant due to its commitment to: (a) serving students who receive free or reduced price lunch; (b) partnering with FamilyUrban Schools of Excellence, Inc., an organization with a record of operating high - quality public schools in Connecticut; (c) serving students from the Dixwell / Newhallville community, an underserved, high - need area of New Haven; and (d) operating in New Haven, a Priority School District.
Throughout my rotations, I have been tasked with substantive and challenging assignments in a wide range of legal subject areas, such as enforcement of consumer protection and Federal safety regulations.
An editor with genuine interest in your subject area — but not deep expertise The substantive editor does not need to be an expert in your field.
The areas in which Zobernig works are as varied as his roles and are always aimed at exploring formal and substantive potential: his work is located on the interface between sculpture, space, architecture and design.
I see no areas of significant substantive disagreement between Trenberth (2005) and Pielke et al. (in press).
I try to imagine what the reaction would be if physicists in another (non-climate) area — say, quantum computing — were to hold a conference, and physicists from yet another area — let's say, high - energy nuclear physics — were to show up at their conferences and tell them, without having read up carefully on quantum computing, and lacking the knowledge to make substantive criticisms of the mainstream views in that field (beyond, perhaps, superficial ones that had already been exhaustively addressed and refuted in the quantum computing literature), that they had it all wrong.
Also for what it's worth, there are a number of open - minded and knowledgeable individuals who host and regularly comment here, who are willing to cordially engage in substantive conversations, and provide insights into some very technical and confusing areas.
I expect that having a few skeptics in the list of reviewers adds to the appearance of diversity, but in all the areas I reviewed the process carefully insulates the final text from influences that depart in any substantive way from the Lead Author's prior views, chiefly by putting the text through 3 re-writes after the close of scientific review.
I am «unsurprised» because among fellow environmental and earth scientists here in the Boulder, Colorado area, realclimate.org is well - known to be censorial, petty, and disengaged from the larger substantive issues faced in science and and by society.
Associations often have sections for substantive practice areas, and they may also have sections for other aspects of practice such as law practice management, technology in law, or solo practice.
Slaw and 3 Geeks, of course, both emerged from the practice support rather than the substantive law side of the profession (both have their roots in the law librarian, KM and legal research areas).
Additionally, students would take classes in a specific order allowing classes to be specially planned to give students within the specialization a more in - depth study of the subject matter, potentially studying how there area of interest applies to other substantive areas of law that are not commonly part of the particular specialized area of study.
Both of those accompanied major substantive changes in those areas of law.
Somehow, however, what should have been issues of evidence were transmuted into issues of substantive law in this area of the law.
Yet even savvy Media pages usually offer contacts only in substantive - law areas.
While substantive areas are important, our complaint history indicates that the biggest risk to lawyers venturing out on their own is a weakness in practice management, client relationships and ethics and professionalism.
In effect, the choice was made to test for substantive and procedural competence rather that to teach in those areas presumably on the basis either than law schools provided sufficient practical education and / or that students could learn enough on their owIn effect, the choice was made to test for substantive and procedural competence rather that to teach in those areas presumably on the basis either than law schools provided sufficient practical education and / or that students could learn enough on their owin those areas presumably on the basis either than law schools provided sufficient practical education and / or that students could learn enough on their own.
Although the proposals have limited the substantive remit of such a potential court to citizens» rights, due to this area being the most contentious between the EU and the UK, in principle one could envisage a joint court with jurisdiction over all aspects of the withdrawal agreement.
Depending on age, experience and personality, certain partners may be able to re-establish their positions as major contributors to their firms by obtaining training in other substantive areas.
It is recommended that the plan be implemented through the firm's existing organizational structure, i.e., the Managing Partner, the Executive Committee (in larger firms through the Strategic Planning Committee, Heads of Substantive Practice Areas and Branch Offices, as required).
WTO and international trade law were considered quite esoteric for most of the past 20 years with only a handful of lawyers having any practical experience in the substantive and procedural elements of this area of law.
Unlike other areas of law, each member state of the EU keeps its own family law and can decide its own terms: While the EU provides a common set of rules for jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments and orders, Britain has three systems of substantive law in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland with each system operating almost independently.
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