Sentences with phrase «including legal academics»

Its members have a range of professional backgrounds, including legal academics, practising lawyers, judges and those working in governmental or non-governmental organisations.

Not exact matches

In addition to the normal representation of regional and linguistic interests, the commission included members from business, labour, the co-operative movement, the legal and academic communities, the public service and all 3 national political parties.

LegalX officially launches tonight and includes legal entrepreneurs, academics, law practitioners and other partners from the Canadian innovation industry.

The joint panel's members include Brooksley Born, former chair of the CFTC; Jack Brennan, the former CEO and chairman of Vanguard; David Ruder, former SEC chair; along with a number of legal and business academics.

The service began with a long procession which included clergy, visiting bishops, diocesan legal officers, ecumenical and interfaith guests and representatives of academic institutions.

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.

Both reports were instrumental in setting up the Faculty of Law at Legon, leading to the current bifurcated legal education system, which includes the academic component at a University followed by a professional component at Makola or an equivalent professional school.

The group, which now has more than 100 members (including Hatzikirou), was officially launched in June 2016 after an initial meeting of seven Greek researchers and academics, including scientists as well as legal scholars, economists, and strategic communication specialists.

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.

Funded by MacArthur, Oak and Open Society Foundations, SITU has undertaken collaborations with a diverse range of partners, including the International Criminal Court, the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'tselem, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), as well as projects with international legal teams, award - winning journalists and leading academic institutions such as Carnegie Mellon and Princeton Universities.

The kind of data schools are likely to collect, and therefore need to be wary of, include personal data on members of the school community, including names, addresses, contact details, legal guardianship contact details, disciplinary records; academic data such as class lists, progress reports; professional records of employment history, taxation, national insurance records and appraisal records.

Legal and educational academic Charles J. Russo shares his insights, including how to develop a good acceptable use policy for your school.

This program will include a panel of experts to provide writing - lab assistance for the charter application, as well as a panel of experts to provide various final reviews and check - lists for applicants in the areas of legal, finance, academics, and governance to help ready school developer members for the school start - up process once their application is approved.

Specific legal requirements for homeschooling vary from state to state, but may include homeschool notification, record keeping, and academic assessment.

These legal actions include subpoenas for documents, communications and research that would capture the work of more than 100 academic institutions, scientists and nonprofit organizations.

Free forever, which would include research of state and federal law and the ability to read articles and analysis contributed to the site by lawyers, law firms and legal academics.

The legal opinion provided to the law society on Nov. 16, 2016, which I've made available here, spells out the constitutional basis far more clearly than anything I've seen thus far, including some quite embarrassing commentary from legal academics (i.e. Pardy).

The Academy's core functions include training and regulating lawyers, publishing Court law reports and academic literature, providing free legal advice for people in need through the region's first Pro Bono Programme, and hosting events for the development of the legal system and the professional community.

Law Schools attending for OCIs in 2017: Georgetown, Gonzaga, Harvard, Howard, Lewis and Clark, Loyola (Chicago), Loyola (Los Angeles), Michigan, Northwestern, NYU, Penn, Santa Clara, Seattle University, SMU, Stanford, Texas, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Hastings, UC Irvine, UCLA, University of Arizona, University of Illinois, University of Oregon, University of San Diego, University of Washington, USC, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Willamette, Yale Summer details Summer associate profile: Hiring criteria include demonstrated academic excellence, creative problem solving, leadership in and service to the community and dedication to excellence in the legal profession.

We hope that our audience will include practicing lawyers, legal librarians, legal academics and students — anyone, in short, who uses IT in researching the law.

take all public legal knowledge, including judges, law firms, academic blogs, etc. and integrate it into the data where you do your legal research

Three law professors last month launched Legal Profession Blog, where they will follow topics including ethics, bar discipline, comparative professions, professional responsiblity and the interaction between legal academics and pracLegal Profession Blog, where they will follow topics including ethics, bar discipline, comparative professions, professional responsiblity and the interaction between legal academics and praclegal academics and practice.

Sperling and Shapcott's and Rosen's recommendations for fostering a growth mindset in law schools focus primarily on communicating a growth mindset message to law students — be it from professors who have examined their own mindsets and thereby shifted their expectations and language; 188 through orientation programs that include growth - oriented messages from administrators, professors and guest speakers; 189 by framing assignments and evaluation in terms of process; 190 by professors who teach legal writing using their expertise in narrative to tell stories that show that legal writing and analysis skills are learned through effort and persistence; 191 by professors and administrators «communicat [ing] that law school has academic value beyond the first year» and «encourag [ing] students to view rankings and large firm job placements as indicative of mastery that can be obtained through learning and hard work»; 192 or, by providing growth mindset student mentors for incoming students.193

Put on by Dan Linna and his team at LegalRnD, the Workshop included representatives of big law, in house legal departments, academics, bar association leaders, business representatives and last but certainly not least, law students.

In law school, Julie earned the privilege of becoming an Academic Excellence Honors Fellow where she worked with struggling first year law students as a mentor and coach, teaching them the art of being a law student, including life and time management skills, and legal analysis and writing skills.

We place great emphasis on a sustained record of outstanding academic and professional performance, including distinguished law school and undergraduate grades, Law Review or other legal journal experience, legal work experience, academic faculty or professional references, and judicial clerkships.

However, Law School beckoned Alex back to school, where at the University of Oklahoma College Of Law he earned numerous academic awards and law competitions including: the OU Order of Solicitors, OU American Jurisprudence Award for Trial Techniques and Antitrust I, OCU CALI Academic Award for Legal research and Wriacademic awards and law competitions including: the OU Order of Solicitors, OU American Jurisprudence Award for Trial Techniques and Antitrust I, OCU CALI Academic Award for Legal research and WriAcademic Award for Legal research and Writing II.

Outside of the academic law library world a couple of noteworthy bibliographies include the Suggested Textbooks section of Catherine Best's Guide to Canadian Legal Research and the Legaltree.ca website's Resources by Subject Area

Your company will gain exposure to a diverse audience of legal professionals, including practitioners, academics, consultants and others.

Earlier this month, the International Labour Organization and a group of academic partners that includes the Yale and Cornell law school libraries launched GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information), a program that will give users in more than 115 developing countries free access to a wide range of essential legal informaLegal Information), a program that will give users in more than 115 developing countries free access to a wide range of essential legal informalegal information.

SoLI will bring together distinguished thought leaders including practicing lawyers, legal technologists, legal academics and legal design experts for a day of education and discussion.

These two issues include a call from the legal profession for students that are better prepared in their academic training to take on the rigours of practice and a call from the community at large for the cost effective delivery of legal services.

It would also be helpful if the Commission were more transparent about the evaluations of third country law that it conducts when preparing adequacy decisions, which typically include legal studies by outside academics.

It was a noteworthy event, held in Middle Temple Hall and guests included many High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court judges, as well as leading barristers, academics, law librarians and other legal practitioners.

My blog work facilitates the exposure and scrutiny of my legal ideas to a national and international readership that includes not only judges, policymakers, and practitioners at all levels in many jurisdictions, but also academics from other disciplines, journalists of all stripes, many nonlawyers interested in criminal justice issues, and also — perhaps most valuably — the real people whose lives are most impacted by the policies and doctrines that I discuss.»).

Scherer's other current or past academic appointments include global professor of law at New York University Law School, visiting professor at SciencesPo Law School Paris and adjunct professor at the Georgetown Centre of Transnational Legal Studies, as well as visiting positions at Bucerius Law School Hamburg, University of Melbourne, Freie Universität Berlin, Sorbonne Law School, Université de Versailles, Université de Fribourg Switzerland, Universität Würzburg, Pepperdine Law School, Université de Bourgogne, Universität Basel and Université de Paris X Nanterre.

Fernando lectures for state and federal judicial colleges, including the New Jersey Judicial College and Escola Paulista da Magistratura (São Paulo), both of which provide judges with academic programs to keep abreast of legal developments.

Other visiting and academic appointments include Global Professor of Law at NYU Law School, Visiting Professor at SciencesPo Law School Paris, Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown Centre of Transnational Legal Studies, as well as visiting positions at Bucerius Law School Hamburg, University of Melbourne, Freie Universität Berlin, Sorbonne Law School, Université de Versailles, Université de Fribourg Switzerland, Universität Würzburg, Pepperdine Law School, Université de Bourgogne, Universität Basel and Université de Paris X Nanterre.

Laurel has also had a number of academic legal articles published in the China National Social Sciences Journal, including one article published in the most prestigious Chinese journal: Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index, which is part of the China National Social Sciences Database, and also carried by Princeton University Library (ISSN: 1671 - 511X, Issue S2, pages 151 — 158).

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Started in November 2006, this blog has been consistently covering the academic scene in legal history, including the publication of new treatises, for some time.

As noted on the ULCC's policy statement delegates are selected to represent a «variety of government lawyers, including legal advisors, legislative policy advisors, legislative drafters and public prosecutors, as well as law reformers, members of the private Bar, both civil and criminal, and members of the academic community.»

A total of 75 responses to the consultation were received from a variety of sources including key prosecutors, members of the public, members of the judiciary and legal profession, businesses, academics and regulatory bodies.

Members of what I am dubbing the A2J Sector include judges, regulators and leaders of the profession (for example in provincial Law Foundations and Law Societies), government lawyers and others working in policy, court services and public legal services, and legal academics.

Client base consisting primarily of professionals and high - net - worth individuals including fellow members of the legal profession, accountants, doctors, academics, company directors and entrepreneurs who find themselves facing criminal allegations.

As such, our speakers include legal professionals, academics, social workers, government officials, and individuals who belong to vulnerable groups.

Its core functions include regulating and training lawyers, publishing academic literature, hosting events for the legal community, and providing pro bono legal advice for people in need.

Professor Katz has published or forthcoming work in a wide variety of academic outlets, including the Emory Law Journal, Ohio State Law Journal, Iowa Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Virginia Tax Review, Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy, Journal of Law & Politics, Journal of Legal Education, Artificial Intelligence & Law, and Physica A.

These include a formal mentoring programme which partners up junior lawyers with senior mentors, an academic mentoring scheme which encourages participation in legal mooting competitions and the financial support for LOVILL lawyers to pursue funded further education.

Others viewed it as a nuisance that detracted from more important and serious pursuits.Fortunately, several brave pioneers — including several Burton Award winners — were willing to risk their academic careers to improve both legal writing instruction and the job conditions for those who teach it.