Sentences with phrase «learned at law school»

Last week my Facebook feed lit up after the article by Eric Girard, «What I learned at law school: The poor need not apply», was published in the Globe.

That is what you learn at law school.

The «non-lawyer» expression is a critical part of the law school myth (bought by a disturbing number of law students and professors) that what they learn at law school (legal knowledge, reasoning, analysis, etc) is special and oh - so - different from and superior to other types of expertise.

Recommendation 28 calls on us as legal educators to look at how the legacy of colonialism is integrated into legal learning at all law schools in Canada.

For litigators, this involves an introductory week of training in the Houston office, with «exercises to help contextualize what you learn at law school.»

Yet isn't that what we all learn at law school?

Not exact matches

The Food Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School (FLPC) is hosting a one - day workshop to bring together a group of food recovery entrepreneurs from across the world to network and learn from one another and from experts.

«The General Legal Council may have a lot to learn from him [Professor J.N.D. Doodoo] at this time with the problems at the Ghana school of Law,» he concluded.

On July 24, 2000, in response to the shootings at Columbine High School, Governor Pataki signed into law the most comprehensive legislative plan in the nation to promote a safer learning environment w

Sex offenders are banned from living within the designated distance of a school, but stand - alone daycare programs without affiliation to grade schools — such as the Atlantic Avenue Early Learning Center at 1825 Atlantic Ave. — remain unprotected by state law, according to an investigation by the State Senate Coalition released Sunday.

Regrettably, through all the NCLB trashing, Winerip never described these issues so that lay readers, almost certainly unfamiliar with this context, could at least understand the current environment let alone learn about the complexity of the law and the challenges of designing policy for our decentralized system of schooling.

«Laws created by people who have never tried to teach a child, never seen how out - of - control behavior can disrupt learning, and never even been in a school building since their own school days make the principal's job harder every year,» said Harbin, principal at Duryea Elementary School in Hoschool building since their own school days make the principal's job harder every year,» said Harbin, principal at Duryea Elementary School in Hoschool days make the principal's job harder every year,» said Harbin, principal at Duryea Elementary School in HoSchool in Houston.

Officials at the Center for Economics and Law Charter School, a finance immersion school for 9th and 10th graders, voluntarily closed their school Oct. 28 after learning that its fire - alarm and sprinkler systems were not working, said Barbara Grant, a spokeswoman for the 214,000 - student disSchool, a finance immersion school for 9th and 10th graders, voluntarily closed their school Oct. 28 after learning that its fire - alarm and sprinkler systems were not working, said Barbara Grant, a spokeswoman for the 214,000 - student disschool for 9th and 10th graders, voluntarily closed their school Oct. 28 after learning that its fire - alarm and sprinkler systems were not working, said Barbara Grant, a spokeswoman for the 214,000 - student disschool Oct. 28 after learning that its fire - alarm and sprinkler systems were not working, said Barbara Grant, a spokeswoman for the 214,000 - student district.

Washington — The parents of a learning - disabled child had no right under federal law to unilaterally move their son from a public school to a private school at a local school system's expense, even though the private school was subsequently found to be the appropriate placement for the child, a lawyer for a Massachusetts school committee told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

Pisha took a predictably roundabout route to Harvard: stints at rubber and bleach factories, community college, an abortive attempt at law school, and some very rewarding public school teaching and work with learning - disabled students.

Leading academics from the University of Winchester have also authored chapters — Professor David Birks, Dean of the Faculty of Business, Law and Sport with Stella McKnight, Director of Employer Partnerships at Winchester Business School; and Professor Bill Lucas, Director of the Centre for Real - World Learning.

Academic learning that comes to mind includes more prosaic elements of law, such as contract vs criminal vs administrative law; the developmental history of their own city; recent (50 years) political history of their city; basics of land law; current vs past thinking in urban planning; specific budgetary investigations at both the state and local level; school funding law in their state; essentials of Leadership, EPA impacts on dismantling abandoned structures; economic price theory; or the competitive strengths and weaknesses of their own city or region.

The project unites the expertise of the Public School Forum with the Massachusetts Trauma & Learning Policy Initiative at Harvard Law School and the Duke Center for Child & Family Policy, as well as other nonprofit and academic institutions.

UCW students are studying Supreme Court cases and learning about their constitutional rights as part of an exciting seminar taught at the University of Chicago Law School.

He is an active proponent of participatory learning through membership in the Action Coalition for Media Education and the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, and as a friend of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

Now that ESSA is law, leaders at the school, district, and state level have an incredible opportunity to transform teaching and learning.

Special education (SPED)-- Specially designed instructional and related services delivered at no cost to the parent that adapts the curriculum, materials or instruction for students identified as having educational or physical disabilities under federal law and tailored to the individual student's needs and learning style and provided in a general education or special education classroom, home, hospital, separate school or other setting.

This Wednesday, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School will be hosting a working meeting on «Emerging & Future Privacy Issues in K - 12 Connected Learning.»

Passed a couple of months earlier, the law covers tuition at approved private schools, as well as textbooks, tutoring services, tuition for distance learning programs, fees for special instruction if the child has a disability, et al..

His wife, Katie Homer Ryan, is a lawyer for the Education Law Clinic and Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative at Harvard Law School and an adjunct lecturer in education who graduated from the U-Va.

Peer Mediators: Students who serve as Peer Mediators receive conflict resolution training from graduate students at the Hamline Mitchell School of Law, and then apply those skills by helping fellow classmates resolve and learn from interpersonal disputes peacefully and respectfully.

... ALEC has quietly but effectively helped mostly Republican lawmakers pass the kinds of laws the online learning companies want — laws that, for instance, require all graduating high school students to complete at least one virtual class.»

Students who serve as Peer Mediators receive conflict resolution training from graduate students at the Hamline Mitchell School of Law, and then apply those skills by helping fellow classmates resolve and learn from interpersonal disputes peacefully and respectfully.

L. 108 — 454, § 106 (a), inserted at end «Such term also includes national tests for admission to institutions of higher learning or graduate schools (such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), Law School Admission Test (LSAT), Graduate Record Exam (GRE), and Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)-RRB- and national tests providing an opportunity for course credit at institutions of higher learning (such as the Advanced Placement (AP) exam and College - Level Examination Program (CLEP)-RRB-.»

Michael Bochner, an art teacher at Cesar Chavez Elementary School, says that when teachers learned of the provision, they realized the law was a huge effort to blunt the union's power.

The schools have also formed partnerships with community groups and businesses to offer hands - on learning experiences, like building an oyster bed in New York Harbor (at the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School on Governors Island) and participating in a moot court case at Cravath Swaine & Moore (at the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice in Downtown Brooklyn).

And yet, when one looks back at the last 15 months — a period in which school reform has been at the forefront of American life, from «Race to the Top» to Waiting for Superman to the endless coverage of Michelle Rhee or the union fight in Wisconsin — what becomes clear is that we haven't been having a national debate about learning; we've been having a national debate about labor law.

She is currently an Assistant Professor, Service Learning Fellow, and Community Engaged Research Scholar at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, completed three years of post-doctoral training at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and received her Ph.D. from the Lynch School of Education at Boston College in Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology, Masters in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Certificate in Human Rights and International Justice from the Boston College Law School.

«This law requires the state to use state - authorized Alabama will use assessments and other key performance indicators that give a total profile of the school or school system, or both, a school's grade, at a minimum shall be based on a combination of student achievement scores, achievement gap, college and career readiness, learning gains, and other indicators as determined by the State Superintendent of Education to impact student learning and success.»

That's when she learned that Michelle — who was attending UCLA law school at the time — had been a Teach for America (TFA) corps member at Maribel's high school.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed into law in December 2015, further provides that none of the funds made available by this Act be used to allow 21st CCLC initiative funding for expanded learning time unless these activities provide enrichment and engaging academic activities for students at least 300 additional program hours before, during, or after the traditional school day and supplements, but does not supplant school day requirements.

Sharyn Howell, executive director of the LAUSD Division of Special Education, said the the district must comply with laws aimed at giving special education students the same experiences and learning opportunities as other public school children.

Law librarians at Stanford Law School blog about what they've learned and continue to discover about the ins and outs of legal research.

Lauren Rad, a lawyer at Ferguson Case Orr Paterson in Ventura, California, who learned to knit as a 1L at Harvard Law School just as final exams approached, says, «Learning to knit, making mistakes while knitting and fixing those mistakes is a way to learn that mistakes in other areas of life are usually fixable, too.

A listing of experiential learning opportunities in Canadian law schools was published by Gemma Smyth, Samantha Hale, and Neil Gold of Windsor in 2016 («Clinical and Experiential Learning Programs in Canadian Law Schools» presented at the annual conference of the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Edulearning opportunities in Canadian law schools was published by Gemma Smyth, Samantha Hale, and Neil Gold of Windsor in 2016 («Clinical and Experiential Learning Programs in Canadian Law Schools» presented at the annual conference of the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Educatiolaw schools was published by Gemma Smyth, Samantha Hale, and Neil Gold of Windsor in 2016 («Clinical and Experiential Learning Programs in Canadian Law Schools» presented at the annual conference of the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Educschools was published by Gemma Smyth, Samantha Hale, and Neil Gold of Windsor in 2016 («Clinical and Experiential Learning Programs in Canadian Law Schools» presented at the annual conference of the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal EduLearning Programs in Canadian Law Schools» presented at the annual conference of the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal EducatioLaw Schools» presented at the annual conference of the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal EducSchools» presented at the annual conference of the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education).

Many new associates, relieved at getting through law school and securing a job, are unexpectedly thrust into a sink or swim legal environment that puts a sting in learning.

Law schools have been heavily criticized for lacking coherent educational missions and for having no means of assessing whether they accomplish what they ostensibly intend to accomplish.82 More particularly, the prevailing «case method» of instruction in law schools, at least standing alone, is criticized as ineffective in training law students to become practicing lawyers.83 Thus, although most law schools say they intend to train students to become practicing lawyers, many fall short of that goal, leaving students to learn various fundamental lawyering skills on the job or elsewheLaw schools have been heavily criticized for lacking coherent educational missions and for having no means of assessing whether they accomplish what they ostensibly intend to accomplish.82 More particularly, the prevailing «case method» of instruction in law schools, at least standing alone, is criticized as ineffective in training law students to become practicing lawyers.83 Thus, although most law schools say they intend to train students to become practicing lawyers, many fall short of that goal, leaving students to learn various fundamental lawyering skills on the job or elsewhelaw schools, at least standing alone, is criticized as ineffective in training law students to become practicing lawyers.83 Thus, although most law schools say they intend to train students to become practicing lawyers, many fall short of that goal, leaving students to learn various fundamental lawyering skills on the job or elsewhelaw students to become practicing lawyers.83 Thus, although most law schools say they intend to train students to become practicing lawyers, many fall short of that goal, leaving students to learn various fundamental lawyering skills on the job or elsewhelaw schools say they intend to train students to become practicing lawyers, many fall short of that goal, leaving students to learn various fundamental lawyering skills on the job or elsewhere.

«Obviously there's information online, but going the extra mile makes a difference — for example, looking up law school alums to see if there are people at the firm they can contact, or other people in their network that enable them to connect with lawyers to learn about the firm.

And I really gained an appreciation at a very young age about running a business and really how much hard work it is, and what you have to do to successfully run a business, and then before I went to law school I was actually a political consultant in Washington, DC and was part of a group that actually left another group, and so I learned from the President there firsthand and watched him run our operation and really learned some very, very valuable skills about running a business and ultimately achieving a profitable bottom line.

University of Houston at Clear Lake, Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Computer Assisted Learning Case Western Reserve University Law School, Juris Doctor

I've been a practicing workers compensation lawyer for over 20 years now, graduated from law school in 1989 and right outta law school I clerked at the court of appeals and that's where I learned about workers compensation because there are no classes in law school about workers compensation.

The students at the University of New Brunswick's law school are learning this first - hand.

While I was at law school, I remember hearing time and time again from junior lawyers that it was not necessary to worry about what electives one took or how much one learned or did not learn during those three years of legal education as «the real learning, unless you are planning on pursuing a career in academia, starts once you enter the workplace.»

The very next day I learned that John Palfrey had resigned his position as Law Librarian at the Harvard Law School, indeed he had resigned his tenured faculty position, in order to become the Head of Phillips Andover Academy.