Sentences with phrase «legal academics»

It will be interesting to see if this has legs, and if something like this makes sense in the much smaller world of legal academic publishing.

Most of the material incentives for legal academics these days depend on scholarly production, so it is not always easy to engage a law school faculty in educational reform.

As one part of this post, I would invite you (in the comments) to suggest legal academics who you think have this prophetic talent.

I'm no big fan of economists and have long wondered why law, and legal academics in particular, give them and their theories such (or, indeed, any) credit.

I have often worried here about how small the American legal academic community is, especially given its multiple connections to the few elite schools.

Speakers at the sessions include top Canadian legal academics, scholars, legal practitioners and law librarians.

This is an area where legal academics can help policymakers by offering rigorous analyses of the relative merits of private and public lending, and income - based repayment plans.

I truly think it's wonderful that legal academics often have great ideas about ways that lawyers can either earn less or give away our earnings to make the legal system more accessible.

If scholarship continues to be primary benchmark by which legal academics are measured, we need to change the conditions under which scholarship is produced.

Certainly there are progressive legal academics drawing on the literature of things like Critical Race Theory in their current work.

Third, I have cited and used legal academic articles - but primarily in international arbitration and in civil law jurisdictions.

It will force legal academics to demonstrate in their work not just why their analysis is inherently useful, but also why those outside the law should care in the first place.

And that is just one reason why legal academics engaging in the public sphere, some even styling themselves «reasonable persons,» is so problematic.

One of the things progressive legal academics love to angst about is the relationship between minority rights and the courts.

Its aim is to help lawyers and legal academics figure out what to read, not only in their own area of specialization, but also outside it.

The main thing we're looking for is an innovative, creative mind coupled with a strong legal academic record and a wide range of extracurricular interests and achievements.

Will the expectations and practices of legal academics regarding teaching loads and scholarship evolve significantly?

As to the first, given the subject it is perhaps inevitable that the book reads as being written for a specialized legal academic audience.

Indeed, law libraries and librarians do not serve only legal academics and students, but the bar.

The world's foremost website on the conflict of laws, updated by a team of legal academics and lawyers from all major jurisdictions.

One should strive to be clear - eyed about such things, and admittedly, legal academics often are not.

Firstly, as legal academics like John Greacen have noted, the distinction has caused court staff to unnecessarily restrict the information they provide to SRL's for fear of crossing the boundary.

Newcastle barristers Robert Cavanagh, Nicolas Moir and Isabel Reed, and University of Newcastle Legal Centre director Shaun McCarthy, sent the petition to NSW Governor David Hurley on June 11, seeking a judicial review, after serious concerns about the convictions were first raised by legal academic Dr Emma Cunliffe in her 2011 book, «Murder, Medicine and Motherhood».

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).

Since most legal academics are establishment liberals, one shouldn't overstate the degree to which they will suddenly become interested in formerly - outre left theory.

The Marks Fellowship is designed to assist attorneys who are interested in pursuing a full - time legal academic career in some area of intellectual property law.

It's also surprising that the book doesn't consider the possibility of separating legal academic study from legal professional training, with fewer, less highly compensated, and more academic legal scholars teaching in departments of law, and more practical, doctrine - and instruction - oriented academic lawyers working in law schools.

Furthermore, as other legal academics have noted, the fear of violating UAP provisions has forced community legal clinics, innovative startups, and other service providers to adopt an unduly conservative approach to legal service delivery.

From a political and — perhaps more important for many legal academics, if less openly acknowledged — a professional standpoint, that may turn out to be perfectly sensible, even if I personally think it would be unfortunate.

A substantial proportion of traditional smaller law firms will disappear over the next few years to make way for more efficient legal services providers, a leading legal academic predicts.

* with legal academics moving away from the production of major syntheses of the law (since tenure decisions don't seem to turn on this anymore) can we expect to see works like Sharpe, Waddams or Maddaugh and McCamus again.

S M i L E Social Media in Legal Education is a new collaborative project by Australian legal academics.

His decision to itemize in an appendix both his criticisms of the federal judiciary and his prescriptions for law schools is commendable and, given the usual normative and reformist tendencies of legal academic writing, refreshing.

This monograph, by Canada's most distinguished legal academic on Aboriginal peoples, delves deeply into these timely questions.

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 practice.

Indications of interest are invited from all full - time legal academics, particularly in the fields of international arbitration and litigation, private international law, public international law, and comparative law, regardless of seniority or country of qualification.

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

It may be that investments in scholarship are maldistributed, although I have yet to see an argument for this proposition that doesn't rely on generalizations about legal academics and law schools that I don't think apply as widely as some argue.

And some of it will have to do with the fact that whatever liberal legal academics used to say about Posner, his recent views and his opinion (mostly a very good opinion, in my view) in Baskin v. Bogan will wash away any former ill - will in a tide of good feelings.

But an individual legal academic might conclude just that.

The University of Michigan Law School, in connection with the longstanding Michigan Society of Fellows (MSOF), now welcomes applications for a highly competitive interdisciplinary fellowship for aspiring legal academics (whether currently completing a degree, conducting postgraduate research, clerking, practicing, teaching, or otherwise engaged in law related activity).

Canadian legal academic Dr Emma Cunliffe has written a book about Kathy's case, Murder Medicine and Motherhood.

Particularly in sharing in print his unfolding thinking and decision - making about pedagogy, in a profession where so few legal academics talk in print about Socratic case method teaching, Bainbridge remains a must - read.

For example, the well known legal academic Prof. William Twining published a summary response last month on the importance of the role of ethics and philosophy in legal training, and reducing an overloaded undergraduate curriculum.

My posts last week on the best legal academic blogs, and Jon Smithen's list of blogs, should have included a nod to the AmLaw's piece by Dahlia Lithwick entitled Blawgs on a Roll.

Whatever legal academics» job is, it can't be that.

Specifically, between 10 - 15 law schools are responsible socializing a significant percentage of the future legal academics.

It may be relevant, though, that I am one of the few American legal academics who has publicly endorsed the desirability of holding a new constitutional convention within the United States.

Lawrence Lessig, the eminent legal academic and advocate of campaign finance reform, has called Ms. Teachout's bid «the most important money - in - politics race of the year.»