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.
Not exact matches
An annual two -
day training program in January that provides high - level overviews in the areas of
legal, HR, finance, operations,
academics, and governance for new schools, new employees, and authorizers.
One
day after the Canadian Judicial Council issued its recommendation to not remove Justice Michel Girouard from the bench — despite a suspicious video of an alleged drug deal — a
legal academic is pointing to a glaring lack of independence for judicial misconduct and a possible double standard.
In 2014, CANLII launched an innovative website, CanLII Connects, where «user generated» commentary on, and summaries of, Canadian cases are published every
day by lawyers, notaries,
academics, and other members of the
legal community who have signed up to be contributors.
Writing
academic articles on complex
legal topics won't necessarily prepare you forthe
days when you'll need to draft a factum in a succinct and straightforward manner.
Legal matters that relate to higher education can involve
day - to -
day operations as well as matters related to policy,
academics, governance and planning.
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.
We invited representatives of community
legal clinics, community - based groups, the judiciary, the government,
academics and practitioners to an all -
day Roundtable.
To this end, Ryerson University held a one
day Symposium on innovative approaches to
legal education, bringing together a cross section of leading thinkers, practitioners,
academics, and other interested persons, to discuss the latest developments in this area.
Among other things, some terrific doctrinal scholarship is being published these
days, although it is curious and deserving of notice that we seem to have returned so enthusiastically to doctrinal work even as the
legal academy has hired more people trained in other
academic disciplines.
I won't deny that I find it useful to have access to quick commentary from
academic colleagues from across the country on
legal issues of the
day.
That being the case the Friday before Labour
Day weekend is like New Year's Eve and my tradition for
academic New Year's Eve is to take a look at the incoming class of law students to see what their mindset is and try to figure out how to relate to them (I dropped my Dragnet reference with regards to
legal writing «just the facts» years ago, which was a shame because I really liked that one).