Sentences with phrase «legal dimensions of the problems»

The «Civil Legal Needs and Public Legal Understanding» study conducted by Professor Rebecca Sandefur revealed that many Americans do not understand how to identify the legal dimensions of the problems they face.

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We could call this problem the «legalization» of debate, meaning not whether something is legal, but instead the conversion of moral, social, religious, and other dimensions of an issue into legal, or legalistic, terms, or at least the neglect of them because of a focus on what the judges will say.
Several law schools have experimented with introducing foreign and international issues into basic LRW instruction.68 Some have responded to these arguments by creating either upper - class elective seminars with a global LRW focus, 69 or by creating a specialized foreign / international section of the basic LRW course.70 Typically, this has been accomplished in a largely ad hoc fashion through the creative efforts of individual instructors, who sometimes offer a special «international» section of the basic LRW course.71 Additionally, LRW professors whose primary responsibility is to educate foreign students have naturally gravitated toward incorporating global dimensions in their problems and assignments.72 Faculty specializing in teaching legal English have observed that English is increasingly the language of choice for transnational negotiations and legal instruments, even in circumstances where the underlying transactions do not involve Anglo - American law.73 Consequently, they also emphasize a transnational approach that responds to the needs of their students.
We are used to developing substantive expertise in unfamiliar legal issues.95 An effective LRW problem needs to challenge the students to think creatively about research, to use the available sources effectively, and to take on the role of counselor or advocate.96 Including the world broadens the possibilities for problem issues and enriches existing problems by adding a new dimension.
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In addition, «large percentages of low - income people did not get help because they did not understand that the problems they face have a legal dimension or because legal help was not available.»
These appear to be areas of problems where, from the perspective of the low - income respondents, there is a clearer understanding that the problems have a legal dimension and that there are court - based solutions to resolve them.»
This can add another dimension to the «timeliness» of legal interventions, as it may mean that other issues must be dealt with before the person is ready to address their legal problems.
Assembling the Team — Because collaborative divorce treats the divorce like a problem to be solved rather than a competition between the parties, the process is set up to deal with all three of the dimensions of issues that come up for people going through divorce — legal, financial, and emotional.
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