Sentences with phrase «legal doctrine needs»

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Here's another, scarcely less oratorical in character, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: the title of this document (another wonderful example of Vatican bogus academic language when what is needed is a competent journalist used to writing informative headlines) is «Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons» (2003): The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognised as such by all the major cultures of the world.

In a 2007 report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Carnegie Report), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching reported on a number of gaps in legal education and set out a series of recommendations for bridging those gaps.2 Among the authors» findings was the «increasingly urgent need to bridge the gap between analytical and practical knowledge...» 3 The resulting recommendation that the teaching of legal doctrine be integrated beyond «case - dialogue courses» and into courses that focus on more practical skills acknowledged that this idea was «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 4 One of the schools where the teaching of legal analysis has long been integrated into practice - focused courses is the University of Maryland School of Law (Maryland).

The above arguments are based upon the constitutional law doctrine of «structural argumentation» (see: Robin M. Elliott, «References, Structural Argumentation and the Organizing Principles of Canada's Constitution» (2000), 80 Canadian Bar Review 67, and decisions such as the, Reference Re Manitoba Language Rights, [1985] 1 S.C.R. 721, [1985] S.C.J. No. 36, the, Reference Re Secession of Québec, [1999] S.C.J. No. 4, [1998] 2 SCR 217, and the, Reference re Remuneration of Judges, [1997] S.C.J. No. 75, [1997] 3 S.C.R. 3, to argue that the need for access to the rule of law, and to constitutional rights and freedoms, dictate that law societies in Canada can not enforce a monopoly over the provision of legal services that enables their members to charge fees of whatever size they see fit.

By showing up in person at various ABA meetings, faculty get to meet exceptional lawyers from across the country who can both help when needed to answer questions about unique legal doctrines in a given state, and who also may be in a position to hire your students after graduation.

39 See, e.g., Ralph L Brill, et al., Sourcebook on Legal Writing Programs 16 (1997)(describing that learning how to «read a series of cases and extract from them their common doctrine and policy» are «part of any first - year [legal writing] course»); Amy Vorenberg & Margaret Sova McCabe, Practice Writing: Responding to the Needs of the Bench and Bar in First - Year Writing Programs, 2 Phoenix L. Rev. 1, 6 (2Legal Writing Programs 16 (1997)(describing that learning how to «read a series of cases and extract from them their common doctrine and policy» are «part of any first - year [legal writing] course»); Amy Vorenberg & Margaret Sova McCabe, Practice Writing: Responding to the Needs of the Bench and Bar in First - Year Writing Programs, 2 Phoenix L. Rev. 1, 6 (2legal writing] course»); Amy Vorenberg & Margaret Sova McCabe, Practice Writing: Responding to the Needs of the Bench and Bar in First - Year Writing Programs, 2 Phoenix L. Rev. 1, 6 (2009).

Justice Stratas argues that we need stable, coherent, legal doctrine to which lawyers and judges alike are committed because we might not always live in «benign times,» and in a moment of crisis we will be better off if judges decide controversial cases on the basis of stable legal doctrine rather than of what they feel is right or fair in those ominous circumstances.