Sentences with phrase «legal education institutions»

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Legal education institutions are not only a relatively recent development resulting from nation - building efforts of the twentieth century, but were also limited in number until recently.

The number of women enrolled in legal education institutions has also increased rapidly since 2001.

Despite an all - out war following the collapse of the Afghan state in the»90s, which affected the education sector, the increase in the number of legal education institutions after 2001 has been unprecedented.

In 2008, the relevant stakeholders of public legal education institutions agreed to standardize their curriculum and collectively produce legal textbooks to be taught in other public law schools.

With the establishment of the new democratic government and surge of foreign aid in 2001, the number of legal education institutions has increased impressively.

In Europe, researchers at the Institute of Law and Technology (IDT - UAB) working for the Menu for Justice Project [6](an EU project involving 51 partners from different European countries) mapped more than 550 legal education institutions in Europe using Crowdmap, the web - based mapping platform developed by Ushahidi.

Not exact matches

Section 7606 of the act, Legitimacy of Industrial Hemp Research, defines industrial hemp as distinct and authorizes institutions of higher education or State departments of agriculture in states where hemp is legal to grow hemp for research or agricultural pilot programs.

A nonprofit, tax - exempt institution for education with its legal charter in California, the TM organization grosses $ 6 million a year in income from fees alone.

It must penetrate and break down the institutions of bourgeois society: marriage, family, churches, professions, legal systems, political parties, education, schools, universities, media etc..

They created a ruling institution for purposes of war and government which was based on the division of the empire into military fiefs; a chancery for the preparation of state documents and communication throughout the empire; and a religious institution which, in addition to maintaining the legal and cult services, was expected through the control of education to be an instrument of social cohesion.

However, general further education (FE) colleges, sixth - form colleges, non-maintained special schools (NMSS), approved special post-16 institutions (SPIs) and 16 to 19 academies (including free schools) have taken on significant new legal duties.

Several legal initiatives have been rushed through Parliament without due debate, ranging from the extension of religious education classes and the conversion of secular state schools into Islamic institutions, to harsh limitations on the sale and consumption of alcohol.

«So for instance John Denham, the universities secretary, is working to make sure that in higher education, institutions do not just wait for poorer people to come through the door, but instead actively look for people from poorer backgrounds... they will be under a legal duty to do it.»

It has yet to become education's equivalent of the American Bar Association, which effectively controls entry into the legal profession, but it now accredits institutions that train more than 70 percent of the nation's teachers.

Among these conditions are 1) education's privileged legal status in most state constitutions; 2) schooling's uniquely decentralized operation and diffuse revenue - generation structure; 3) local political dynamics and institutions that foster a favorable fiscal environment for public schools; 4) a multitiered structure for funding schools with complicated intergovernmental funding incentives and reliance on inelastic tax sources, such as property taxes at the local level.

Leneen is interested in the legal issues associated with education facilities from preschool to postgraduate institutions.

Leaders of higher education institutions must know and understand their legal bounds, to push the legal bounds.

In 1965, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District in Virginia found in Griffin v. State Board of Education that vouchers from the state's tuition grant program could not lawfully be used to fund schools that discriminate based on race.27 While not citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a legal basis for its ruling, the court nonetheless relied on the law's definition of a public school — any institution that was «operated wholly or predominantly from or through the use of governmental funds or property.»

Pauline Hagen, principal of New College Pontefract, said ensuring that all three institutions shared the same «legal rights and benefits» was a «tremendously important part of our plans for raising the quality of post-16 education across the region».

About Stanford Law School Stanford Law School is one of the nation's leading institutions for legal scholarship and education.

(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged in such complaint, to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.

Section 7606 of the act, Legitimacy of Industrial Hemp Research, defines industrial hemp as distinct and authorizes institutions of higher education or state departments of agriculture in states where hemp is legal to grow hemp for research or agricultural pilot programs.

In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, our legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer examines the legal liability of higher - education institutions for students who are homicidal or suicidal.

As a former attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, a special projects team attorney at the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, a law clerk to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and director of the Merrill Lynch Philanthropic SB Program, Mr. Dyson has extensive experience representing major institutions and variety of clients.

Members of our Education Focus Group advise educational institutions throughout Canada with respect to all of their legal needs.

He has provided legal and employment advice and assistance to higher education institutions such as the University of Vermont, St. Michael's College and Goddard College.

The position of the General Counsel advises BYU and other CES higher education institutions on all legal and regulatory matters.

It focuses on the extraordinarily broad and sophisticated set of legal challenges faced by contemporary post-secondary institutions and provides practical, concise, and accessible resources for professionals working in the higher - education arena.

This initiative is unique because it brings together justice sector institutions as partners in the creation of a large - scale online public legal education resource.

One such recommendation is the idea that educational institutions should create new models for legal education (recommendation 15).

An almost comparable institution in Ontario would be CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario), which is aimed more at «low - income and disadvantaged people» than Èducaloi seems to be (and which could do with a complete overhaul of its website).

Check out the website for Èducaloi [English version], Quèbec's legal education in plain language institution.

A search for «legal research» in the Social Sciences database turns up 683 results, such as Current Legal Research Topics Database, a database of provisional dissertation titles by students registered for research degrees in law at higher education institutions in the UK; Performing Legal Research: the Moldovan Experience on Globalex at the Hauser Global Law School Program at N.Y.U.; Philippine Legal Research by the Director of Library Services for the Supreme Court of the Philipplegal research» in the Social Sciences database turns up 683 results, such as Current Legal Research Topics Database, a database of provisional dissertation titles by students registered for research degrees in law at higher education institutions in the UK; Performing Legal Research: the Moldovan Experience on Globalex at the Hauser Global Law School Program at N.Y.U.; Philippine Legal Research by the Director of Library Services for the Supreme Court of the PhilippLegal Research Topics Database, a database of provisional dissertation titles by students registered for research degrees in law at higher education institutions in the UK; Performing Legal Research: the Moldovan Experience on Globalex at the Hauser Global Law School Program at N.Y.U.; Philippine Legal Research by the Director of Library Services for the Supreme Court of the PhilippLegal Research: the Moldovan Experience on Globalex at the Hauser Global Law School Program at N.Y.U.; Philippine Legal Research by the Director of Library Services for the Supreme Court of the PhilippLegal Research by the Director of Library Services for the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

[a] non-profit consortium of law schools that researches and develops computer - mediated legal instruction and supports institutions and individuals using technology and distance learning in legal education.

Actually, two of the most striking things about the current situation seem to me (by comparison with recent history) the convergence of interest by people and institutions traditionally separate within jurisdictions (e.g. inhabiting the worlds of PLE, legal aid, self represented litigants) and the degree of international linking helped by HiiL's entrepreneurialism (you can go to few countries in the world and not find that they have been there the week before) but also exampled by links the licensing of material from the Justice Education Society of British Columbia by California courts.

No matter what type of educational institution you serve, you know that your legal department faces a variety of issues that are unique to higher education, and sometimes even to your institution.

This task force should consist of representatives from the state court administrative office, civil legal services and pro bono programs, private practices from diverse practice settings throughout the state, potential clients, and institutions of higher education (including, but not limited to law schools).

The legal education and judicial institutions have neglected the demands of the profession.

The first institution of legal education was established in 1938 [2]-- fifteen years after the adoption of Afghanistan's first constitution in 1923, which necessitated the formalization of justice into law.

[3] Private institutions of higher education — most of which offer legal education — have only been permitted in the country since 2006.

Hardee Consulting is an international specialist consultancy, set up to provide expert advice and support to professional legal service firms, educational institutions and regulators, in the areas of legal education and training, knowledge management, practice management and professional regulation and compliance.

«When a private institution, such as Trinity Western University, seeks recognition as a provider of legal education to the public, it must respect the Charter's substantive equality protections.

The class, «Education Law: When to Call Outside Counsel,» covered a variety of legal issues that the students may confront in administering at institutions of higher learning.

While TWU is a private educational institution, it intends to issue law degrees that would be recognized by the public legal system through the Law Society and the Ministry of Advanced Education.

(Will a bunch of new online or other alternative legal - education institutions open?)

We understand the legal challenges facing institutions of higher education and have placed general counsel and other in - house attorneys at such institutions as Stanford University, Princeton University, the University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, Syracuse University, Columbia University, MIT, Catholic University, the University of California, the University of Michigan and the University of Florida.

The Advocacy Center assists with a variety of legal issues including, public benefits (Medicaid), special education, advocacy for rights of residents of institutions including nursing homes and prisons, cases involving issues of inaccessibility or discrimination, community integration, and issues related to self determination.

Listed in both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 as a leading junior in the field, Andrew acts for local authorities, schools, further and higher education institutions and individuals.

For more than 35 years, Major, Lindsey & Africa has helped attorneys and compliance professionals advance their in - house legal careers within corporate law departments, nonprofits, governmental agencies and higher education institutions.