Sentences with phrase «legal research professors»

And finally, to the extent that their legal research professors have any preference as to what resource students should use, students are either unaware of that preference or simply unaffected by it.

In fact, you don't even need a citation to retrieve a published case these days.33 And beyond the obvious benefits of ease and convenience, this is excellent news for legal research professors; we no longer need to teach the nuts and bolts of navigating arcane legal sources.

The same could be true of the next generation of lawyers and their current legal research professors.2 We have likely reached a point at which our frames of reference diverge sufficiently that we don't share a common reference point for approaching the structure of legal research.3 Arguably, the tech - saturated millennials need a solid research foundation more than any generation before them.4 Yet many of them regard our legal research instruction as cumbersome or outdated.5 Having grown up using intuitive electronic devices, and using them to good advantage, 6 many modern law students resist legal research methods that require rigidity, formality, or — worst of all — a trip to a print library.7 Indeed, many of them are downright «mistrustful both of physical libraries and of those who extol their virtues.»

Throughout the entirety of my career as an Academic Law Librarian and Legal Research Professor, my colleagues and I debated with the question of whether or not we should be (1) tenure track and, if so, (2) considered part of the law school faculty and invited to participate in the governance of the school.

Sarah is a former academic law librarian and legal research professor.

Not exact matches

There were 3,400 legal defenses mounted by small businesses in 2011 for patent cases, a 32 % increase over the prior year, according to research paper from 2012 by Boston University law professors James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer.

He's a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and he studies the use of empirical research to inform legal policy; and he's the author of an article in the August issue of Scientific American titled, «How New York Beat Crime», about the reasons for the huge drops in crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest city.

We hope that these insights will help to build a foundation for better understanding, and perhaps one day better combatting, decision - making biases in the legal system,» said co-author Owen Jones, professor of law and biological sciences at Vanderbilt and director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience.

2 April: SMH: Peter Hannam: «Conspiracist» climate change study withdrawn amid legal threats Climate change academics say the decision by a publisher to retract their paper examining the links between conspiracy theorists and denial of global warming because of legal threats could have a «chilling effect» on research... «Sadly, it has turned into a routine for outsiders with no scientific standing to approach, bully, or intimidate journals, editors, and academics,» said Professor Lewandowsky, now at the UK's University of Bristol.

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Tom Smith, professor at University of San Diego School of Law and CEO of legal research site PreCYdent, lets his algorithm loose on Sotomayor's cases.

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English common law is the most widespread legal system in the world with 30 % of the world's population living under its rule, according to new research by Professor Philip Wood, special global counsel at Allen & Overy, and author of Maps of World Financial Law.

Prof. Bainbridge says that as far as he can tell, these days law schools hiring professors focus almost solely on qualifications that do not have a «goddamn thing to do with the practice of law» such as «having a PhD» or «having multiple publications, even if they demonstrate the author's utter lack of doctrinal knowledge or inability to do basic legal research.»

The letter expressed concern that the blog post in question sent «a message that legal research and writing («LRW») courses are not rigorous, underestimates the ability of LRW faculty to comment on students» cognitive skills, harms students by discounting the valuable and thoughtful insight we have to offer about students seeking to transfer to Yale, and devalues LRW professors as a whole.»

Chicago - Kent College of Law, for example, has been experimenting with digital casebooks since the 1990s.160 Other professors argue that reading in digital format is inevitable.161 In general, those who call for more integration of technology into legal education suggest, besides digital textbooks, the use of online course management; use of listservs, blogs, and email to facilitate collaboration and communication outside of class; and the use of video - based instruction and electronic legal research aids.

We, who are interested in legal research, are a fortunate community when our leading librarians, professors, and scholars look forward negotiating new paths.

She also served as a Legal Research Assistant to Professor Kerri Stone, where she researched and contributed to articles on employment discrimination and harassment.

While still in law school, he represented clients in disability and discrimination cases as a member of Harvard's clinical programs, worked as a research assistant for Professor Christine Jolls and volunteered as a summer legal intern at the Whitman - Walker Clinic, a community - based center providing a range of health care services in Washington, D.C.

But as professors, we recognize the fine balance between offering models, on the one hand, and helping students to become independent legal thinkers, on the other.93 An independent legal thinker is capable of tailoring research efforts to meet the specific demands of the project at hand.94 So the most effective research models are broad and flexible, rather than rigid or detailed.

In recent years, legal writing professors and law librarians have given much scholarly attention to questions of pedagogy and training in a world of online legal research.

The turning point — or perhaps springboard — for TAR's adoption can be traced to 2011, when two e-discovery researchers, Maura R. Grossman, then a practicing lawyer and now a research professor at the University of Waterloo, and Gordon V. Cormack, co-director of the Information Retrieval Group at the University of Waterloo, analyzed data from the 2009 TREC Legal Track involving the use of TAR processes.

Lori Berman is the Director of Professional Development at Hogan Lovells US LLP and an Adjunct Professor and Research Affiliate at the Georgetown Law Center for the Study of the Legal Profession.

As discussed in detail in Part III, today total public spending for the Legal Services Corporation and other legal aid, combined with charitable donations for legal aid, is about $ 3.7 billion per year, [11] whereas Professor Gillian Hadfield's research estimates that $ 50 billion per year would be required to secure one hour of legal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related nLegal Services Corporation and other legal aid, combined with charitable donations for legal aid, is about $ 3.7 billion per year, [11] whereas Professor Gillian Hadfield's research estimates that $ 50 billion per year would be required to secure one hour of legal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related nlegal aid, combined with charitable donations for legal aid, is about $ 3.7 billion per year, [11] whereas Professor Gillian Hadfield's research estimates that $ 50 billion per year would be required to secure one hour of legal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related nlegal aid, is about $ 3.7 billion per year, [11] whereas Professor Gillian Hadfield's research estimates that $ 50 billion per year would be required to secure one hour of legal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related nlegal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related needs.

Professor Jasminka Kalajdzic of the University of Windsor's law school in Ontario researched ABSs in the UK and Australia and found no evidence that ABSs reduced legal fees or increased access to justice.

The MoU, signed by Professor Eric Fouache, Vice Chancellor at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and David Gallo, Director, DIFC Academy of Law, will seek collaboration on legal research and training that benefits the UAE legal community.

The Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute announced today that Professor Ian Gallagher, Professor of Law and Director of Legal Communication and Research at Syracuse University School of Law, is the 2018 recipient of the Thomas Blackwell Award.

Beth Hirschfelder Wilensky is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has taught legal analysis, research, writing, and communication since 2003.

By helping cite check a brief or search cases in a more nuanced way than current search engines, EVA can complement the work of lawyers and law professors and provide more people with access to legal research.

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The main competing text at that time was Fundamentals of Legal Research by Professor Jacobstein and Mersky.

When I went to work for Professor Morris Cohen at Harvard Law School in 1978 to serve as Deputy Director of the Library, he talked with me about joining him as co-author of How to Find the Law, the West Hornbook on legal bibliography and legal research that had already passed through seven editions.

The courses are taught by a faculty of well - known legal professionals, such as Ken Adams of Adams Drafting, Ross Fishman of Fishman Marketing, George Washington University legal research and writing professor Christy Hallam DeSanctis, and Charles H. Rose III, director of the Center for Excellence in Advocacy at Stetson Law School.

This finding comes out of research performed by Susan Nevelow Mart, director of the law library and associate professor at the University of Colorado Law School, where she teaches advanced legal research and analysis and environmental legal research.

Professor Ogbogu's teaching and research interests include health law, law and bioethics, law and biotechnology, and the legal history of biomedicine, public health and health care policies.

New research commissioned by the Law Society and produced by Professor Donald Hirsch of Loughborough University reveals that people on incomes 10 % to 30 % below the poverty line are being excluded from legal aid.

Therefore, a law professor could be subject to sanction by the Law Society for discussing details of a case they were once involved in with students, even if those facts are readily available in textbooks and legal research databases.

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** Professor of Legal Research and Writing.

There is also a risk of overburdening legal writing professors who will have to develop at least basic expertise in the international and foreign legal systems and methods of research involved in such additional components.

Southwestern Law School, for example, has incorporated empirical research on lawyers» careers into a class in its mandatory first - year curriculum: «Professionalism explicitly grounds the course through the introduction of case studies of lawyers» careers that have been drawn from empirical research...» 23 Indiana University's Mauer School of Law has introduced a four - credit first - year course on the Legal Profession that similarly involves students in learning about lawyers» careers using empirical research and discussions with practicing lawyers.24 Interestingly, in both cases, the deans of the law schools themselves are part of the professor team teaching these new first - year courses.

Law professors and social scientists who are advocating more use of empirical research often fail to take seriously the forms of expertise that are particular to legal professionals — in particular, the forms of normative reasoning that translate the «is» of social science into the «ought» or «must» of law.19

Social scientists understandably complain about uninformed forays into their domains by law professors and legal practitioners who use empirical research in opportunistic and even quite obviously mistaken ways.20 And yet, some of the new empiricists are equally guilty of approaching the legal world in opportunistic fashion, failing to take legal knowledge and expertise seriously.

For example, in the final decades of the twentieth century, legal writing and «skills» professors have occupied the cutting - edge in terms of integrating literary scholarship on narrative and language into legal research and scholarship.

My next door neighbour at Heenan Blaikie, Ryan Teschner lent me this morning a history of the Queen's Law School at 50 — «Let Right Be Done»: A History of the Faculty of Law at Queen's University by Professor Mark D. Walters I was very pleased to see 3 pages about the early days of computerized legal research in Common Law Canada, which all started at KingstonThe story of Datum / Soquij is for another day..

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Laura Beth Nielsen is an ABF research professor, a Northwestern sociology professor and director of the university's Center for Legal Studies.

Adjunct Professor, Ethics, Standards and Values in the Law, The American Legal System, Constitutional Law and Legal Research and Writing, University Of North Florida, Senior Seminar, U.S. Supreme Court And Federal Courts

Professor Carolyn Evans, Dean of the Melbourne Law School, wrote the foreword for the State of the Legal Market — 2015 white paper (available from Melbourne Law School or simple write to me), which is based on research by Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor of financial information from 23 major Australian law firms for the financial year to 30 June 2015.

The CISDL has a director, 9 lead counsel (leading six different legal research programmes, plus three with responsibility for cross-cutting issues) and senior research fellows (professors in international law faculties), research fellows (mainly legal professionals) and associate fellows (graduate or law students).