Sentences with phrase «many legal academics»

Legal academics have argued that this sort of harm strikes at the heart of the common good, and that judges should count it against the moral and religious liberty claims of those seeking to avoid complicity with others» sins.

Richard Posner, well «known as both a federal judge and legal academic, is generally recognized as one of the chief originators of the law and economics movement.

It may be relevant, though, that I am one of the few American legal academics who has publicly endorsed the desirability of holding a new constitutional convention within the United States.

However, some legal academics have predicted that Reed will have sweeping, national effects — one calling the case «a shifting of the tectonic plates.»

This question is being asked more broadly in Law Schools as legal academics and lawyers bring design... [more]

«I am a legal academic commenting on the strange worlds of law, legal profession, bureaucracy, universities, and globalization.»

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.

Free forever, which would include research of state and federal law and the ability to read articles and analysis contributed to the site by lawyers, law firms and legal academics.

The legal opinion provided to the law society on Nov. 16, 2016, which I've made available here, spells out the constitutional basis far more clearly than anything I've seen thus far, including some quite embarrassing commentary from legal academics (i.e. Pardy).

Legal academics and practitioners share their insights on four themes in particular: comparative law, innovation in the legal regulation, criminal and non-criminal responses to financial crime and transnational cooperation.

Mine is a legal academic and law publishing background steeped in black - letter law, in which case and statute law and drawing upon analysis thereof and expertise therein, are paramount.

Legal publishing in jurisdictions like Victoria — or Canadian provinces for that matter — relies on legal academics or practising lawyers who work hard to write a book, which their publishers will know have very limited sales potential.

Canadian Lawyer welcomes commentary and op - ed pieces from members of the profession, students, legal academics, judges, and others in the legal community.

At the vanguard of this movement is free - access advocate Carl Malamud's Law.gov, which is convening a series of workshops and symposiums at law schools throughout the country, assisted by some of the nation's top legal academics.

S M i L E Social Media in Legal Education is a new collaborative project by Australian legal academics.

A while back, over at PrawfsBlawg, Martin Pritikin had a useful post collecting advice for legal academics looking to break into increasingly popular empirical legal studies (ELS).

Champerty and maintenance rules both came under attack from legal academics and influential commentators during the general rise of pro-litigation sentiment in the decades after 1950, and were dismissed as outdated and ethically wrongheaded.

In case you're wondering, I'm referring to legal academics and other legal...

According to these statistics, as women climb the legal academic career ladder, their chances of obtaining a leadership position on the next rung declines significantly.

An appointee must be a qualified lawyer or legal academic who has made a major contribution to the law of England and Wales outside practice in the courts.

We hope that our audience will include practicing lawyers, legal librarians, legal academics and students — anyone, in short, who uses IT in researching the law.

If any judge, lawyer or legal academic has written on the «reliability» of machines controlled by software code, I will be delighted to be made aware of such work.

Most practitioners accept that figure, arrived at by the legal academic Professor Stephen Mason.

And apropos that, there is an unfortunate convergence with the topic of arrogance that I feel must be pointed out, partly because I am very concerned about the degree to which legal academics are choosing to do far more than hold up mirrors.

Canada is going through its own debate about the separation between the executive / legislature and the judiciary, and legal academics and politicians are already weighing in.

Western Law hosted a forum on pension reform this past Thursday, featuring community leaders, legal academics, and practitioners.

Three law professors last month launched Legal Profession Blog, where they will follow topics including ethics, bar discipline, comparative professions, professional responsiblity and the interaction between legal academics and practice.

Contributions come from lawyers, legal academics, law students and many others with experience in analyzing the law.

For example, the well known legal academic Prof. William Twining published a summary response last month on the importance of the role of ethics and philosophy in legal training, and reducing an overloaded undergraduate curriculum.

One English legal academic has described the analysis and result in JGE as «an attempt to create a new overarching category of vicarious liability».

Dr Stephanie Pywell is a freelance legal academic.

It outlines how a proper case for self - defence was not made in respect to necessity and proportionality, and Canada's NATO obligations were therefore improperly invoked under international law, points that have been raised before by other legal academics.

Also, it seems that some UK legal academics who know what they're talking about believe the trial judge got the law wrong, even if the result is right.

The figure was arrived at by Professor Stephen Mayson, the legal academic who came up with the memorable and equally alarming finding that as many as 3,000 law firms could go to the wall as a result of the reforms flowing from the Legal Services Act 2007.

This is the first time we will have legal academics step back and look at the global legal industry as a whole and acknowledge patterns that have evolved over the last few decades... We will take broad data analysis from within the United States and compare it to trends and patterns that span other continents.

The Marks Fellowship is designed to assist attorneys who are interested in pursuing a full - time legal academic career in some area of intellectual property law.

Its members have a range of professional backgrounds, including legal academics, practising lawyers, judges and those working in governmental or non-governmental organisations.

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.

Replacing the third - year of law school with an LPP - type program means less demand for legal academics.

Strongly supported programs to instruct students, cultivate the next genera - tion of legal academics, and sponsor original research are vital.

And it's such a scourge on the profession that law societies, bar associations, and legal academics have tried to tackle the «problem.»

«On the most prosaic level, legal academics often need legal materials outside of regular working hours,» he wrote in an e-mail.

I can tell you there is no slow down on the publising of legal academic titles.

I think that law schools have been getting better at providing practical training, for example, on Wednesday I met a lot of legal academics in London, and there are definitely schools there where the academics are serious about legal tech.

One of the things progressive legal academics love to angst about is the relationship between minority rights and the courts.

The UN WGAD Assange decision has been met with general ridicule from British officials, legal academics and the press.

The bigger story as pointed out by CNN Money reporter, Lydia DePillis, and widely acknowledged by attorneys and legal academics is the patchwork of different state labor laws and how they will impact the gig economy and workers.

Perhaps if legal academics were more given to writing (and valuing) review essays, this problem would be less serious.

I truly think it's wonderful that legal academics often have great ideas about ways that lawyers can either earn less or give away our earnings to make the legal system more accessible.

Its aim is to help lawyers and legal academics figure out what to read, not only in their own area of specialization, but also outside it.