Sentences with phrase «of academic law»

Hi Steve — of course accuracy and currency are important, and I don't know of any academic law librarian who does not try to impart this in the training the give in law school legal research sessions.

The Bag, as it is known, has even published the most widely read history of academic law librarianship yet written.

As our community of academic law libraries becomes smaller and more anemic, our university libraries may be able to provide us with a transfusion of new skills and influence within a wider information environment with greater collaborative potential, which we could use to further and promote legal information initiatives in our institutions and nationally.

I am currently writing an article which basically looks at and updates a piece I published five years ago on the future of academic law libraries.

Outside of the academic law library world a couple of noteworthy bibliographies include the Suggested Textbooks section of Catherine Best's Guide to Canadian Legal Research and the Legaltree.ca website's Resources by Subject Area

The conference was attended almost exclusively by law firm librarians, with a sprinkling of academic law librarians and vendors sprinkled in.

CALL or CanLII or one of the academic law libraries could host the work (or a new site could be set up).

The concept of the online course, now fighting its way to legitimacy, may be the last straw to the centrality of the academic law library in the United States.

This reality has required me seriously to consider the function of an academic law library in the digital age.

From the perspective of an academic law librarian, and after having heard from and spoken to law librarians from many sectors last month at CALL, I'd say you've pointedly and accurately summed up our concerns about looseleaf titles generally and, specifically, about their supplementation.

The fist of the academic law libraries to abandon KF Modified was the University of Toronto's Bora Laskin Law Library.

Below is the letter from Annette Demers on behalf of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL / ACBD) and John Papadopoulos and Jeanne Maddix on behalf of the Canadian Council of Academic Law Library Directors which was also endorsed by Robert Thomas on behalf of the Saskatchewan Library Association.

Not exact matches

Numerous other examples of Google influencing academics are highlighted by the Journal's report, including one from University of Michigan law professor Daniel Crane who declined to take money from Google to support his paper that argued against «antitrust regulation of internet search engines.»

Gregory Simon, the chief executive of large - scale crowdfunding site Poliwogg, told the Washington Post: «There's another kind of fraud, and that's when Congress and the president pass and sign a law, and thousands of companies organize according to the principles in that law... but academics and people in consumer groups who disagree with the law make it their mission to prevent the law from going into effect.»

Conversely, the law and economics movement (yes, it's a political platform as much as an academic one) takes a decidedly dim view of government and regulation, treating those things as sand in the gears of the market.

Academic research suggests the real impact of the laws is not nearly as dramatic as the debate suggests.

The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law Tuesday released a report summarizing academic studies and other documented evidence of employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

The centre acts as a catalyst to exploit the concentration of academic and health sector talent in the private sector, at the University of Toronto (in medicine, law, economics, and bioethics among others) and the Rotman School.

And even though these are merely proposed restrictions for now — it's hard to test the constitutionality of a press release, one environmental law academic noted — they could well become a second front in the ongoing battle against transporting bitumen across rivers, alongside lakes and toward oceans.

Institutional shareholders are closely aligned with the proxy firms; law firms make their bread and butter from corporate management, while issuers and academics have concerns about many aspects of the process.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

I am familiar with the Trans - Tasman application because the hearing took place during my stay in New Zealand as an academic visitor with the Te Piringa Faculty of Law at the University of Waikato.

In her book Law and Reorder, published by the American Bar Association in 2010, she describes a legal profession «where the billable hour no longer works»; where attorneys, judges, recruiters, and academics all agree that this system of compensation has perverted the industry, leading to brutal work hours, massive inefficiency, and highly inflated costs.

He was a Visiting Professor, New York University Law School, 2007; President and CEO of the C. D. Howe Institute from 1999 - 2006; Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at the Department of Finance, Ottawa; and Associate Dean (Academic) of the Faculty of Management, University of Toronto, 1993 — 1995.

One of the four panelists at the hearing, Peter Conti - Brown, an Academic Fellow at Stanford Law School whose forthcoming book, The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve, will be published by Princeton University Press, also weighed in on the Fed's General Counsel.

In 1705, Law published an academic paper in which he argued against the use of precious - metal backed currency in favor of «paper» or fiat currency, claiming that the use of fiat currency would stimulate commerce (Smant, 2001).

Law professors write solely for other academics, but since their underlying religious / ideological / political positions are relatively conventional, they can also reassure their co «ideologues outside of the academy that someone really smart who speaks the language of modern moral / legal theory is on their side.

«Professor Siddiqui, supported by a panel with a strong balance of academic, religious and legal expertise, will help us better understand whether and the extent to which Sharia law is being misused or exploited and make recommendations to the government on how to address this.»

The new natural law has established itself in a niche in a rarefied corner of the academic world, and this in itself was no easy accomplishment.

A symposium of church leaders, law and justice professionals and academics of different races has taken place in Westminster looking at ways to tackle the problem.

Government needs a more practical, less academic social policy aimed at the deficiencies of public authority» law enforcement, school standards, and work requirements» that the research itself suggests are central to poverty today.

He is one of a chorus of critics whose expertise ranges across the academic disciplines - philosophers, geologists, drama critics, literary men and women, students of law and of history, theologians, and so on.

As an academic specializing in contemporary Japan (law and constitutional politics), and as a member of a partly Christian (Catholic) Japanese family for close to forty years, perhaps I might add a few facts and comments for perspective.

The question was how much of that law we could know from natural reason (or academic philosophy), and how much we could know only from Scripture or the Church.

Catholic schools, for example, used to think of academic freedom as in the service of the truth we find in natural law, the truth about abortion, the relational person, and so forth.

The case represents the latest volley in a culture war of sorts as courts and academics — not to mention employers and employees — try to reconcile the law's fundamental commitment to two principles increasingly emerging at loggerheads: religious liberty and women's health.

One of the brightest lights in the academic firmament is the annual fall conference hosted by the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame — a two - day feast of reason and revelation begun by the CEC's founder, philosopher David Solomon, and continued by his successor, law professor Carter Snead.

There is no law against daydreaming, but science must not indulge in it [Evolution of Living Organisms (Academic Press, 1977)-RSB-.

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.

The symbolic significance of the Army's murder of the country's leading academic and religious figures can not be overstated: the deaths signal that, once again, no one is safe from Army and death squad violence... The Bush Administration has taken the position that the Jesuit murders were a dramatic departure from Salvadoran army policy, and represent an opportunity for President Cristiani to demonstrate that the army is not above the law.

This intellectual formation works against the metaphysical foundations of natural law reasoning, and therefore most people find the arguments remote and unconvincing — «academic» in the bad sense of being about something other than the real world we live in.

The counter-majoritarian preferences are not simply those of a law - trained elite, but those of a wider cultural elite that includes journalists, academics, entertainers, and the like.

Conference members represent the many facets of the dairy industry, including the dairy farmer, processing plant personnel, people who inspect dairy farm operations and / or the processing plants, people who make and / or enforce the laws concerning the inspections, academic researchers and advisers and consumers of dairy products.

But as cases of academic fraud and evidence of steering continue, it's becoming easier for those attacking the NCAA to point to substantive evidence that the NCAA does promote education enough to allow it to blatantly violate antitrust laws.

One of the most active athletic trainers» association at the state level is in New Jersey, which was the first state to require by law that coaches receive safety training, is among the 40 states that have enacted strong youth concussion safety laws, and has been a leader in advocating for academic accommodations for concussed student - athletes.

Here you will find articles about information on the latest research about the long - term effects of concussion on an athlete's cognitive function, articles on whether the new state concussion safety laws are increasing concussion safety, advice on the academic accomodations concussed student - athletes often need when they return to the classroom, and about the latest in concussion research.

LONDON 10 May, 2016 — A new version of the Global Resource & Information Directory (GRID) launched today will provide governments, industry, law enforcement, educators and academics with a comprehensive digital resource to better protect children online including from sexual exploitation, said UNICEF and the Family Online Safety Institute.

A new version of the Global Resource and Information Directory launched today will provide governments, industry, law enforcement, educators and academics with a comprehensive digital resource to better protect children online including from sexual exploitation.

This term, popularized by Yale Law School professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua, reflects the belief that «academic achievement reflects successful parenting,» a belief held by the vast majority of Asian parents.

Colin Hawes is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney and an academic visitor at the Centre for Socio - Legal Studies, Oxford University.