Sentences with phrase «reasons for law students»

There are compelling reasons for law students to volunteer in law clinics and participate in public legal education activities.

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Natural Law and Public Affairs: for advanced undergraduate and early graduate students, a seminar bringing natural law reasoning to bear on contemporary controversies in politics and public poliLaw and Public Affairs: for advanced undergraduate and early graduate students, a seminar bringing natural law reasoning to bear on contemporary controversies in politics and public polilaw reasoning to bear on contemporary controversies in politics and public policy.

Recent outcomes supported by the BRICC Coalition include the passage of KRS - 244 medical amnesty law in Kentucky, AlcoholEdu & Haven population level prevention, support for Greeks Advocating Mature Management of Alcohol (GAMMA) student organization and development / dissemination of the Voice of Reason Initiative.

Two years later, a group of more than 100 U.S. university presidents and chancellors known as the Amethyst Initiative called for a re-evaluation of the legal drinking age — citing a «clandestine» culture of heavy drinking episodes among college students as one reason that the age - 21 law is not working.

The reason for these differences was that the law students had stereotypical believes that child victims should appear emotional.

That FERPA (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) was probably violated multiple times in assembling this valuable database while no student's privacy was placed at the slightest risk is a good reason for Congress to rethink laws in this area.

The main reason for the lack of accurate information is that private schools do not operate under the provisions of the federal law that furnishes aid to the states for students identified as needing special education.

Voucher programs are governed by different laws in different states, but most allow private schools to accept taxpayer dollars yet reject students with vouchers for a variety of reasons, ranging from disability to ability to pay.

It's unclear how the news that Connections Academy surpassed that mark will affect the school if at all, given state law this school year allows a handful of additional exceptions, including students who cite «personal» reasons for leaving, students who move out of state and a handful more.

For example, when students brainstorm reasons for immigration laws, they need to know not only about immigration laws but also what brainstorming means, and how to do it weFor example, when students brainstorm reasons for immigration laws, they need to know not only about immigration laws but also what brainstorming means, and how to do it wefor immigration laws, they need to know not only about immigration laws but also what brainstorming means, and how to do it well.

Should the public charter school choose the supplemental funding, the public charter school may only expel a student for a reason expressly allowed in law and must provide a disciplinary alternative education program or juvenile justice alternative education program, as applicable.

The data show that students of color and students with disabilities continue to be disproportionally pushed out of school, and referred to law enforcement, for disciplinary reasons.

For that reason, USA TODAY used open - records laws to secure the test scores of millions of individual students from four states — Ohio, Michigan, Florida and Arizona — and Washington, D.C., then analyzed them to determine long - term trends for those individuaFor that reason, USA TODAY used open - records laws to secure the test scores of millions of individual students from four states — Ohio, Michigan, Florida and Arizona — and Washington, D.C., then analyzed them to determine long - term trends for those individuafor those individuals.

Our students need a stable, experienced and high - quality teaching workforce; current laws ensure experienced teachers have a right to a hearing and are not dismissed for arbitrary or unfair reasons.

A student loan lawyer can help determine whether you have a reason to file a lawsuit against a collector for violation of federal or state debt collection laws.

By this Charter, the Governing Council is directed to obtain and to deploy whatever resources may be necessary for the energetic furtherance of the ambitions and activities of the Foundation, which shall conduct research, publish papers, educate students and the public and take every measure that may be necessary to restore the primacy and use of reason in science and public policy worldwide, especially insofar as they may bear upon the rights of the people fairly and fully to be informed, openly and freely to debate, and secretly by ballot to decide who shall govern them, what laws they shall live by and what imposts they shall endure.»

Until the problem is solved, lawyers and law students best beware such obsolescent law societies, and for similar reasons, beware the proponents of «alternative business structures,» in whatever form and size proposed.

Continuing students with a registered Bloomberg Law ID automatically will have full access all summer for any reason (educational or commercial).

There are reasons for this — including the especially compelling «statutes are mind - numbingly boring» argument — but what concerns me is that law students rarely get a realistic view of how important statutes will be in practice.

Yet law students and academics continue to focus on them, seemingly for the very reasons they aren't important.

But one thing is certain, a lot of law students and lawyers are trying to become military lawyers for whatever reason.

One is that most law professors are very able at teaching the casuistic (in its original, not pejorative, meaning) process which is legal analysis (and many other types of logical analysis) which process, for whatever reason, the students» undergraduate professors weren't able to adequately explain.

Given the reasons for the previous renditions of Western's student law review being discontinued, the possibility of a topically - focused law review has been considered.

While it is easy for the law school administrations and academics to preach about their obligation to open up the profession and admit more students so as to avoid a monopoly in the profession the real reason for the decision to increase enrollment, at the University of Ottawa in particular, but I would suggest at each of the law schools in the province, has been a purely selfish financial one on behalf of the law schools and their faculty members.

However, that legal writing centers may in part draw upon positivist theory does not mean that they should be the remedial writing centers that appeared in universities in the 1940s and 1950s.91 Nor should the law school writing center be offered as a proofreading, cite - checking, or line - editing service for students; though tutors can provide generalized feedback and answer questions on issues of small - scale organization such as sentence structure and word choice, legal writers must be responsible for the polishing of their own documents, for both professional and ethical reasons.

Regardless of the reason, whether a student decided to study externally to gain international experience, or to take advantage of more practical legal training offered in schools such as in the United States, or because the applicant is an immigrant with a law degree from another country, they face unique hurdles in finding articling roles (assuming that they do not qualify for an exemption from the Experiential Training requirement.

I would estimate over 90 % of the student contributors on Law is Cool opt for anonymous posts, mostly for this reason.

For these reasons, doctrinal professors should not assume that legal writing classes teach the skills that are needed on law school exams, nor should they expect that students would intuitively understand how to transfer the skills taught in their legal writing classes to an exam context.

69 UMKC L. Rev. 499, 501 n. 10 (2001)(«Many legal educators believe that law schools should deliver legal education, particularly in the first year, in the same way (Socratically) to all students, that one test per semester is a true measure of student competency, and that those who don't succeed under that [M] ethod should be excluded from law school for academic reasons.»).

PBSC turns away over 700 law students each year for no other reason than a lack of capacity to support more placements.

One of the reasons for the outstanding nature of the contribution this blog makes to legal scholarship is the number of law students, practicing lawyers and law professors from all across Canada who are among its contributors.

Some people, usually foreign nationals, pursue either an L.L.M. (often in what amounts to comparative law), for reasons that aren't always entirely clear to me, or an S.J.D. for the same reasons that a domestic student would.

The Law Bod has subscriptions to legal databases which are good for Canadian materials: for licensing reasons access is limited to current OU students & faculty members.

For that reason, we provide law school and paralegal students, faculty, and administrators hands - on exposure to our leading practice management software, free of charge.

Is it fair to the student who graduated from law school but, for one reason or another, was unable to land a paid articling position?

And I agree that the main reason for such type of education is «Law schools don't teach their students to «think like lawyers,» which is their standard promise; they teach students to think like law professors, which is hardly surprising given that law professors, not lawyers, determine the curriculum and do most of the teaching&raquLaw schools don't teach their students to «think like lawyers,» which is their standard promise; they teach students to think like law professors, which is hardly surprising given that law professors, not lawyers, determine the curriculum and do most of the teaching&raqulaw professors, which is hardly surprising given that law professors, not lawyers, determine the curriculum and do most of the teaching&raqulaw professors, not lawyers, determine the curriculum and do most of the teaching».

When you teach at law school, as I have, you become familiar with a variety of reasons as to why students choose to study law — perhaps there's a history of lawyers in the family; or their parents want them to do something, anything professional; or they want to right wrongs, get that BMW, enter politics, point damning fingers at witnesses... Even with those students who wound up in law school with apparently only a shrug for a reason, some explanation eventually surfaced.

For a variety of reasons covered here before — closer scrutiny by more sophisticated and motivated clients, new technology and processes capable of handling rote work cheaply, low - cost alternatives to associates in low - cost jurisdictions — large firms won't be able to employ armies of associates on work that a bright law student could do.

In his reasons for judgment the trial judge referred to the fact that one of the children was a law student at U of T — she was in my class.

My experience is that a powerful majority of law school students go in for the wrong reasons, hate law school, and graduate with more regrets and debt than anything else.

Objectives of the tournament are to: Teach students ethics, civility and professionalism; Further students» understanding of the law, court procedures and the legal system; Improve proficiency in basic life skills, such as listening, speaking, reading and reasoning; Promote better communication and cooperation among the school community, teachers and students and members of the legal profession, and; Heighten appreciation for academic studies and stimulate interest in law - related careers.

One reason the bi-modal structure is so jarring is that it demonstrates that measures of central tendency, such as average or median, are not necessarily reliable guides for law students» future earning power.

The GDL laws were created for a reason and should always be strictly followed and enforced by parents and students alike.