Sentences with phrase «things academic law»

A blog about all things academic law libraries and legal research.

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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.

In the debate over the future of the No Child Left Behind Act, policymakers, educators, and researchers seem to agree on one thing: The federal law's accountability system should be rewritten so it rewards or sanctions schools on the basis of students» academic growth.

The only things off limits are laws on academic and financial accountability, student assessment and district governance.

Letting other people see your data as required by the Law and academic convention would be another Good Thing.

It is a form of discrimination, and schools like Osgoode have been able to alleviate some of the effects of this by looking past the LSAT scores to encapsulate an assessment of their applicants by looking at things like community involvement academic performance, and challenges faced by certain minorities in applying to Law school.

«[M] ost of what people take the time to write is legal analysis, law current events, opinions about these things, etc.» Again, he is talking about academics, but the point is true of a range of legal blogs.

Among those who present themselves with specific academic or professional backgrounds, such as a law degree, an accountancy or tax qualification or who are legally qualified, occasionally one hears that the reason that they have applied is that things haven't worked out well in the pursuit of some other career path.

Three things strike me about international law in the work of a government lawyer today: first, it is all - pervasive; second, the questions that arise and the context in which they are considered are extraordinarily complex; and, finally, I am struck by the intense scrutiny these legal issues are subjected to by states and courts around the world, academics and the public.

Among other things, the Act provides for the establishment of by - laws, including by - laws that relate to academic requirements and experience for registration, member conduct and standards of practice.

At a moment at which there are many serious criticisms of liberalism and / or questions about its future, combined with substantial unanimity among legal academics about various progressive values (as seen, to be clear, through an establishment lens) and the routine invocation in current scholarly and public writing of things like «rule of law,» faith in judicial review, and so on, there is a lot of room for interesting and valuable work questioning those assumptions and premises.

One of my jobs at Osgoode Hall Law School over the past few years has been to mediate between the IT people and the faculty, and so I know a little about this vexed meeting of minds, but I'd imagined that somehow things would be better worked out in the professional context of practice than in the sometimes quirky academic world.

The second edition of my Academic Legal Writing textbook has just been published, and it now covers how to get onto law review — with, among other things, lots of tips on write - on competitions — as well as how to write the student articles that law review members (and others) write.

It's one thing to talk about law practice management topics in a podcast, but it's another one to see podcasts as a medium for credible commentary or even as a source of law (at least if one can imagine that academics providing long - form commentary about Québec civil law in a podcast would be creating «doctrine»).

And, these disclosures should occur not just for things like congressional testimony but in other outlets for academics» work — including law reviews and, yes, even blogs.