Sentences with phrase «upper year courses»

All first year doctrinal courses, and some upper year courses (in the winter term), will be taught in shorter (10 week) terms with longer class times to allow professors to use innovative and interactive teaching methods.

When submitting your application, please include a cover letter, resume, law school and undergraduate transcripts, and a list of anticipated upper year courses.

While information is available describing all of our courses in greater detail, let me note that over 2/3 of our 1st year courses include distinct consideration of relevant Aboriginal legal issues arising within those subjects, as do over 1/3 of our upper year courses to date.

Additionally, upper year courses in subjects such as Natural Resource Law, Environmental Law and Administrative law will likely contain some reference — and in some cases without a lot of reference — to the issues raised by Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, Aboriginal title, Aboriginal rights and Treaty rights — as part of a broader syllabus.

Our lawyers are recognized as leading practitioners and have taught upper year courses at Osgoode Hall Law School.

The prize is awarded to the student with the highest final mark in the upper years course in the J.D. program.

Not exact matches

After all, Stenebo has watched Kamprad's «incompetent» male spawn move into the top spots at Ikea, being groomed to run the show, while the 20 years he spent working his way up from a German Ikea warehouse, to upper management, to being Kamprad's right - hand man have run their course.

When the year began, many investors anticipated strong earnings growth mostly coming from the energy sector, and many oil analysts had targeted crude prices in the upper US$ 50s to low US$ 60 / barrel range over the course of 2017.

The number of states that require high school students to complete a course in economics has dropped over the last two years, and mandates for personal finance education in the upper grades remain stagnant, a new survey shows.

After all, what would you rather have: Khalil Mack (eating $ 25 million per year in cap space) or Myles Garrett, 3 picks in the top 10 this year (all will be immediate impact players filling our holes on offense and defense of course), AND an extra $ 25 million in available cap space to spend on three upper - echelon guys at DT, ILB, and DB.

When the team looked at the overall balance between the radiation upward from the surface of the ice sheet and the radiation both upward and downward from the upper levels of the atmosphere across all infrared wavelengths over the course of a year, they found that in central Antarctica the surface and lower atmosphere, against expectation, actually lose more energy to space if the air contains greenhouse gases, the researchers report online and in a forthcoming Geophysical Research Letters.

The imbalance, said Serra, starts the following year with Intermediate Microeconomics, which is a requirement for upper - level economics courses and so is a good indicator of a desire to major in economics.

Serra's results showed that among female students exposed to the enthusiastic mentors there was a 12 - percentage point increase in the percentage of female students enrolling in the upper - level Intermediate Microeconomics course the following year — a 100 % increase, or doubling, for that demographic.

Each winter the team has to locate the telescope, the upper part of which drifts slightly over the course of the year.

Applicants must have a doctoral degree in physics, physical science, or engineering with either an undergraduate degree in physics or at least three upper - division (3rd or 4th year undergraduate) physics courses.

In the study, the participants with preexisting white matter lesions who followed a program of upper and lower body weight training twice a week over the course of one year had a significantly slower progression of the white matter lesions.

The coalition government led by Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has launched a 20 - year Strategic Development Plan that began in 2011 aiming at transforming Timor - Leste in the course of the next two decades, from low middle income country to upper middle income with an annual per capita income of at least $ 10,000.

Such probes typically result in agreements that give the districts a few months to review the policies and practices in schools and identify inequality in upper - level courses and, subsequently, less than a year to come up with a plan to rectify the shortcomings.

In order to be used successfully with a larger audience of upper elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms, a model VFT module should be designed for use at various times over the course of the year, and at multiple times during the day.

● The traditional school system plans to add new electives and extra-curricular offerings at its comprehensive high schools this year, including many more Advanced Placement courses, due to a budget increase for the upper grades.

When the year began, many investors anticipated strong earnings growth mostly coming from the energy sector, and many oil analysts had targeted crude prices in the upper US$ 50s to low US$ 60 / barrel range over the course of 2017.

A short drive from the apartment a new golf course opened in the upper part of Riviera this year - Calanova Golf.

In this work, Wilke listened to a loop of selected messages left on her answering machine over the course of several years by former and current lovers, relatives, friends while undressing to reveal their names spelled out all over her upper body.

After opening first in Liverpool earlier in the autumn, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 has alighted once more at the ICA, taking up both the lower and upper galleries with an exhibition of work by 55 artists graduating this year from BA and MA courses the length and breadth of the country.

But the great drought of the xinmao year dried up the riverbed in the upper course, forcing the villagers to move their net boxes tens of li downstream.

Of course the oceans take 500-1500 years to oscilate fully, so the short term variances are only the exchange with upper layers.

Now and in the coming years, the United States will be able to provide the most cushion to its citizenry (at least, to the upper classes) from the dangers of climate chaos (of course, indigenous people, low - income people, and people of color, will continue to be more disposable).

Last month, I taught a new course called «21st - Century Lawyering» to upper - year students at Suffolk University Law School in Boston (where I hold the marvellous title of «Legal Innovation Strategist in Residence»).

In addition to training externs and clerks, an upper - level class in judicial opinion writing provides an opportunity for students to hone their skills in writing for a particular audience, structuring and organizing, analyzing, and using rhetorical devices introduced during the first - year writing course through a different type of document.6 Such a course can cause students to look at the legal process from a different perspective and to become better critical readers and users of opinions by writing them.7 Thus, other goals of a judicial opinion writing course can include learning about the audiences of judicial opinions and the perspective judges bring to their opinion writing.

At UVic, there was a significant emphasis on legal history, especially in first year, and a number of upper - year courses with very large historical components.

So students interested in specializing in, say, Japanese law might be offered the option of an upper - year «stream» in Japanese law... that would comprise a certain number of courses in the procedural, substantive, and jurisprudential aspects of the Japanese legal system.

This year students in my first year and my upper level Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility courses at the University of Ottawa inspired me to reach out to Slaw.ca editor Simon Fodden and ask him if he would be interested in publishing some of their work on this blawg.

He would like to see more instruction as part of upper - year courses, but says professors are reluctant to give up their already - scarce class time for a session with a librarian.

As a would - be adjunct, consider pitching an upper - division seminar course, rather than a first year class or large survey course (which are usually taught by full - time faculty or experienced legal educators).

The preferable approach in my opinion is to provide these courses in upper - year curricula in conjunction with substantive writing projects.

Gender bias and sexual violence against women are also themes running through some upper year mandatory and optional courses.

Osgoode's Flex Time Working Group of Faculty Council proposed just this month introducing first - ever evening classes into the First Year program at Osgoode (which already has a range of evening courses in the upper year program) and this proposal was unanimously adopted by Faculty Council as an incremental step toward broader Flex Time JD optiYear program at Osgoode (which already has a range of evening courses in the upper year program) and this proposal was unanimously adopted by Faculty Council as an incremental step toward broader Flex Time JD optiyear program) and this proposal was unanimously adopted by Faculty Council as an incremental step toward broader Flex Time JD options.

The addition of more professor - student individual instruction is unrealistic because of the burden it would place on professors in both first - year programs and upper - level writing courses.

The companion course I taught included coverage of the substantive law in the major legal research assignments in the first - year course, sessions on working with upper - level students and scholarly legal writers, and advanced training in working with non-native English speakers.

Ideally, a first - year legal research and writing course would have no more than thirty to thirty - five students.79 Most legal writing classes are at or above this ideal class size.80 Professors already spend an average of more than forty hours a semester in mandatory (or strongly recommended) conferences.81 Professors guiding students through upper - level writing experiences also often meet with students individually multiple times over the course of the semester, but these meetings alone can not meet the needs of the individual student writers.

But if that's true, I tend to think that means such courses should be upper - level requirements rather than required first - year courses.»

Judge Ricciuti is also a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Suffolk University Law School, where he has taught Constitutional Law and Criminal Procedure, a three - credit upper - level criminal course on constitutional law and criminal process, for ten years.

The program offers Dean's Fellow study groups for all first - year law courses; individual Writing Dean's Fellow support for upper - level writing courses as well as cover letters, resumes, writing samples, etc.; and regular workshops on law school achievement, exam taking skills and bar exam preparation.

On the academic side, effective legal writing is the subject of scores of legal writing textbooks3 and hundreds of articles.4 Legal writing instruction has been part of legal education in some form since the time of Langdell.5 The American Bar Association's law school accreditation standards recognize the importance of legal writing by requiring law students to undertake writing experiences as part of their first - year and upper - level courses.6

Because first - year legal writing courses are already loaded with content, it may be possible that the some of the ideas and assignments discussed in this Article would fit more comfortably in upper - level courses.

Andrew was the recipient of the Frank W. Wilson and Marion Claire Wilson Memorial Scholarship in Constitutional Law, presented to the upper year student with the highest standing in Constitutional Law courses.

Furthermore, required first - year legal writing courses traditionally address predictive and persuasive writing, and upper - level elective legal writing courses typically focus on litigation or transactional drafting.

After the first year, the Report finds, many students are left doubting that ethics or morality have any relevance to professional success; and a mandatory upper - level course in Professional Responsibility is too little too late.

After completing a mostly traditional first year of law school, Northeastern students enter a quarter system in which 11 - week cooperative placements alternate with 11 - week upper - level courses.

The baseline comparison for this analysis is the traditional three - year JD program that focuses primarily on learning through the case dialogue method, with experiential education limited to upper - level elective courses, such as clinics and simulation courses, which are often in short supply and subject to enrollment caps.