Unlike other areas of the law that find their rules in statutes (such as penal codes in criminal cases), the development of personal injury law has taken place mostly through court decisions, and in treatises
written by legal scholars.
Not exact matches
As Supreme Court
scholars await the March 4 release of the late Justice Harry Blackmun's papers, Supreme Court reporter Tony Mauro
writes in
Legal Times about the decision
by Blackmun's daughter Sally, to give exclusive pre-release access to the papers to reporters Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times and Nina Totenberg of National Public -LSB-...]
As Supreme Court
scholars await the March 4 release of the late Justice Harry Blackmun's papers, Supreme Court reporter Tony Mauro
writes in
Legal Times about the decision
by Blackmun's daughter Sally, to give exclusive pre-release access to the papers to reporters Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times and Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio.
Lead Articles,
written by prominent jurists,
legal scholars, and practitioners, vary greatly in topic and scope.
Legal scholars such as Peter Burns have
written of «the pressing need to preserve «privacy» which is being threatened
by science and technology to the point of surrender»: «The Law and Privacy: the Canadian Experience» at p. 1.
As a reflection of the changes taking place in the discipline, scholarship on
legal writing developed and the discipline began to find a new voice.6 While the discussion continued to include the teaching of
legal writing,
scholars began pulling from other disciplines; infusing theories and practices from English composition, literature, and education to create a discourse and a unique pedagogy focused specifically on
legal writing.7 As we developed our voice,
by inviting other ideas and scholarship into the conversation, the discipline created new «rooms» to discuss specific concepts related to
legal writing.
Several recent works
by legal writing scholars exemplify the sort of analysis needed to start bringing some certainty to often - untested assumptions.
In 2009, only 24 of the 166 responding schools offered a
writing center staffed
by teaching assistants as part of their
legal writing programs.74 The few
legal scholars who have advocated for a peer - staffed law school
writing center have done so with the assumption that it is a place to send students with low - level
writing problems.75
By grading the course in the manner recommended by Best Practices, the Carnegie Report, and assessment scholars, legal writing faculty can become the assessment experts at their school
By grading the course in the manner recommended
by Best Practices, the Carnegie Report, and assessment scholars, legal writing faculty can become the assessment experts at their school
by Best Practices, the Carnegie Report, and assessment
scholars,
legal writing faculty can become the assessment experts at their schools.
Law schools and
legal writing programs have long embraced composition theory as a basis for program innovations and curricular design.1 Furthermore,
legal scholars have noted the importance of individualized instruction and the benefits produced
by student conferences.2 Nevertheless, few law schools offer a peer - staffed
writing center as part of the
legal writing program.
Empirical
legal scholars have traditionally modeled judicial opinion
writing by assuming that judges act rationally, seeking to maximize their influence
by writing opinions in politically important cases.
One view — advocated most prominently
by Kristen Tiscione and Ellie Margolis — suggests that e-memos constitute a new and distinct
legal writing genre.23 These commentators posit that the change in medium — from paper to email — creates a fundamental shift in the way that
legal analysis is conducted and communicated.24 These
scholars argue, for example, that the comparative informality of the e-memo and its lack of prescribed elements creates a more organic format, where writers are free to combine traditional sections like the facts, brief answer, question presented, and conclusion in ways that are more «accessible, efficient, and appropriate.»
Columns are
written by noted
legal scholars, law professors and commentators.
The Author Team — Halsburys Laws of Canada has lived up to its advance billing and is providing a fresh treatment of all of the
legal subjects that one can expect to find in an encyclopedia
written by a roster of authors and editors that includes so many notable
scholars and academics, authors of
legal treatises and monographs, practicing members of the Bar and professional
legal researchers and writers.