Legal Research Education in the UK

Academic legal literature in the USA is punctuated at regular intervals by discussions of the quality of legal research and writing tuition in the law schools. None of these discussions makes question of the place of such courses within the curriculum. The debate centers upon what should be taught, when, and by whom, and how effective such teaching may be. My first contact with such courses came during a period of work in the USA and when, on my return to the UK, I was required to set up a course in legal information studies, I turned to the UK literature for material on teaching legal research. The result of my search was a complete blank. Indeed, it is difficult to find discussion of any kind on such topics as curriculum planning and the interrelation of legal subjects in teaching programs. The structure of legal education in the UK has been the subject of government reports, but in the main these deal with mechanical and financial aspects—what the apprentice lawyer should learn—and how his professional ability may be enhanced by his education is barely touched upon. There is certainly nothing in the UK literature since the turn of the century on the methods of teaching legal research, nor any debate upon the desirability of teaching such a subject. Basic textbooks on legal bibliography exist, most of which offer guidance, at various levels of sophistication, as to how the novice may handle the literature of law, but it is apparent on examination that none of these are teaching texts, evolved and tested during the repetition of a course of instruction, as are many US texts. We possess nothing in print that might be compared with Price and Bitner's Effective Legal Research (to name just one such book), with its guidance on search strategies and evaluation of sources and facts. I decided to do some basic research and ask all the UK institutions teaching law courses leading to eventual professional qualification what, if anything, they offered by way of instruction in legal research techniques.

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Time to Blossom: An Inquiry into Bloom’s Taxonomy as a Hierarchy and Means for Teaching Legal Research Skills

10.31228/osf.io/3z28e ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Paul Douglas Callister

Keyword(s):

Bloom's Taxonomy ◽

Complex Problem ◽

Law School ◽

Legal Research ◽

Problem Solving Skills ◽

Legal Information ◽

Research Education ◽

Reference Services ◽

Bloom’S Taxonomy ◽

Research Instruction

Within law librarianship and legal education, there has been far too little scholarly engagement on the underlying pedagogy at the heart of legal research instruction. To correct this deficiency, law librarianship needs to open a dialogue and should consider adapting Bloom’s Taxonomy as a common schema for a collaborative effort. This paper was initially presented at the "Conference on Legal Information: Scholarship and Teaching," held at the University of Colorado Law School on June 21-22, 2009, as part of its Boulder Summer Conference Series. It follows the author's own recently published challenge to law librarianship and legal research instructors to create a Bloom’s taxonomy for legal research education. See Paul D. Callister, Thinking Like a Research Expert: Schemata for Teaching Complex Problem-Solving Skills, 28 LEGAL REFERENCE SERVICES Q. 31, 48-49 (2009).

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Educating Students for E-Entrepreneurship in the UK, the USA and China

Industry and Higher Education ◽

10.5367/000000009788640224 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 243-252 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Cindy Millman ◽

Wang-Chan Wong ◽

Zhengwei Li ◽

Harry Matlay

Keyword(s):

Entrepreneurship Education ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Rigorous Research ◽

Growing Body ◽

The Usa ◽

Political Conditions ◽

Set Up ◽

The Uk ◽

The Impact

A growing body of research evaluates various aspects of entrepreneurship education (such as curriculum, delivery and assessment) and links it to outcomes in terms of both the number and quality of entrepreneurs entering an economy. There is, however, a marked paucity of empirically rigorous research appraising the impact of entrepreneurship education on graduates' intentions and perceived ability to set up Internet-based e-enterprises that can operate across temporal and geographical boundaries. This paper provides a comparative overview of entrepreneurship education in the UK, the USA and China with a focus on IT and non-IT students' e-entrepreneurship intentions, perceptions and outcomes. The research on which the paper is based was carried out in two distinct phases: first, focus groups were used to design, pilot and develop a comprehensive research questionnaire for use in a wider, multi-country survey; second, questionnaires were then distributed to students in IT and non-IT related disciplines in the UK, the USA and China. The preliminary results show that most respondents were slow to conceptualize and contextualize e-entrepreneurship in the prevailing socio-economic and political conditions of their countries of origin. There were no significant differences between students of IT and non-IT disciplines in their perceptions of the viability and practicality of engaging in e-entrepreneurship. Generic support initiatives appear to neglect the vast portfolio of skills needs for graduates engaging in Internet trading. The authors recommend that entrepreneurship education providers should engage with emergent models of e-entrepreneurship and that policy makers should provide innovative initiatives to cater for the specific needs of e-entrepreneurs.

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Justis: at the Forefront of the Evolution of Legal Technology in the UK

Legal Information Management ◽

10.1017/s1472669618000191 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 86-92 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Masoud Gerami ◽

Aidan Hawes

Keyword(s):

Legal Research ◽

Commercial Development ◽

Legal Information ◽

Future Aspirations ◽

Research Technology ◽

Optical Media ◽

History Of ◽

The Uk ◽

Legal Technology ◽

Insight Into

AbstractIn this article, Masoud Gerami, Managing Director, and Aidan Hawes, Head of Commercial Development, offer an exploration of the history of Justis, and the influence the company has had on the delivery of legal information over its 30-year history. They describe the development of technology over this time, from the rise of optical media through to the features offered by today's online legal research technology, focusing on Justis’ key milestones over this period. They discuss the range of innovations Justis has been responsible for, the changes in the legal research industry, and offer an insight into the future aspirations of the company.

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The LZ UK Data Centre

EPJ Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/epjconf/201921403046 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 214 ◽

pp. 03046

Author(s):

Daniela Bauer ◽

David Colling ◽

Simon Fayer ◽

Elena Korolkova ◽

Alexander Richards ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Computing System ◽

Data Centre ◽

Computing Model ◽

The Usa ◽

Set Up ◽

Under Construction ◽

The Uk ◽

Sanford Underground Research Facility ◽

Data Centres ◽

Central Data

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a Dark Matter experiment based at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, USA. It is currently under construction and aims to start data taking in 2020. Its computing model stipulates two independent data centres, one in the USA and one in the UK. Both data centres will hold a complete copy of the experiment’s data and are expected to handle all aspects of data processing and user analysis. Here we discuss the set-up of the UK data centre within the context of the existing UK Grid infrastructure and show that a mature distributed computing system such as the Grid can be extended to serve as a central data centre for a reasonably large non-LHC experiment.

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The Metacognative Imperative

10.31228/osf.io/4qxrh ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Douglas Callister

Keyword(s):

Information Literacy ◽

Legal Research ◽

Research Activity ◽

Legal Information ◽

Research Education ◽

Definition Of ◽

Research Instruction ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

This book chapter elucidates why metacognition is a seminal pedagogical principle of legal research instruction and information literacy. This begins with a holistic definition of metacognition as the ability to assess, not only the result of a research activity, but the schemata, including the processes leading to the result; and then relating this to other concepts and principles applicable to legal education. It then explains why students’ development of metacognitive abilities is an imperative to legal information literacy and other signature pedagogies currently under development. The relationship of metacognition to the pedagogical underpinnings and objectives of the Carnegie Report is highlighted. The chapter concludes with sample lesson plans and activities by which instructors and librarians can foster the acquisition of metacognition skills.First appearing in THE BOULDER STATEMENTS ON LEGAL RESEARCH EDUCATION: THE INTERSECTION OF INTELLECTUAL AND PRACTICAL SKILLS (2014).

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ANALISIS YURIDIS DINAMIKA TINDAK PIDANA DALAM PERSPEKTIF PERTANGGUNGJAWABAN KORPORASI

to-ra ◽

10.33541/tora.v1i1.665 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Jeane N. Saly

Keyword(s):

Criminal Law ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Criminal Code ◽

District Court ◽

Criminal Offense ◽

Law System ◽

Criminal Sanctions ◽

The Usa ◽

Set Up ◽

The Uk

AbstractThe impact of globalization has not only resulted in growth of increasingly thin state border, butalso growth of legal events that are not only private, but also be public, as a criminal offense, whichrequires accountability as a result of the activities of large companies (corporate) in their activities,to the detriment public (public). The problem is how the development of corporate criminal offensesettings and is responsible under the law in Indonesia, and other countries. The conclusion is thatthe offense and the responsibility of corporations in Indonesia are not regulated in the CriminalJustice Act (Criminal Code), but scattered in various legislation. The next development, both incriminal law and administrative law that have criminal sanctions have largely been set up ofcorporate as subjects of criminal law. In fact, in the General Explanation of the first bookmanuscript draft Law Code of Criminal Law (Draft-Criminal Code) 1999-2000 recognized. Inother countries, criminal offense of corporate and its accountability is set up, especially thecountries adherents of the common law system, are like the UK, the USA, and Canada, whichstarted in the industrial revolution 1842. The district court in its decision to apply through penaltiesfor the corporate fails to perform obligations under the legislation.Kata Kunci: Dinamika Tindak Pidana dan Pertanggungjawaban korporasi

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USDA Stakeholder Workshop on Animal Bioinformatics: Summary and Recommendations

Comparative and Functional Genomics ◽

10.1002/cfg.266 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 271-274 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Debora L. Hamernik ◽

David L. Adelson

Keyword(s):

Genome Analysis ◽

Agricultural Research ◽

Data Repository ◽

Data Repositories ◽

Genome Database ◽

Research Education ◽

Database Development ◽

The Usa ◽

The Uk ◽

E Mail

An electronic workshop was conducted on 4 November–13 December 2002 to discuss current issues and needs in animal bioinformatics. The electronic (e-mail listserver) format was chosen to provide a relatively speedy process that is broad in scope, cost-efficient and easily accessible to all participants. Approximately 40 panelists with diverse species and discipline expertise communicated through the panel e-mail listserver. The panel included scientists from academia, industry and government, in the USA, Australia and the UK. A second ‘stakeholder’ e-mail listserver was used to obtain input from a broad audience with general interests in animal genomics. The objectives of the electronic workshop were: (a) to define priorities for animal genome database development; and (b) to recommend ways in which the USDA could provide leadership in the area of animal genome database development. E-mail messages from panelists and stakeholders are archived at http://genome.cvm.umn.edu/bioinfo/. Priorities defined for animal genome database development included: (a) data repository; (b) tools for genome analysis; (c) annotation; (d) practical application of genomic data; and (e) a biological framework for DNA sequence. A stable source of funding, such as the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS), was recommended to support maintenance of data repositories and data curation. Continued support for competitive grants programs within the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) was recommended for tool development and hypothesis-driven research projects in genome analysis. Additional stakeholder input will be required to continuously refine priorities and maximize the use of limited resources for animal bioinformatics within the USDA.

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An early mainstream economist from Hungary: István Varga (1897–1962)

Acta Oeconomica ◽

10.1556/aoecon.53.2003.2.4 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 195-213 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

K. Majoros

Keyword(s):

Austrian Economic ◽

National Income ◽

Anglo Saxon ◽

Turbulent Times ◽

The Usa ◽

New Ideas ◽

Modern Economic ◽

The Uk ◽

Economic Thinking ◽

Lasting Influence

The study introduces a Hungarian economic thinker, István Varga*, whose valuable activity has remained unexplored up to now. He became an economic thinker during the 1920s, in a country that had not long before become independent of Austria. The role played by Austria in the modern economic thinking of that time was a form of competition with the thought adhered to by the UK and the USA. Hungarian economists mainly interpreted and commented on German and Austrian theories, reasons for this being that, for example, the majority of Hungarian economists had studied at German and Austrian universities, while at Hungarian universities principally German and Austrian economic theories were taught. István Varga was familiar not only with contemporary German economics but with the new ideas of Anglo-Saxon economics as well — and he introduced these ideas into Hungarian economic thinking. He lived and worked in turbulent times, and historians have only been able to appreciate his activity in a limited manner. The work of this excellent economist has all but been forgotten, although he was of international stature. After a brief summary of Varga’s profile the study will demonstrate the lasting influence he has had in four areas — namely, business cycle research and national income estimations, the 1946 Hungarian stabilisation program, corporate profit, and consumption economics — and will go on to summarise his most important achievements.

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