Conference Report — The Transnationalization of Legal Cultures

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1399-1416
Author(s):  
Kaitlin Abplanalp ◽  
Ronald Bruckmann
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
German Law ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
The Law

On July 2 and 3, 2009, both old and new friends of the German Law Journal (GLJ) gathered in Berlin for a symposium in celebration of the Journal's tenth anniversary. The two-day symposium, hosted in partnership with the Budesministerium der Justiz (the Federal Ministry of Justice) and the Law Faculty of the Freie Universität, brought together renowned justices, scholars and practitioners as well as law students from North America and Europe to discuss the transnationalization of legal cultures.

scholarly journals A concentrated certificate program incorporating Experiential Education: helping students prepare for a career in the dynamic area of Health Law

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Leslie E. Wolf ◽  
Stacie Kershner ◽  
Lisa Bliss
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Education ◽  
Clinical Teaching ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Certificate Program ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
The Law

Law students who wish to practice in the area of health law must acquire knowledge, skills, and values that are necessary for them to have an understanding of the legal issues that challenge lawyers and that prepare them for life-long learning in this rapidly growing and changing industry. This paper explores how a concentrated health law certificate program provides students a focused path through the law curriculum. Not only does the program require students to take a range of health law courses, but students take multiple courses that incorporate experiential learning, including clinics, externships, and other courses that integrate clinical teaching methodology. This article highlights the development of a health law certificate program, designed to guide students through the law curriculum to choose among the most beneficial courses for a health law practice. To identify the necessary courses, health law faculty and health law practitioners first explored the knowledge, skills and values that a successful health law practitioner needs. This article also examines the process of developing and implementing the certificate program.

scholarly journals Forgotten? The Role of Graduate Legal Education in the Future of the Law Faculty

2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 761
Author(s):  
Rosalie Jukier ◽  
Kate Glover
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Canadian Law ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Law ◽  
The University

In this article, the authors argue that the longstanding trend of excluding graduate studies in law from the discourse on legal education has detrimental effects on both the discourse and the future of the law faculty. More specifically, disregarding graduate legal education is at odds with the reality of graduate studies in Canadian law faculties today, ignores the challenges of graduate programs in law, and perpetuates inaccurate distinctions about both the career aspirations of law students and the relationship between undergraduate and graduate legal studies. In the authors’ view, these concerns can be overcome by reframing the discourse. Once the purpose of legal education is understood to be the cultivation of jurists and the law faculty is seen as an integrated whole of people, place, and program, graduate legal education moves easily into the discussion on the future of the law faculty. Including graduate studies in the discourse is an opportunity to explore, and be hopeful about, the institutional missions of law faculties and their place in the university, the optimization of legal education at all levels, and the methods by which participants in graduate studies should fulfill their responsibilities to the future of the discipline.

scholarly journals THE CRIMINOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF THE FACULTY OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF NIŠ

2018 ◽  
pp. 081
Author(s):  
Filip Mirić
Keyword(s):  
Law Students ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Faculty Teaching ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
The Law ◽  
Causes Of Crime

Crime has always attracted the public attention. Criminology, as a science on the forms and causes of crime, has been studied at the Faculty of Law, University of Niš, since its establishment in 1960. In the past 56 years, the Law Faculty in Nis has published numerous publications (textbooks and monograps) on criminology. The aim of this paper is to provide a a brief overview of the most important criminological literature published by the Faculty of Law, University of Niš, which contributed to casting more light on the multifaceted criminological issues. The author also recognizes and commends the dedicated work of Law Faculty teaching staff and the exerted efforts to present these complex issues in a comprehensible way, adapted to the needs of junior and senior law students and the needs of the wider academic, professional and social communities.

“Farewell to Unjustified Enrichment?” – A Common Law Response

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-337
Author(s):  
Steve Hedley
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
German Law ◽  
Unjust Enrichment ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
The Law ◽  
Unjustified Enrichment ◽  
High Level ◽  
Logical Process

In this article, Professor Steve Hedley offers a Common Law response to he recently published arguments of Professor Nils Jansen on the German law of unjustified enrichment (as to which, see Jansen, “Farewell to Unjustified Enrichment” (2016) 20 EdinLR 123). The author takes the view that Jansen's paper provided a welcome opportunity to reconsider not merely what unjust enrichment can logically be, but what it is for. He argues that unjust enrichment talk contributes little of value, and that the supposedly logical process of stating it at a high level of abstraction, and then seeking to deduce the law from that abstraction, merely distracts lawyers from the equities of the cases they consider.

scholarly journals Visit to the Faculty of Law in the University of Jos, Nigeria

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerry Power
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
The Law ◽  
The University

Gerry Power was invited to go to the University of Jos in April 2006 to present workshops to the Law Faculty and other interested legal professionals on using the internet for legal research. He writes about his experiences in dealing with running online workshops whilst coping with electricity shortages and the incredible experience of Nigeria!

Constitutional and Institutional Developments

1996 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-165
Author(s):  
Stephen H. Schwebel
Keyword(s):  
Legal Counsel ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Oil Company

Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley had a national and international career of the highest distinction. After his studies in Venezuela and at McGill University in Montreal – where more than the law he found the lovely wife who was at his side until the moment of his death – he began his career as a teacher of law, early attaining the rank of professor and dean of the law faculty in Caracas. By the age of thirty-four, he was appointed Minister of Justice. He subsequently served as the legal counsel of the Venezuelan national oil company and in many other positions of responsibility in Venezuela.

scholarly journals Building an Open Source Institutional Repository at a Small Law School Library: Is it Realistic or Unattainable?

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
School Library ◽  
Law School ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
Development Support ◽  
The Law ◽  
Texas Tech University ◽  
Set Up

Digital preservation activities among law libraries have largely been limited by a lack of funding, staffing and expertise. Most law school libraries that have already implemented an Institutional Repository (IR) chose proprietary platforms because they are easy to set up, customize, and maintain with the technical and development support they provide. The Texas Tech University School of Law Digital Repository is one of the few law school repositories in the nation that is built on the DSpace open source platform.1 The repository is the law school’s first institutional repository in history. It was designed to collect, preserve, share and promote the law school’s digital materials, including research and scholarship of the law faculty and students, institutional history, and law-related resources. In addition, the repository also serves as a dark archive to house internal records.

scholarly journals “A DECENT RESPECT TO THE OPINIONS OF [HUMAN]KIND”: THE VALUE OF A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE IN CONSTITUTIONAL ADJUDICATION

2005 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
The Law ◽  
Constitutional Adjudication ◽  
Human Kind

IN any season, it would be an honour to speak as a Sir David Williams Lecturer. But no season could be better for me than this one. For my daughter, Jane Ginsburg, is here at Cambridge, thriving in her year in the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Chair, thoroughly enjoying her affiliation with the law faculty and Emmanuel College, Sir David’s College (and, from 1627 to 1631, John Harvard’s too).

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