scholarly journals Perceptions of LGBTQI+ diversity in the legal profession: ‘It's happening slow, but it’s certainly happening’

2021 ◽  
pp. 1037969X2110075
Author(s):  
Aidan Ricciardo ◽  
Stephen Puttick ◽  
Shane Rogers ◽  
Natalie Skead ◽  
Stella Tarrant ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Recent Graduates

This article reports on a qualitative study aimed at understanding how LGBTQI+ law students and recent graduates perceive and experience the legal profession. While we found that several participants self-censor in interactions with the profession, others considered their LGBTQI+ identity as advantageous, enabling them to benefit from ‘diversity hiring’. Despite this, many participants regarded the legal profession as ‘conservative’ and influenced by the ‘old guard’, which remains unaccepting of LGBTQI+ identities. Participants also considered the profession to be more accepting of some LGBTQI+ identities than others. We conclude by suggesting strategies to improve perceptions and experiences of the profession.

scholarly journals Street law for Czech and Slovak young Roma musicians

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Michal Urban ◽  
Hana Draslarová
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
School Students ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
Law Student ◽  
Law School Students

<p align="JUSTIFY">For almost seven years, Street Law has been a part of the curriculum of the Prague Law School. Over the years, law students have taught law at public and private grammar schools, high schools, business schools and also some vocational schools, mostly located in the Prague region. They were all secondary schools and predominantly ethnically homogenous, since members of the largest Czech minority, the Roma, for various reasons hardly ever attend these schools. Last summer, however, a group of Prague Law School students and recent graduates travelled to Eastern Slovakia to organize Street Law workshops for Roma teenagers. This text tells the story of their journey, reflects their teaching methodology and experience and offers a perspective of a law student participating in the workshops.</p>

Training Lawyers in Behavioral Science and Its Applications

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-413
Author(s):  
Leila M. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
The Law ◽  
Law Professors

Behavioral science can be of assistance to the legal profession in (1) substantive development of the law from interdisciplinary contributions and (2) improvement of professional skills. A questionnaire sent to law professors teaching law and psychiatry and law and society courses reveals some of the innovative programs offered to some law students. Bar associations also are becoming interested in providing continuing education in this area. Professionals of both behavioral science and law should be encouraged to increase areas of communication between the disciplines.

scholarly journals Experimental work of forming professional foreign language competence of law students

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SPE1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Demchenko Dina ◽  
Oleg Shynkarov ◽  
Liliia Zaichenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
International Activities

The effectiveness of the system of professional training of future specialists is mostly defined by how consistently it is taken into account. Both students and professors understand the dependence of success of legal activity on the level of formed professional foreign language competence. Professional foreign language competence of future representative of legal profession, prioritize knowledge of foreign professional terminology, knowledge of legal systems of foreign countries. In addition to knowledge, students and professors noted the importance of applying this knowledge in practical international activities to achieve the success in formation of foreign language competence of future lawyers.

scholarly journals Practical Legal Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
J.E. Côté ◽  
D.J. MacGregor
Keyword(s):  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Flexible Approach ◽  
The Law

Keeping current with changes in the law is fundamental for law students, lawyers, and judges. Effective skills in legal research are necessary to accomplish this goal. Unfortunately, most guidance on legal research tends towards either overly laborioustechniques or the use of shortcuts. This article addresses this issue by providing a practical, realistic, balanced, reliable, and flexible approach to the research that is critical in the legal profession.

scholarly journals Preparing Law Students for Information Governance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan David deMaine
Keyword(s):  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
Information Governance ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Business Approach ◽  
Pedagogical Methods

Information governance is a holistic business approach to managing and using information that recognizes information as an asset as well as a potential source of risk. Law librarians and legal information professionals are well situated to take leadership roles in information governance efforts, including instructing law students in information governance principles and practices. This article traces the development of information governance and its importance to the legal profession, offers a primer on information governance principles and implementation, and discusses how academic law librarians and other legal educators can teach information governance to law students using problem-based learning or similar pedagogical methods.

The Fayrest Inne (Staple Inn Reading 1998)

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 1059-1069
Author(s):  
Reader – Charles Sparrow
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Annual Lecture ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
Inns Of Court ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Law

ABSTRACTAs part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of the actuarial profession, the link between Gray's Inn and Staple Inn is being renewed with the appointment by Gray's Inn of a Reader, who will give an annual lecture at Staple Inn as a contribution to legal and actuarial education.The first reading for some 300 years gives an outline of the history of Staple Inn, from its origin in the fourteenth century as a ‘Staple’, a customs house for wool, later becoming an Inn of Chancery of one of the four Inns of Court, Gray's Inn. It was in the Inns of Chancery that training was given to law students. The progression of English law and of the training of law students are outlined, particularly how they affected Staple Inn and its subordinate relationship to Gray's Inn. The eventual loosening of the ties between the Inns of Court and the Inns of Chancery, the end of the involvement of Staple Inn with the legal profession, and the coming of the Institute of Actuaries to Staple Inn are all described.

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