scholarly journals Law and Humanities: A Field Without a Canon

2019 ◽  
pp. 174387211988623
Author(s):  
Sara Ramshaw
Keyword(s):  
Law School ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
The West ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Short Commentary ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University ◽  
Law And Humanities

This short Commentary imagines law and humanities not as a “canon” per se, but as a “field without a canon”; or a canon that resists canonization. Arts-based practices utilized in legal research and teaching expose the law and humanities “canon” to its dual (and somewhat contradictory) nature: ever straining toward a preestablished archive, it must also leap ahead fearlessly to properly defy disciplinary boundaries and move the field beyond siloed thinking, which is one of the preliminary aims of law and humanities scholarship and pedagogy. Arts-based practices consist not of a stable collection of set texts but instead signify a process of experimentation that is ever in flux and alive to possibility. It is this process of discovering new arts-based practices that ensures law and humanities remains a vibrant, yet ever-changing, field for years to come. To that end, this Commentary surveys a sampling of outsider approaches to law and humanities scholarship and pedagogy, those more concerned with process than product, and which are coming from outside of or beyond the more traditionally conceived canon of law and humanities. These approaches fall into two broad categories: (1) arts-based scholarly legal practices and (2) arts-based legal pedagogical practices. A uniting feature of both these approaches is that they are being undertaken and explored by Canadian legal scholars at a small law school on Vancouver Island on the West Coast of Canada, namely the University of Victoria Faculty of Law, where there is an impressive number of faculty members using arts-based practices in their research and teaching.

Rising up the Ranks

2017 ◽  
pp. 345-367
Author(s):  
Zulkarnain Hanafi ◽  
Chee Kiong Tong
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Recruitment And Retention ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Quality Faculty ◽  
Research Excellence ◽  
International Profile ◽  
The University

The paper will cover all aspects of the change journey: engaging with relevant stakeholders, the recruitment and retention of high quality faculty members, the review and revision of the curriculum, improving the quality and quantity of research output and publications, developing centers of research excellence, raising the level of funding for both research and teaching, expanding the number of graduate students, developing an eminent visiting professors' program, the internationalization of the university, strengthening governance and administration and raising the international profile of the university. It will set out, in detail, the strategies and processes that were developed to realize the vision, as well as the challenges and problems encountered, and steps taken to address these challenges and problems. Mistakes were made along the way and the lessons that can be learnt for any university that aims to be involved in the ranking exercises.

For Your Information

1983 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-16
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Texas Medical ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Therapy Program ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The University ◽  
Delivery Of Health Services

The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston is offering a Ph.D. program in Preventive Medicine and Community Health with a concentration in Sociomedical Sciences. The program is designed to provide students with the opportunity for careers in research and teaching in the rapidly growing fields of social and behavioral health sciences and preventive medicine. Emphases include the promotion of health, determinants of illness, the delivery of health services, and the recovery process. Faculty members have backgrounds in medical sociology, anthropology, psychology, gerontology, epidemiology, biometry, demography, pediatrics, family medicine, behavioral medicine, psychiatry, health education, program evaluation, and family therapy. Program facilities are located in a complex of medical, nursing, allied health and graduate schools, with opportunities for community and clinical research.

Revisiting the Arthurs Report Twenty Years Later

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance Backhouse
Keyword(s):  
Legal History ◽  
Law School ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Advisory Panel ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Seminar Room ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Consultative Group

Harry Arthurs' Law & Learning report, conceived by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and carried to fruition in 1983 by a ten-person Consultative Group and a twenty-three person Advisory Panel, was a formative document in the history of Canadian legal education. My recollection of the release of the report is probably intensified because of the circumstances in which I experienced it the following year - a seminar room filled with cranky faculty members at the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario, as stony terrain as any venue one might have imagined for the reception of such a report. I was then a relatively junior untenured professor, hoping to build a scholarly record in the field of feminist legal history, who had unwittingly found myself in a law school in which most faculty were devoted to building its reputation as a professionally conservative, black letter law institution. Into such a milieu strode my former professor and mentor, Harry Arthurs, whose habit of describing Osgoode Hall Law School as the “best law school in the Commonwealth” had not particularly endeared him to the Western professoriate previously. I felt like a deer in the headlights, and my sense was that Harry Arthurs himself was very ill at ease in a room that exuded defensiveness and hostility, as well as both latent and overt anger.

The Meadowlands

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-67
Author(s):  
Doug Feldmann ◽  
Mike Ditka
Keyword(s):  
Law School ◽  
Second Career ◽  
Free Agent ◽  
Training Camp ◽  
Strong Start ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University

This chapter focuses on Bob Thomas's experience of training camp at Lake Forest in July of 1976. A second harvest of draft picks and free agents joined Jack Pardee's evolving ranks. Brought into camp to compete with Thomas was free agent kicker Rick Danmeier from the University of Sioux Falls, who had received a tryout with Minnesota as a rookie the previous year. By the time of the last exhibition game of the season on September 3 in Washington, Thomas had put an indelible stamp on the kicking job. The young Bears were ready to conquer new territory and got off to a strong start in 1976. However, abuse continued to be delivered toward Thomas from the segment of fans who chose to focus on the memory of the Oakland game. Thomas generally managed to ignore the mistreatment, as he looked forward to a long NFL tenure yet to come. It did not prevent him, however, from making plans for a second career. The chapter then looks at his enrolment for law school at Loyola University in Chicago.

Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Institutional policies, research and practices in Europe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Huet ◽  
Teresa Pessoa ◽  
Fátima Teresa Sol Murta
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Initial Idea ◽  
The University

The initial ‘idea’ for the book emerged during the seminar Sharing of Innovative Pedagogical Practices that occurred at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) in 2018. Like all ‘good ideas’, this one originated in a conversation between colleagues from the University of Coimbra and the University of West London in the United Kingdom. The ‘idea’ of this book was to move away from sharing experiences related to teaching and learning in higher education in just one or two countries, but instead to organise a more European view about the policy, research and teaching practices that are shaping the way our students learn, academics teach and do research. We have a total of 16 chapters from academics in Portugal, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, and the Czech Republic.<br>The book is organised in four interrelated themes: (1) policy and quality; (2) professionalisation of teaching and academic development; (3) research and teaching nexus; and (4) pedagogy and practice. <br>Enjoy reading the book!

African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin

1965 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-430
Author(s):  
M. Crawford Young
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Members ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
University Departments ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The University

The African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin was established in September 1961, thus formalising the co-operation which had been developing over several years between faculty members in various disciplines and departments with research and teaching interests in Africa. The Program provides a centre for the co-ordination of such teaching and research. A certificate in African studies may be obtained in association with an M.A. degree in one of the university departments; at the Ph.D. level, African studies may be offered as a minor field.

Introduction: Living in Technical Legality

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Kieran Tranter
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
The West ◽  
Technological Culture ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
To Come ◽  
Frankenstein Myth ◽  
Law And Humanities

This chapter introduces the book. It introduces the key concepts of the Frankenstein myth, law as technology and the role of science fiction as the site for the collective dream of technological culture and society in the West. This chapter also locates the book to come in the emergent field of law and humanities and the existing literature that examines law and legality of science fiction. It also introduces the concepts of the monster and the trickster.

Time to Go After the Feds

DDT Wars ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles F. Wurster
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Law ◽  
Law School ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Public Interest Law ◽  
Pesticide Regulation ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University

By the fall of 1969 we knew we had to challenge pesticide regulation by the federal government if we were to ultimately prevail against DDT, but we did not know how to do it. We had the science well in hand and knew how to present it, with literally hundreds of scientists prepared to testify within their areas of expertise. We did not have the organizational structure to launch such an effort at the federal level, however, and we were certainly short of money. At about that time Joseph L. Sax, then the leading proponent of the development of environmental law at the University of Michigan Law School, suggested that we contact the newly founded Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), a public-interest law firm in Washington, DC. Joe was a member of the CLASP board. He insisted that DDT was in violation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was not enforcing FIFRA. I therefore called and talked at length with James W. Moorman (Fig. 7.1), attorney for CLASP, describing the DDT problem and proposed action against USDA. “If we are going to do this, then you are going to come down here and help me put the case together,” said Jim firmly. That was not music to my ears: I had other things I needed to do, but shortly I was on my way to Washington. CLASP was in a rundown part of Washington, and my “housing” consisted of sleeping on an old mattress in their dusty attic. But we got to work and wrote a petition to USDA in about a week. The petition was a formal legal request that the FIFRA registrations for DDT be canceled. The petition also requested that USDA suspend the registrations while it was considering their cancellation. We had no illusions that USDA would grant our request, but it was Jim’s advice that we go to USDA for administrative relief before seeking cancellation and suspension from the courts.

scholarly journals The Work of the Commercial Courts.

1921 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Scrutton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Prodigal Son ◽  
Legal Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University ◽  
Commercial Courts

During the last Long Vacation—which I am afraid, by the way, will be the last long vacation—I Was just about starting out to indulge in a pastime which a don of the rival, but much inferior, university has described as “putting little balls into little holes with instruments singularly unadapted for the purpose” when a letter was put into my hand with an American stamp and a United States postmark. I opened it hastily and glanced at it, and gathered the impression that some unknown society in the United States was inviting me to proceed there in the month of November to deliver an address on some legal subject. I was flattered and puzzled. I threw the letter on the table and went out to indulge in the aforesaid pastime. It was not till I got home and read the letter carefully that I discovered what it was all about. I gathered that your Downing Professor, who prefers to spend his holiday in a dry climate—a bone-dry climate—was conveying to me the request of the University Law Society that I should come back to my old university and my old college and speak to the law students, and I was very much flattered and grateful. I felt a little, however, like the Prodigal Son, for I thought that for the Cambridge Law Society and the Law School of Cambridge to invite a man who had paid little attention to them while he was up, to come and address them, was heaping coals of fire upon his head.

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