scholarly journals Establishing an environmental law clinic in China: A review of relevant factors and various models

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Evan Hamman
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Law ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Chinese Law ◽  
Clinical Program ◽  
Relevant Factors

This paper looks at the factors which affect the establishment of Environmental Law Clinics (ELCs) with a particular focus on models that might be most effective in a Chinese context. The paper is the result of desktop research and a clinical program where five law students and one supervising academic from an Australian Law school attended a Chinese law school in early December 2016. During the visit, Australian law students conducted a workshop with Chinese law students as well as visited several NGOs in Wuhan and Beijing to grasp a better understanding of the environmental issues the country faces. The observations in this paper are preliminary in nature and further discussion of educational goals and community needs will be required before settling on a particular model. Brief recommendations and a list of relevant factors for consideration for Chinese ELCs are provided at the end of the paper.

The Origin and Early Development of Chinese Connections at the University of Pennsylvania Law School

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-214
Author(s):  
Li Chen
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Students ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Chinese Law ◽  
American Law ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The University of Pennsylvania Law School has had a long relationship with Chinese students; indeed, it was among the pioneers in the admission of Chinese students in America. To better understand the origin of this affiliation, this article traces the relationship between the celebrated Chinese diplomat Wu Ting-Fang and the then Dean William Draper Lewis, exploring the pivotal role this relationship played in forging the law school’s Chinese ties. The association was cemented when Penn Law School welcomed its first Chinese undergraduate student in 1906 and graduate student in 1908. The lesser known details of these two pioneering Chinese law students’ backgrounds, academic pursuits at Penn Law School and their key achievements upon graduation are revealed in this article as well. Against a backdrop of racial prejudice and the legal subordination of Asian peoples in a new American empire, the personal efforts of men such as Dean Lewis were critical in the admission of the first cohort of Chinese law students to American law schools in the early part of the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Experience the Future of Legal Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 849
Author(s):  
Lorne Sossin
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
The Future ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
Research Initiatives

This article examines the shift towards experiential legal education and its implications. While others have focused on experiential education as a means of training better lawyers, the author advances the argument for experiential education because it is rooted in substantive problem-solving, access to justice, engagement with communities, and greater opportunities for reflective and critical thinking about law and justice. Drawing on examples from Osgoode Hall Law School, which adopted an experiential curricular requirement in 2012, the article explores the ways in which experiential education may change law school and law students. The article also canvasses the implications of the experiential shift for the future of legal education, and the blurring lines between law school and transitional professional education in law such as articling and Practical/Professional Legal Training Courses (PLTCs). Finally, a number of perspectives and research initiatives are presented to suggest that the benefits of an effectively designed experiential model are far reaching, from a learning environment that caters most effectively to the way in which students learn and access information, to increasing engagement with community needs, to the positive impacts on student wellness. Therefore, the article illustrates the significance of the experiential shift in legal education in the Canadian context as a critical driver in the evolution of the law school and professional legal education.

Engendering Hope in Environmental Law Students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda Margaret Collins ◽  
Brandon D. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Law ◽  
Law Students

scholarly journals GESTÃO AMBIENTAL NAS ORGANIZAÇÕES DA QUARTA COLÔNIADOI:10.5773/rgsa.v4i1.222

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 214
Author(s):  
Kleiton Douglas Saggin ◽  
Renata Gonçalves Rodrigues ◽  
Andréa Polidori Célia ◽  
Paloma de Mattos ◽  
Tânia Nunes da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Environmental Management ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Environmental Practices ◽  
New Strategies

A reflexão sobre as práticas ambientais, em um contexto marcado pela degradação permanente do meio ambiente e do seu ecossistema, tem exigido novas posturas das organizações. Contudo, adotar a gestão ambiental como estratégia de desenvolvimento, contempla as necessidades das organizações em aliar crescimento econômico e sustentabilidade. Neste sentido, este artigo tem como objetivo identificar se existe a preocupação com as questões ambientais por parte das organizações da região da Quarta Colônia e se as mesmas adotam programas de gestão ambiental, analisando fatores que podem influenciar nas diferentes abordagens dadas ao tema. Para atingir o objetivo proposto, utilizou-se uma abordagem qualitativa em um estudo considerado exploratório e compreendido como estudo de caso. A amostra foi de cinco organizações da Região da Quarta Colônia onde foram realizadas visitas técnicas e entrevistas semi-estruturadas. Como resultado significativo do estudo, pôde se constatar que as organizações estudadas limitam-se apenas às exigências da legislação ambiental em vigor. Assim as organizações necessitam adotar novas posturas e um processo de atualização contínua que pode ser viabilizado pela gestão ambiental. Palavras-chave: Gestão ambiental; Quarta Colônia; organizações; desenvolvimento. Abstract The reflection about environmental practices, in a context marked by permanent degradation of the environment and its ecosystem, has required new strategies from the organizations. However, adopting environmental management as a development strategy satisfies the organizations needs to gather economic growth and sustainability. Thus, this paper aims on identifying whether the organizations from the Quarta Colonia Region are concerned about environmental issues and whether they adopt environmental management programs, analyzing aspects which can influence the different approaches applied to this issue. In order to reach such aim, a qualitative approach was used in a study considered exploratory and comprised as a case study. The sample consisted of five organizations from the Quarta Colonia Region where there were technical visits and semi-structured interviews. A relevant result of the study was that it was possible to observe that the studied organizations are restricted only to the operative environmental law requirements. Thus, organizations ought to adopt new emplacements and a continuous updating process, which can become viable through the environmental management. Keywords: Environmental management; Quarta Colônia; organizations; development

scholarly journals Aspek Hukum dalam Penyelenggaraan Bisnis Perhotelan

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 1033
Author(s):  
Hernawati RAS ◽  
Dani Durahman
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
National Development ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Criminal Sanctions ◽  
Consumer Rights ◽  
Hospitality Business ◽  
Administrative Sanctions

The development of the law as part of a national development known as law reform is carried out thoroughly and integratedly. The hospitality business is growing rapidly as the economy develops, within the restrictions on the scope of the Hotel's business, there is a legal device that regulates the permit and protection of consumers. Hospitality businesses that do not have amdal permits Environmental law enforcement can be done by sanctioning administrative sanctions. Administrative sanctions, settlement of environmental issues outside the court and even criminal sanctions have been stipulated in Law No. 32 of 2009. The aspect of protection to Hospitality Consumers must be in accordance with the provisions of Law No. 8 of 1999, hospitality business must provide legal certainty in providing protection to consumers where currently there are still many hotels that do not provide information about consumer rights and obligations and the development of social responsibility (social responsebility). 

scholarly journals Third State Intervention before the International Court of Justice in International Environmental Law Cases

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Franziska Liebelt
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Law ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
International Court Of Justice ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
International Court ◽  
The Icj ◽  
Nuclear Tests ◽  
The Antarctic

<p>Third state intervention before international institutions originated in international arbitration around 1875 and has been included in the statute of the International Court since the foundation of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) and is therefore no new phenomenon. Today, most systems of international dispute settlement provide for the possibility of third state intervention. Nevertheless intervention before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been used by states sparsely and seems underdeveloped. The statute of the ICJ provides for two ways of intervention in its arts 62 and 63. There have been few applications under these provisions. Looking at the court’s orders in these few cases, the court seems to have adopted a restrictive approach towards allowing applications to intervene. This paper looks at the institution of intervention in the area of international environmental law disputes. There have been two relevant disputes of this kind before the ICJ: the Nuclear Tests litigation and the recent litigation of Whaling in the Antarctic. Both of these cases dealt with the question of state obligations towards the protection of the environment. The applications to intervene in Nuclear Tests failed for reasons that will be explained in more detail below. New Zealand’s application to intervene in Whaling in the Antarctic was authorized by the ICJ on the 6 February 2013 under art 63 of the Statute of the ICJ. The case is exceptional in that it is only the second time the ICJ allowed intervention under art 63. Both cases demonstrate that there are environmental issues that concern more than only the nations that are parties to the dispute. They indicate that intervention plays a particularly strong role in environmental issues because these issues by their nature often affect more than just two states. This paper analyses how the shared environmental concern of the international community might lead to an extension of intervention before the ICJ. It further more looks at the issues that arose before the court in connection with the intervention in Whaling in the Antarctic and how these issues were dealt with.</p>

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>

scholarly journals The Tyranny of Distance: Clinical Legal Education in ‘The Bush’

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Jeff Giddings ◽  
Barbara Hook
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Law School ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Learning Network ◽  
Partnership Development ◽  
Legal Advice ◽  
Clinical Program ◽  
School Learning

<p>This paper analyses the challenges faced by clients, students and teachers involved in a clinical program which uses new technology to deliver legal services in remote areas of Southern Queensland, Australia. A range of novel issues were addressed by Griffith University Law School, Learning Network Queensland and Caxton Legal Centre in their partnership development and delivery of this clinical program which involves the use of audio-graphics conferencing to enable students to provide legal advice and assistance to people hundreds of kilometres away. The ‘Advanced Family Law-Clinic’ program commenced in July 1999 with financial support from the Federal Attorney-General’s Department. The paper considers the range of issues which arose in development of the program.</p>

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