Reflections on the Future of Global Legal Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 569
Author(s):  
Mark Fathi Massoud
Keyword(s):  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Future

Alternatives to Youth Imprisonment: Evaluating the Victorian Youth Attendance Order

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reece Walters
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Young Offenders ◽  
Juvenile Incarceration ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
National Centre ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Tariff ◽  
Serious Offenders ◽  
The Impact

On 22 June 1988 the then Minister for Community Services Victoria, Race Matthews, officially launched the Youth Attendance Order (YAO), a high tariff alternative for young offenders aged between 15 and 18 years who were facing a term of detention. Throughout the order's gestation, much debate occurred about the impact it would have on rates of juvenile incarceration as well as about the potential ‘net widening’ effect it could have on less serious offenders. In May 1994 the National Centre For Socio-Legal Studies at La Trobe University submitted its report evaluating the Victorian Youth Attendance Order. This article presents some of the major findings of that report and examines the future options for this high tariff order in juvenile justice.

Melodies on Comparative Law: A Review Essay

2005 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-174
Author(s):  
Jaakko Husa
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
Methodological Pluralism ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Comprehensive View ◽  
The Future

AbstractThe volume under review contains theoretical reflections on comparative law dealing with diverse topics ranging from the basis of the discipline to globalization, Europeanization and transposition of law. According to the author of the book, comparative law is a subject that can be approached solely as an enigma and the book aims to do this with the help of metaphors taken from the theory of music. This volume expresses a complex understanding of comparative law and shakes off the old images of comparative law as being either a purely academic or a hopelessly non-theoretical practical exercise. The Enigma of Comparative Law is different in orientation both to the scholarship of conventional comparative law and to post-modern/critical comparative law which have argued for extreme all-or-nothing positions. The political nature of comparative law venture is openly acknowledged but it is not seen as overwhelming. Esin Örücu's book also argues for legal pluralism and a comprehensive view of law. The book applauds methodological pluralism. Diversity of methods is seen not as being counterproductive but instead as a virtue that will enhance the future prospects of comparative law in internationalized world. The review essay concludes by arguing for an idea according to which there is no one legitimate tradition of comparative law/comparative legal studies but many.

A Century of Women’s History from the Papyri

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-122
Author(s):  
Roger S. Bagnall
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Social History ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Roman Egypt ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject

This chapter surveys the study of women based on papyrological evidence, a subject to which Sarah Pomeroy has made major contributions. Beginning with the first articles on women in the papyri a century ago, the historiography is presented first chronologically, down to the growth of feminist scholarship in the 1970s and 1980s, and then by subject for the past third of a century. Ancient legal studies, social history, the study of the economy, the development of Late Antiquity as a field, and the emergence of gender studies have all played important roles. The finds of papyri outside Egypt have broadened the subject beyond its Egyptian focus. Although quantitative investigations, based especially on the census returns from Roman Egypt, have played a central role, it is likely that microhistorical studies will be a more fertile direction in the future.

What is a European Community Law Judge?

1993 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lord Slynn Hadley
Keyword(s):  
European Community ◽  
Community Law ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
The Future ◽  
Administrative Leaders ◽  
The Law ◽  
European Community Law

It is good that the Cambridge Law Faculty has established a Centre for European Legal Studies. In the first place because it is plain that practising lawyers in the future will need to be increasingly aware of European Community Law—whether they are taught it as a separate subject or as a part of specialist areas of the law. In the second place because if, as I also think, Britain should be not only at the heart but also at the head of Europe, if it is in it at all, there are few better ways of preparing our future political and administrative leaders than by a grounding in Community law.

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 Law and the Law School in the Twenty-First Century

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
I L M Richardson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Law School ◽  
First Century ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
General Theme ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
School Day ◽  
The Law ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article was presented as a lecture on "Capital Law School Day" organised by the New Zealand Institute of Advanced Legal Studies to mark the occasion of the centenary of the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington in 1999. The general theme of the Day's seminar was how the law and the Victoria University of Wellington's Law School should develop into the millennium. The author considers the future of Victoria Law School by referring to its unique strengths and attributes, and how these have led to successes in the past. The author then looks at the changes that have taken place and are taking place in our legal world. 

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