ALL DRESSED UP AND NOWHERE TO GO? PART TIME LAW STUDENTS AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION

2000 ◽  
pp. 61-65
1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-413
Author(s):  
Leila M. Foster

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SPE1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Demchenko Dina ◽  
Oleg Shynkarov ◽  
Liliia Zaichenko

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.


2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
J.E. Côté ◽  
D.J. MacGregor

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. Only
Author(s):  
Dara E. Purvis

Long before I taught law students the intricacies of statutes, I taught junior high school students sex education. It was a part-time job while I was in college in Los Angeles, through a program with Planned Parenthood that provided a two-week curriculum in public junior high schools. Today I joke that it gave me my unflappable nature in the classroom—if you can tell preteens about syphilis, nothing that happens in a law school classroom will break your concentration—but it also gave me an indelible memory of how far sex ed in America has to go. During our training, one of my fellow teachers referred in passing to how annoying it was to change her tampon every time she had to urinate. She was a bright college student and engaged with reproductive work enough that she successfully applied to work at Planned Parenthood. Yet, she didn’t know that the vagina and urethra were different anatomical structures.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan David deMaine

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.


1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 1059-1069
Author(s):  
Reader – Charles Sparrow

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.


2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-265
Author(s):  
Graeme Broadbent

2021 ◽  
pp. 1037969X2110075
Author(s):  
Aidan Ricciardo ◽  
Stephen Puttick ◽  
Shane Rogers ◽  
Natalie Skead ◽  
Stella Tarrant ◽  
...  

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.


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