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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Law schools"”.
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Exploring summer entry programs in Texas law schools
The exploration of Summer Entry Programs in Texas Law Schools provides qualitative research focusing on the law students and the manner that the SEP has dealt with the emerging American law school philosophy of helping law students graduate, not simply weeding out students that cannot succeed in …
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Legal education in crisis: healing and humanizing Canadian law schools /
Western law schools are suffering from an identity and moral crisis. Many of the legal profession's problems can be traced to the law school environment, where students are taught to reason and practice in ways that are often at odds with their own personalities and values and even with generally …
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Organizational Change In The Legal Education Environment: Institutional And Individual Responses To Times Of Crisis
… many aspects of the American economy. At first law schools saw an increase in applications and enrollment as individuals sought an education that would lead to employment. Within a few years, however, the job market for new lawyers deteriorated. By 2010-2011, the number of applications to law …
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Towards Implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action in Law Schools: A Settler Harm Reduction Approach to Racial Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Legal Orders in Canadian Legal Education
Many Canadian law schools are in the process of implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Call to Actions #28 and #50. Promising initiatives include mandatory courses, Indigenous cultural competency, and Indigenous law intensives. However, processes of social categorization and …
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Blending Doctrine, Practice, and Purpose in Legal Education: The Case for an Integrated Pedagogy
… legal education is sorely imbalanced. A law student receives rigorous training in legal doctrine and analytical skills—he learns to "think like a lawyer"—but is left with little training in practical skills or his ethical role in society. Moreover, law schools rely almost exclusively on …
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Creating Conflict: Antecedents of Workplace Incivility
… for the study come from a national sample of law school faculty (N =1,300; 52% males; 86% white) who were members of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Results from a series of multiple regression analyses indicated that four of the five proposed antecedents (autonomy, interaction …
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Klinikinis teisės mokymo metodas /
… the financial aid and attitude in society (both law school and outside), traditions and others. It should be stated that actualization of these factors is a guarantee to qualified integration of clinical legal education to legal studies programs. During the Third wave of clinical education, the …
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Recepción de las instituciones romanas en la biografía de Alonso Antonio de San Martín, hijo de Felipe IV
… discuss some legal institutions from the Roman law in force in his biography: illegitimate filiation; waiver of the irregularity by birth and natalium restitutio Roman episcopal jurisdiction based on audientia episcopalis post-classical Roman period, and some private law schools well documented, …
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Lawyers of Egypt: class, precarity and politics
… examines the rising precarity of Egyptian lawyers and its consequences on their politics. In making sense of lawyers’ complex class and status situation, now professionals living through subaltern lives, I trace the making of the profession to historical transformations since the 1950s. In …
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Development of an Environmental Law Curriculum for Kosovo Universities
… in Kosovo by introducing an environmental law course to the Kosovo university system. No school in Kosovo currently teaches environmental law and lawyers practicing environmental litigation are nonexistent. There are not many experts who can be consulted or who can help draft the …
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Development of an Environmental Law Curriculum for Kosovo Universities
… in Kosovo by introducing an environmental law course to the Kosovo university system. No school in Kosovo currently teaches environmental law and lawyers practicing environmental litigation are nonexistent. There are not many experts who can be consulted or who can help draft the …
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A Phenomenological Case Study: The Law School Environment as Experienced by Academically Dismissed Black and Latina/o Law Students
… numbers of Black and Latina/o students in law school stems from a history of excluding these groups from legal education, in addition to system obstacles, including socioeconomic status, lower LSAT scores, and barriers to education. A long academic debate has asked why minority students are …
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Exploring The Relationship Between Academic Dishonesty And Moral Development In Law School Students
… development and dishonest academic behaviors in law students. The quantitative portion of the study utilized a survey adapted from James Rest's Defining Issues Test and Donald McCabe's Academic Integrity Survey. Law students were solicited by email from two public institutions. The usable sample …
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Pauper education in Victorian England: organisation and administration within the new poor law 1834-1880
The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act led to the first national system of education for approximately 50,000 indoor pauper children each year in a decade of early initiatives on working class education to combat social unrest and political protest. Pauper schooling involved central supervision, …
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Exploration of the Impostor Phenomenon in Law School Students
Law schools compel students to think like lawyers by using intensive Socratic dialogue built around voluminous case readings. This method sometimes pushes students to feel overwhelmed, to lose self-confidence, and even to wonder whether law school was the right choice for them. To some extent, such …
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Mesosystem Variables and Schools' Learning Disabilities Prevalence Rates
… Act of 2004 and the federal requirements for schools under the No Child Left Behind law, schools are required to take a closer look at their rising special education numbers and identify alternative solutions for children's needs other than a certain placement in special education. There are …
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A survey of characteristics and attitudes of offices currently and previously participating in the APEX program
… the public have placed greater demands on dental schools to graduate dentists better prepared to enter dental practice. New disease patterns, an aging population, and technological advancements, as well as, rising tuition and a decline in the applicant pool, are factors which are forcing dental …
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The semiotics of non-verbal communication in the attorney, client consultation process
In 2010, the Law Society of South Africa, expressed concern over the number of law graduates that were lacking in essential skills and they stressed that clients in legal matters are placed at risk if new practitioners are not properly equipped to assist them.1 Many lamented the academic nature of …
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From the frying pan to the fire : lateral movement and the lack of women equity partners
… in equity partnership positions in law firms. In Massachusetts, only 17% of equity partners in the 100 largest firms are women even though half of law school graduates and first-year associates are women (MIT Workplace Center Survey, 2005). Restricting the sample to years in which …
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Normstödjande strukturer : Miljötematiken börjar slå rot i skolan
… - in today's society. Society has declared that schools, a place designed for the intentional influence of children and youths, shall utilise the new environmental theme in its practice. It focuses on the initiation process of the environmental theme in schools from the standpoint of the adult …