Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Legal Education

The establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice sees the countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean at an important and exciting judicial crossroads. Debate, often acrimonious, continues over the abolishment of ties to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and, increasingly those influencing the debate are a more educated and articulate Caribbean people, insisting on proper governance of the area's public bodies. This new book analyzes judicial review, a mechanism for achieving public justice, through emerging case law in the hope that it will cast light on the jurisprudential...

The concept of learning to think like a lawyer is one of the cornerstones of legal education in the United States and beyond. In this book, Jeffrey Lipshaw provides a critique of the traditional views of thinking like a lawyer or pure lawyering aimed at lawyers, law professors, and students who want to understand lawyering beyond the traditional warrior metaphor. Drawing on his extensive experience at the intersection of real world law and business issues, Professor Lipshaw presents a sophisticated philosophical argument that the "pure lawyering" of traditional legal education is agnostic...

Effective Learning and Teaching in Law will provide all law teaching professionals with practical, authoritative guidance and advice on the successful teaching of their subject in both university settings and as part of professional training and practice.
Written to promote the development of and recognition of the professional role of the law teacher, this book will help educators equip law students of law with the intellectual and practical skills required to succeed in their studies. Key coverage includes assessment, the design and planning of learning activities, the use...

This book helps you confirm and clarify your law school interest and law degree goal.  It also helps you prepare for law school.  Profiles of law students and graduates show how pursuing a law degree can work for you.  Profiles of law professors, staff, and deans show you who will help you along the way.  Other chapters address the value of a law degree, how to choose a law school, how to prepare, how to learn law, and law careers and lawyer roles.  Law school is the most engaging intellectual pursuit, and law practice the most engaging career, that you can...

American law schools are in deep crisis. Enrollment is down, student loan debt is up, and the profession's supply of high-paying jobs is shrinking. Meanwhile, thousands of graduates remain underemployed while the legal needs of low-income communities go substantially unmet. Many blame overregulation and seek a "free" market to solve the problem, but this has already been tested. Seizing on a deregulatory policy shift at the American Bar Association, private equity financiers established the first for-profit law schools in the early 2000s with the stated mission to increase access to...

Loren Rhoton is a practicing attorney who specializes in postconviction law and criminal appeals. He has dedicated his career to helping Florida inmates seek justice. While working with Florida judges on the Florida Criminal Rules Steering Committee to help improve the postconviction process, Mr. Rhoton recognized the need for a formbook for pro se postconviction litigants. This formbook is a companion to Mr. Rhoton's book, Postconviction Relief for the Florida Prisoner. The formbook presents sample pleadings for the most common postconviction actions in the state of...