Legal category: 4736 books
Rethinking Chinese Jurisprudence and Exploring Its Future
A Sociology of Knowledge Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
This book is an antecedent study on the task facing China's legal science, more strictly speaking — China's legal philosophy, in post-Cold War world structure. In broader terms, this is an academic study of China's own “identity” and future in the world structure. The author believes that from...
by Ian Benitez
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, grade: 1.75, , course: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, language: English, abstract: This paper challenges the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) claims of legal indeterminacy. It shall use a legal formalist...
The Great Legal Reformation
Notes from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
It’s refreshing that this book does not simply look to advances in technology and artificial intelligence as the cause or the future of the Great Legal Reformation. Through in-depth case studies and vignettes, Mitch Kowalski takes us on a tour to meet some of the trailblazers breaking the legal...
Lawyers and Savages
Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Legal primitivism was a complex phenomenon that combined the study of early European legal traditions with studies of the legal customs of indigenous peoples. Lawyers and Savages: Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology explores the rise and fall of legal primitivism,...
Narrowing the Gap
Legal English for the New International Legal Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
This concise guide provides instruction for foreign legal practitioners or advanced LLM students on the basics of the U.S. legal system and the process of legal reasoning, using substantive topics in U.S. law as example. Using an innovative learning process, you'll be exposed to legal concepts in your...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
We are currently witnessing an unprecedented transformation in the legal profession and legal education. The Legal Services Act 2007 and the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 have both enabled and necessitated dramatic structural changes to the profession, as well as impacting...
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To Establish Justice for All: The Past and Future of Civil Legal Aid in the United States [3 volumes]
The Past and Future of Civil Legal Aid in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
American statesman Sargent Shriver called the Legal Services Program the "most important" of all the War on Poverty programs he started; American Bar Association president Edward Kuhn said its creation was the most important development in the history of the legal profession. Earl Johnson...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Some of the most exciting and innovative legal scholarship has been driven by historical curiosity. Legal history today comes in a fascinating array of shapes and sizes, from microhistory to global intellectual history. Legal history has expanded beyond traditional parochial boundaries to become increasingly...
Reaffirming Legal Ethics
Taking Stock and New Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
It has been over thirty years since the founding crises that birthed legal ethics as both a field of study and a discrete field of law. In that time thinking about the ethical dimension of legal practice has taken several turns: from justifications of zealous advocacy, to questions of process and...
by Kevin Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This second collection of Kevin’s blog posts for The Now of Law and the Colorado Bar Association’s Legal Connection ezine focuses on the future and culture of law. Drawing from a variety of disciplines and perspectives --including science, technology, neuro-culture, positive psychology, and entrepreneurship--...
Reinventing Legal Education
How Clinical Education Is Reforming the Teaching and Practice of Law in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
European legal teaching - historically formalistic, doctrinal, hierarchical, and passive - is coming under increasing pressure to reimagine itself as pragmatic, policy-aware, and action-oriented. Out of this context, a bottom-up movement of university law clinics appears to be emerging in Europe....
by Suyash Manjul
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
India is a very complex business regime, so much so that it always ranks in the last few countries in the "ease of doing business" surveys. This position has not improved in the many years and will take time to change even when a new business friendly regime is in place. The problem of complex...
by Mark N. Aaronson
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The empirical focus of this book is the contentious political and legal battle over California welfare reform in the early 1970s. It is an extended, multifaceted case study of a kind not much found in the literature on social cause lawyering. The narrative highlights the forceful presence of Ronald...
Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order
Adoption and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This volume critically evaluates the latest legal reform of China, covering major areas such as trade and securities law, online privacy law, criminal law, human rights and international law. It represents a bold departure from the most recent works on Chinese legal reform by engaging the ideas of...