Legal Education category: 312 books
The Decline of Justice, Fairness and Morality in Law Schools
Legal Education, Privatization and the Market
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Neoliberalism has come to shape every aspect of legal education, from the curriculum and classes to the students themselves.
Where once, law schools produced bastions of honourable and ethical practices, today's law schools produce bland enforcers of the law, incapable of questioning the very...
Anarchy and Elegance
Confessions of a Journalist at Yale Law School
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
In Anarchy and Elegance Chris Goodrich deconstructs the inner workings of legal education at the nation’s most prestigious law school. A former legal reporter, Goodrich – a Yale graduate – attended the law school on a year-long fellowship for journalists, and soon found himself in a mare’s nest...
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...
Yale Law School and the Sixties
Revolt and Reverberations
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
The development of the modern Yale Law School is deeply intertwined with the story of a group of students in the 1960s who worked to unlock democratic visions of law and social change that they associated with Yale's past and with the social climate in which they lived. During a charged moment in...
Storming the Court
How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President--and Won
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
A tale more riveting than fiction, Storming the Court is the true story of idealistic law students who challenged the United States government in a battle for freedom and human rights that went all the way to the Supreme Court -- and resonates today more than ever.
In 1992, three hundred innocent...
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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...
by New England Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The New England Law Review offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, and phones. This third issue of Volume 49 (Spr. 2015) features an extensive and important Symposium on "Educational Ambivalence: The Story of the Academic Doctorate in Law," presented...
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 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--...
One L
The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school introduces and a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ideas and issues that are the stuff of legal education;...
The New Lawyer, Second Edition
How Clients Are Transforming the Practice of Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
The New Lawyer, Second Edition, analyzes the fundamental changes transforming the role of lawyers, the nature of client service, and the basic principles of legal practice. The first edition, published in 2008, quickly became an essential resource for lawyers and legal educators and further established...
The Integration of the UCLA School of Law, 1966—1978
Architects of Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In 1966, a group of UCLA law school professors sparked the era of affirmative action by creating one of the earliest and most expansive race-conscious admissions programs in higher education. The Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP) served to integrate the legal profession by admitting large...
by Jay M. Feinman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The best-selling first edition of Law 101 provided readers with a vividly written and indispensable portrait of our nation's legal system. Now, in this revised edition, Jay M. Feinman offers an updated survey of American law, spiced with new anecdotes and cases, and incorporating fresh material...
Introductory Scots Law Third Edition
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
A new and an updated edition of a core bestselling title.
Introductory Scots Law 3rd Edition develops the core knowledge and skills demanded in advanced law classes as part of Higher National courses and university-level business courses containing a strong legal component. Attractively designed,...