The Law School Global Issues Local Questions

Author : Fiona Cownie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429796067

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The Law School - Global Issues, Local Questions by Fiona Cownie Pdf

First published in 1999, this international collection of essays on legal education addresses the following issues: The Law School and the University. Research into legal education has often been regarded as a marginal activity as compared with research into substantive areas of law. However, recent years have seen a growing interest in discussions about the purpose of the university law school and the ways in which law is taught within it. Are we educating professional lawyers or legal scholars? What do we really mean when we say we want to offer ‘a liberal education in the law’? What effect are the current changes in higher education funding and policy having on law schools and what takes place within them? The international group of scholars who have contributed to this collection come from very different jurisdictions, but they have written about topics which, while they have local resonances, are of concern globally. Global Issues, Local Questions addresses matters which concern all law teachers, whatever their field of substantive legal expertise.

Author : Fiona Cownie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : LAW
ISBN : 0429438117

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The Law School by Fiona Cownie Pdf

Author : B.C. Nirmal,Rajnish Kumar Singh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789811062773

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Contemporary Issues in International Law by B.C. Nirmal,Rajnish Kumar Singh Pdf

This book explores the changing nature of international law and its ability to respond to the contemporary issues related to international environment, trade and information technology. The evolution of international law has reached a stage where we are witnessing diminishing power of the state and its capacity to deal with the economic matters challenging the existing notions of territory and sovereignty. Recent trends in international law and international relations show that states no longer have exclusive control over the decision-making process at the global level. Keeping this in mind, the book brings together the perspectives of various international and national scholars. The book considers diverse issues such as, sustainable development, climate change, global warming, Rio+20, technology transfer, agro-biodiversity and genetic resource, authority for protection of environment, human right to water, globalization, human rights, sui generis options in IP laws, impact of liberalization on higher education, regulation of international trade, intellectual property rights, collective administration of copyright, broadcast reproduction rights, implementation of copyright law, communication rights under copyright law, arbitration for IP disputes, doctrine of exhaustion of rights, trans-border reputation of trademark, information as an asset, cyber obscenity and pornography, e-governance, taxation of e-commerce, computer crime, information technology, domain names, research excellence in legal education, ideological perspective on legal education, challenges for law teachers, and clinical legal education. The topics, though diverse, are closely interrelated, with the common concern throughout being that the global environment, international trade, information technology and legal education need appropriate national normative and institutional responses as well as the global cooperation of members of the international community. Presenting reflections of a number of Asian, African and European scholars on these varied facets, the book is of great value to scholars, practitioners, teachers and students associated with contemporary international law.

Author : Emma Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351370691

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Emotions in the Law School by Emma Jones Pdf

Law schools are failing both their staff and students by requiring them to prize reason and rationality and to suppress or ignore emotions. Despite innovations in terms of both content and teaching techniques, there is little evidence that emotions are effectively acknowledged or utilised within legal education. Instead law schools are clinging to an out-dated and erroneous perception of emotions as at best, irrational, and at worst dangerous. In contrast to this, educational and scientific developments have demonstrated that emotions are a fundamental, inescapable part of learning, teaching and skills development. Harnessing these emotions will therefore have a transformative effect on legal education and enable it to adapt to the needs and demands of the twenty-first century. This book provides a theoretical overview of the role played by emotions in all aspects of the life of the law school. It explores the relationship emotions have with key traditional and contemporary approaches to legal education, the ways in which emotions can be conceptualised, their interaction with the politics and policies of legal education and their role within teaching and learning. The book also considers the importance of emotional wellbeing for both law students and legal academics Overall, this book argues for a more holistic form of legal education in which emotions play a valuable (and valued) role. This requires a new vision for law schools, in which emotions are acknowledged and embedded at all levels, institutional and personal.

Author : Rachel Dunn,Paul Maharg,Victoria Roper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000688771

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What is Legal Education for? by Rachel Dunn,Paul Maharg,Victoria Roper Pdf

How we interpret and understand the historical contexts of legal education has profoundly affected how we understand contemporary educational cultures and practices. This book, the result of a Modern Law Review seminar, both celebrates and critiques the lasting impact of Peter Birks’ influential edited collection, Pressing Problems in the Law: Volume 2: What is the Law School for? Published in 1996, his book addresses many critical issues that are hauntingly present in the 21st century, amongst them the impact of globalisation; technological disruption; and the tension inherent in law schools as they seek to balance the competing interest of teaching, research and administration. Yet Birks’ collection misses key issues, too. The role of wellbeing, of emotion or affect, the relation of legal education to education, the status of legal education in what, since his volume, have become the devolved jurisdictions of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland – these and others are absent from the research agenda of the book. Today, legal educators face new challenges. We are still recovering from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on our universities. In 1996 Birks was keen to stress the importance of comparative research within Europe. Today, legal researchers are dismayed at the possibility of losing valuable EU research funding when the UK leaves the EU, and at the many other negative effects of Brexit on legal education. The proposed Solicitors Qualifying Examination takes legal education regulation and professional learning into uncharted waters. This book discusses these and related impacts on our legal educations. As law schools approach an existential crossroads post-Covid-19, it seems timely to revisit Birks’ fundamental question: what are law schools for?

Author : Fiona Cownie
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781841130613

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Legal Academics by Fiona Cownie Pdf

This book explores the culture of legal academia, the professional identities of law teachers and the issues facing the discipline of law.

Author : Thomas Giddens,Luca Siliquini-Cinelli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000876567

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Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education by Thomas Giddens,Luca Siliquini-Cinelli Pdf

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of resistance in the law school. Legal education concerns the complex pathways by which an individual becomes a lawyer, making the journey from lay-person to expert, from student to practitioner. To pose the idea of a biopolitics of legal education is not only to recognise the tensions surrounding this journey but also to recognise that legal education is a key site in which the subject engages, and is engaged by, a particular structure—and here the particular structure of the law school. This book explores the resistance to that structure, including: different ways in which law’s pedagogic structures might be incomplete, or are being fought against; the use of less conventional elements of cultural discourse to resist the abstraction of the lawyer in students’ subject formation; the centralisation of queer and feminist discourses to disrupt the hierarchies of the legal curriculum; the use of digital technologies; the place of embodiment in legal education settings; and the impacts of posthuman knowledges and contexts on legal learning. Assembling original, field-defining essays by both leading international scholars and emerging researchers, this book constitutes an indispensable resource in legal education research and scholarship that will appeal to legal academics everywhere.

Author : David S. Clark
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1809 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761923879

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Encyclopedia of Law and Society by David S. Clark Pdf

Introduction to and survey of the field of law and society. Includes interdisciplinary perspectives on law from sociology, criminology, cultural anthropology, political science, social psychology, and economics.

Author : Catherine Valcke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108470063

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Comparing Law by Catherine Valcke Pdf

Reconstructs existing comparative law scholarship into a coherent analytic framework so as to both fend off current charges of theoretical arbitrariness and guide future work.

Author : Fiona Cownie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847315588

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Stakeholders in the Law School by Fiona Cownie Pdf

This collection brings together a distinguished group of researchers to examine the power relations which are played out in university law schools as a result of the different pressures exerted upon them by a range of different 'stakeholders'. From students to governments, from lawyers to universities, a host of institutions and actors believe that law schools should take account of a vast number of (often conflicting) considerations when teaching their students, designing curricula, carrying out research and so on. How do law schools deal with these pressures? What should their response be to the 'stakeholders' who urge them to follow agendas emanating from outside the law school itself? To what extent should some of these agendas play a greater role in the thinking of law schools?

Author : Richard J. Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107025615

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The Global Evolution of Clinical Legal Education by Richard J. Wilson Pdf

Clinical legal education has revolutionized legal education, from its deepest origins in the nineteenth century to its now-global reach.

Author : Richard Collier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135309213

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Men, Law and Gender by Richard Collier Pdf

What does it mean to speak of ‘men’ as a gender category in relation to law? How does law relate to masculinities? This book presents the first comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the relationship between men, law and gender; outlining the contours of the ‘man’ of law across diverse areas of legal and social policy. Written in a theoretically informed, yet accessible style, Men, Law and Gender provides an introduction to the study of law and masculinities whilst calling for a richer, more nuanced conceptual framework in which men’s legal practices and subjectivities might be approached. Building on recent sociological work concerned with the relational nature of gender and personal life, Richard Collier argues that social, cultural and economic changes have reshaped ideas about men and masculinities in ways that have significant implications for law. Bringing together voices and disciplines that are rarely considered together, he explores the way ideas about men have been contested and politicised in the legal arena. Including original empirical studies of male lawyers, the legal profession and fathers’ rights and law reform, alongside discussions of university law schools and legal academics, and family policy and parenting cultures, this innovative, timely and important text provides a unique and important insight into the relationship between law, men and masculinities. It will be required reading for academics and students in law and legal theory, socio-legal studies, gender studies, sociology and social policy, as well as policy-makers and others concerned with the changing nature of gender relations.

Author : Anthea Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190696436

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Is International Law International? by Anthea Roberts Pdf

This book takes the reader on a sweeping tour of the international legal field to reveal some of the patterns of difference, dominance, and disruption that belie international law's claim to universality. Pulling back the curtain on the "divisible college of international lawyers," Anthea Roberts shows how international lawyers in different states, regions, and geopolitical groupings are often subject to distinct incoming influences and outgoing spheres of influence in ways that reflect and reinforce differences in how they understand and approach international law. These divisions manifest themselves in contemporary controversies, such as debates about Crimea and the South China Sea. Not all approaches to international law are created equal, however. Using case studies and visual representations, the author demonstrates how actors and materials from some states and groups have come to dominate certain transnational flows and forums in ways that make them disproportionately influential in constructing the "international." This point holds true for Western actors, materials, and approaches in general, and for Anglo-American (and sometimes French) ones in particular. However, these patterns are set for disruption. As the world moves past an era of Western dominance and toward greater multipolarity, it is imperative for international lawyers to understand the perspectives and approaches of those coming from diverse backgrounds. By taking readers on a comparative tour of different international law academies and textbooks, the author encourages them to see the world through the eyes of others -- an essential skill in this fast changing world of shifting power dynamics and rising nationalism.

Author : Paul L.C. Torremans
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004478398

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Legal Convergence in the Enlarged Europe of the New Millennium by Paul L.C. Torremans Pdf

Three years ago the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia and the Faculty of Law of the University of Leicester embarked on a joint research and academic co-operation programme with the support of the British Council in Warsaw. The programme resulted in the organisation of two academic conferences, one in Leicester and one in Katowice. This book is the tangible result of these conferences. The content of the book reflects the wide-ranging nature of the collaboration between the two Faculties. Environmental law, public international law, intellectual and cultural property law are the main areas that are covered, but certain issues of constitutional law, European law, social law, company law and legal education are also addressed. The main strength of this book is found in its breadth of coverage and the detailed examination of key issues such as the rights of minorities; the transboundary movement of waste in Europe and the environmental problems which it creates; the theft and illegal exportation of cultural property; and the convergence of the droit d'auteur and copyright traditions.

Author : Margaret Thornton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136641299

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Privatising the Public University by Margaret Thornton Pdf

Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law is the first full-length critical study examining the impact of the dramatic reforms that have swept through universities over the last two decades.