University Law Research Articles

Специфика среднего профессионального образования как этапа процесса профессионального самоопределения студента

The paper proposes a sociological approach to the analysis of the process of professional self-determination of students studying under secondary vocational education programs in colleges affiliated with a HEI. Profes-sional self-determination is considered as a prolonged process of professional self-actualization, self-realization and professional development as part of the entire educational and professional-labor “biography” of the subject. The article defines the main factors influencing the choice of applicants in favor of college edu-cation, presents the analysis of the results of sociological research of the process of professional self-determination of college students of Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Management – branch of Russian Presiden-tial Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and College of Economics and Law of Dzerzhin-sky branch of Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. College enroll-ment reasons are highlighted, as well as groups of SPE students depending on their future plans for profes-sional self-actualization, self-actualization and professional development.

Canonical Jurisprudence in the Kingdom of Bohemia in the Middle Ages

During the High and Late Middle Ages, canon law played a crucial role. This study provides an overview of ecclesiastical legal scholarship in the Czech lands, i.e. in Bohemia (in the Archdiocese of Prague) and in Moravia (in the Diocese of Olomouc). The development of a legal jurisprudence went hand in hand with the development of ecclesiastical administration in the second half of the 14th century and in the early 15th century, which evolved into a compact system. An important factor in this was the establishment of Prague University, including the Law Faculty, in 1348, and also, in particular, the establishment of the separate Prague Law University in 1372. Amongst the major canonists who left work behind were Štěpán of Roudnice, Bohuslav of Krnov, Kuneš of Třebovle, Mikuláš Puchník, and Jan of Jesenice, amongst others.

Innovation of Law Education Model in Applied Colleges and Universities Based on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Relying on the nation's first judicial big data research base for people's courts in Southeast University, Southeast University Law School has set up a training direction for graduate students in legal big data and artificial intelligence, and explored the “three-dimensional, small-scale, wide-ranging, and large-scale ecology.” The concept of “meta-integration” of legal postgraduate talent training will build a “four-in-one” legal big data and artificial intelligence postgraduate talent training system, so that the leading position of legal big data and artificial intelligence in leading disciplines will be gradually established, and the training effect of leading talents will be established. In addition, the establishment of a teaching feedback mechanism can also provide important guidance for how to improve artificial intelligence in legal education. This paper applies the data mining technology to the legal education in colleges and universities and comprehensively expounds the basic theories and methods of data mining.

Editors' introduction to special memorial issue honoring professor Lauren B. Edelman

The law and society community was heartbroken to learn in February 2023 that Lauren B. Edelman (“Laurie”) passed away. Laurie obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin before earning a Juris Doctor degree from University of California, Berkeley and a doctoral degree from Stanford University. She spent the first part of her career as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin Sociology department before joining the University of California, Berkeley Law and Jurisprudence and Social Policy program as the Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law and Sociology in 1996.

A Literature Review on the Development of the Family Education Guidance Service in China

The Family Education Guidance Service is a public service developed by the government to give guidance and service to parents on educating their children in China. Recently, the service has attracted increasing attention from scholars, as well as from the Chinese Government. To assess the current status of research on the Family Education Guidance Service, this paper firstly introduces the policy history and clarifies the definition of the Family Education Guidance Service and other relevant terms used in China. It then presents a review of studies on the Family Education Guidance Service published in journals with high-grade ratings and analyzes the characteristics of current research in terms of year of publication, author affiliations, research themes, research methods, and target groups. Based on these, it makes suggestions for future development. Overall, 43 papers are reviewed, the findings of which reveal that related research is at the beginning of an upswing. Most authors belong to education colleges and law colleges of universities. The themes studied most often are the strategy exploration and legal construction of the Family Education Guidance Service. The parents of primary- and middle-school students are the most commonly studied group, followed by schoolteachers. The results indicate that despite the growing number of publications, research in this field is still in its early stages and many aspects require further exploration.

New Information Technologies and Data Security

The paper provides a review of the research workshop “New Information Technologies and Data Security” took place on 23 May 2023 at the Institute of Foreign Legislation and Comparative Law (ILCL). The authors reflect the keynotes of the reports made by representatives of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law, Kutafin Moscow State Law University, National Research University–Higher School of Economics (NRU-HSE), Moscow State Lomonosov University (MGU), Plekhanov State University of Economics, Moscow State City Pedagogical University, etc. The paper provides an insight into the legal issues under discussion: concept and meaning of data security in the current environment; development vectors of the data security institution in the context of digitization; limits of sovereignty in the information domain; international legal regulators of data security; sustainable security mechanisms in the face of contemporary challenges and threats; impact of advanced information technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, machine-sensible right to data security; personal data security; state control and liability for violation of information law, etc.

On the Results of the Scientific and Practical Conference «Issues of Protecting the Rights of Citizens Using Digital Technologies in Criminal Proceedings»

. The paper reports on the scientific and practical conference «Issues of Protecting the Rights of Citizens Using Digital Technologies in Criminal Proceedings», held on December 20, 2022 in a mixed format. The conference was organized by the office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation and the Scientific and Educational Center for Human Rights of Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL). The conference was devoted to topical issues related to the protection of the rights of citizens by means of digital technologies, access to justice, the possibilities of digitalization to overcome restrictions in the work of law enforcement agencies and the judiciary, generalization of the experience of foreign states and the Russian Federation in ensuring the rights of participants in criminal proceedings. The conference brought together a wide range of scientists and representatives of the legislative, executive, judicial authorities involved in the protection of the rights of citizens in the criminal procedure.

Through Dialogue with the Past to Finding the Future: Some Aspects of Gavriil V. Derzhavin’s Legacy for the Development of Modern Russian Jurisprudence

The paper provides an expanded version of the theses of the author’s report delivered at the scientific and educational conference «Your duty is to preserve the laws … " dedicated to the 280th anniversary of Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin held at the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL) on July 5, 2023. The paper deals with the issues of understanding of law as the initial category of jurisprudence in Derzhavin’s ideological and creative semantic space and understanding of the Constitution, bearing in mind G. R. Derzhavin participation in the formation of the project-doctrinal origins of Russian constitutionalism. The author focuses on ideological and spiritual legacy of G. R. Derzhavin directly reflected in his state-political and literary-creative biography. The author, relying on the concept of constitutional dialogue with the past put forward by Derzhavin, reveals a comprehensive creative potential of Derzhavin’s philosophy of state-legal life for the formation of value-semantic, pedagogical and institutional foundations of a nationally oriented constitutional model of the development of sovereign Russian statehood in modern conditions.

JEAN MONNET INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE "THE INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MONETARY LAW", Faculty of Law University of Niš, May 30-31, 2023

JEAN MONNET INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE "THE INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MONETARY LAW", Faculty of Law University of Niš, May 30-31, 2023

Exploring the Synergistic Association Between Oral Health Status and Oral Health Literacy Among College Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Oral health is often viewed as a significant component for an indication of good general health or for good well-being together with a decent quality of life. Health literacy is considered a crucial factor in improvising a good life or excellent health. Oral health literacy (OHL) is the ability necessary for people to identify the factors that lead to poor oral health, learn and put into practice the essentials of effective oral self-care behaviors, and communicate with oral healthcare professionals in order to schedule appointments, put their names on waiting lists for dental care, and locate the dentist's office. To evaluate students' oral health, their OHL, to determine the relationship between their oral health status and OHL, and finally to suggest preventive measures for the benefit of public health. At Teerthanker Mahaveer University, a cross-sectional study involving 1500 participants, ages 18 to 25, was conducted on students studying nursing, physiotherapy, paramedicine, engineering, and law. Their informed consent was obtained. The Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry (REALD-99) was used to gauge OHL levels, and the WHO's 1997 Oral Health Survey was used for their clinical evaluation. The mean REALD score was significantly higher in nursing students (88.32±6.46), followed by physiotherapy college (82.46±9.11), paramedical college (70.54±10.95), law college (46.52±7.74), and least in engineering college (38.80±10.65). The difference in the REALD score based on college was statistically significant. Along with this, the REALD score showed a correlation with gender and location too. Except for fluorosis, all the clinical parameters of dental caries, gingival bleeding, and pockets, loss of attachment, dental fluorosis, and dental enamel were associated with OHL. The results of the current study showed a relationship between educational attainment, clinical parameters examined, and OHL, leading to the conclusion that higher OHL is related to better oral health. So, we can conclude that maintaining good oral health requires OHL.

Business and human rights in Japan: An overview

Business and human rights in Japan: An overview Professor Emi Sugawara from Osaka University of Economics and Law, Faculty of International Studies, walks us through the critical development of Japan’s policies concerning business and human rights. Recently, policy trends related to business and human rights have been characterised by their rapid and overwhelming nature. Since the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) was endorsed in 2011, 26 countries, including Japan, have formulated a national action plan on business and human rights (NAP). As national legislations have emerged to mandate human rights due diligence and information disclosure, the EU’s proposal on the Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence draws attention. The effective abolition of forced labour in global supply chains was also discussed at this year’s G7 summit hosted by Japan.(1) Additionally, the crackdown against the opposition to military rule in Myanmar, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, and a just transition to climate change are also important issues in the context of business and human rights.

Forming Lawyers who can Contribute to Equitable Access to Justice in South Africa

Drawing on Amartya Sen, this paper proposes that clinical legal education and training should be evaluated in the light of contributions to wellbeing and agency freedoms, foregrounding people’s capabilities as an appropriate metric for judging access to justice. The context is post-apartheid South Africa and aspirations towards transformative Constitutionalism which seeks to operationalize values of dignity, equality and freedom for all. The role the legal system, mediated by legal practitioners, should support Constitutional values and the public good as envisaged by the National Standards for university legal education. This challenge is explored in the article, drawing on a qualitative interview study. The researchers interviewed candidate attorneys across six University Law Clinics to identify the professional capabilities they valued for the purposes of contributing to enabling people to flourish in their everyday lives. Transformative Constitutionalism further suggests a set of capabilities which legal practice should enable. Through the perspectives and voices of practitioners, valued legal capabilities and the corresponding university education and training practices are also identified. The idea of legal capability is developed and broadened both conceptually and empirically, building on work both by Atkins and Habbig and Robeyns. The claim is made that legal education, lawyers’ professional capabilities, and transformative Constitutionalism should be grounded normatively in a capabilities metric of justice and hence what matters for people’s wellbeing and agency freedoms.

The Law in the Community Model of Clinical Legal Education: Assessing the Impact on Key Stakeholders

This article examines a model of clinical legal education where a university law school works in partnership with an external organisation. The partnership enables law students to attend the offices of Citizens Advice during their law degree and under the guidance and supervision of their staff, advise their service users on a range of legal issues. Using data collected from a research study involving student focus groups and semi structured interviews with the Citizens Advice supervisors, this research contributes to the understanding of whether, and how, this model impacts upon law students, Citizens Advice and the local community. This study contributes to the knowledge on the value of this model of clinical legal education from both a pedagogical and social justice perspective. The research raises questions as to how a partnership between a university and external organisation can overcome challenges, ensuring an equivalent clinical experience for all students and that effective feedback is provided to students. The results indicate that there are a clear set of pedagogical benefits to the students and benefits to Citizens Advice with regards to the service they can provide to the local community. The authors argue that this module enables students to engage in transformative and impactful work, whilst obtaining first-hand experience of the access to justice challenges (and other socio-economic issues) faced by their local community. The study will be of interest to clinics who incorporate, or intend to incorporate, an externship model in their curriculum, both in Europe and beyond.

Vampires: Outside Life, Outside Control

Vampires: Outside Life, Outside Control

An Investigation to Design Course of English for Legal Purposes (ELP) from Viewpoint of CBI in Sindh Law College, Hyderabad

The course of English for legal purposes has greatly received acceptance in Pakistan. The courses of ELP are not concerned to teach particular terms and phrases to translate texts with the teaching technique of the Grammar Translation method (GTM). Pakistan has been active in participating in International Relations. Therefore, it is significant to expect the attached course of ESP that could facilitate learners in preparation for their career in international outlook. Under this principle, the current theme of the paper is envisioned to give the layout of ELP courses that could tailor to the needs of law undergraduate students in Sindh Law College, Hyderabad. This course is proposed to design its foundation on content-based instruction. The issues are perceived through various angles in different ELP settings. The proposed plan for ELP courses is expected beneficial for teachers and students that are involved in the development of ELP courses in various renowned Universities in Pakistan.

STUDENTS’ VIEWS ON QUIZLET AS A LEARNING MEDIUM TO ENHANCE LEGAL ENGLISH VOCABULARY ACQUISITION

Legal English vocabulary acquisition is considered one of the most intriguing topics in English for specific purposes learning due to its distinctive features related to the legal field. Yet, this area has not received adequate attention from learners in determining the effective techniques to boost the legal English vocabulary learning process. Therefore, this study concentrated on clarifying English majors' attitudes towards Quizlet utilization in their legal English vocabulary acquisition in the context of legal English courses at Hanoi Law University, Vietnam. In order to achieve the ultimate purpose, the study adopted both quantitative and qualitative approach with the main data collection instruments of survey questionnaires and semi-structured interview to get insight into the situation. The study provided several remarkable findings, which were consistent with the empirical ones in the literature. Specifically, it is apparently indicated that while a large number of students found Quizlet stimulating and effective, others were still not familiar with this application in learning legal English vocabulary. In the light of these findings, it is highly recommended that both English majors and lecturers in law institutions apply and incorporate Quizlet into the learning and teaching process to enhance legal English vocabulary acquisition.

Innovative Instruction of Law Teaching and Learning: Using Visual Art, Creative Methods, and Technology to Improve Learning

This study mainly focuses on the need for innovative instruction of law teaching and learning practices at the present time and how the law subject communicates to the students innovatively and learning from various innovative instruction with the help of advanced technologies. This study will examine several innovative instructions used at the college of law at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and their effect on students’ achievements. The methodology used in this study was collected from the course evaluation by students in various classes. This was exhibited the students’ opinions in a form of a survey that follows Likert scale. This survey was developed by the UAEU Office of Institutional Effectiveness. In addition to the five open-ended questions which are a part of the survey too. The data analyzed using the means and the percentage of the responses to the questions. In addition, the use of quotations of the student’s narrative response to the open-ended question. The participants for this study were 85 students studying/various courses at the college of law at UAEU University. The study included both genders. The results of the innovative instructions transferred the teaching and learning at the college of law at UAEU from the traditional curriculum to innovative instructions based on simulation, application, critical thinking, and logical reasoning. This transformation represented an important point in the change of law education from the classical school of law education to the applied school that relies on the idea of ??application as principles for evaluating legal theory.

Adequacy of legal information resources and services of law libraries in selected Nigerian universities

This study seeks to determine the adequacy of legal information resources and services of law libraries in selected Nigerian universities. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The total of 252 postgraduate law students of 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 sets in the two federal universities in South-East formed the population. The entire population was used as the sample. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire and observation check-list. The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics and percentages. Arithmetic mean was used to analyse data obtained from the research questions with scale value of 50%. The findings of the study revealed among others that the findings showed that legal information resources are available in the federal university law libraries in South-East, Nigeria, although more innovative services need to be established to be completely commensurate with the demands of the 21st century.

Equity and Mediation: Affinities and Disjunctures

The authors and Professor Denis SK Ong were colleagues at the Bond University Law School. Given their different areas of interest they did not collaborate on intellectual and academic matters. It is, however, to the regret of the current authors that they never discussed the subject of this contribution, namely the relationship between mediation, and other forms of dispute resolution (DR), on one hand and equity and its principles, on the other. This is regrettable as Denis’s scholarship and erudition on the topic would have led to a fruitful discussion. This article is written in honour of Professor Ong and his innumerable achievements in many fields of academic life.

Professor ‘Rusty’ Park: a genuine polyhistor

Journal Article Professor ‘Rusty’ Park: a genuine polyhistor Get access Charles N Brower Charles N Brower Arbitrator Member of Twenty Essex Chambers and Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University Law School cbrower@twentyessex.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Arbitration International, Volume 39, Issue 2, June 2023, Pages 167–169, https://doi.org/10.1093/arbint/aiad012 Published: 19 June 2023