University Law School Research Articles

The experience of the reform of the curricular matrix of the Federal University Law School: participatory processes and perspectives

Resumo Trata-se de pesquisa destinada a analisar e a sistematizar as fases e a operacionalização do procedimento de reforma da matriz curricular do Curso de Direito de uma Universidade Federal da Região Sudeste do Brasil e elaborar uma síntese e um relato do procedimento para orientar outras reformas curriculares. O Curso em questão adotou um procedimento democrático participativo no processo de reforma da matriz curricular. A metodologia foi a qualitativa, do tipo bibliográfica e documental, além de analítica e interpretativa, pois, a partir do relato da experiência vivenciada na primeira fase da reforma, foi elaborada uma orientação propositiva e inspiradora para outros processos.

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.

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.

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

Review: Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society, by David Arditi

Book Review| June 01 2023 Review: Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society, by David Arditi David Arditi. Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, 2020. 256 pages. Jabari Evans Jabari Evans University of South Carolina Jabari Evans is an assistant professor of race and media at the University of South Carolina in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) and visiting professor at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media within the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University's Law School. His research focuses on the digital subcultures that urban youth and young adults of color develop and inhabit to understand their social environments and identity development and to pursue their professional aspirations in creative and cultural industries. As a recording artist and musician, he has enjoyed a 20-year career in hip-hop, collaborated with multiple Grammy-award winning artists, and served on the board of governors for the Chicago chapter of The Recording Academy. Email: JE27@mailbox.sc.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Email: JE27@mailbox.sc.edu Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (2): 116–118. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.116 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jabari Evans; Review: Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society, by David Arditi. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 June 2023; 35 (2): 116–118. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.116 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search In Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians and Power in Society, sociologist David Arditi disproves many misconceptions about signing recording contracts as a marker of success by demystifying various myths about record deals’ social, economic, and legal implications. He accomplishes this by weaving the voices and biographies of artists he interviewed or observed with his own insider perspective as a working musician. Arditi methodically historicizes the record deal as an ideological construct before emphasizing that music production, marketing and distribution’s digital turn only served to deepen the precarity of “being signed” within the recording industry. According to him, “Record contracts are ideology because they represent success at the same time that they limit the vast majority of signees’ capacity to earn a living. Record contracts are ideology in action; they do not convince people of an ordered world, but rather they create the order—they make the social relations of production... You do not currently have access to this content.

The Impact of China’s Fertility Policy on Women’s Employment and Suggestions

China's fertility policy is constantly adjusted to different economic, social, and demographic development periods. The fertility policy is conducive to promoting the balanced development of the population and slowing down problems such as population aging. However, the fertility policy has not reached the desired effect. The policy sparked heated debates among the general female population as soon as it was introduced. Peking University Law School published a study on gender discrimination in the Chinese workplace. The report shows that gender-based discrimination in employment is still serious, with one in four female respondents being rejected by employers because of their gender. Women believe that the implementation of the policy will affect their employment. This paper will analyze and study the negative impact of the fertility policy on women and propose solutions in China. Through the analysis, it can be found that the fertility policy has a negative impact on women's employment. Therefore, the government should make efforts to create a new environment suitable for women.

The End of the Law? Law, Theology, and Neuroscience

The End of the Law? Law, Theology, and Neuroscience

Speeding up risk capital allocation to deliver net-zero ambitions

Chris Greig is the Theodora D. ('78) and William H. Walton III ('74) Senior Research Scientist at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. His academic career follows 28 years as a senior executive in the energy and industrial sectors, developing large energy and industrial projects throughout the Asia-Pacific. His research focuses on the feasibility and implementation of large-scale energy transitions taking a systems perspective across energy systems analysis, business, social sciences, and policy. He was a principal investigator on Princeton's recent Net-Zero America study and co-leads similar efforts in Australia and Asia. David Keto is managing principal of SRI Group, a responsible investment consulting firm. Prior roles include chief operating officer for New Tower Trust, the bank trustee for the Multi-Employer Property Trust, a multi-billion-dollar socially responsible real estate fund. Prior to that, he served as chief operating officer for the AFL-CIO Investment Trust Corporation and as general counsel and chief of staff for the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust. He also served as undersecretary for the Massachusetts Executive Officer of Economic Affairs and as special counsel to the Boston Redevelopment Authority. He holds degrees from Princeton University and Yale Law School. Scott Hobart is chief investment officer at Mercator Partners, a sustainability-focused asset manager based in Princeton, New Jersey. Mercator invests across public equity markets globally with a focus on identifying sectors and business models that support the urgent need to decarbonize asset-heavy industries. The investment process at Mercator draws heavily on insights from academia and national laboratories. Benjamin Finch is an undergraduate senior in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. Ryan Winkler is an undergraduate junior in the Department of Economics at Princeton University.

Interview with V.M. Sherstyuk, Doctor of legal sciences, Professor, Civil Procedure Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University Law School

Interview with V.M. Sherstyuk, Doctor of legal sciences, Professor, Civil Procedure Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University Law School

Response to Professor Ruskola

Journal Article Response to Professor Ruskola Get access Donald Clarke Donald Clarke Professor of Law and David A. Weaver Research Professor, George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC, USA donald.clarke@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, avad003, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avad003 Published: 21 June 2023

Editorial

In effecting the vision of Kabarak University, ‘To become a centre of academic excellence…’ Kabarak University Law School presents to you the very first issue of the Kabarak Law Review. This journal is set as a revival of the Kabarak Students’ Law Review which dates back to 2014. The journey towards this revival started as a dream whose reality is seen today. It has been my aim and that of the Kabarak University Law Students Association 2020-2021 to realise this dream and we cannot be prouder of this accomplishment

Qualifying Work Experience in England and Wales: The Opportunities and Risks Presented to University Law Clinics

This commentary details the sweeping changes to the route to qualification as a solicitor in England and Wales brought about in September 2021 and considers the opportunities and risks presented to university law school clinics by one aspect of this route: the new system of Qualifying Work Experience (QWE). The article reflects on the opportunities for law clinic development, innovation and recognition offered by QWE and weighs these up against the potential risks that will need to be managed carefully to avoid them becoming a threat to law clinic enhancement. The article considers the results of an early data gathering exercise to garner clinician and student volunteer perspectives on QWE within its first year of operation.

Lawfare in Crimea: treaty, territory, and investor–state dispute settlement

Abstract In this paper—adapted from a lecture given at Koç University Law School—I describe how investor–state dispute settlement (‘ISDS’) can form part of an international lawfare strategy. Unlike other forms of international dispute settlement, the questions of territorial sovereignty that the weaker party to an international conflict may wish to have answered in its favour may (treaty drafting depending) be firmly within the incidental jurisdiction of an ISDS tribunal, making such a tribunal an attractive forum for lawfare. I first provide a working definition of lawfare and describe how ISDS can play a part in its prosecution, before turning to a case study, namely ISDS as a part of the lawfare strategy carried out by Ukraine against Russia in relation to the latter’s unlawful occupation of Crimea from 2014 onwards. I conclude with a discussion of the flexibilities of ISDS in this respect and consider shortly how Ukraine’s existing lawfare strategy can be adapted in the context of Russia’s current occupation of eastern Ukraine.

Detroit’s Wayne State University Law School: Future Leaders in the Legal Community by Alan Schenk

Detroit’s Wayne State University Law School: Future Leaders in the Legal Community by Alan Schenk

Australian Legal Education – A Short History

This article examines the history and development of legal education in Australia by tracing the establishment of university law schools and other forms of legal education in the states and territories from the time of European settlement in 1788 until the present day. It considers the critical role played by legal education in shaping the culture of law and thus determining how well the legal system operates in practice.
 It argues that Australian legal education can satisfactorily meet the twin objectives of training individuals as legal practitioners, whilst providing a liberal education that facilitates the acquisition of knowledge and transferable legal skills.

Needs Analysis and Legal English Course Design in Pre-Master of Laws Program: A Case Study in a U.S. University Law School

Legal English courses for international students in pre-LLM (Pre-Master of Laws) programs in the U.S. are important and require careful design to meet the needs of the students. This paper, taking the legal English course design of pre-LL.M. program in a Midwestern university in the U.S. as a case, discusses a theoretically informed, research-based approach to the design of a pre-LL.M. program emphasizing legal English based on a needs analysis. In the paper, a target situation analysis, present situation analysis, and teaching context analysis are carried out to understand the needs of the law school and needs of the students. According to these multifaceted needs analysis, goals and objectives of the course are established and teaching material are developed by following effective guidelines. These materials guide the suggested development of classroom activities in the lesson plan which integrates the SIOP® model. It is hoped that the analysis of pre-LL.M. legal English courses, its subsequent design in a U.S. context, and application of related theories and practice in this paper can be broadly applied in other institutions or ESP course design settings in global contexts.

50th Anniversary of TPRC—Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy: Looking Ahead to the Next 50 Years

50th Anniversary of TPRC—Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy: Looking Ahead to the Next 50 Years

About the Authors

About the Authors

Consider insights into sexual assault legislation

To provide insights to guide college athletics administrators in their efforts to help prevent and address issues related to sexual assaults involving student‐athletes, we chatted with Aaron Hernandez, J.D., Director of the Sports Law and Business Program at Arizona State University, and Logan Deen​ey, a 2022 J.D. Candidate at Marquette University Law School. Our conversation was edited for space and clarity.