University Law Students Research Articles

Critical Discourse Analysis of Opinion Headlines in the American Radar Tegal Newspaper

لقد ناقش هذا البحث بيان مواقف ووجهات نظر الصحف في قسم الرأي في جريدة رادار تيجال ( Radar Tegal)والتي يتم عرضها في عمود الراي في الجريدة. وينقسم موقف الصحيفة إلى إطارين، الإطار الناقد للمعلومة والإطار الداعم للمعلومة. وفي هذا البحث تم استخدام المنهج المكتبي ومنهج الملاحظة. اما طرق تحليل البيانات فهي طرق المطابقة والأساليب التشاركية. و توصلت نتائج البحث في إطار داعم بناءً على كتابات Tasrip S.Pd., MM (مدرس الدراسات الاجتماعية( MTs N 4 Tegal) مما يزيد من كفاءة معلمي " المدارس" في إتقان المواد والأساليب التعليمية، أيضا توصل الى دعم النتائج الإبداعية في مخرجات مواد العلوم والتكنولوجيا لتقديم أفضل مساهمة في التعليم العالمي. وفي الوقت نفسه، فإن الراي الذي كتبه Diki Mardinsyah (طالب القانون بجامعة ولاية سيمارانج) هي محاولة لمنع المشاجرات بين الطلاب وأن هناك قوانين صارمة لمرتكبي المشاجرات الطلابية

The Use of the North Sumatra E-Museum on Resource Reading Skills in Anthropology

The purpose of this research is to prove the improvement of reading skills of Al-Azhar University law students through the e-Museum. A post-test research design with only a control design is the quantitative experimental approach used in this method. Primary school students in the second grade served as the study population; they were split evenly into two groups (20 in the experimental group and 18 in the control group). The normality test, homogeneity test, and paired sample t-test are the data analysis methods used to determine the value of Sig. (2-tailed), where a value of 0.000 0.05 indicates that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. There were also notable differences between the control and experimental groups. It concluded that the e-Museum could help law students in their anthropological classes become better readers. This means that everyone accessing the E-museum needs to pay close attention to its digitally recorded and easily accessible archive of historically significant, scientifically significant, and culturally significant visual and aural materials.

Exploring the Knowledge and Perception of University Law Students on Bangladesh's Draft Over-the-Top (OTT) Content Regulation Law: A Cross-Sectional Study Conducted via Online Survey

Exploring the Knowledge and Perception of University Law Students on Bangladesh's Draft Over-the-Top (OTT) Content Regulation Law: A Cross-Sectional Study Conducted via Online Survey

Moral appraisals guide intuitive legal determinations.

We sought to understand how basic competencies in moral reasoning influence the application of private, institutional, and legal rules. We predicted that moral appraisals, implicating both outcome-based and mental state reasoning, would shape participants' interpretation of rules and statutes-and asked whether these effects arise differentially under intuitive and reflective reasoning conditions. In six vignette-based experiments (total N = 2,473; 293 university law students [67% women; age bracket mode: 18-22 years] and 2,180 online workers [60% women; mean age = 31.9 years]), participants considered a wide range of written rules and laws and determined whether a protagonist had violated the rule in question. We manipulated morally relevant aspects of each incident-including the valence of the rule's purpose (Study 1) and of the outcomes that ensued (Studies 2 and 3), as well as the protagonist's accompanying mental state (Studies 5 and 6). In two studies, we simultaneously varied whether participants decided under time pressure or following a forced delay (Studies 4 and 6). Moral appraisals of the rule's purpose, the agent's extraneous blameworthiness, and the agent's epistemic state impacted legal determinations and helped to explain participants' departure from rules' literal interpretation. Counter-literal verdicts were stronger under time pressure and were weakened by the opportunity to reflect. Under intuitive reasoning conditions, legal determinations draw on core competencies in moral cognition, such as outcome-based and mental state reasoning. In turn, cognitive reflection dampens these effects on statutory interpretation, allowing text to play a more influential role. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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

Information Literacy Programme and the Use of Legal Information Resources by Undergraduate Law Students in Bayero University, Kano

The paper examined the information literacy programmes on the use of legal information resources by undergraduate law students in Bayero University, Kano. The study investigated the information literacy programmes of undergraduate law students with specific focus on the impacts of literacy programmes on the use of legal information resources in faculty of law library, Bayero University, Kano. The study employed quantitative research method using cross-sectional survey research design. The population of the study comprised of Head of the Law Library, eight staff of the law library and 1,071 registered undergraduate law students of 2017/18 academic session in Bayero University, Kano. The Isreal formula for determining the sample size (1993) was used to calculate the sample size of two hundred and ninety one (291) undergraduate law students. A total number of 291 copies of questionnaire were administered, and 247 were returned and found useful for analysis. Data collected from undergraduate students was analyzed using descriptive statistics and Narrative analysis was employed for the qualitative data collected from the head of the law library. The findings of the study showed that the library orientation exercise, library tours by chambers and course related Instruction such as legal methods and GSP Programme on the use of the library are the literacy programmes available to undergraduate law students of Bayero university, Kano; while lack of university commitment to information literacy programme, lack of regular information literacy programme and faculty unwillingness to incorporate information literacy programme into the curriculum are the factors hindering effective information literacy programme in law library in Bayero University, Kano. The study concludes that, the success of information literacy programme on the use legal information resources in faculty of law library in Bayero University, Kano can be achieved through collaboration with faculty members. The study recommends for the provision of regular information literacy programs among others.

Review: Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, by Martha S. Jones

Review: <i>Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All</i>, by Martha S. Jones

Impact of COVID-19 on Legal Education Sector of Pakistan and Online Education as an Alternative Learning System

COVID-19 has collapsed education system due to lockdown and sudden closure of the educational institutions in Pakistan and across the globe. This study addresses online education challenges in the lockdown period and provides measures to effectively convert present resources available to university students from formal to online education through virtual classes. Therefore, this study examines students' perception of Pakistan's district Sahiwal towards the required digital and online university legal education during COVID-19. Postgraduate and undergraduate university law students were surveyed to find their perceptions about online legal education in the country. This research concludes that in underdeveloped countries such as Pakistan, online education could yield desired results despite limited resources. Some concerns highlighted by the students were a lack of face-to-face interactions with teachers, multimedia educational resources and tools, and the absence of conventional classroom socialization.

A study of university law students’ self-perceived digital competences

The concept of digital competences incorporates the effective use of constantly-changing digital tools and media for learning and performing digital tasks, digital behaviours (such as online communication, teamwork, ethical sharing of information), as well as digital mindsets that value lifelong digital learning and development. The current pandemic crisis has accelerated the need to diagnose and understand more systematically Higher Education students’ digital competences and the way in which they shape academic performance and outcomes. This empirical study explores the digital competences of students, studying in Law related courses, by means of a self-assessment survey tool, which has been previously tested with information and library science students, and was developed to study students’ technology mastery (i.e. the abilities, competences, capabilities and skills required for using digital technology, media and tools) and their digital citizenship mindsets (consisting of attitudes and behaviours necessary to develop as a critical, reflective and lifelong learners). The study found age demographic differences, which presented significant correlations pointing to the presence of diverse levels of competences in the student group. Correlation statistics of the survey data demonstrated that students’ prior everyday participation as a digital citizen was connected to a number of important academic skills, such as the ability to identify information in different contexts, students’ digital learning and development, their digital abilities to complete academic work, their information literacy skills and their skills around managing their digital wellbeing and identity. Focus groups data with academics revealed that they valued the development of students’ digital competences for the purposes of learning, while studying at university and placed less emphasis on digital citizenship skills. These academics also considered the value of digital platforms and tools (the focus on ‘ICT Proficiency’) to be more relevant for academic study than digital citizenship mindsets.

RETRACTED: Developing multiliteracy skills and pragmatic communication awareness of university students learning a foreign language (English) for specific purposes

The paper aims to explore the development of multiliteracy skills and pragmatic awareness of students in the process of university-based foreign language learning. The research topic choice is based on the increasing importance of interdisciplinary education, university graduates’ abilities and skills to hold efficient multilingual communication in varied and changing professional settings. The research was conducted during 2016–2020 at the [BLINDED] Institute of [BLINDED] University. Over 600 students were subject to the research experiments. The research integrated desk and field studies. Academic literature review served as the theoretical background to shape the methodology and identify the relevant didactic components for the awareness and skills development of university law students. The results of the study show that students’ multiliteracy skills increase by 25–27% during an academic year. Besides, the average figures for students’ awareness of and skills in the pragmatic communication increase by 25–30% during an academic year. Moreover, the comparative analysis of students’ academic progress in traditional and multiliteracy and pragmatic communication-focused training revealed that the didactic approach under study contributed to students’ overall academic progress, including legal subjects and language disciplines. The experimental training was launched and conducted during the mentioned period with the focus on multiliteracy skills and pragmatic communication awareness of university law students. A comparative analysis of students’ academic progress in traditional and multiliteracy training was conducted. The data confirmed that learning foreign language with the focus on multiliteracy skills and pragmatic communication awareness of university law students contributes to students’ overall academic progress, apart from foreign language skills. The practical significance and prospects of further research are based on the possibility of implementing the developed program, created on the basis of modern methodological approaches, in the curriculum not only at the Faculty of Law, but also at other faculties. It is important to study the effectiveness of modern methods in the process of learning foreign languages, determining their effectiveness in the formation of language competencies.

Clinical Legal Education during a Global Pandemic - Suggestions from the Trenches: The Perspective of the Nelson Mandela University

Summary/Abstract&#x0D; &#x0D; The Covid-19 pandemic has plunged the world into turmoil and uncertainty. The academic world is no exception. In South Africa, due to a nationwide lockdown imposed by government, universities had to suspend all academic activities, but very quickly explored online teaching and learning options in order to ensure continued education to students. As far as Clinical Legal Education, or CLE, is concerned, such online options of teaching and learning could present problems to university law faculties, university law clinics and law students in general, as CLE is a practical methodology, usually following a live-client or simulation model, depending on the particular university and law clinic. &#x0D; This article provides insight into the online methodology followed by the Nelson Mandela University, or NMU. The NMU presents CLE as part of its Legal Practice-module and conventionally follows the live-client model. As the national lockdown in South Africa required inter alia social distancing, the live-client model had been temporarily suspended by the NMU Law Faculty Management Committee and replaced with an online methodology. The aim of this was an attempt to complete the first semester of the academic year in 2020. This online methodology is structured so as to provide practical-orientated training to students relating to a wide variety of topics, including drafting of legal documents, divorce matters, medico-legal practice, labour legal practice, criminal legal practice, as well as professional ethics. The online training took place in two staggered teaching and learning pathways in line with the strategy of the NMU, underpinned by the principle of “no student will be left behind.” In this way, provision had been made for students with online connectivity and access to electronic devices, students with online connectivity only after return to campus or another venue where connectivity is possible and electronic devices are available, as well as for students who do not have access to online connectivity and electronic devices at all. &#x0D; The reworked CLE-programme of the NMU, planned for the second semester of the 2020-academic year, will also be discussed in this article. The online methodology, followed by the NMU, should however not be viewed as definitive or cast in stone in any way. There might be – and there surely are – alternative methodologies, both online and otherwise, that may provide equally good or even better training to CLE-students during a global pandemic. Alternative suggestions in this regard will also be discussed in this article. &#x0D; It is hoped that this article will provide inspiration, as well as assistance, to university law faculties and law clinics that are struggling to engage with continued practical legal education during the testing and uncertain times brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. It is further hoped that this article may provide guidance in other difficult and unforeseen future instances that may await CLE. In this regard, it is important to remember that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is rapidly increasing its grip on the world and that CLE will have to adapt to the demands thereof.

Prevalence of Tobacco and associated risk factors among university law students in Indore City.

Tobacco use is one of the major preventable causes of death and disability worldwide. The practice of law can be demanding and exceedingly stressful. Trends in tobacco use among young people are important to document because these findings will help inform the development of appropriate preventive intervention programs for youth. To assess prevalence of tobacco and associated risk factors among university law students in Indore city. To identify the strength of association related to tobacco consumption. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 278 law students in Indore city using convenient sampling technique. The data was collected using pre-tested close ended self-administered questionnaire. Frequency distribution analysis was performed. Bivariate analysis was done followed by logistic regression analysis. The level of significance for all the tests was set at P < 0.05. The present study revealed that 32% of the study subjects consumed smoking tobacco as compared to 2.5% of smokeless tobacco. Nearly two-third of the law students consumed tobacco at public places 185 (66.5%) under the influence of friends. Only 18 (6.5%) study subjects tried to quit tobacco in the last 12 months whereas 65 (23.4%) of them never wanted to quit the habit of tobacco consumption. A bivariate analysis was performed to identify the risk factors related to tobacco consumption. It was found that male individuals (OR=2.04, P =0.004*) whose family members had the habit of tobacco consumption (OR=2.9, P =0.002*) were at a higher risk for consuming tobacco. The factors that became significant in bivariate analysis were then entered in logistic regression analysis [Enter method] to identify the strength of association. The individuals who had the habit of tobacco consumption among family members emerged as the strongest risk predictor leading to tobacco consumption amongst the students. The present study revealed that smoking form of tobacco consumption (cigarette- 32%) was more prevalent among the male study subjects under the influence of friends and with family members who had the habit of consuming tobacco at their place of residence.

Assessment of Healthful Lifestyle Behaviors between Graduate Programs

Background: Heart disease is a condition with many etiologies, some of which include genetics, obesity, exercise, diet, smoking, and alcohol use. Studies show that increased years of education lead to better health outcomes, specifically lower rates of heart disease and obesity. Despite their high level of education, physicians have been shown to have a disproportionally higher rate of heart disease. Our objective was to determine whether there are particular lifestyle habits present among medical students that may lead to increased risk of heart disease as their academic and clinical futures progress. Methods: 201 Quinnipiac University medical, law, and education graduate students were recruited to this survey study. Descriptive statistics were used to present the data. Chi-squared test and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to test the significance and a p-value &lt;0.05 was considered significant. Results: Medical students were able to answer health-related questions correctly more than their law and education student counterparts (p-value &lt;.001), felt able to explain the terms saturated fat (p-value &lt;.001) and trans-fat (p-value &lt;.001) and give an accurate estimate of personal BMI status better than their counterparts in the law and education programs, but did not significantly differ in meeting Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet recommendations or American Heart Association (AHA) recommendations for physical activity. Conclusion: Increased health-related knowledge has little bearing on individual dietary and physical activity habits of graduate students. We found no evidence to show that increased medical knowledge leads individuals to pursue lifestyle habits that lower the risk of heart disease.

Street Law, Inc.: Context, History and Future

&lt;p&gt;In 1972, a small group of Georgetown University law students developed a series of practical law lessons for use with public high school students in Washington, D.C. These visionaries recognized that ordinary citizens—not just lawyers—needed a basic understanding of practical law in order to take on civic responsibilities. The lessons were popular with the high school students and with their law student teachers. Responding to their practical nature, the high school students called these lessons “Street Law.” The name stuck.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A pilot program in two local high schools in 1972–73 launched a movement—first in the United States but eventually around the world—to teach the public about law and public policy using learner-centered, interactive teaching methods. Today, Street Law programs can be found in every state in the U.S. and in more than 40 countries around the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Propelling this global movement to advance justice through practical education about law and democracy is Street Law, Inc., a Washington, D.C. area non-profit organization that is an outgrowth of the early Street Law program at Georgetown University Law Center. That pilot effort has also grown into a full-fledged, credit-bearing experiential education program at Georgetown that has served as a model program for more than 120 law schools across the country and around the world. Nearly 1,000 upper division Georgetown Law students have participated in this program since its inception. Many have gone on to positions as law firm partners, corporate counsel, government officials in the U.S. and abroad, and even members of the federal court bench. They have taken from their law school experience a commitment to public education about law and democracy.&lt;/p&gt;

Enhancing Legal Aid through University law student engagement: a case study of the EBSU Law Clinic model

The provision of legal aid to underprivileged and vulnerable citizens who could not have ordinarily been able to provide for self legal representation and access to the court system is infrequent in many societies today, especially in most developing countries. There is also an observed non-inclusiveness in the delivery of legal aid. These have starkly resulted to a gap that impacts administration of justice negatively. However, the emergence of clinical legal education (CLE) at different law schools and universities around the world becomes a remedial approach both to increasing the consistency and breadth of legal aid activities, including promoting inclusiveness. CLE is gradually assuming a great height of unprecedented importance and progress in academic curriculum globally. Many universities and law schools have begun to incorporate law clinics into their educational curriculum not just as an essentially approved aspect of their legal education or a novel course of study that involves different pragmatic approaches of engaging law students on learning, but also as a practical mechanism for providing unmatched pedagogy that focuses on diverse lawyering skills successively maximized in providing free legal services to those citizens whose survival depends on the public mercy. This paper discusses how the engagement of university law students from CLE perspective helps to enhance the provision of legal aid to underprivileged and defenseless citizens. Consequently, Ebonyi State University (EBSU) Law Clinic model is used for a methodological case study analysis to that effect. EBSU is a State University in Nigeria and has effectively run its Law Clinic since inception till date, combining both empirical and theoretical approaches in providing pro bono oriented legal services to unprotected Nigerians. The paper further examines the modus operandi of the EBSU Law Clinic and highlights significant reasons why the Clinic stands to be a reference practice model.

Reviewing the effectiveness of the Oxford tutorial system in teaching an undergraduate qualifying law degree: a discussion of preliminary findings from a pilot study

ABSTRACTAt undergraduate level the tutorial system at Oxford University has several features that serve to make it almost unique in UK Higher Education. Undergraduates are taught in tutorial groups, typically made up of one to three students, on a weekly basis. Work is usually prepared in advance of these sessions by students and the tutorial is then used as an opportunity for students to receive direct feedback on their work, as well as a platform for further work and tutor-led discussion. The central issue to be explored in this paper, which reports the findings of tutorial observations and interviews involving Oxford University Law students, is the effectiveness of this system of teaching. Supporters of the Oxford tutorial system regard it as more academically challenging and rigorous than other methods of teaching, with its emphasis on developing critical thinking skills and a critical dialogue around feedback. Its detractors, meanwhile, consider it open to potential inconsistency and misuse by tutors. Key findings of this study give more support to the arguments of the former. It will also be demonstrated that there are a number of discipline-specific issues, which make consideration of the tutorial system particularly relevant and enlightening for undergraduate Law students.

Effect of user education on law students’ use of the library: A case of the faculty of law library, Imo state university, Owerri, Nigeria

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of user education on the law students’ use of the library : A case study of the faculty law library Imo State University Owerri. The survey research design was used for the study while questionnaire instrument was used for data collection. The population of the study consists of all the registered users of faculty of law library. Six research questions were answered and the analysis was done using mean scores. The findings of the study reveal that Imo State University law students have understanding of the concept of user education. The study also finds out that user education programme has positively affected the law students use of the library and their academic performance. The study identified some problems that hinder effective user education as over population, lack of infrastructure, inadequate and trained personnel, lack of instructional materials,, limited time allocated to the programme, unconducive environment and inadequate space. The study concludes that since the library occupies a central place in the achievement of educational objectives of law students, and this has made user education indispensible in the library, adequate resources should be committed to the programme to ensure that its objectives are realized Based on the findings of the study, recommendations were made on how to remedy the problems.

JUNGIAMIEJI PRIEVEIKSMIAI KAIP TEKSTO RIŠLUMO KŪRIMO PRIEMONĖ AKADEMINIUOSE RAŠINIUOSE ANGLŲ KALBA

Šio tyrimo tikslas yra išanalizuoti jungiamųjų prieveiksmių vartoseną ir jų vaidmenį siekiant rišlumo angliško akademinio rašinio kūrime. Tyrimo objektas – jungiamieji prieveiksmiai teisės studentų akademiniuose rašiniuose. Analizei buvo atrinkti 88 rašiniai. Priežastis, dėl kurios buvo renkamasi analizuoti būtent šiuos rašinius yra negimtakalbiai, vartojantys anglų kalbą kaip profesinę kalbą ir besimokantys jos kaip antros kalbos. Remiantis šio tyrimo hipoteze, specialybės anglų kalbos besimokantys studentai vartoja įvairių tipų jungiamuosius prieveiksmius tam, kad sujungtų atskiras rašinio dalis, pagrįstų savo argumentus ir sukurtų rišlų akademinį darbą. Dėmesio centre buvo jungiamieji prieveiksmiai: apibrėžta jų vartojimo sfera, paaiškintos specifinės vartosenos priežas­tys, įvardinta bei interpretuota klaidinga vartosena, išaiškinti sinonimiški prieveiksmiai. Siekiant nustatyti jungiamųjų prieveiksmių vartojimo dažnumą, buvo pasitelkta tekstynų kūrimo programa „AntConc“. Atlikus tyrimą paaiškėjo, jog nepaisant jungiamųjų prieveiksmių priklausymo tik vienai gramatinio rišlumo priemonių sričiai, juos buvo galima rasti visuose tirtuose rašiniuose. Tai tik įrodo, jog jungiamieji prieveiksmiai yra būtina priemonė, kuriant akademinio teksto rišlumą. Studentai studentai šią būtinybę supranta ir pakankamai tasiyklingai šią priemonę vartoja.

Tindak Pidana Korupsi Di Indonesia Dari Persepsi Mahasiswa

Akhir-akhir ini ditemukan fenomena baru korupsi yang terjadi di Indonesia. Pelaku tindak pidana korupsi terdiri dari berbagai kalangan umur yang relatif masih muda dan tanpa pandang jenis kelamin. Dalam tulisan ini akan membahas persepsi mahasiswa terhadap tindak pidana korupsi di Indonesia. Ruang lingkup artikel ini akan dibatasi pada salah satu universitas negeri di Indonesia, dalam hal ini Universitas Sriwijaya khususnya mahasiswa fakultas hukum. Sedangkan analisa yang digunakan dalam pembahasan tulisan ini yaitu diskriptif analisis. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam menentukan sampel yaitu random sampling, dengan menetapkan lebih kurang sepuluh persen dari populasi yang ada. Pada bagian pertama akan membahas tentang kedudukan tindak pidana korupsi di Indonesia di mata dunia begitu juga dilevel regional. Kemudian, mendiskusikan definisi persepsi dan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi persepsi serta definisi korupsi. Hasil temuan menunjukan hampir seluruh mahasiswa mengerti apa yang dimaksud dengan tindak pidana korupsi, akan tetapi mayoritas perilaku mereka disadari maupun tanpa disadari mempunyai kontribusi terhadap terjadinya praktek tindak pidana korupsi. Tindak pidana korupsi bukan disebabkan karena gaji yang tidak cukup atau dorongan ekonomi tetapi sistem yang ada membuka peluang perilaku koruptif dan masih rendahnya moral bangsa dalam hal ini dikalangan generasi muda yang menjadi responden. Hal ini sangat mengkhawatirkan masa depan bangsa dan negara. Kata kunci: persepsi, mahasiswa, korupsi.

Konvensi Penghapusan Segala Bentuk Diskriminasi terhadap Wanita dalam Persepsi dan Kenyataan Sosial

In November 1967 the General Assembly United Nations adopted the declaration ensure the universal recognition in law and in fact of the principle of equality of men and That Declaration was known as the Declaration of the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women. One of the state ratified the declaration is Indonesia. The ratification was declared as Undang-undang No. 7/1984. After eight years declared, it would be still interesting to know how the law works in reality. Does anyone know about what happened and what is going on with the legal issues regarding women. This article tries to get some explanation about how far the declaration is known and what was done about it. Some law and social-political science students of University of Indonesia were interviewed. What they say, feel, and think about all of women issues in terms of knowing and understanding the declaration would be held in this small-scale research.