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Oral History Interview With Michael Furmston: Conceptualising Smu, Michael P. Furmston
Oral History Interview With Michael Furmston: Conceptualising Smu, Michael P. Furmston
Oral History Collection
The interview covered: first involvement with Singapore and SMU, challenges and opportunities for the law school, faculty recruitment, law research, job opportunities, relationship with legal communities, internships, law building, future developments, dispute resolution.
Biography:
Founding Dean, School of Law, SMU, 2007–present
Professor Michael Furmston became the founding dean of the School of Law in August 2007. The second law school in Singapore, SMU’s undergraduate law programme has been noted for the significant proportion of business and finance courses. Its first students graduated in July 2011. In 2009, a postgraduate law programme was introduced, the juris doctor. During Professor Furmston’s tenure …
Happiness In Business Or Law, Peter H. Huang
Happiness In Business Or Law, Peter H. Huang
Publications
This article provides a short introduction to recent happiness research and its applications to business or law that is organized as follows. Section I briefly considers: (1) troubling and not so troubling reservations about happiness research, and (2) how money and happiness are related. Section II concisely surveys two sets of applications of happiness research to business, namely: (1) workplace well-being and meaning, and (2) marketing. Section III succinctly reviews two categories of happiness research implications for law: (1) business regulation, and (2) law student and lawyer happiness.
Top 10 Law School Home Pages Of 2010, Roger Skalbeck, Jason Eiseman
Top 10 Law School Home Pages Of 2010, Roger Skalbeck, Jason Eiseman
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This ranking report attempts to identify the best law school home pages based exclusively on objective criteria. The goal is to assess elements that make websites easier to use for sighted as well as visually-impaired users. Most elements require no special design skills, sophisticated technology or significant expenses.
Ranking results in this report represent reasonably relevant elements. In this report, 200 ABA-accredited law school home pages are analyzed and ranked for twenty elements in three broad categories: Design Patterns & Metadata; Accessibility & Validation; and Marketing & Communications. As was the case in 2009, there is still no objective way …