Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Law Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 121 - 134 of 134

Full-Text Articles in Law

Legal Ethics, Howard R. Messing Jan 1987

Legal Ethics, Howard R. Messing

Nova Law Review

The most important event in legal ethics in the past year was the adoption of Florida's Rules of Professional Conduct (hereinafter referred to as the "Florida Rules" or "Rules").


"A Task Of No Common Magnitude": The Founding Of The American Law Institute, William P. Lapiana Jan 1987

"A Task Of No Common Magnitude": The Founding Of The American Law Institute, William P. Lapiana

Nova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Cuny Law School: Outside Perspectives And Reflections, Judith Kleinberg, Mark Barnes Jan 1987

Cuny Law School: Outside Perspectives And Reflections, Judith Kleinberg, Mark Barnes

Nova Law Review

Under the influences of legal realism and its modern variants in linguistic and psychoanalytic of law, critical legal studies, and social science approaches to law, significant departures from the Langdell's model curriculum have become common: first year courses on legal method or legal process; near-abandonment of the socratic method by some teachers and at some schools (Yale, for example); the use of non-case teaching materials in upper-level seminars; and extensive clinical programs.


Legal Externships: Can They Be Valuable Clinical Experiences For Law Students?, Henry Rose Jan 1987

Legal Externships: Can They Be Valuable Clinical Experiences For Law Students?, Henry Rose

Nova Law Review

The case method of instruction has dominated American legal education for more than a century.


New Technology: A Catalyst For Crises In Collective Bargaining, Industrial Discipline And Labor Law, Stan Weir Jan 1984

New Technology: A Catalyst For Crises In Collective Bargaining, Industrial Discipline And Labor Law, Stan Weir

Nova Law Review

Eighty-two San Francisco longshoremen, myself among them,

were fired from their jobs on the same day in 1963.


Communications Revolutions And Legal Revolutions: The New Media And The Future Of Law, M. Ethan Katsh Jan 1984

Communications Revolutions And Legal Revolutions: The New Media And The Future Of Law, M. Ethan Katsh

Nova Law Review

Our age is noteworthy for the development of television and computers,

media that transmit information over vast distances at electronic

speed.


I.R.C. Section 2518 And The Law Of Disclaimers An Update, Don J. Jaret Jan 1983

I.R.C. Section 2518 And The Law Of Disclaimers An Update, Don J. Jaret

Nova Law Review

The Tax Reform Act of 19761 introduced Code section 2518,2

which attempted to create definite standards for a disclaimer to be

valid for federal tax purposes.


A Common Law For The Age Of Statutes. By Guido Calabresi. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1982, Pp. 319. $25.00, Ronald Benton Brown Jan 1983

A Common Law For The Age Of Statutes. By Guido Calabresi. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1982, Pp. 319. $25.00, Ronald Benton Brown

Nova Law Review

In common law days, the law evolved gradually on a case by case basis as courts applied the general principles to new and different fact situations.


Entrapment: A Review Of The Principles Of Law Governing This Defense As Applied By The Eleventh Circuit Court Of Appeals, David M. Lazarus Jan 1983

Entrapment: A Review Of The Principles Of Law Governing This Defense As Applied By The Eleventh Circuit Court Of Appeals, David M. Lazarus

Nova Law Review

Certain types of criminal activity are consensual and covert. Hence

they are virtually undetectable without the use of a government

agent or informer.


Nuclear Weapons And Constitutional Law, Arthur S. Miller Jan 1982

Nuclear Weapons And Constitutional Law, Arthur S. Miller

Nova Law Review

The time has come for lawyers to confront the question of whether

nuclear weapons-their manufacture, deployment, and use-can be

justified under either constitutional or international law.


Lawyers Can, But Law May Be Unable To Contribute To Nuclear Weapons Debate, L. Harold Levinson Jan 1982

Lawyers Can, But Law May Be Unable To Contribute To Nuclear Weapons Debate, L. Harold Levinson

Nova Law Review

Professor Miller concludes that "law and lawyers have something

useful to contribute to the growing debate about nuclear war." I agree

that lawyers can make a useful contribution. Whether the law can

make a contribution is quite another matter, on which I have serious

doubts.


Origins Of Modern Professional Education:. The Harvard Case Method Conceived As Clinical Instruction In Law, Anthony Chase Jan 1981

Origins Of Modern Professional Education:. The Harvard Case Method Conceived As Clinical Instruction In Law, Anthony Chase

Nova Law Review

The following analysis attempts to resituate discussion about legal

education within the context of modem professionalism and the social

history of American education.1


I.R.C. Section 2518 And The Law Of Disclaimers Jan 1980

I.R.C. Section 2518 And The Law Of Disclaimers

Nova Law Review

The Tax Reform Act of 19761 introduced code section 2518,2 which created definitive standards for a disclaimer to be valid for Federal Tax purposes.


The Peer And The Precedent: A Review Essay Of Denning, L. The Discipline Of Law London: Butterworth's 1979. Jan 1980

The Peer And The Precedent: A Review Essay Of Denning, L. The Discipline Of Law London: Butterworth's 1979.

Nova Law Review

Stare decisis et non quieta movere." The sepulchral words roll from the hidebound pages of Bouvier's, bearing the tradition of the throaty chimes of Big Ben.