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The Case Of The Foreign Lawyer: Internationalizing The U.S. Legal Profession, Carole Silver

Carole Silver

This article contriubtes a new perspective to existing scholarship on internationalization of the legal profession by focusing on the increasing presence of foreign lawyers in U.S. law schools and law firms. It analyzes the interaction between foreign-educated lawyers and the legal profession in the U.S. based upon two sources of information: first, a series of interviews with foreign-educated lawyers and U.S. law firm hiring partners regarding experiences in law school and in firms, and second, a database comprised of biographical information for more than 300 foreign-educated lawyers who were working in New York during 1999 and 2000. The various roles …

The 'Story' Of Harvard, Daniel Coquillette

Daniel R. Coquillette

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Learning More Than Law From Maryland Decisions, Ian Gallacher

Ian Gallacher

This short article describes the fight for freedom waged in Maryland's courts during the 1850s by two slaves, known only as Jerry and Anthony. Although their owner intended to free them, and the other slaves on his plantation, when he died, his son had his father's will declared invalid and the slaves brought a legal action to force their freedom. Although remembered in Maryland law as one of the first cases to discuss intra-state transfer from one jurisdiction to another, and although acting as Maryland's first published civil rights class action, the case also has a great deal to teach …

Law Schools As Legal Education Centers, Martin H. Belsky

Martin H. Belsky

Legal education in the early twentieth century was divided into three concurrent paths-study at one of the "elite" law schools, consisting of mostly full-time students already possessing a college degree; study at one of the other mostly part-time practice based schools; and a course of study with a practitioner/mentor outside of formal educational institutions. ... Graduation was a serious event, as students were already thinking about passing the bar exam. ... Some of the reasons that law schools can deliver legal education to elementary and secondary students, obviously apply to junior college, college, and non-law school graduate and professional education …

Use And Limits Of Syllogistic Reasoning In Briefing Cases, Wilson R. Huhn

Wilson R. Huhn

During the nineteenth century, law was equated with science, and legal reasoning was thought to be a species of deductive logic. Consistent with this notion, judicial opinions have traditionally been summarized in the form of syllogisms, that is, as arguments of deductive logic. More specifically, judicial opinions have been described as chains of syllogisms, reasoning from base premises to ultimate conclusions. The principal thrust of this article is to demonstrate that in hard cases, judicial reasoning proceeds not by way of deduction, but by evaluation and balancing.

Accordingly, Part II of this article compares law with science. Historically, law was …

Novas Formas De Comércio Internacional: O Comércio Eletrônico - Desafios Ao Direito Tributário E Econômico., Ivo T. Gico

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.

O artigo traz algumas questões jurídicas pertinentes à nova realidade econômica introduzida pela disseminação do comércio eletrônico. Partindo de uma análise dos aspectos internacionais do comércio eletrônico e as principais questões que, à época, angustiavam os juristas pátrios e estrangeiros. A abordagem, ora

zetética e ora dogmática, revela a novidade do tema e os primeiros passos necessários para a sua exploração jurídica.

The paper has some relevant legal issues about the new economic reality introduced by the spread of electronic commerce. From an analysis of international aspects of electronic commerce and the main issues that, at that time, distressed native …