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A Blueprint To Reclaim Legal Education From External Rankers, Scott Rempell
A Blueprint To Reclaim Legal Education From External Rankers, Scott Rempell
Seattle University Law Review
The U.S. News & World Report (U.S. News) law school rankings have impacted the perceptions and behaviors of everyone in the rankings ecosystem for decades. Commentators have almost universally condemned these ordinal rankings, yet they continue to influence the legal education market, often in highly detrimental ways.
The influence of these rankings stems from legitimate market demands, for reasons that the psychology of choice literature makes clear. People want (or need) to efficiently acquire and digest information that could help them make consequential decisions. At a time when consumers of law school information did not have such choice-making assistance, U.S. …
Offer And Acceptance In Jordanian Civil Law And Comparative Law: The Concept And Its Development
Offer And Acceptance In Jordanian Civil Law And Comparative Law: The Concept And Its Development
UAEU Law Journal
Islamic jurisprudence "fiqh" was the first legal system which adopted the doctrine of offer and acceptance. It is thought that the doctrine had been imported to French legal system from Islamic Fiqh through Spain and then transmitted to English law.
As we have seen, all the legal systems which have been studied are in common on the question of determination of offer and acceptance. This determination is based on a chronologically sequential order: the first expression of one party's will is an offer while the second corresponding expression of the other party's will is an acceptance. Nevertheless, all these systems …
Silence: Its Legal Effect On Concluding Contracts A Comparative Study
Silence: Its Legal Effect On Concluding Contracts A Comparative Study
UAEU Law Journal
Is based on mutual & verbal
Concluding a contract agreement/acceptance; however a contract can be concluded with several other ways. Silence does not necessarily express a specific view unless it is surrounded by certain conditions that may indicate that it expresses agreement/acceptance. There are some exceptions to the issue of silence when concluding a contract that silence would not necessarily mean agreement/acceptance. The essence of any legal behavior is free will which should be expressed clearly. All these exceptions are common and occur due to certain conditions which lead to silence.
The present study exemplifies some of the legislations; for …