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Law: A Strategic Tool For Social Engineering, Oluwaseun Ojo Aug 2015

Law: A Strategic Tool For Social Engineering, Oluwaseun Ojo

Oluwaseun Viyon Ojo

The crux of this paper is to examine and accentuate on the fact that the law is a strategic and procedural tool for the engineering and orchestration of the society to meet its various ends.


Tribute To Gail F. Zwirner, Paul M. Birch May 2015

Tribute To Gail F. Zwirner, Paul M. Birch

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Dedication To Dean Timothy L. Coggins, W. Clark Williams Jr. May 2015

Dedication To Dean Timothy L. Coggins, W. Clark Williams Jr.

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Trends And Issues In Terrorism And The Law: Foreword, Thomas J. Cleary Mar 2015

Trends And Issues In Terrorism And The Law: Foreword, Thomas J. Cleary

University of Massachusetts Law Review

The introduction to the issue discusses the history of UMass Law Review and its contribution to legal scholarship.


Flying The Flag, Aaron S. Kirschenfeld Jan 2015

Flying The Flag, Aaron S. Kirschenfeld

AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers

This paper analyzes the accuracy with which descriptions of subsequent negative treatment are applied by an online citator system that employs a hierarchical controlled vocabulary -- Shepard's Citations -- as opposed to one that does not -- KeyCite. After a contextual review of the citator's history, a framework for assessment is proposed and employed to test the hypothesis that a citator employing a hierarchical controlled vocabulary would produce more accurate descriptions. The study's results suggest that a system making use of a hierarchical controlled vocabulary does apply descriptions of subsequent negative treatment in a marginally more accurate way. A discussion …


Enigma: A Variation On The Theme Of Legal Writing’S Place In Contemporary Legal Education, Ian Gallacher Jan 2015

Enigma: A Variation On The Theme Of Legal Writing’S Place In Contemporary Legal Education, Ian Gallacher

College of Law - Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.