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Legal Research And Legal Education In Africa: The Challenge For Information Literacy, Vicki Lawal
Legal Research And Legal Education In Africa: The Challenge For Information Literacy, Vicki Lawal
Starr Workshop Papers (2007)
This paper analyses legal research within the context of legal education in Africa, it examines some of the challenges of electronic legal research in view of the influences of online legal electronic resources and Computer Assisted legal Research (CALR) and the importance of information literacy in addressing some of the issues raised especially with regards to undergraduate legal education.
Keynote Address: Remarks At The Workshop On Tapping Into The World Of Electronic Legal Knowledge , Muna Ndulo
Keynote Address: Remarks At The Workshop On Tapping Into The World Of Electronic Legal Knowledge , Muna Ndulo
Starr Workshop Papers (2007)
Professor Muna Ndulo of Cornell Law School presented the keynote address at the 2007 Starr Workshop, “Tapping into the World of Electronic Legal Knowledge.” The workshop took place at Cornell Law School October 7-10, 2007 and was co-sponsored by the Starr Foundation, New York University Law Library, and Cornell Law Library.
Professor Ndulo addresses the topic of new information technologies and their importance to legal research and teaching.
U.S. Law And Legal Research, Pat Court
U.S. Law And Legal Research, Pat Court
Starr Workshop Papers (2007)
This presentation on the basics of U.S. law offers a general outline of the fundamental sources of U.S. law. With a foundation in the three branches of government and the laws, court decisions, and regulations that flow from them, the speaker demonstrated free and fee-based electronic resources frequently used for legal research. The focus is on Westlaw, LexisNexis, PACER the Public Access to Court Electronic Records), GPOAccess, and the official U.S. Supreme Court web site. While the web has made it possible for universities, governments, courts, and others to put user-friendly law on the web for free, the most extensive …
Virginia Bar Exam, July 2007, Section 2
Virginia Bar Exam, July 2007, Section 2
Virginia Bar Exam Archive
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Virginia Bar Exam, July 2007, Section 1
Virginia Bar Exam, July 2007, Section 1
Virginia Bar Exam Archive
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Integrating The Complexity Of Mental Disability Into The Criminal Law Course, Linda C. Fentiman
Integrating The Complexity Of Mental Disability Into The Criminal Law Course, Linda C. Fentiman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
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Moot Court In Global Language Of Trade, Mark R. Shulman
Moot Court In Global Language Of Trade, Mark R. Shulman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Virginia Bar Exam, February 2007, Section 1
Virginia Bar Exam, February 2007, Section 1
Virginia Bar Exam Archive
No abstract provided.
Virginia Bar Exam, February 2007, Section 2
Virginia Bar Exam, February 2007, Section 2
Virginia Bar Exam Archive
No abstract provided.
The Bologna Process And Its Implications For U.S. Legal Education, Laurel S. Terry
The Bologna Process And Its Implications For U.S. Legal Education, Laurel S. Terry
Faculty Scholarly Works
Virtually all European countries are in the midst of a massive multi-year project intended to dramatically restructure higher education in Europe. This project, which is known as the Bologna Process or Sorbonne-Bologna, began less than ten years ago when four European Union (EU) countries signed a relatively vague agreement. The Bologna Process has now grown to forty-six countries, including all of the EU Member States and nineteen non-EU countries. The Bologna Process participants have agreed to form the European Higher Education Area or EHEA by 2010; among other goals, the EHEA is intended to help Europe better compete in the …
Calling For Stories, Nancy Levit, Allen Rostron
Calling For Stories, Nancy Levit, Allen Rostron
Faculty Works
Storytelling is a fundamental part of legal practice, teaching, and thought. Telling stories as a method of practicing law reaches back to the days of the classical Greek orators. Before legal education became an academic matter, the apprenticeship system for training lawyers consisted of mentoring and telling war stories. As the law and literature movement evolved, it sorted itself into three strands: law in literature, law as literature, and storytelling. The storytelling branch blossomed.
Over the last few decades, storytelling became a subject of enormous interest and controversy within the world of legal scholarship. Law review articles appeared in the …