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A Community Of Procedure Scholars: Teaching Procedure And The Legal Academy, Elizabeth Thornburg, Erik Knutsen, Carla Crifo', Camille Cameron
A Community Of Procedure Scholars: Teaching Procedure And The Legal Academy, Elizabeth Thornburg, Erik Knutsen, Carla Crifo', Camille Cameron
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This article asks whether the way in which procedure is taught has an impact on the extent and accomplishments of a scholarly community of proceduralists. Not surprisingly, we find a strong correlation between the placement of procedure as a required course in an academic context and the resulting body of scholars and scholarship. Those countries in which more civil procedure is taught as part of a university degree — and in which procedure is recognized as a legitimate academic subject — have larger scholarly communities, a larger and broader corpus of works analyzing procedural issues, and a richer web of …
Fitness For Purpose: Mandatory Continuing Legal Ethics Education For Lawyers, Jocelyn Downie, Richard Devlin
Fitness For Purpose: Mandatory Continuing Legal Ethics Education For Lawyers, Jocelyn Downie, Richard Devlin
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The authors argue that if we want lawyers to be fit for the purpose of practicing law, and law societies to be fit for the purpose of regulating in the public interest, then it is incumbent upon the Canadian legal profession to adopt programmes of compulsory legal ethics education (CLEE). In support of this argument the authors: provide several reasons why Canadians might be concerned about the ethical fitness of lawyers and law societies; analyse several arguments both in supporting and resisting CLEE; suggest several strategies for overcoming the ethical indolence of the legal profession; and draw inspiration from recent …
Note On The Measurement Of Governmental Continuity With Its Implications For The Legal Profession, Curtis A. Amlund
Note On The Measurement Of Governmental Continuity With Its Implications For The Legal Profession, Curtis A. Amlund
Dalhousie Law Journal
Because legal practice requires attorneys to apply themselves to the specifics of individual cases, it may be useful to generalize to an idea framework whose object is to measure the level of continuity existing in the legal system within which lawyers function. The relevance is that owing to the nature of the practitioner's work it is necessary that within the governing structure of a country there be present a reasonable level of governmental continuity. The latter is germane to the practice of law, for attorneys can work with adversarial proceedings and cases at suit only if there is certainty about …