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The Supreme Court And The Push For Transparency In Lower Court Appointments In Japan, Daniel H. Foote
The Supreme Court And The Push For Transparency In Lower Court Appointments In Japan, Daniel H. Foote
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The theme of this symposium issue is ―Decision Making on the Japanese Supreme Court.‖ From that title, readers understandably might assume the focus is squarely on decisions in judicial cases. Yet, as Lawrence Repeta observes in his Article for this issue, the Japanese Supreme Court bears responsibility for another major category of decision making: judicial administration.1 One vitally important aspect of judicial administration for which the Supreme Court bears primary responsibility is the selection of lower court judges, together with personnel management of judges (including decisions on promotions and transfers, which are a standard element of Japan’s career judiciary).2 The …
Legal Education For The Future: Global Perspectives, Daniel H. Foote
Legal Education For The Future: Global Perspectives, Daniel H. Foote
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This is a report on "FutureEd 2: Making Global Lawyers for the 21st Century," a conference on legal education held at Harvard Law School (HLS) on October 15-16, 2010, In which this author had the opportunity to participate. The conference was the second In a series of three conferences jointly organized by HLS and New York Law School (NYLS). The first conference was held at NYLS in April 2010; the third and final conference was held at NYLS, in April 2011．The goals of the conferences were to stimulate thinking and research about the future of legal education; to promote concrete …
Student-Edited Law Reviews And Their Role In U.S. Legal Education, Daniel H. Foote
Student-Edited Law Reviews And Their Role In U.S. Legal Education, Daniel H. Foote
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>p>For well over a centur y student-edited law reviews have been a major vehicle for publication of scholarship on law in the United States. At those law reviews, students bear responsibility for nearly all aspects of the publication process, including the vitally important task of selecting what works will be published. Criticisms have been raised over various aspects of this system, but they have not stemmed the rise of student-edited law reviews. Today, such law reviews are firmly entrenched as a central feature of the U.S. legal system; and, facilitat ed by advances in technology, the number of student-edited …
Internationalization And Integration Of Doctrine, Skills And Ethics In Legal Education: The Contrasting Situations Of The United States And Japan, Daniel H. Foote
Internationalization And Integration Of Doctrine, Skills And Ethics In Legal Education: The Contrasting Situations Of The United States And Japan, Daniel H. Foote
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This article addresses two trends in legal education: internationalization and integration of doctrine, skills and legal ethics. In the United States, international and comparative law, skills training, and legal ethics all have deep historical roots in legal education, and the past few decades have seen further major increases in each of those areas. A particularly noteworthy recent development is the rise in efforts to integrate skills training and attention to ethical issues with doctrinal analysis, rather than just teaching each of those elements separately, Notably, Harvard Law School, which continues to influence educational patterns at other law schools within the …
The History Of Intellectual Property Taxation: Promoting Innovations And Other Intellectual Property Goals, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey A. Maine
The History Of Intellectual Property Taxation: Promoting Innovations And Other Intellectual Property Goals, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey A. Maine
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