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Simple Legal Writing Can Improve Business Outcomes In Latin America, Leon C. Skornicki
Simple Legal Writing Can Improve Business Outcomes In Latin America, Leon C. Skornicki
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review
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The Failed Law Of Latin America, Jorge L. Esquirol
The Failed Law Of Latin America, Jorge L. Esquirol
Faculty Publications
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The Professional In Legal Education: Foreign Perspectives, James Maxeiner
The Professional In Legal Education: Foreign Perspectives, James Maxeiner
All Faculty Scholarship
Japan is about to change its system of legal education. In April 2004 Japan will introduce law schools. Law schools are to occupy an intermediary place between the present undergraduate faculties of law and the national Legal Training and Research Institute. The law faculties are to continue to offer general undergraduate education in law, while the law schools in combination with the national Institute are to provide professional legal education. A principal goal of the change is to produce more lawyers. Law schools are charged with providing "practical education especially for fostering legal professionals." But just what is professional legal …
Legislative Drafting: American And British Practices Compared, Reed Dickerson
Legislative Drafting: American And British Practices Compared, Reed Dickerson
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The principal difference between legislative drafting for the British Parliament and legislative drafting for the American Congress, Mr. Dickerson declares, arises from the fact that the many-authored legislation 'proposed in Congress is extremely vulnerable to revision and redrafting as it makes its way through subcommittee hearings and committee debates, whereas the legislation in Parliament, prepared by the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, is much more likely to be enacted in its original form. This article points up the problems inherent in drafting statutes in a complex world.