News from around the world. Curated by Mark McDowell. Posts do not constitute agreement or endorsement.
Trinity Western University (TWU) has earned a reputation as a top-notch academic institution founded on Christian beliefs — but to found its own law school it will have to go all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada to defend its academic and religious freedom. The court will hear…
Last week, Emory University School of Law received an anonymous one million dollar gift to “expand training in religious freedom for law students and bring new scholarship and fresh voices to the field.” The money will fund a new four-year project at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion called…
There are only a handful of whole organizations devoted to the study of law and religion in the US and the UK. Once such is the Law and Religion Scholars Network is hosted by the Centre for Law and Religion at Cardiff University. The Centre was the first such organisation in the UK…
I read Letters to a Law Student by Nicholas J. McBride before I began my degree. It was a nice introduction to law as a field of study. Part of what made it useful was the format that the author chose: it is written as if it is a series of twenty letters…
Having just finished exams for the year, I am now looking to one more year to completion. This years’ exams were: Equity and Trust Law Company Law Property Law I really enjoyed Equity and Trust and Property, much to the disdain of my fellow students. Company law will be a…
As most of you know, Ronald Dworkin, the American philosopher and legal scholar, passed from this life last week. He was Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University, Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, and taught at Yale Law School and the University of Oxford. He is…
When I was thinking about pursuing a law degree, before I applied to any programs, I decide to take six months and read law textbook, to get a feel for the field and to determine if it was really something I wanted to pursue. So I asked a number of by friends…
Here is a nice exercise posted by Brian Garner from the ABA journal. Garner has published quite a bit on legal writing, and co-authored a book with US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 2008 (entitled Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges). This exercise is an outage from another…
…all the way through their education, that is. A pure focus on the law, says Lord Sumption, makes for too narrowly-focused lawyers. These comments of Lord Sumption’s in a recent Counsel magazine article have resulted in some interesting discussion on the topic. From the Telegraph: “I think that it is best…
Thirty attorneys were commissioned by the American Bar Association; each was asked to name one book they thought all attorneys and law students should read. Here is the list (minus duplicates). My Life in Court by Louis Nizer Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century by Michael Hiltzik 1861:…
This is a brief survey I did as an orientation to the subject for a project I am working on. The “Crime Control” and “Due Process” models of criminal justice were first articulated by the American scholar Herbert Packer, in an article entitled “Two Models of the Criminal Process.”[1] Packer did not…
I have found this book quite helpful in translating my scholarly research and writing skills into legal research and writing skills. Though intended as a textbook for courses, I have also found it a nice resource in my part-time job as a law clerk at a firm. The authors have…
I have decided to pursue a law degree in addition to my PhD in theology. I was encouraged by many of our attorney friends to do so—they say my research and writing skills will be a natural fit, and my desire to write to a larger audience will benefit from…
Having laboured as a part-time professor, researcher, writer, and editor for about ten years, I have decided to pursue a law degree. I had been discussing options with many friends, many of whom are attorneys. They suggested my skills as a researcher and a writer would make be a natural.…