scholarly journals Community Projects: Extending the Community Lawyering Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith McNamara ◽  
Catherine Campbell ◽  
Evan Hamman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Curriculum Models ◽  
Local Experience ◽  
Community Projects

Law schools in Australia and the United Kingdom are increasingly adopting clinical legal education (CLE) as an important part of their curriculum.  Models of CLE are emerging in those jurisdictions which draw on local experience and the strong tradition of CLE and community lawyering in the United States. The purpose of this article is to examine the pedagogy that underlies CLE and to consider how it can be applied to newly emerging models of CLE.

scholarly journals The Evolution of Legal Education in the United States and the United Kingdom: How one system became more faculty-oriented while the other became more consumer-oriented

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Stuckey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
The United Kingdom

<p>This paper explores how our approaches to preparing lawyers for practice became so different. It traces the evolution of the systems for preparing lawyers for practice in the United Kingdom and the United States, and it examines the relative merits of our current situations. Part I describes the key differences in our systems. Part II recounts major events in the histories of legal education in the United States and the United Kingdom. Part III describes new initiatives in the United Kingdom and the United States that may improve legal education.</p>

Patterns of Difference and Dominance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthea Roberts
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
International Law ◽  
South China ◽  
Future Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
The United Kingdom

This chapter examines three implications of these patterns of difference and dominance for the wider field of international law. First, although most legal academies and law schools remain relatively nationalized, there are outliers that are significantly more internationalized than their counterparts. Different academies also evidence different strengths and areas that are ripe for future development. Second, the existence of distinct national or regional communities of international lawyers may result in substantial disconnects developing within the field, such as in debates about Crimea and the South China Sea. Third, some of the patterns of dominance that emerge in the academies and textbooks are replicated elsewhere in the field, including privileging sources and actors from Western states in general, and from the United States, the United Kingdom, and France in particular. Choice of language and the emergence of English as the lingua franca play particularly important roles in this privileging process.

scholarly journals A Comparative Discussion of the Judicial Disqualification of Directors under the South African Companies Act

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Rehana Cassim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
South African ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Locus Standi

Abstract Section 162 of the South African Companies Act 71 of 2008 empowers courts to declare directors delinquent and hence to disqualify them from office. This article compares the judicial disqualification of directors under this section with the equivalent provisions in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States of America, which have all influenced the South African act. The article compares the classes of persons who have locus standi to apply to court to disqualify a director from holding office, as well as the grounds for the judicial disqualification of a director, the duration of the disqualification, the application of a prescription period and the discretion conferred on courts to disqualify directors from office. It contends that, in empowering courts to disqualify directors from holding office, section 162 of the South African Companies Act goes too far in certain respects.

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