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  Home - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
Law has been studied at Cambridge University since the thirteenth century.
The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that the 'Squire Archive' is now live on the Universit...
Professor Michael Moore of the University of Illinois (and Co-Editor of the journal Law and Philosop...
www.law.cam.ac.uk   (233 words)

  
 Architectural Review, The: Legal precedent - architectural design of Cambridge University's Law Faculty building - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Sidgwick Avenue was to become Cambridge's intellectual theme park, with the individual arts faculties mimicking in their layout the format of the colleges - and by implication vying with them as a focus of learning.
And although the gale-swept 'cloister' running beneath the raised faculty blocks is no place to linger on one of Cambridge's more Siberian winter afternoons, this is an honourable and largely successful piece of townscape in the Cambridge idiom of turf and paving, open and enclosed space.
It is obvious already from this that the Law Faculty is a contextual building whose forms and materials have been influenced by its neighbours.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_n1189_v199/ai_18305370   (1481 words)

  
 Study Abroad :: Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
All classes are taught by members of the Cambridge University Faculty of Law or by law professors from the Universities of Mississippi, Arkansas-Fayetteville, Tennessee and Nebraska.
Cambridge is a vibrant, beautiful combination of the ancient and the thoroughly modern--medieval churches and colleges, dance clubs, lush green parks, riverside pubs, cinemas, shopping centers and a centuries-old open market.
Cambridge is today the premier university in the United Kingdom; both the University as a whole and the law faculty are rated number one in the nation (The Times Good University Guide.
www.olemiss.edu /depts/law_school/cambridge   (947 words)

  
 Double Maîtrise - Courses - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
The Double Maîtrise (aka the "DM") is the double degree programme at the Faculty of Law in Cambridge which enables students to attain qualifying law degrees from both Cambridge and Paris II in the space of four years.
The course is designed not simply for those who want to be able to choose to practise in France or in England but for those who aim to practise in the domains of international or European law as well as for those who intend to have a career in governmental and international institutions.
The Erasmus programme is sometimes described as a “B.A. in Law with French”, or a “B.A. in law with French law”.
www.law.cam.ac.uk /courses/double_maitrise   (373 words)

  
 School of Law 2002-2004 Bulletin: Faculty and Staff
Bryan joined the Law Library staff in 1994, and after nearly six years as the head of circulation and patron services she was appointed documents librarian in 2001.
In addition to her years in the faculty of law at Cambridge University, she has regularly taught as a visiting professor at the Cornell Law School and the University of Texas at Austin, and in Paris.
Professor Orenstein coordinates an outreach program in which law students teach constitutional law and civics to local fifth-graders and she has written and produced a number of plays on legal and ethical questions used for the professional development of law students and the local bar.
www.iun.edu /~bulletin/iub/law/2002-2004/faculty.html   (10429 words)

  
 Faculty of Philosophy: Intellectual Property Symposium Cambridge
The difficulty facing the Board of the EPO was, among other things, the philosophical difficulty of determining the strengths and weaknesses of rival moral perspectives (including utilitarianism) and also the vexed task of trying to determine a common 'core' to European cultural morality of sufficient detail and scope to constitute a practicable test.
A second, more subtle need for philosophical expertise in patent law emerges from the 'interpretation of myriad of tests, rules, principles and judgments in patent law.'Significant philosophical assumptions are implicit in the criteria for the validity of patents ­ and these are in want of philosophical analysis.
A wide-ranging discussion concluding that the 'restriction of the commons by patents, copyright and databases is not in the interests of society and unduly hampers scientific endeavour'.
www.phil.cam.ac.uk /business/events/intel_prop.html   (1951 words)

  
 University of Toronto - Faculty of Law: Faculty Pages
David Dyzenhaus is a professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, of the Faculty of Law, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Prior to joining the Faculty of Law in 1990, Professor Dyzenhaus served as Assistant Professor and Canada Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Queen's University from 1989-1991.
In 2002, he was the Law Foundation Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland.
www.law.utoronto.ca /faculty_content.asp?profile=23&cType=facMembers&itemPath=1/3/4/0/0   (329 words)

  
 Legal and Judicial Reform : Legal Reform (Law Commissions/Useful Links)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This non government organization was established in 1923 to promote the clarification and simplification of laws and its better adaptation to social needs, to encourage the better administration of justice, and to carry on research and scientific work.
Now in its 110th year, the NCCUSL is comprised of 300 lawyers, judges, and law professors appointed by the states to draft proposals for uniform and model laws in areas where uniformity is desirable and practicable and to seek their enactment in the state legislatures.
The Commission consists of the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the chairman of the Assembly Judiciary, Law, Public Safety and Defense Committee, the Deans of Rutgers Law School, Newark; Rutgers Law School, Camden, and Seton Hall Law School, and four attorneys admitted to the practice of law in the State of New Jersey.
www4.worldbank.org /legal/leglr/legalreform_lc_ul.html   (1048 words)

  
 Harvard Law School
Solicitor General: Supreme Court's shrinking caseload due to fewer laws enacted by Congress
The Law Teaching Colloquium: Research Agendas with Professors Ran Hirschl, Gabriella Blum and Fellow I.Glenn Cohen
Harvard Law School, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
www.law.harvard.edu   (112 words)

  
 American Society of International Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
As a result, one may now question the use of the term "domestic" law, as a synonym for municipal or national law--because International Law has "forgotten" or "ignored" the rights of women in a sense that is much deeper than the several international instruments on point.
Given the general relegation of this matter to State law, the individual is normally caught up in the question of choice of law--when the national laws of two or more States yield different results.
The gist of International Law is thus integrated with South African national law in a way that will assist the well-rounded student of International Law gain a useful understanding of whether or not South Africa remained in a legal vacuum during its apartheid days.
www.lawschool.cornell.edu /librarydevelop/asil/6reader.htm   (6363 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: HLS establishes joint degree with University of Cambridge
In a new joint degree program with the University of Cambridge law faculty in Cambridge, England, up to six Harvard Law School (HLS) students each year may spend their third year in England to pursue that school's LL.M. degree.
Calling the program "part of the Law School's further internationalization," Alford noted that the arrangement also encourages faculty interaction between the institutions and offers S.J.D. candidates the option of using the University of Cambridge for research.
The Cambridge University program is not the first time HLS has partnered with an institution beyond Harvard University.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/12.04/08-lawdegree.html   (467 words)

  
 Yvonne Cripps
LL.B., LL.M., 1978, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Ph.D., 1982, University of Cambridge.
Her book Controlling Technology: Genetic Engineering and the Law, published in 1980, was the first comprehensive treatment of the legal implications of biotechnology.
In addition to her years in the faculty of law at Cambridge University, she has regularly taught as a visiting professor at the Cornell Law School and also at the University of Texas at Austin as well as in Paris.
www.law.indiana.edu /directory/ycripps.asp   (199 words)

  
 The Cambridge Law Journal
The Cambridge Law Journal publishes articles on all aspects of law.
An important feature of the journal is the Case and Comment section, in which members of the Cambridge Law Faculty and other distinguished contributors analyse recent judicial decisions, new legislation and current law reform proposals.
The articles and case notes are designed to have the widest appeal to those interested in the law ¿ whether as practitioners, students, teachers, judges or administrators ¿ and to provide an opportunity for them to keep abreast of new ideas and the progress of legal reform.
www.cambridge.org /journals/journal_catalogue.asp?mnemonic=clj   (202 words)

  
 USC Law Faculty Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Political Science and Visiting Professor of Law and Economics, California Institute of Technology University of Southern California Law School.
Law Clerk, Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz, New Jersey Supreme Court, 1985-86; Lecturer, Golden Gate University, 1988-89; Associate Attorney, Titchell, Maltzman, Mark, Bass, Ohleyer and Mishel, 1986-89; Assistant Professor, USC Law School, 1989-91; Associate Professor, 1991-94; Visiting Professor, Yale Law School, 1993-94; Professor, USC Law School, 1994-98; Maurice Jones, Jr.
Professor of Law, 1998-2004; Visiting Professor of Law and Economics, California Institute of Technology, since 1994; Executive Director, USC Institute on Federal Taxation, 1997-2003; Chair of the Planning Committee, USC Institute on Federal Taxation, since 1997; Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Political Science, since 2004.
lawweb.usc.edu /faculty/emccaffe.htm   (1406 words)

  
 Stetson Law -- Faculty Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ruth Fleet Thurman is co-author of the Primer on Legal Writing and has written articles, monographs and books on the subjects of Professional Responsibility and Family Law, her major fields of teaching and research.
She engaged in the private practice of law for nearly thirteen years before joining the Stetson faculty in 1975, and was the first woman to serve as assistant state attorney in the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida.
In 1989, Professor Thurman was a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College and member of the Faculty of Law of Cambridge University in England.
www.law.stetson.edu /faculty/thurman.asp   (289 words)

  
 Faculty of Law, Centre for European Legal Studies. Institute of Continuing Education University of Cambridge
Faculty of Law, Centre for European Legal Studies.
The University of Cambridge, with its constituent colleges, is an internationally famous centre of study and research in most of the major academic disciplines.
The Undergraduate Certificate/ Diploma in English and European Union Law and the Postgraduate Diploma in European Union Law are part of the Institute's programme for Legal Studies and are available to law students at participating universities in Central and Eastern Europe.
www.cont-ed.cam.ac.uk /LegalStud/European   (133 words)

  
 Investor Sentiment and Antitrust Law as Determinants of Corporate Ownership Structure: The great Merger Wave of 1897 to ...
The merger wave of 1897 to 1903 illustrates that surges in demand for shares founded upon optimistic investor sentiment is a potentially important variable.
A third theme the paper emphasizes is antitrust law's significance.
Brian R. Cheffins, "Investor Sentiment and Antitrust Law as Determinants of Corporate Ownership Structure: The great Merger Wave of 1897 to 1903" (December 15, 2002).
repositories.cdlib.org /blewp/art77   (338 words)

  
 UT Law Faculty - Brian R Leiter
He was the youngest chairholder in the history of the law school at Texas.
He has been a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School, University College London, and the University of Chicago Law School.
He gave the 'Or 'Emet Lecture at Osgoode Hall School of Law of York University, Toronto in 2006 and, in 2008, will give the Dunbar Lecture in Law and Philosophy at the University of Mississippi and the Fresco Lectures to the Faculty of Law at the University of Genoa in Italy.
www.utexas.edu /law/faculty/profile.php?id=bleiter   (297 words)

  
 Faculty Of Law - University Of Cambridge, Cambridge (West Road)
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www.camcity.co.uk /send?ID=5396   (272 words)

  
 Columbia Law : Full Time Faculty
Principal areas of publishing and teaching: international law, especially international organizations; international tribunals; war crimes; international legal theory; and foreign investment.
Graduate study in economics and history, Harvard University, 1978-79.
B.Com., Bombay University, 1953; first in Economics Tripos, Cambridge, 1956; Research fellowship, Oxford, 1960-61; Ph.D., MIT, 1967.
www.law.columbia.edu /faculty   (188 words)

  
 New England School of Law Faculty: Professor Ronald Chester
He has published articles on such topics as inheritance and trust law, the law of posthumous artificial conception, human cloning, and reshaping first-year doctrine in legal education.
He has been a visiting professor at Indiana University Law School (Bloomington), Southern Methodist University Law School, the University of California at Davis Law School, and a Fellow in Law and Humanities at Harvard Law School, as well as Parsons Visitor at the University of Sydney, Australia.
He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and is serving as chair of an American Bar Association committee on bioethics.
www.nesl.edu /faculty/CHESTER.CFM   (593 words)

  
 Cambridge Student Law Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In 1921, the Cambridge Law Journal was founded as a student publication.
Approximately 10% of students replied: 99% of responses to the first question were positive; approximately 30% responded positively to the second and third questions; the remainder were either negative or indicated uncertainty.
Among those Faculty members are Professors JR Crawford, DJ Ibbetson, and JR Spencer, Mr Graham Virgo, and Mrs Janet O’Sullivan.
www.srcf.ucam.org /cslr/review.shtml   (213 words)

  
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There are links to several research centers at the University, including criminology, the center for international law, European legal studies, corporate and commercial law, public law, intellectual property law, and business research.
However, the World Law link includes a fairly comprehensive listing by country of information about legal systems throughout the world.
For each country listed there are further links to courts, bar associations, law faculty, statutes, and other legal information.
www.ncsc.org.yu /srpski/lawfaculties.htm   (239 words)

  
 WERBOCZY, CUSTOM AND HUNGARIAN LAW
The principal concerns of the author were to explicate the rights of the Hungarian nobility, mostly in respect to the lands which its members held, and to outline the principles of Hungarian procedural law.
In the course of a further session of editing and translating, this time in London and Cambridge, the organizers will hold a short conference in Cambridge to bring to scholarly notice their work-in-progress, to ask advice on tricky problems of law and terminology, and to put Werbőczy's Tripartitum in its larger Hungarian context.
The project and conference are sponsored by the British Academy, Central European University, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL), Faculty of Laws (UCL) and Faculty of Law (Cambridge).
www.ssees.ac.uk /conf.htm   (378 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
"JURIST: The Law Professors' Network" is a free World Wide Web resource hosted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law at (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu) with new mirror sites at the Faculty of Law, Cambridge University, United Kingdom (http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/jurist/index.htm) and the Faculty of Law, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (http://law.anu.edu.au/jurist/index.htm).
The network was created and is directed by Bernard Hibbitts, Associate Dean for Communications & Information Technology and Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
The 'Faculty Lounge' is the place to hear the latest news on law schools, law professors and the world at large.
jurist.law.pitt.edu /press1.txt   (393 words)

  
 SSRN Author Page for Brian Cheffins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and Vanderbilt University - School of Law
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Stanford Law School
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=142729   (1084 words)

  
 Professor Bernard Hibbitts - University of Pittsburgh School of Law: Home Page
research in the emerging field of law and communication studies and to supplement my teaching in the more traditional subject-areas of legal history and wills.
My articles on electronic legal publishing, law and metaphor, law and gesture, and law and the senses may be found in full text, conference presentation or abstract form under the main menu heading Papers.
Headquartered here at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, JURIST is mirrored in Europe by the Faculty of Law, Cambridge University, and in Australia by the Faculty of Law, Australian National University.
www.law.pitt.edu /hibbitts   (284 words)

  
 George Mason University School of Law: Faculty: Faculty Publications
The Law and Economics of Child Abuse,” 1 Journal of Law and Family Relations 1 (1999).
10 in The Law and Economics of Marriage and Divorce, Anthony W.Dnes and Robert Rowthorn ed.
“The Law of Presidential Transitions and the 2000 Election,” 2001 BYU L. Rev. 1573 (2001).
www.law.gmu.edu /faculty/publications.php   (12329 words)

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