The only text that fully combines coverage of legal systems with academic and professional legal skills. Coupled with the focus on employability and commercial awareness, Legal Systems & Skills is the essential contemporary toolkit for law students. Legal Systems & Skills speaks directly to students - encouraging, engaging, and enthusing at all times. It is accessible, with a clear writing style and a wide range of pedagogical features to help students to apply their knowledge practically. Learn how law works * Students get to grips with all the essential topics of English legal system, think about different perspectives, and understand their implications. * Clear, no-nonsense explanations, supported by annotated documents, flowcharts and diagrams that provide a visual representation of concepts and processes, build students' confidence. Develop the essential skills * Students are equipped with the tools they need to thrive in their academic studies and in subsequent employment. Students are encouraged to become adept researchers, nimble problem-solvers, dexterous writers, and competent communicators. * Topics such as negotiation and mediation, presentations, and client meetings introduce students to the professional skills essential for progression into both legal practice and other professional careers. * Commentary helping students engage with assessment criteria and develop their critical thinking skills. Apply them to succeed * Students are encouraged to reflect on and actively improve their commercial awareness through case studies and activities. Targeted coverage of employability, practise interview questions, CV development, and transferrable skills help students to approach their future careers with confidence and communicate their own competencies effectively. * 'Practical exercises' throughout provide opportunities to take a hands-on approach to tackling a wide range of legal skills. * 'What the professionals say' boxes bring in voices from across the world of legal services and other professions, including comments from barristers, solicitors, CEOs, solicitors' paralegals, and librarians. Digital formats and resources This fourth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is suppported by online resources. - The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks - The online resources that support the book include: - Self-test multiple choice questions - The authors' guidance to answering the practical exercises in each chapter - Sample interview questions to help students identify which areas of commercial awareness they need to focus on - A library of web links that direct students to useful websites and relevant media

The methodological approach and methods used in any particular research project are key to its success. In Legal Research Methods: Principles and Practicalities (Clarus Press, 2016), the contributors assessed the relative utility of a variety of methods and methodologies in the context of legal research generally. Taking a case studies approach, contributors to this text have written about the methods used in a particular piece of research, outlining the justification for the choice of that methodology; describing the methods used; detailing the advantages, disadvantages and challenges to the approach taken; discussing any ethical considerations that arose in the context of the research; reflecting on the approach taken; and concluding with advice to scholars engaging with similar methods or methodologies. Each chapter is structured in the same way in order to allow for ease of comparison between the approaches taken.

For centuries, most people believed the criminal justice system worked - that only guilty defendants were convicted. DNA technology shattered that belief. DNA has now freed more than three hundred innocent prisoners in the United States. This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years of DNA exonerations and identifies lingering challenges. By studying the dataset of DNA exonerations, we know that precise factors lead to wrongful convictions. These include eyewitness misidentifications, false confessions, dishonest informants, poor defense lawyering, weak forensic evidence, and prosecutorial misconduct. In Part I, scholars discuss the efforts of the Innocence Movement over the past quarter century to expose the phenomenon of wrongful convictions and to implement lasting reforms. In Part II, another set of researchers looks ahead and evaluates what still needs to be done to realize the ideal of a more accurate system.

The transition from undergraduate study to postgraduate study in law has traditionally been somewhat seamless: students are typically enculturated into the discipline of law, and have engaged in a variety of writing and research exercises throughout their undergraduate degree. However, the nature of legal research is changing dramatically, with more emphasis being put on how we are researching, rather than what we are researching. Undergraduate students are increasingly engaging in primary research as part of their degree, and typically borrow from other disciplines to do so. The reason for this is that, to date, there has been little importance placed on research methods in law. This book aims to rectify this in a manner which is suitable for students, not only in Ireland but internationally. Legal Research Methods: Principles and Practicalities is tailored to the needs of researchers in examining varying methodological approaches from a practical perspective. In addition to the principal approaches now commonly used in legal research (the doctrinal method; the socio-legal method; the historical method; and the comparative method) issues such as participatory and community-based research, as well as empirical methods, are examined by leading experts in their fields in a critical but clear manner. The book outlines the various types of methodologies, with authors drawing on their own experiences and expertise to examine the benefits and pitfalls involved in each method. This allows the reader to determine the usefulness of any method to their own research, and aids them in employing these methods and avoiding any pitfalls. [Subject: Legal Research Methods]A?A?A?A?

Die Broschure mochte fur alle zuganglich sein und wurde daher be-wusst einfach geschrieben. Sie erhebt keinen Anspruch darauf, alle Besonderheiten samtlicher muslimischer Staaten aufzuzeigen; sie mochte lediglich auf die haufigsten Probleme in vielen dieser Lander aufmerksam machen. Interessierte Personen konnen sich an das Zentrum fur arabisches und islamisches Recht (www.sami-aldeeb.com) wenden fur weitere Auskunfte betreffend des Landes des moslemischen Partners. Am Ende der Broschure befindet sich ein Muster-Ehevertrag in sechs Sprachen: Franzosisch, Deutsch, Italienisch, Englisch, Spanisch und Arabisch. Der Autor Sami A. Abu-Aldeeb Sahlieh. Christ palastinensischer Abstammung. Schweizer Staatsburger. Doktor der Rechte. Befahigung zur Leitung von Forschungsarbeiten (HDR). Professor der Universitaten (CNU-Frankreich). Verantwortlicher fur arabisches und islamisches Recht am Schweizerischen Institut fur Rechtsvergleichung (1980-2009). Gastprofessor an verschiedenen Universitaten in Frankreich, Italien und der Schweiz. Direktor des Zentrums fur arabisches und islamisches Recht. Autor zahlreicher Bucher und Ubersetzer des Korans auf Franzosisch, Italienisch und Englisch.

Este libro contiene una completa vision de la abogacia en estos momentos de cambio, dando respuesta a los interrogantes mas esenciales y elementales, a los mas complejos y mas curiosos: Que es un abogado? Cual es su futuro? Como se ejerce actualmente la profesion? Por que los abogados tienen tan mala fama? Para que sirve la toga? Por que el secreto profesional? Quienes son los abogados 2.0 o los abogados TIC? Y los abogados de empresa? Como es y debe ser la relacion con clientes, jueces y colegas? Como afrontar una vista oral? Como confeccionar un buen interrogatorio? Como abordar el informe oral ante los tribunales? Que es una demanda, una denuncia o una querella, y en que se diferencian? Y un procurador?, que es un procurador y cuales sus funciones? Como se gestiona un despacho? Como se confecciona una minuta? Quien es quien en la oficina judicial? Cual es la funcion del Colegio?... Todas las respuestas las encontrara el lector aqui junto a una idea clara de que es la abogacia, que ha sido y posiblemente que llegue a ser. La mejor orientacion para todo estudiante de Derecho en trance de decidir su futuro. Porque dara aqui con los elementos imprescindibles para una cabal decision sobre si le interesa o no, si se puede o no y en que condiciones, ejercer hoy una de las mas hermosas y antiguas profesiones que, a pesar de los radicales cambios que nos toca vivir, "sigue abordando lo esencial de su objeto (citando a Antonio Hernandez Gil) en terminos sensiblemente similares a como podia plantearse hace siglos."