The Art of Argument guides readers through the process of developing, defending and presenting a compelling argument. Primarily aimed at students who are about to undertake or participate in an international mooting competition, The Art of Argument explains in a step-by-step process what to do when you first get the moot problem, how to begin researching the subject matter, the emotional highs and lows, why practice makes perfect, how to handle yourself at the competition, and most importantly to have fun. Through the process of mooting you learn how to construct analytical arguments, to present your point logically and soundly and to consider and address the queries and concerns of your opponent and the Moot Master. For a law student there is no greater skill than constructing a logical and compelling argument.

European legal teaching - historically formalistic, doctrinal, hierarchical, and passive - is coming under increasing pressure to reimagine itself as pragmatic, policy-aware, and action-oriented. Out of this context, a bottom-up movement of university law clinics appears to be emerging in Europe. Although intellectually indebted to the US model, the European variant reflects legal education and practice in Europe, specifically the multi-layered and multi-genetic legal landscape resulting from the Europeanization and internationalization of national legal systems, the globalization of European legal markets, and the growing demand for civic engagement in view of increasingly powerful supra-national institutions. Through the prism of clinical legal education, Reinventing Legal Education is the first attempt to gather scholarly and systematic reflections on the developments taking place in European legal teaching and practice. This groundbreaking book should be read by anyone interested in how clinical legal education is reinventing legal education in Europe.

In the updated, fourth edition of this classic text which has been translated into over a dozen languages, constitutional scholar and Columbia Law School professor E. Allan Farnsworth provides a clear explanation of the structure and function of the U.S. legal system in one handy reference. AnIntroduction to the Legal System of the United States, Fourth Edition is designed to be a general introduction to the structure and function of the legal system of the United States, and is especially useful for those readers who lack familiarity with fundamental establishments and practices.
This text also gives the reader a clear understanding of how to research the law, the importance of case law versus statutes, and the difference between private and public law. It illustrates issues that may be confusing or troublesome and provides a solid general overview. It includes a new introduction by Steve Sheppard.

Writing and Drafting in Legal Practice provides an up to date and comprehensive guide to writing and drafting - from the first stages of preparation to the final edit - for anyone starting out on a legal career. Unlike an English usage text or style guide or a specialised drafting or precedent book, Writing and Drafting in Legal Practice condenses and combines the main principles, rules, techniques and conventions in one volume for newcomers to legal writing and drafting. It is designed to accompany readers from vocational study through to their qualification as solicitors, as well as throughout the early years of practice. Coverage of email and other electronic communications is included, as are a wide range of legal writing formats such as reports and memoranda. Featuring checklists and examples, it can also be used as a reference for suggested approaches to common problems.

Family Law provides a comprehensive guide to family law legislation and practice in Ireland. It is an essential tool for family law students and practitioners but also for those outside of the legal profession whose work crosses over this area of law, and those with a general interest in how family law operates in Ireland.
Edited by a leading expert in the field, this fourth edition covers extensive areas of family law practice in Ireland and has been fully updated to include recent significant legislative changes introduced by the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitees Act 2010. It contains revised coverage of separation agreements, judicial separation, divorce and ancillary orders, as well as of the law relating to children.

A famous defender of the underdog, the oppressed, and the powerless, Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) is one of the true legends of the American legal system. His cases were many and various, but all were marked by his unequivocal sense of justice, as well as his penchant for representing infamous and unpopular clients, such as the Chicago thrill killers Leopold and Loeb; Ossian Sweet, the African American doctor charged with murder after fighting off a violent white mob in Detroit; and John T. Scopes, the teacher on trial in the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. Published for the first time in 1957, "Attorney for the Damned" collects Darrow's most influential summations and supplements them with scene-setting explanations and comprehensive notes by Arthur Weinberg. Darrow confronts issues that remain relevant over half a century after his death: First Amendment rights, capital punishment, and the separation of church and state. With an insightful forward by Justice William O. Douglas, this volume serves as a powerful reminder of Darrow's relevance today.

This collection of essays is a unique contribution to understanding the issues confronting law schools in Central and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union as they seek to ensure that their programs meet the needs of 21st century lawyers. The book is unusual in two ways. First, most of the authors are faculty members at universities in the region. Despite a plethora of initiatives to reform legal education in Central and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union, there has been little literature on the topic coming from the region itself. Second, the essays address structural issues as well as pedagogical ones (e.g., the disincentives for academics to invest time in developing new teaching methodologies and the problems posed by rigid government standards for higher education). It is particularly useful to have these essays collected in one book, so that readers can see both problems and some suggested solutions in a cross-cultural context.

Solicitors' Accounts provides a user-friendly guide to a subject that often poses serious problems for students unfamiliar with the principles and practice of accounting. It provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of all areas required by the Solicitors' Regulation Authority for business accounts and solicitors' accounts on the Legal Practice Course, including full coverage of double-entry book-keeping and final accounts of sole owners, partnerships and companies. It also deals with the Solicitors' Accounts Rules and the practical application of these in solicitors' accounts, including property and probate transactions.
Each chapter starts with an overview of the areas to be covered and also states the learning objectives the student should aim to achieve. Contextual examples are used throughout the chapters demonstrating how the principles of accounting should be applied to situations in practice. At the end of each chapter there is a checklist of the key areas students must be able to understand, followed by graded self-test questions which suggest to the student how long they should spend completing them and what they should move onto next.
Written by experienced former LPC tutors, the guide is essential reading for students and a useful reference source for practitioners.
Online Resource Centre
Solicitors' Accounts is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre designed to encourage students to apply their knowledge of accounts. Interactive exercises are provided for students and a test bank of questions enables lecturers to assess their students' understanding of accounts.

Law is best interpreted in the context of the traditions and cultures that have shaped its development, implementation, and acceptance. However, these can never be assessed truly objectively: individual interpreters of legal theory need to reflect on how their own experiences create the framework within which they understand legal concepts. Theory is not separate from practice, but one kind of practice. It is rooted in the world, even if it is not grounded by it. In this highly original volume, Allan C. Hutchinson takes up the challenge of self-reflection about how his upbringing, education, and scholarship contributed to his legal insights and analysis. Through this honest examination of key episodes in his own life and work, Hutchinson produces unique interpretations of fundamental legal concepts. This book is required reading for every lawyer or legal scholar who wants to analyse critically where he or she stands when they practice and study law.

Joel Trachtman's book presents in plain and lucid terms the powerful tools of argument that have been honed through the ages in the discipline of law. If you are a law student or new lawyer, a business professional or a government official, this book will boost your analytical thinking, your foundational legal knowledge, and your confidence as you win arguments for your clients, your organizations or yourself.

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.

Law, by its very nature, tends to think locally, not globally. This book has a broader scope in terms of the range of nations and offers a succinct journey through law schools on different continents and subject matters. It covers education, research, impact and societal outreach, and governance. It illustrates that law schools throughout the world have much in common in terms of values, duties, challenges, ambitions and hopes. It provides insights into these aspirations, whilst presenting a thought-provoking discussion for a more global agenda on the future of law schools. Written from the perspective of a former dean, the book offers a unique understanding of the challenges facing legal education and research.

Rechtsvergleichung kann immer dort aussagekraftig sein, wo aufgrund der Entwicklung der modemen Gesellschaften Fragestellungen notwendiger- weise in allen entwickelten Rechtssystemen auftauchen. Fur die K ntroll- dichte bei der Uberprufung von Verwaltungsentscheidungen gilt dieses in besonderem MaBe. Wenn sich auch aus der verfassungsrechtlichen Lage und der besonderen Verwaltungstradition unterschiedliche Perspektiven erge- ben, so steht doch die Grundfrage der Aufteilung der Verantwortung zwi- schen Verwaltung und Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit in allen Rechtsordnun- gen stark im Vordergrund. Die vom Max-Planck-lnstitut fur auslandisches Offentliches Recht und Volkerrecht im Herbst 1990 durchgefUhrte Veranstaltung sollte zu einer Klarung der Fragestellungen vor allem durch Einbeziehung von auslandi- schen Experten fUhren, die die deutsche Rechtslage ausreichend ubersahen. Der gesamte Band wird daher in deutscher Sprache vorgelegt. Er enthalt zuniichst neun schriftliche Berichte uber ausgewahlte Lander und die Euro- paischen Gemeinschaften, die die Grundlage fUr das Kolloquium schaffen sollten. 1m AnschluB hieran sind die drei vergleichenden, auf der Grundlage der schriftlichen Berichte erarbeiteten Referate, die auf dem Kolloquium mundlich prasentiert wurden, sowie die Diskussionsbeitrage der Teilnehmer abgedruckt. Das Erscheinen des Bandes hat sich bedauerlicherweise durch einige Umstande verzogert. Wir hoffen, daB der Inhalt gerade auch in der deutschen Verwaltungsrechtslehre und -praxis Beachtung finden wird. Heidelberg, im August 1992 JOCHEN ABR. FROWEIN Inhaltsverzeichnis Landesbericht Frankreich 1 CLEMENS LERCHE I. Vorbemerkung zum gerichtlichen Rechtsschutz gegen Verwaltungshandeln . 1 II. Allgemeiner Teil 3 1. Zugang zu den Gerichten 3 2. Beweislastverteilung und Tatsachenfeststellung .

The ability to undertake effective legal research is one of the basic skills required of a lawyer. Yet all too often students only acquire this skill by trial and error, failing to grasp the essentials of legal research at an early stage in their studies. This second edition not only describes the literature of law for England, Wales and the European Community, but also includes information and techniques on researching the law of Scotland and European human rights law. It also features information on the sources of law being created by the newly devolved legislatures in Scotland and Wales.;The book provides advice on using a law library and how to make effective use of catalogues and indexes. Its practical approach will help students undertake particular research problems, and it shows how to record and present the results of research in projects, dissertations and theses. The information is presented under standard headings, with diagrams and charts provided where possible to aid in the practical use of complex publications. The whole range of modern electronic sources is also explained.;The book is primarily intended for undergraduate law students, but should also be useful to students following vocational training courses and newly qualified solicitors who are occasionally faced with unfamiliar research problems.

Law, by its very nature, tends to think locally, not globally. This book has a broader scope in terms of the range of nations and offers a succinct journey through law schools on different continents and subject matters. It covers education, research, impact and societal outreach, and governance. It illustrates that law schools throughout the world have much in common in terms of values, duties, challenges, ambitions and hopes. It provides insights into these aspirations, whilst presenting a thought provoking discussion for a more global agenda on the future of law schools. Written from the perspective of a former dean, the book offers a unique understanding of the challenges facing legal education and research.

In diesem zweibandigen Werk werden Arbeiten veroffentlicht, die zu sehr unterschiedlichen Zeiten an den verschiedensten Stellen publiziert wurden, und von denen die meisten heute nur unter Schwierigkeiten beschaffi: werden konnten. Der Autor folgt damit mehrfach geauBerten Empfehlungen. Gegliedert ist der Inhalt nicht nach den Erscheinungsdaten der einzelnen Arbeiten, sondem nach systematischen Gesichtspunkten. Dabei wurde ver- sucht, ein rechtsphilosophisches und ein strafrechtswissenschaftliches Grund- konzept erkennbar zu machen, allerdings ohne systematische Geschlossen- heit in Anspruch zu nehmen. Ein Quellenverzeichnis steht am SchluB jedes Bandes. Koln, im September 1981 Ulrich Klug InhaItsverzeichnis Materielles Strafrecht Grundlagenprobleme Rechtfertigung oder Abschaffung des Strafrechts? . 3 Die zentrale Bedeutung des Schutzgedankens fUr den Zweck der Strafe . 16 Abschied von Kant und Hegel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Der Handlungsbegriff des Finalismus a1s methodologisches Problem. . 155 Rechtsphilosophische und rechtspolitische Probleme des Sexualstrafrechts . 173 Sozialkongruenz und Sozialadaquanz im Strafrechtssystem . 194 Anarchistenterror gegen Strafrechtsreform. . . . . 211 Frobleme des Allgemeinen Teils Zum Begriff der Gesetzeskonkurrenz. . . . . . . 229 Die Verpflichtung des Rechtsstaats zur Verjahrungsverlangerung . 247 Frobleme des Besonderen Teils und des NebenstraJrechts Der neue Straftatbestand des Friedensverrates. . . . . . . . 259 Ungeschriebene Tatbestandsmerkmale beim Staatsgeheirnnisbegritf 268 Strafrechtliche Abwehr des Neo-Nationalsozialismus. . . . . . 282 Der Anwendungs- und Zumessungsbankrott bei der Bestrafung von Schwangerschaftsunterbrechungen - 5 DM fUr eine Abtreibung? . 291 Probleme der Strafzumessung bei Diebstahl, Einbruch und Raub. . 298 Psychologische Vereinfachungen und strafrechtiche Folgerungen bei der Auslegung der Bestechungstatbestande . . . . . . . . . . . 310 Der Eigentumsvorbehalt bei der Waren- und Wertpapierverschleuderung im Konkursstrafrecht . . . . . . . . 320 Aktuelle Probleme des Konkursstrafrechts . 327 Zur Strafbarkeit irrefUhrender Werbeangaben 337 Formelles Strafrecht Die Verletzung von Denkgesetzen als Revisionsgrund . 383 Beweisverbote im StrafprozeB . . .

Legal skills are certain to play an essential role in the future of legal education at both the academic and professional stages. Advocacy, negotiation and fact-finding will be studied alongside the more traditional topics of statutory interpretation and precedent. Once acquired, these skills will become fundamental to future studies and legal practice.;This is an introduction to the acquisition of critical legal skills, exploring how problems can be analyzed and how concepts like justice or efficiency may be used to argue for reform. The materials can be used as the basis of a first year course or an intensive introductory course in the first few weeks, or to develop skills throughout a three or four year course.;Simon Lee has also written "Law and Morals", "Judging Judges" and "The Cost of Free Speech".

1. Begriff der juristischen Logik 1. Wenn im folgenden von juristischer Logik und einigen ihrer Probleme die Rede sein soll, so bedarf es zunachst einer Angabe dessen, was im Zu- sammenhang dieser Untersuchungen unter Logik verstanden wird. Der Aus- druck Logik wird im Rahmen der Philosophie sowohl als auch innerhalb der Einzelwissenschaften in mehreren, oftmals erheblich voneinander abweichen- den Bedeutungen verwandt. Der Sprachgebrauch ist sogar derart schillernd, dass einer scharfen Definition, sofern sie sich an den ublichen Sprachgebrauch anschliessen soll, nicht unerhebliche Schwierigkeiten im Wege stehen, denn bekanntlich spricht man von materialer, formaler, transzendentaler, regio- naler, reiner, angewandter, theoretischer, praktischer, hermeneutischer, rea- ler, naturlicher, klassischer und moderner Logik, um nur einige der zahl- 1 reichen Wortverknupfungen herauszugreifen - Fur die hier anzustellenden UEberlegungen vereinfacht sich jedoch die Frage nach einer passenden Definition. Wahrend namlich die Ansichten daruber, was man etwa unter materialer oder transzendentaler Logik zu verstehen habe, weitgehend divergieren, gilt fur den Begriff der formalen Logik cum grano salis das Gegenteil.

Teaching Law re-imagines law school teaching and scholarship by going beyond crises now besetting the legal academy and examining deeper and longer-lasting challenges. The book argues that the legal academy has long neglected the need to focus teaching and scholarship on the ideals of justice that law fitfully serves, the political origins of law, and the development of a respectful but critical relationship with the legal profession. It suggests reforms to improve the quality of legal education and responds to concerns that law schools eschew the study of justice, rendering students amoralist; that law schools slight the political sources of law, particularly in legislative action; and that law schools have ignored the profession entirely. These areas of neglect have impoverished legal teaching and scholarship as the academy is refashioned in response to current financial exigencies, and addressing them is long overdue.

Teaching Law re-imagines law school teaching and scholarship by going beyond crises now besetting the legal academy and examining deeper and longer-lasting challenges. The book argues that the legal academy has long neglected the need to focus teaching and scholarship on the ideals of justice that law fitfully serves, the political origins of law, and the development of a respectful but critical relationship with the legal profession. It suggests reforms to improve the quality of legal education and responds to concerns that law schools eschew the study of justice, rendering students amoralist; that law schools slight the political sources of law, particularly in legislative action; and that law schools have ignored the profession entirely. These areas of neglect have impoverished legal teaching and scholarship as the academy is refashioned in response to current financial exigencies, and addressing them is long overdue.

In the last twenty years the legal profession has seen dramatic changes. Law firms, large or small, have had to manage through these changes. Some firms have been more successful than others, but on the whole the profession has emerged leaner and fitter. Making Sense of Law Firms is the first book to take a systematic look at the strategy, structure and ownership of law firms and, as such, it brings a unique approach to law firm management. The book describes the changing legal environment, explores the strategic choices for the firm and describes the proper application of appropriate business principles to law firms. The book is split into eight parts: Law firms as a Response to the Environment The Theory of the Law Firm Law Firms as Business Organisations Law Firms as Client-Driven Organisations Law Firms as Social Organisations Law Firms as Economic Organisations Ownership of Law Firms The Way Ahead.

Erst die elektronische Signatur wird dem E-Commerce zum Durchbruch verhelfen. Dieses Werk setzt sich mit den Akzeptanzproblemen auseinander, die beim Einsatz moderner Technologien fur die vertrauenswurdige elektronische Kommunikation entstehen. Rechtliche Fragen spielen hier eine wichtige Rolle, aber auch Moral und Kultur. Die Situation in diesen Bereichen wird im Buch diskutiert und daraus Handlungsempfehlungen fur den Verbraucher- und Datenschutz, die technische Ausgestaltung sowie den Umgang mit Risiken gegeben. Dies fuhrt zu einem visionaren Modell der Informationsgesellschaft.