This book is designed to teach both law students and military professionals the underlying principles governing the law of war and their appropriate applications in various wartime settings.
In this engaging collection of commentary and readings, James R. Elkins invites students (and their teachers) to reflect on the nature of law school work, the culture in which it takes place, and the lasting effects of law school rites of passage on those who undertake the law school journey.
The ABA and most state bar associations have identified a wellness crisis in the legal profession, and called for educating students on how to better cope with the challenges of law school and practice.
The authors of this innovative book take the specific skills required to write a memo or brief and divided them into discrete "building blocks" that can be more easily absorbed by students.
To write an effective memo, legal writers must first master a series of distinct and crucial skills: fact selection, narrowing of the specific legal issue, correct rule formulation, and accurate application of law to the client’s facts, to name but a few.
Sheldon Krantz begins The Legal Profession: What Is Wrong and How to Fix It by saying that the legal profession is in trouble, and should be. He then covers what is wrong by describing the current state of the legal profession, the emergence of BigLaw, the changing nature of law practice, and the access to justice crisis.
The Legal System of Cambodia presents to the reader the main features of the history of its legal system, its sources of law, its constitutional framework, its legal actors, its criminal law, its law of persons, family law, property law, law of contract, law on delictual liability, quasi-contracts, business entities, and labor-employment law.