The present state of legal education in Ghana cannot be discussed without understanding its beginings.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Lawyers
Displaying 21 - 40 of 57 articles
As the Law Society recently reported, legal aid in New Zealand is ‘on life support’. Urgent action is required to avoid the justice gap becoming a chasm.
Studies show that tenants facing eviction who have a lawyer are a lot less likely to lose their home.
Unlike other professions dealing with human trauma, criminal lawyers are very rarely offered psychological support. New research aims to learn how best to improve this.
Lawyers were thought to be mostly immune from the coming AI revolution, but two legal experts explain why jobs that rely on human ingenuity can still be affected.
The legal uncertainty surrounding telemedicine services is not without consequences. Patients may not have access to public protection remedies.
When it comes to election fraud claims, watch what the lawyers do, not what the politicians say.
As the Harvey Weinstein trials start, a psychology scholar explains why jurors may be biased on the question of consent. While the situations examined in these studies are not equivalent to sexual assault, they illustrate a pervasive psychological bias.
Facebook began blocking ads that linked Truvada and other HIV-related drugs to severe bone and kidney damage based on claims made in lawsuits.
The New York Times reporters who broke the Weinstein story show how lawyers – whether ones who represented him or his victims – enabled the movie mogul’s wrongdoing.
When Flos Greig first entered law school, it was illegal for women to become lawyers. Undeterred, she lobbied for change and became the first woman admitted to the legal profession in Australia.
While the Treasury secretary says House Democrats lack a ‘legitimate’ reason for demanding Trump’s tax returns, a former IRS attorney explains that the law says otherwise.
Facial expressions and gestures can impact the outcome of a trial that depends on the credibility of witnesses.
As a society, we often don’t think about how legal professionals might be affected by the work that they do.
Artificial intelligence and data analytics are transforming the practice of law.
The Achilles’ heel of law technologies: training. Only 10% of such initiatives are aimed at law students, so how should this issue be managed to win the AI race?
New legal boilerplate in corporate merger agreements signals just how important #MeToo has become – not just as a social movement but as a business risk.
This tradition is so strong in the US that all lawyers are encouraged to volunteer at least 50 hours of pro bono service per year.
The president’s tweets aside, the law provides strong protections to lawyers to ensure they can keep their clients’ secrets safe.
President Trump is having trouble finding a lawyer. But other presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, have obtained outside legal counsel easily, even from attorneys who disagree with their politics.
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor of Law, University of Oregon
-
Professor of Law, New York Law School
-
Associate Professor of Law and Analytics, Georgia State University
-
Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology
-
Associate Professor, Howard University
-
Senior Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University
-
Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney
-
Professor of Higher Education and Human Development, University of the Free State
-
Assistant Professor of Marketing Weber State University, Weber State University
-
Professor and Chair of Intercultural Communication, Heriot-Watt University
-
Associate Dean for Clinical and Experiential Education; Professor of Law, University of Montana
-
Professor of law and ethics, Georgia State University
-
Docteur en droit international, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France
-
Associate professor, Northumbria University, Newcastle
-
Lecturer in law, University of Sussex
