Questions tagged [law]
On standards or conventions specific to law as an academic discipline, and programs that lead to a degree in this field. Use 'legal-issues', not 'law', for questions on legal issues facing academics.
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What type of doctoral robe does law professor get? [closed]
Most law professors have a JD. Often, the JD robe for a school is different. One easy example: Harvard JDs wear a black robe at graduation instead of the crimson robe. At Yale, the JD robe is black ...
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Can doing well in masters help you get a PhD with funding if you have a lower second class in your bachelors
I completed the first two years of my law degree through a distance learning programme abroad with an average of mid-lower second class during the pandemic and then switched to a RG university in the ...
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Is Salary Considered a direct/indirect funding?
I went to the US on a J-1 visa (Research Scholar) as an Adjunct Research Assistant Professor at a US University. I was only on the salary I was getting from the university without any external funding ...
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Unequal co-authorship (law review)
I am a lawyer/practitioner (not in academia) and have a law review article of legal scholarship. The article was originally a joint venture with someone who left and abandoned the project, but did ...
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Legal to post an image of a textbook for help? [closed]
I had a textbook problem that I wasn't able to solve, so I posted the question on a social media platform and got asked to provide an image of the entire page including the question by multiple people,...
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How many cites are necessary for a research paper paragraph summarizing one source (legal case)?
I'm writing a law school research paper where one of the sections describes multiple legal cases, each under a separate heading. For each case I am describing the factual history of the case, then the ...
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What possible consequences could one face for not getting IRB approval for federally-funded research? Could you go to jail?
We have discussed before that consequences for not getting irb approval might include: (1) not be able to publish in a reputable journal, and (2) getting sanctioned or fired by your employer. But I am ...
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I accepted two law school admission offers with two different start dates. Do I have to tell the latter that I've already taken classes at the former?
I applied simultaneously to several law schools with start dates in January 2022 and September 2022. I received and accepted multiple offers and paid for all the seats I accepted.
I've now finished my ...
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Lecturer Copied Textbook Questions for Open Book Exam - I Used the Answers
Yesterday, before my exam, I went through as many practice questions as possible, and incorporated anything I missed into my notes - this included cases not taught in the textbook or lectures. I am a ...
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What am I able to do if the school wont help me? Can I deal with it in court?
Im a third year in college and my advisor hasn't talked to me since the beginning of my second year. 3 semesters counting now, I am trying to apply for classes and I cant because I have a registration ...
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British Law Lecturer USA
Im a mature student, i am almost finished with my undergrad and looking to continue to a masters or maybe go straight for a PhD.
The end game is to emigrate to the USA to teach in the universities and ...
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Why don't most law schools show, let alone teach how to draft and interpret, complete contracts?
The author's just referring to US. I don't know if Commonwealth law schools show students complete contracts and/or teach how to draft and interpret. But I'm flabberghast that you can graduate JD ...
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Interrogated for cheating based on discrimination a potential lawsuit? [closed]
I have been taking a couple online classes. I also had a baby a week before the classes started. It has been an incredibly stressful 10 weeks. Anyway, I had a project I had to complete for a business ...
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Can I have two PhD supervisors from two different UK universities?
I have two unconditional offers from two UK universities in law. University A assigned me one supervisor only, but he is the greatest in part of my thesis. University B also assigned me one supervisor,...
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In law schools do JD professors supervise PhD students?
I know that law schools, unlike most other academic faculties hire a significant portion of their professors without a doctorate (PhD, D.Phil, etc) but just with a JD law degree.
I come from a science ...
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Are Non-US bachelor's degrees equatable with US bachelor's degrees when applying to law schools in the US?
Most law schools in the US require applicants to have bachelor's degrees (used here and throughout the question to refer to a typically 4 year college degree) - usually on topics related to law such ...
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Is it legal to download textbooks from academia.edu? [duplicate]
There is a website called academia.edu. It seems like they have papers on various topics - but my question is about their textbooks. It is possible to download certain college textbooks for free ...
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Are there any laws that require certain published research works to be removed from the public record? [closed]
I was wondering are there exist any restrictions as to what kind of research can be published. In particular, are there any laws in place that require certain published works to be removed from the ...
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Can I study textbooks with exclusive rights and teach in India?
Assume a textbook T having a high cost. And T is not available anywhere for free.
Suppose I personally brought T and read and understood completely.
Am I allowed to teach using it in India? ...
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Are university lawyers usually faculty members or “just” support staff?
Many universities will have a Faculty of Law whose academic staff would be largely (or entirely) composed of certified lawyers; I imagine that the same would be true of many of their PhD students.
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Are there standard terms to say source was already cited (1) above (2) below?
I screen shot pp 5-6, Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (4 edn 2012). It doesn't answer question up in title.
I want terms for "already cited" 'cause I don't want to ...
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How to be sure services and researches offered by the University are not becoming cases of unfair competition?
I work in Italy on a research group working on the conservation of cultural heritage analyzing artworks. I had some discussion with my lab on what job or project the university shouldn't accept to ...
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Citing a country's constitution in the OSCOLA style
How do you cite a country's constitution in the OSCOLA style?
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Did Cambridge award LLB?
Please see the titled question. Like Oxford's, Cambridge's undergraduate and first law degree is a BA, not LLB. But SCC Justice Ian Binnie exhibits
University of Cambridge (1962) LLB
Andrew ...
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Why do law journals require a CV when submitting a paper?
I recently learned that journal submission in the field of law is very different from other fields of study. In particular, I learned that when a person submits a paper to a law journal, the person ...
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Why do North American law schools require an undergraduate degree, when the UK's don't? [closed]
I'm aware that most NA law schools require an undergraduate degree. For example, Yale's application website states:
You must receive, or expect to receive by the summer of 2020, a bachelor's degree ...
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May I write a letter to support my girlfriend's application? [duplicate]
My girlfriend and I am in the same college, but different major. She is a law school master student.
She just graduated from the master program and wanted to transfer to juris doctor in the same ...
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What's the proper way to (APA) reference a settlement agreement?
I want to reference an exhibit from the following document (it's been split into separate parts):
Exhibits:
https://targetbreachsettlement.com/Portals/0/Documents/Settlement%20Agreement%20Exhibits....
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To what extent similar remarks from the same author can appear in different papers?
I came across this situation that seems not immediately obvious as regards the "line" for self-plagiarism.
Suppose I have two papers on two related problems such that merging the two papers is not ...
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Racial discrimination at Duke University's Biostatistics department
The director of graduate studies at Duke's Biostatistics department has stepped down after her racially discriminatory emails, targeted at their international Chinese master's students, went viral on ...
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Can a professor force you to buy a book, for use in his exam?
I'm a first year law student in the UK. For our EU Law class, our professor declared that we must bring an unannotated physical copy of Blackstone's EU Treaties & Legislation 2018-2019 to our exam ...
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Redrawing a schematic diagram/image/schematic circuits to avoid Copyright infringement in publication
From other discussion in Academia SE and other source, I got an impression that redrawing is to avoid Copyright infringement. link1 link2 link3 not from SE link4 link5
I cannot comment there to ask ...
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How to decide on what citation format to use when writing on legal history?
I am an amateur historian who is considering writing a book about the history of Treason in the United States. I have a dilemma with how to format citations.
The book, by nature of being history of ...
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Uni group project being used by companies for profit
Our second semester group project is to bid for, develop, and attempt to "sell" a software solution. Local companies are the customer that provide the brief, and that we attempt to "sell" to.
I was ...
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Does it make sense to get an LLM in preparation for "law school?"
Someone I know thinks he wants to go to law school and pursue a career in law. One way for him to "find out" is to pursue a one-year LLM degree after graduating college. He has two reasons for feeling ...
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Practicality of attaining a law degree despite difficulty remembering facts?
I am > 40 years old and have been heavily involved in IT for my adult life. 20-25 years ago I successfully studied 2 years of Information Technology at a polytechnic (I've always been good with ...
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Legal protection for the title "university" in California
Some non-academic organizations in United States use "university" as part of their name without official accreditation, and I've been struggling to figure out to what extent the university title is ...
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Choice between A13 Z and E13 for a post-doc position in Germany
I received a post-doc offer in physics from a German University. The position has a fixed three-year term, which might be extended up to three more years. The original position description says that ...
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How future-proof is the arXiv license?
The arXiv license is the "default" license under which most preprints are being submitted to the arXiv at least in my subject. Out of dark curiosity, I am wondering how safe it is at doing ...
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How to organize a work-in-progress workshop for PhD students in the field of law and related social sciences?
I would like to organize a work-in-progress workshop for PhD students at my university. How can I make sure that the participants really profit from the workshop and receive valuable feedback?
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In U.S. universities, do male professors get paternity leave?
Do American universities typically help male professors transition into fatherhood by offering (paid) paternity leave? If so, what is the standard amount of paid time off that is offered?
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What automatic citation/bibliography programs are well-designed for law papers?
I have tried Mendeley for citations and bibliography for writing law papers at my university, but it seems not to be designed for legal citations.
For example, when I want to add a Case file as an ...
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What type of lawyer (criminal, civil, family, etc.) would I need to help me deal with issues of academic misconduct? [closed]
What can stop a university from doing whatever they want and screwing students over in terms of accusing them unfairly of cheating, plagiarism, or a misunderstanding of professor authorization of ...
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Time waiting for submission to student section of law journals
I have submitted a small piece in two legal Journals, one for the Journal's blog and one for an on-line version of it but haven't heard from them for quite a while. These sections are the only ones ...
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Is a joint science PhD/JD a bad idea if I end up pursuing academic science?
Question. I'm going into my third year as a PhD student in oceanography, and due to my interest in law, I'm considering applying to the concurrent PhD/JD program at my university. I’m wondering ...
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Applying for PHD programs in FLORIDA. I have a question about legal questions?
On an application form for PhD programs in Florida, they ask:
"Have you recieved disciplinary action?"
"Have you ever been arrested for, been convicted of, or entered a plea of "guilty" or "nolo ...
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Tax incentives for private companies to fund academic research
I wonder what tax incentives private companies have to fund academic research. As it is sometimes difficult to assess financial impacts of tax laws, I would even more interested to have some numbers ...
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Naming a library or program partially after a school
I have seen several programs and libraries partially named after a school, e.g.:
Berkeley Entity Resolution System
MIT Information Extraction
Stanford CoreNLP
To name a library or program partially ...
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Why are lawyers not called "doctor"?
I don't quite understand the education process for lawyers, but I do understand there are a number of different degrees, and one of them is 'JD', the juris doctor. My Latin is quite rusty, but I ...
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Applying to Law school in USA with an Econ BS degree from another country [closed]
My friend moved to Los Angeles a few months ago and she wants to go to law school in here. She got a Bachelor's degree in Economics from another country (she is a resident in USA). The university she ...
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