Teaching Dispute Resolution: A Reflection and Analysis by Hilary Astor, Christine Chinkin

“…Dispute resolution themes and issues may be integrated in an ad hoc manner into the teaching of other established subjects in the law degree. This raises debate whether it is desirable to present dispute resolution as a separate subject to a limited number of students, or whether it could more effectively be integrated into the teaching of mainstream subjects. …”
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Power-law phenomena in Bayesian nonparametrics by Panero, F

“…The paper presented in chapter 3 casts light on the asymptotic properties of networks generated under the graphex process, proving the desirable properties of sparsity, power-law degree distributions, clustering and two central limit theorems.…”

Rethinking the Teaching of Law by Richard Johnstone

“…The professional authorities were not prepared to accord recognition for professional entry purposes to a university law degree unless it had a substantial “hard law” content in subjects directly relevant to legal practice.9 As Chesterman and Weisbrot noted: Australian university law schools, having won the right to be the principal providers of legal education and socialisation, also inherited the imperatives of practice from the profession. …”
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Teaching Media Law to Journalism Students: Different Needs, Different Strategies by Mark Pearson

“…The law professor is then faced with the daunting task of condensing into a few weeks content which might take a full two torts subjects in a law degree — and teaching it to students who may not have been instructed in the workings of the legal system, legal methods of research or case appraisal and citation. …”
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Information extraction with network centralities : finding rumor sources, measuring influence, and learning community structure by Zaman, Tauhid R

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Bar Law programmes may not be law-abiding by The, Star

“…PETALING JAYA: Law degrees offered by some educational institutions have not been recognised by the Legal Profession Qualifying Board. …”
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Land Law / by 239136 Green, Kate

“…It is suitable for: law degrees and postgraduate legal qualification, Law Society and Bar courses, Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX), Land Surveying and Estate Management courses (RICS, ISFVA). …”

Before Competition and Beyond Complacency - the Internationalisation of Legal Education in Australia by Vai Io Lo

“…The Law School of the University of the South Pacific has been working to identify appropriate program outcomes for its Bachelor of Laws degree, but no research had been undertaken to determine the knowledge, skills and capabilities needed by lawyers in the South Pacific. …”
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Technology Law in Legal Education: Recognising the Importance of the Field by Marcus Smith

“…This purpose of this article is to highlight the importance of the field and propose that it be taught through a core, stand-alone technology law subject within law degrees.…”
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Accrediting Indigenous Australian Content and Cultural Competency Within the Bachelor of Laws by Annette Gainsford, Marcus Smith, Alison Gerard

“…The most recent version of the Council of Australian Law Deans Law School Standards calls for embedding Indigenous cultural competence in Australian law degrees as a matter of best practice. To support this work Universities Australia has produced several reports that establish a best practice framework for Indigenous cultural competence, which is reinforced by the Universities Australia Indigenous Strategy 2017-2020. …”
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The JD First Year Experience: Design Issues and Strategies by Wendy Larcombe, Ian Malkin

“…This project included an exploration of whether JD courses in Australia were applying different and higher level academic standards to those operating in Bachelor of Laws degrees. Our research findings reveal justification for concerns about the academic standards of some JD courses, particularly those where masters level students were being taught alongside their undergraduate counterparts. …”
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Law Library Research Skills Instruction for Undergraduates at Bond University: The Development of a Programme by Bruce Bott

“…Since teaching began at Bond University in May 1989, there has been direct entry to both of the undergraduate Bond Law Degrees, the LLB and BJuris, without any compulsory prerequisites (other than normal University course entry requirements). …”
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Teaching the Neglected Art of Persuasive Writing by Suzanne Ehrenberg

“…Given that students are enrolled in law degrees in a fast-paced changing world, it is important for legal education institutions to consider how students’ studies, academic achievement and career skills building might be impacted by how they are thinking and feeling about their future. …”
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Critical Percolation on Scale-Free Random Graphs: New Universality Class for the Configuration Model by Dhara, Souvik, van der Hofstad, Remco, van Leeuwaarden, Johan S. H.

“…Abstract In this paper, we study the critical behavior of percolation on a configuration model with degree distribution satisfying an infinite second-moment condition, which includes power-law degrees with exponent $$\tau \in (2,3)$$ τ ∈ ( 2 , 3 ) . …”
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