The Language of Law School: Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer"

The Language of Law School: Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer"
by Elizabeth Mertz
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In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #390151 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .85" h x 6.18" w x 9.24" l, 1.07 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Make Law Review

Make Law Review
by Cliff Ennico

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Law students who chase a competitive edge are often those who plan to become involved in their school’s law review, an academic journal written and edited by elite peers. The application process is fiercely competitive, and only the best are chosen.Make Law Review distills crucial information about the law review process into a single resource, so students can focus on writing an impressive audition essay. With tips, strategies, and real-world advice from those who’ve served on various reviews, this guide is designed for the law student who wants to rise above the pack.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1009348 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-06
• Released on: 2009-10-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .56" h x 6.32" w x 8.86" l, .57 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Files: Law and Media Technology (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

Files: Law and Media Technology (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Cornelia Vismann, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young

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Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be over. With the epoch of files coming to an end, we are free to examine its fundamental influence on Western institutions. From a media-theoretical point of view, subject, state, and law reveal themselves to be effects of specific record-keeping and filing practices. Files are not simply administrative tools; they mediate and process legal systems. The genealogy of the law described in Vismann's Files ranges from the work of the Roman magistrates to the concern over one's own file, as expressed in the context of the files kept by the East German State Security. The book concludes with a look at the computer architecture in which all the stacks, files, and registers that had already created order in medieval and early modern administrations make their reappearance.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #419870 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .61" h x 6.10" w x 8.90" l, .73 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages