One of the most controversial stages in the jury selection process is the lawyers' exercise of peremptory challenges. Peremptory challenges allow a party to remove a prospective juror from the jury panel without giving any reasons. The United States Supreme Court has held that the purpose of the peremptory challenge is "to assure the parties that the jurors before whom they try the case will de...

LW 1200. How Lawyers Think: An Introduction to American Legal Thought. 4 Hours. Introduces students to legal analysis by exploring the history of American legal thought. Perhaps more than any other, American society is governed by lawyers. Explores how innovations in legal theory both emerged from and helped shape policy responses to some of America’s biggest governance challenges, including ec...

The article discusses the features of personal and professional identity lawyers. A study is being conducted during which two groups respondents are distinguished, lawyers, as a profession "man-to-man" clerks. Research methods. Methodology for Study Personal Identity (MILI), author L.B. Schneider. Method Schneider determining level identity. Statistical methods: Fisher's angular transformation ...

As a result of the increase in number lawyers, need arose for them to become as well-known possible market, both with aim attracting new clients and retaining loyalty existing clients. The manner which lawyers can make themselves known has raised problems legislative barriers restricting their rights this regard. By conducting research, authors tried identify ways services without violating leg...

the world of public health, and environmental health in particular, we work with lawyers; yet, many of us remain unaware of recent developments in the law and legal scholarship that may be critical to the success of our work. Many lawyers, even those working on major public health challenges such as tobacco control, are similarly unaware of relevant changes in the world of science. There is a n...

We investigate the consequences of the “revolving door” for trial lawyers at the SEC’s enforcement division. If future job opportunities motivate SEC lawyers to develop and/or showcase their enforcement expertise, then the revolving door phenomenon will promote more aggressive regulatory activity (the “human capital” hypothesis). In contrast, SEC lawyers can relax enforcement efforts in order t...