Henry Carter Hull

After college, Rick Lax moved back into his parents' house. The closest thing he had to a job was eating his parents' food, sitting on his parents' couch, and watching The Price is Right. An amateur magician, he spent the rest of his time practicing card tricks and rope tricks. Though he could tie four different slipknots, the necktie posed some difficulties. Rick's father, a successful Michigan attorney, told Rick it was time to move out and enter...

Law and society scholars challenge the common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards and resolves disputes. Decades of research shows how much the nature of communities, organizations, and the people inhabiting them affect how law works. Just as much, law shapes beliefs, behaviors, and wider social structures, but the connections are much more nuanced-and surprising-than many expect. Law and Society Reader...

From Barack Obama (Harvard and Chicago) to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yale), many of our current national leaders emerged from the rarefied air of the nation's top law schools. The ideas taught there in one generation often shape national policy in the next. The trouble is, Walter Olson reveals in Schools for Misrule, our elite law schools keep churning out ideas that are catastrophically bad for America. From class action lawsuits that promote the...

Nearly half of 2013's law graduates were unemployed or underemployed, and, as 80% of students attending law school rely on student loans to finance their education, students are graduating with massive amounts of debt. This rising problem has caused prelaw students to question: Is law school a good investment? Barrister on a Budget explains to the reader that for some it is a bad investment. For the others, they just have to be more strategic and...

Compliance Rules for Barristers provides a clear and detailed account of the core duties of a barrister, mandatory rules, and additional rules for certain Direct Public Access Work. It sets out the steps that a sole practitioner must adopt to comply with the new transparency rules of the Bar Standard Board. This book is primarily meant for sole practising barristers in England and Wales, but the information could be of help to other lawyers, as well...

Offers complete, accessible information on every topic of concern to law students ranging from the LSAT, the Bar Exam, Law Review, computerized research and videotape study aids to obtaining that important clerkship or job. Includes recent data on demographics of law school applicants, current salaries for a variety of legal careers, nontraditional courses, legal clinics, detailed discussions regarding the latest law trends such as deregulation and...

El libro trata en forma sistemática y didáctica los dos modos de adquirir el dominio entre vivos. Plantea también los problemas de interpretación formulados desde la dictación del Código Civil, y propone soluciones originales con el propósito de zanjar dudas y controversias. Así, entrega una visión general de los conceptos en cuestión, junto con las controversias que se han generado y soluciones originales a partir de una interpretación...

Lo que hizo Dios fue perfecto, dio diferentes formas de vivir y de ser, y así dar la oportunidad de cambiar y comprender a los demás. Esta historia es de tres amigos y una maestra que les enseña principios de vida a su manera, una conciencia que los hace reflexionar siempre. Este es un libro de respeto antes las diferentes formas de pensar, creer y respeto cuando se escoge su manera de vivir y gastar el tiempo y este siempre le da la oportunidad...

Whether you're considering law school or are already committed, The Law School Decision Game: A Playbook for Prospective Lawyers explains your choice to enter the legal profession with the candor readers have come to expect from Ann Levine's Law School Expert blog including: • What lawyers do, how much money they make, and how hard they work. • What's important in choosing a law school. • What Big Law is really like. • What to consider...

Recurrir al derecho comparado ya no es solo una cuestión de necesidad impulsada por los procesos de globalización e internacionalización del derecho, sino también un asunto de buena educación jurídica. El jurista bien educado comprende que, para conocer su propio derecho, debe conocer otros sistemas jurídicos. Este libro estudia esta rama del derecho, que constituye una herramienta imprescindible que profesores, jueces, abogados y estudiantes...