This ethnographic case study provides authentic insights into the intertextual negotiation processes for a particular merger-and-acquisition (M&A) transaction in the context of international legal practice, involving interdisciplinary legal and business professionals. Using genre and discourse analytical methodology, this study focuses on the…

Research is growing on the ways K-12 schools can address immigration policy and assist in mediating its impact on students and families. Community schools are poised to address these issues through integrated student supports by taking an asset-based perspective that views community members and organizations as powerful constituents in the…

Legal representation makes a significant difference to the outcome of removal proceedings. Yet high percentages of both detained and non-detained immigrants do not have access to such representation. Some state and local governments have undertaken to increase access to "pro bono" legal representation for immigrants in these proceedings.

This study identified custodial grandparents' perception of sources of stress that may affect their health and better understand their needs. Findings from this qualitative study are based on thematic analysis of interviews with 10 custodial grandparents. The following themes emerged: (1) grandparents' stress from perceived lack of readiness to…

Beginning in 2014, increasing numbers of unaccompanied immigrant children (UIC) arrived and were apprehended at the United States-Mexico border. These children were fleeing violence, poverty, environmental disasters, as well as state-sanctioned violence and political instability influenced by interventions and support from the U.S. government…

The relevance of the article is stipulated by the necessity to study a specific type of legal education -- legal clinical education. However, legal clinics are the basis for the practical training and students' practice implementation i.e. they allow to transfer the obtained theoretical knowledge into the practical ones. The purpose of the study…

This paper analyses the relationship between translational technology and learning outcomes and investigates the type of translational technology most beneficial towards students' translations of legal texts. This study tests whether differences were found in the learning outcomes of legal text translation for students with high and low placement…

Declining levels of state provision of free legal advice and representation have led to increased demand for support from legal charities. This study evaluates a co-designed Open Educational Resource providing education and training for support workers volunteering for the UK legal charity Support Through Court. Addressing issues of domestic abuse…

Hadfield's "Rules for a Flat World" describes how today's legal infrastructure harms people globally who live in the "Bottom of the Pyramid" (BoP). People who pass through the Kino Border Initiative on the U.S.- Mexico border provide vivid and personal examples of how lack of robust legal infrastructure contributes to acute…

As an immigration attorney for the past 14 years in both private practice and legal services, the author feels confident in saying there is not a "single" kind of immigrant or one kind of immigration story. There are multifarious individuals and families of diverse global origin bearing a cornucopia of ideas, perspectives, hopes and…

The article substantiates the pedagogical conditions of developing professional culture in law students. To this end, the authors reviewed scientific (pedagogical, psychological, legal) literature, taking into account particularities of professional activity of future lawyers, as well as educational standards of training law students in higher…

This paper explores the connections between parental nonsupport of a young person's trans or gender diverse identity and young trans people's experiences of justiciable legal problems1 as well as access to the legal system to address these issues. Qualitative youth data were drawn from the TRANSforming JUSTICE: Trans Legal Needs Assessment Ontario…

Remarks adapted from presentation: "Disrupting Law, Reclaiming Justice," a Conversation on Gillian Hadfield's "Rules for a Flat World" on October 8, 2018 at Creighton University. Despite the advancement in the ADR movement, there is much work to be done for justice to be accessible to "All." The legal profession…

This short article offers a lawyer's perspective on working with immigrant youth, with three goals in mind. The first is to outline key features of the legal landscape immigrant children navigate in the United States, in order to provide contextual information of practical value in serving the young client/patient. The second goal is to use that…

Scholarship on the intersection between immigration, legal status, and education has grown over the past decade. Given that schools are intended to be purveyors of democratic values, schools represent an ideal context to examine how immigration and legal status are considered in a community that aims to support the academic and social success of…