What are the practicable methods for international legal research? What theoretical positions do they represent? How do methodological views relate to distinctions between facts and values and their critique? What epistemology do they subscribe to? What political agenda are they promoting? What is the fate of methodological pluralism? What is the relationship between methods and disciplines? Are different methods comparable? And so on. But it is also true that another path may lead to a different conclusion. Even in traditional legal methodology, various decisions have to be made. Why was a particular legal instrument chosen for normative evaluation? Why has an issue of EU law been discussed in the international legal framework? Why was a dynamic interpretation preferred to the will of the authors? This definition fits perfectly into the paradigm of legal research. Again, during the development of the legal discipline, an elephant path was designed by researchers moving in the space of a particular area of law, from their initial adoption to their final research outcome. In the second half, the course focuses on the regulation of the interrelated thematic themes of sustainable development, climate change and energy regulation and assesses their role in the multilateral trading system. It will examine whether the WTO legal framework facilitates or restricts the promotion of sustainable development and higher environmental standards, including by examining the phasing out of environmentally harmful fossil fuel subsidies and examining the role of labelling schemes. It will also address developments at plurilateral level, including by examining the trade and sustainable development chapters in EU FTAs. Students analyze important legal philosophies, including methods for justifying legal systems by natural law, legal positivism, and sociological jurisprudence. Contemporary writings on modern legal philosophies are also examined. Prerequisite: LEGL 5000. This course is an overview of the four main areas of intellectual property – patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. This course focuses on the role of the paralegal in obtaining and enforcing these rights.
The content of this course is suitable as a general overview for non-specialists and as a basic course for those wishing to specialize in intellectual property. Prerequisite: LEGL 5000. This course is the first in a two-part writing program that aims to develop the research and writing skills of the legal assistant, including those needed to write legal citations. Legal Research and Writing Methods It introduces the student to the skills required to identify, locate, and use legal resources, including: primary sources of law and jurisprudence, secondary authority, and research reference tools typically located in a law library and used to navigate primary and secondary sources. In addition, students are introduced to the computer-aided legal research process. This course also explores the process of legal analysis by incorporating the results of legal research into legal arguments and briefs. Prerequisite: LEGL 5000. Dear Mariana, Great blog: A convincing greeting for the study of social law / sociology of law, which I naturally welcome and support:) Let`s have a coffee! Maartje On the side of normative theorization, for example, debates on just war theory make proposals with clear legal implications, while arguing at a certain distance from the law. Footnote 2 Debates correspond more to the argumentative norms of moral philosophy than to the norms of jurisprudence. On the other side of empiricism, international lawyers are pushed towards issues of efficiency and compliance. But that`s not all.
In this issue, Gregory Shaffer defends the unequivocal assertion that questions of whether “international law makes sense work, and change is empirical question.” Footnote 3 In short, the practice of international legal research is in a double field of tension between moral philosophy and sociology, among other forces that push it to (re)articulate its methodology. This is a substantive legal course that covers federal copyright law (17 U.S.C. 101 et seq.) and federal and state trade secret and confidential information laws. This course covers topics protected by copyright, exclusive copyright rights, copyright ownership, and fair dealing. This course covers the preparation and prosecution of copyright applications as well as federal and state programs to protect and enforce trade secrets and other confidential information. In addition, this course explores the role of the paralegal in obtaining and enforcing copyright in authorship in the United States and abroad, as well as the role of the paralegal in obtaining and enforcing trade secret rights. Prerequisite: LEGL 5000. This pressure without the discipline of international law seems more troubling – for better or worse. Here, lively debates about the promises and dangers of interdisciplinarity are closely linked to questions of international law and its methodology. These debates have permeated numerous articles in the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) and have inspired our editorials.