This lesson encourages students to study a variety of documents to understand the impact of a particular piece of legislation and relates to the powers granted to Congress in Article I, Section 8 , of the Constitution, related to making laws. It correlates to the National History Standards and the National Standards for Civics and Social Sciences. It also has cross-curricular connections with with history, government, global studies, and music.

This lesson is an activity that will give students the opportunity to explore how criminal law affects their local area. The students will research the topic of criminal law (murders) in their state or local area. The students will practice their presentation skills and the students will improve their public speaking skills.

Business and Personal Law: Nebraska Criminal Murder
Research/Presentation Project by Gwen Davidson of Hastings Public Schools | CC BY NC SA

The impetus for this volume was a multitude of conversations regarding pedagogy and teaching related to our judicial process courses. Based on these conversations, we identified four main threads or needs of our colleagues: First, many of us bring or want to bring more “political science” into our classes, though we also want to avoid the high costs of reinventing successful existing courses to do so. Second, our programs all require a political methodology course, and we want to reinforce those lessons in our substantive courses. We want to encourage our students’ understanding of how to read and understand research studies as well as how to craft their own research questions. Third, we want to keep our courses as current as possible.

Volume 2 is available at https://open.oregonstate.education/ojp3e-vol2/

This book is a collection of open readings on Homeland Security for Public Policy 476 at Penn State University World Campus.

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Executive Director Kirk Hanson talks with Jacqueline Fan, a partner at Ernst & Young, about corruption, bribery, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. She identifies supply chain problems, financial statement fraud, and the rapid transition in the economy as ethical challenges when doing business in China.

Fundamentals of Procedural Law provides a concise overview of the foundations of the law of Criminal Procedure in the United States.

This book uses what has been called the “text-case” method. The text part (this book) explains the general principles, practices, and issues related to the law of criminal procedure. The case part (Fundamental Cases in Procedural Law) consists of excerpts from Supreme Court criminal procedure cases, specially edited for nonlawyers. The case excerpts provide you with real-world encounters among criminal suspects, defendants, and offenders on one side and law enforcement officers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and judges on the other. The excerpts show you how the general principles apply to the details of actual situations, stimulating you to think critically about how the general principles and practices apply to day-to-day criminal justice administration.

Product liability refers to a manufacturer or seller being held liable for placing a defective product into the hands of a consumer. Responsibility for a product defect that causes injury lies with all sellers of the product who are in the distribution chain.

A atividade criada trata-se de um quiz sobre Direitos Autorais, desenvolvida através da plataforma Socrative, que é uma ferramenta em versão gratuita, capaz de elaborar questionários com métodos de acompanhamento dos resultados dos alunos. O link de acesso para o quiz é o seguinte: https://b.socrative.com/login/student/ROOM NAME/NOME DA SALA: MARIANA984 

This is the Justice Department's Radiation Exposure Compensation Program homepage. This site features information about the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, including claimant categories, claim forms, and the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. This site also provides a table illustrating a summary of all claims received and compensation paid to date.

This curriculum grew out of the Circle For The Child Project which was started by the authors in 1995 as a grass roots effort to promote the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child through education and political action. This Minnesota-based project joins a worldwide effort seeking to ensure human rights for all. Raising Children With Roots, Rights & Responsibilities is designed for two-hour sessions. The curriculum can be adapted to any setting where families gather to learn. Such groups as Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE), parenting classes, child care centers, family child care homes, faith communities, YMCA/YWCA programs, Scouts/campfire groups, neighborhood and play groups, community schools, after school programs, and home schoolers can use this curriculum. This curriculum is best suited for children ages three to six, their parents and educators.

This page provides access to recorded webinars and materials from the live webinar sessions.

This unit provides an overview of the regulation of healthcare, including regulatory and professional organizations, the regulation of safety in medicine, and key legal aspects of medicine. This unit also covers compliance issues including privacy violations, reimbursement and fraud and abuse.

Presentación del video "Todo es un remix" como actividad inicial para trabajar el concepto de remix.

This segment from American Experience: Simple Justice captures the legal issues and opening arguments in Brown v. Board of Education.

In this action, Plaintiff Matt Sissel challenges the constitutionality of the Individual Mandate

provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Act). The Individual Mandate requires

most Americans, including Sissel, to either buy and maintain federally approved health insurance,

or pay a hefty penalty beginning in 2014.

Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860, contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. The documents, most from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, comprise an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance.

Thoughts on athletes being paid

This is a PowerPoint presentation about Sports Agents and Sports Contracts of the class SM43401 Sport & Exercise Legal Issues. It is viewed from a student's perspective. 

The SFTool is a robust, practical and engaging resource for facility managers, purchasing agents, designers, tenants, and the general public to understand why sustainability matters and how to take practical steps to create healthier, more comfortable, high-performance workplaces. SFTool explains sustainable options and enables informed decision-making by making it easy to learn about sustainability topics, view planning strategies, explore virtual spaces, identify federal sustainability requirements, practice managing a building, read case studies and share knowledge.

Transactional Drafting: Introduction to Contract Drafting and Transactional Practice contains a condensed presentation of all of the topics typically covered in an upper-level law school class on contract drafting. The book covers drafting from scratch including writing in plain English (not using legalese), avoiding ambiguity, and drafting covenants, rights and prohibitions consistently (using "will" or "shall" for covenants, "may" for rights, and "will not" or "shall not" for prohibitions). And it covers contract organization, from the title and the exordium to the core covenant, deal provisions and "boilerplate," to the testimonium and the signature blocks. The book also includes material on getting up to speed before you start drafting and brainstorming for contingencies after you have finished. In addition to drafting from scratch the book introduces students to the wide range of skills involved in transactional practice. There are chapters on revising form documents, both when you are the original drafter and when you represent the other side. Also, the book includes chapters on negotiating contract language, handling a closing (i.e., verifying authority and getting the documents signed), dealing with ethical issues that arise in contract drafting and execution, drafting a contract amendment, and using computers to draft contracts. Transactional Drafting includes everything students need to know to “hit the ground running” as a transactional attorney.

The chapters of the book are as follows:

1.Getting up to Speed (familiarizing yourself with the client's business and interviewing the client to flush out all the terms of the deal)

2.Drafting Covenants, Rights, Prohibitions and Descriptions (using "will" or "shall" and "may")

3.Avoiding Potentially Ambiguous Words and Phrases (time periods, numbers, misplaced modifiers, indefinite pronoun references)

4.Organizing a Contract’s Beginning Sections (title, exordium, background, definitions, reps and warranties)

5.Drafting the Core Covenant and Organizing Deal Provisions (core covenant, duration, additional provisions)

6.Organizing a Contract’s Ending Sections (termination, cancellation, boilerplate, testimonium, signature blocks)

7.Brainstorming for Future Contingencies (additional provisions to better protect the client, indemnity, insurance, waivers, liability limits)

8.Drafting with Precedent Documents (sources, evaluating samples, revising language)

9. Tailoring Precedent Documents for a Deal (making revisions consistent, determining the effect on other provisions)

10.Revising the Other Side’s Completed Documents (qualifying language, limiting scope, inserting conditions)

11.Negotiating Contract Provisions (preparation, advancing the client's interests without killing the deal)

12.Ethical Issues in Contract Drafting (revisions to signed documents, unenforceable provisions, notarization after the fact)

13.Getting the Contract Signed (closing the deal)

14.Drafting with Document Assembly Programs and Closing with Online Resources (using artificial intelligence for contract drafting)

15.Drafting a Contract Amendment (sample form for amendments)

In addition, the appendix to the book has numerous examples of contract provisions, checklists, exercises and sample documents as well as an introduction to the documents typically used for a commercial real estate loan (promissory note, guaranty, loan agreement, mortgage, and security agreement).