Beyond Lawyers: Legal Literacy for the Future

"Lawyers for Lawyers": The Emerging Role of Law Firm Legal Counsel

Literacy for the future

In this paper we discuss how literacy has been positioned within the senior secondary curriculum and how different views of literacy are situated in the curriculum through disciplinary and institutional practices. We discuss a research project where we have drawn on three definitions of literacy – a print-oriented, language oriented or semiotic view – to conduct an linguistic analysis of syllab...

Legal Complexity and Lawyers’ Benefit from Litigation

This paper examines the interest of lawyers as a group in the level of legal complexity, assuming that lawyers prefer the level of legal complexity that maximizes their total income. I focus on aspects of the law that are the same across all cases in a particular legal field, such as the rule determining whether the defendant is liable or guilty, the rules of procedure, and the scope of damages...

Economic Consequences for Lawyers: Beyond the Jurisprudential Preface

This article moves from the premise that a bilateral relationship between law and economics requires the contribution of the theory of legal reasoning and argumentation. The article shows that, to be legally relevant, economic consequences have to be incorporated into interpretive arguments. In this regard, the jurisprudential preface strategy proposed by Craswell goes in the right direction, b...

Beyond Literacy

In order to satisfy the information needs of the intended receivers information design comprises analysis, planning, presentation and understanding of a message—its content, language and form. Regardless of the selected medium, a well designed information material will satisfy aesthetic, economic, ergonomic, as well as subject matter requirements. Information design is a multidisciplinary , mul...