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  2. Legal English - Wikipedia

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    Legal English, also known as legalese, [1] is a register of English used in legal writing. It differs from day-to-day spoken English in a variety of ways including the use of specialized vocabulary, syntactic constructions, and set phrases such as legal doublets .

  3. Legal awareness - Wikipedia

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    Legal awareness, sometimes called public legal education or legal literacy, is the empowerment of individuals regarding issues involving the law. [1] Legal awareness helps to promote consciousness of legal culture , participation in the formation of laws and the rule of law .

  4. Legal anthropology - Wikipedia

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    The English lawyer Sir Henry Maine is often credited with founding the study of Legal Anthropology through his book Ancient Law (1861). An ethno-centric evolutionary perspective was pre-eminent in early Anthropological discourse on law, evident through terms applied such as ‘pre-law’ or ‘proto-law’ in describing indigenous cultures.

  5. Sociology of law - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of law, legal sociology, or law and society is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies. [1] Some see sociology of law as belonging "necessarily" to the field of sociology, [2] but others tend to consider it a field of research caught up between the disciplines of law and sociology. [3]

  6. Why do Americans have a constitutional right to assistance of ...

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    The State also has a continuing legal and ethical obligation to turn over to me all exculpatory evidence (i.e. evidence which proves my client is not guilty) that never goes away.

  7. Legal writing - Wikipedia

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    B.M.Gandhi's Legal Language, Legal Writing & General English ISBN 978-9351451228. New ELS: English for Law Students written by Maria Fraddosio (Naples, Edizioni Giuridiche Simone, 2008) is a course book for Italian University Students. The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, created by Scribes: The American Society of Legal Writers.

  8. 3 police officers stabbed in Texas; 18-year-old man faces ...

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    Police in south Texas are investigating after three police officers were stabbed Tuesday evening while responding to a domestic violence call, officials said.

  9. Legal culture - Wikipedia

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    Lawrence M. Friedman's definition of legal culture is that it is "the network of values and attitudes relating to law, which determines when and why and where people turn to law or government, or turn away." [2] Legal cultures can be examined by reference to fundamentally different legal systems.