Lawyering Peace

How do parties to peace negotiations actually build durable peace and what conundrums must they solve to achieve durable peace?

Through mindfulness and emotional intelligence, lawyers can improve focus, productivity, interpersonal skills, and find greater meaning in life.

Countries undergoing or recovering from conflict and authoritarianism often face profound rule of law challenges. The law on the statute books may be repressive, judicial independence may be compromised, and criminal justice agencies may be captured by powerful interests. How do lawyers working within such settings imagine the law? How do they understand their ethical obligations towards their clients and the rule of law? What factors motivate them to use their legal practice and social capital to challenge repressive power? What challenges and risks can they face if they do so? And when do lawyers facilitate or acquiesce to illegality and injustice? Drawing on over 130 interviews from Cambodia, Chile, Israel, Palestine, South Africa, and Tunisia, this book explores the extent to which theoretical understandings within law and society research on the motivations, strategies, tactics, and experiences of lawyers within democratic states apply to these more challenging environments.

Role in centurial is a collection of well researched articles written by future advocates. The co-authors have added their opinions and ideas to emphasize the significance of barristers in the world . The book is gripping and intriguing from starting to end.Adding to the essence of "Barristers: Role in Cebturial "the book will act as a pathway for the society to understand the responsibilities of the lawyers .

Lawyering with Integrity is presented as a collection of essays in appreciation of the profound contributions of a Nigerian agent of change in legal education and the profession, Professor Ernest Ojukwu, SAN. Ernest or "Teacher" as he is fondly called is renowned as a great law teacher, and more specifically for legal education reforms, and institutionalization of clinical legal education, ethics and professional integrity advocacy. This Teacher's illustrious work has thrown him into limelight in the international legal education community. He is a great law teacher, lawyer and administrator, elevated to the revered rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2014 in recognition of his contributions to legal academics in Nigeria. As the title suggests, the subject of this collection has carried on with integrity, and demonstrating and preaching values, especially integrity. He is our model of lawyering with integrity as endorsed by most contributors here.

Cause lawyering is law as practised by the politically motivated and those devoted to moral activism. This text examines the concept in a global context, exploring ways in which it influences and is influenced by the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization, and how democratization empowers lawyers who want to effect change.

From the time we are children we are taught that the best way--indeed the only way--to resolve conflicts and get what we need from life is to seek justice against those who wrong us. In fact, seeking justice has become an obsession in the United States. Unfortunately, this obsession has a dark side that is throwing our society--and our lives--dangerously out of balance. In the name of justice: We employ 700,000 lawyers-but only 36,000 clergy We file 36 million lawsuits against each other every year We confine more than two million people in our prisons We have a justice system that costs us more than $650 billion annually We have waged two wars that have killed thousands of people since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 At this rate we should all be happy, right? InSuing for Peace, respected attorney James P. Kimmel, Jr. shows you why seeking justice never leads to peace or happiness and only makes our conflicts worse. Just as physicians have now discovered a connection between spirituality and medical outcomes, so Kimmel has now discovered a connection between spirituality and legal outcomes. That connection is this: The more we seek justice, the more bitter and spiritually impoverished we become. Winning an argument, a lawsuit, or a war at the expense of our emotional and spiritual well-being cannot be considered a victory by any measure. The secret to resolving life's conflicts is to stop seeking justice against your enemies and start suing for peace by practicing what Kimmel calls "nonjustice." In this uncommon book of legal and spiritual wisdom, Kimmel shows you how to break the justice addiction that only fuels anger and suffering. His proven "Nonjustice System" guides you through nine practical steps you can take right now to resolve your conflicts and restore your happiness immediately. Whether you have been injured emotionally, physically, or financially,Suing for Peacegives you everything you need to win the most important trials of your life--without lawyers, guns, or money.

This book traces attempts to establish a non-religious system of Hebrew Courts in British-ruled Palestine.