Genealogy Projects tagged with law on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Attorneys to Judges - the American Legal System

    'The justice system in the United States is one of the most unique in the world. It consists of two separate levels of courts, state and federal, that can peacefully co-exist under the concept of federalism . The type of court that a case is tried in depends on the law, state or federal, that was allegedly violated. Most of the laws that govern our day-to-day living are state laws; violations o...

  • Finnish Jurisprudence

    Finnish Jurisprudence====About===Jurisprudence or legal theory is the theoretical study of law, principally by philosophers but, from the twentieth century, also by social scientists. Scholars of jurisprudence, also known as jurists or legal theorists, hope to obtain a deeper understanding of legal reasoning, legal systems, legal institutions, and the role of law in society. From a historical p...

  • Legal Professionals

    Legal Professionals Legal profession is a profession, and legal professionals study, develop and apply law. Usually, there is a requirement for someone choosing a career in law to first obtain a law degree or some other form of legal education.In civil law countries there are usually distinct clearly defined career paths in law, such as judge, In common law jurisdictions there tends to be one l...

  • Litchfield Law School

    The Litchfield Law School of Litchfield, Connecticut, was the first independent law school established in America for reading law. Founded and led by lawyer Tapping Reeve, the proprietary school was unaffiliated with any college or university. (While Litchfield was independent, a long-term debate resulted in the 1966 recognition of William & Mary Law School, opened five years after Litchfield, ...

  • Magistrates

    The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law. In ancient Rome, a magistratus was one of the highest ranking government officers, and possessed both judicial and executive powers. In other parts of the world, such as China, a magistrate was responsible for administration over a particular geographic area. Today...

  • The Order of the Coif

    Wikipedia The Order of the Coif (/ˈkɔɪf/) is an American collegiate honor society for law school graduates. The Order was founded in 1902 at the University of Illinois College of Law. The name is a reference to the ancient English order of advocates, the serjeants-at-law, whose courtroom attire included a coif—a white lawn or silk skullcap, which came to be represented by a round piece of whi...

  • Punished in Colonial America

    I've been running across ancestors who were publicly "punished" in Colonial America, have you? Here's a project to remember what they endured. from Crimes and Punishment in Colonial America In Colonial America the court structure was quite different from Great Britain. The colonial system was a hierarchy of overlapping courts and common law was the law of the land. The common law was gre...

  • Banned Authors

    “The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him.” — Anaïs Nin Throughout world history, the majority of public, educational, and religious institutions have censored certain books for political, religious, or cultural reasons. This project serves as a place to gather together the writers -- cherished, reviled, or anywhere in-between -- who have had their work hidden ...

  • Schulich School of Law

    The Schulich School of Law is a faculty of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Formerly called Dalhousie Law School , it was established in 1883, making it the oldest university common law school in the British Commonwealth. It is the largest law school in Atlantic Canada and attracts students from all parts of Canada and abroad. The law school is a member of the North America...

  • Salem Witch Trials (1692)

    Overview and Scope of Project=The goal of this project is to discover our ancestors involved in the notorious Salem Witch Trials , validate their family trees and our own connections to them, and create nigh-quality, genealogically-valid mini biographies for their Profiles.=About the Salem Witch Trials= The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county...

  • Hrvatski pravnici / Croatian lawyers

    Please add profiles to this project if they are on this list (they need to be public, not private) Ako je netko od ovih ličnosti u vašem obiteljskom stablu, dodajte ih u ovaj projekat (trebali bi biti javni, ne privatni) This project includes list of famous croatian lawyers Hvatski pravnici / Croatian lawyers , list Note: Free update and add on the list below Directory of lawyers and l...

  • Université de Montréal Faculty of Law

    The Faculty of Law at Université de Montréal was officially founded in 1892. It has consistently been in first position in the Canadian civil law schools rankings in Maclean's until 2010. In addition to its civil law degree (LL.B.), the Law School offers a one-year J.D. in common law for Quebec civil law graduates that enables them to take the bar exam in other Canadian provinces and in New Yor...

  • Université de Moncton École de droit

    Université de Moncton Faculty of Law (French: Université de Moncton École de droit ) is one of only two law schools in the world offering a common law legal education taught entirely in French, the other being the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law.==History==The Faculty was established in 1978 in order to respond to the needs of francophone communities in New Brunswick, and more broadly those...

  • Université Laval Faculté de droit

    The Faculty of Law at Laval University (French: Université Laval Faculté de droit ), founded in 1852, is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in North America. It hosts more than 1,000 students in its curriculum of first, second and third years, with more than 45 lecturers teaching and supervising research projects in most areas of law. The research activity is particularly intense in the...

  • Practicing American Attorneys

    This project is for living U.S. attorneys , as opposed to deceased/historical/powdered ones.

  • Western Law School

    Western Law School is a public law school located at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1959, its first Dean was former Supreme Court of Canada justice, the Honourable Ivan Cleveland Rand, who saw the school as developing "in the minds of its students the habit of thinking in terms of the dynamic tradition, in the broadest sense, of our law." The Dean of La...

  • Senators of the College of Justice

    Scope of Project ==This project is a place to gather together profiles of those men and women who have been appointed Senators of the College of Justice in Scotland.== Overview ==The Senators of the College of Justice are judges of the College of Justice, a set of legal institutions involved in the administration of justice in Scotland. There are three types of Senator: Lords of Session (judges...

  • Lagmän i Närke, Sverige

    Lagmän under medeltiden Filip Törnersson 1275 Knut Mathiasson (Lejonbjälke) 1283 - 1288 Sune 1300 Lidinvard 1303 Nils Björnsson (Färla) 1319 Knut Mathiasson (Lejonbjälke) 1322 - 1328 , 1348 Ulf Gudmarsson (Ulvåsa) 1331 - , 1340 SDHK-nr: 4624

  • Lagmän i Finland

    Finlands lagsaga (Österlands lagsaga) omfattade under 1300-talet och början av 1400-talet de södra delarna av dagens Finland, det vill säga Finlands då ännu odelade lagsaga (delades 1435). Söderfinne lagsaga var den ena av de två lagsagor, i vilka Finlands lagsaga delades 1435. Den omfattade Söderfinland med dess skär, Nyland, Tavastland, Savolax och Karelen. Under Johan III avskildes 1578 de...

  • University of Texas School of Law

    The University of Texas School of Law (Texas Law) is the law school of the University of Texas at Austin. Texas Law is consistently ranked as one of the top law schools in the United States and is highly selective—registering the 8th lowest acceptance rate among all U.S. law schools for the class of 2022—with an acceptance rate of 17.5%. According to Texas Law’s 2019 disclosures, 90% of the Cla...

  • Robson Hall Law School

    The University of Manitoba's faculty of law, also known as Robson Hall , is located on the Fort Garry campus of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

  • Members of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet

    The Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet is a private society of Scottish solicitors, dating back to 1594 and part of the College of Justice. Writers to the Signet originally had special privileges in relation to the drawing up of documents which required to be signeted, but these have since disappeared and the Society is now an independent, non-regulatory association of solicitors. The S...

  • Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court

    from Wikipedia: Supreme Court of the United States > The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. Informally referred to as the High Court or by the acronym SCOTUS, it has ultimate (but largely discretionary) appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases.>The Court, which meets in the United S...

  • Hanged in Colonial America

    If you know of a profile representing someone hanged in Colonial America , please add to this project. Additional resource links welcome for the "overview." From Wikipedia John Billington is thought to be one of the first men to be hanged in New England. Billington was convicted of murder in September of 1630 after he shot and killed John Newcomen.[6]During the Salem witch trials, most of the m...

  • Queen's University Faculty of Law

    The Queen's University Faculty of Law is a professional faculty of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and is regarded as one of the most prestigious institutions of legal education in Canada. According to the 2013 Maclean's Magazine Law School Rankings, Queen’s is tied for third among law schools in Canada.While the tradition of legal education at Queen's University heralds back ne...

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