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Teaching Creative Problem Solving: A Paradigmatic Approach, Linda H. Morton Jan 1998

Teaching Creative Problem Solving: A Paradigmatic Approach, Linda H. Morton

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This article presents a visual and descriptive model for teaching creative problem solving in the law school curriculum. After elaborating on the definition and significance of teaching creative problem solving to law students, the author describes her model and her teaching methods in clinical classes as well as law school courses.


Single-Parent Latinas On The Margin: Seeking A Room With A View, Meals, And Built-In Community, Laura M. Padilla Jan 1998

Single-Parent Latinas On The Margin: Seeking A Room With A View, Meals, And Built-In Community, Laura M. Padilla

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This article considers the unique challenges of single parent Latinas and and a different way of viewing concerns of single parents. This alternative paradigm uses a holistic approach to the problems I had been pondering, acknowledging their interconnectedness, rather than artificially segmenting them into disjointed issues. I visualized a multi-pronged approach to Latina mothers' many concerns, based on a cohousing model, as modified for the needs of a low-income, racially distinct population of single-parent Latinas. It describes co-housing and proposes that this housing model be more broadly accessible through land use changes and greater acceptance of housing beyond single family …


Joe Six-Pack, U.S. V. O'Hagan, And Private Securities Litigation Reform: A Line Must Be Drawn, Michael H. Dessent Jan 1998

Joe Six-Pack, U.S. V. O'Hagan, And Private Securities Litigation Reform: A Line Must Be Drawn, Michael H. Dessent

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Kahan On Mistakes, Daniel B. Yeager Jan 1998

Kahan On Mistakes, Daniel B. Yeager

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In Ignorance of Law Is an Excuse - but Only for the Virtuous, Professor Dan Kahan reconciles what I had thought was an irreconcilable body of law. To be sure, imposing order on whether and when mistakes of law should pass as responsibility-evading accounts
of untoward actions is far from light work. Yet Kahan somehow pulls it off in just twenty-seven pages. In addition to acknowledging the importance of Professor Kahan's essay, I write here to point out if not correct what might have been two oversights in his view of the meaning and operation of mistakes. First, Kahan …