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The Future Of Liberal Legal Scholarship, Ronald K.L. Collins, David M. Skover

Michigan Law Review

Earl Warren is dead.

A generation of liberal legal scholars continues, nevertheless, to act as if the man and his Court preside over the present. While this romanticism is understandable, it exacts a high price in a world transformed.

The following commentary is a reconstructive criticism written from the perspective of two liberals concerned about the future of "legal liberalism." We present our views as a commentary to emphasize their preliminary character; they represent our current assessment of where liberals stand and where they might redirect their energies.

Analysis Of The Discourse Between A Tutor And A Second Language Learner: A Joint Decoding Task, Nancy L. Eder

Culminating Projects in English

Tutors have a unique opportunity to help English-as-a Second Language (ESL) students develp their communicative competence. Mary Ann Christison and Karl Krahnke found that ESL students rated social contact as the largest contributor to language development outside the classroom, but also the area most lacking.* Tutoring may be one way to provide social contact, while at the same time providing help with language, cultural, and academic difficulties ESL students may be facing. Potential ESL tutors may be uncertain, however, about the role they are supposed to play in the tutoring situation.

*Christison, Mary Ann, and Karl J. Krahnke. "Student Perceptions …

The Teacher As Revolutionary: Paolo Freire, Nancy L. Eder

Culminating Projects in English

Teaching can be a very lonely occupation. On one hand, we wonder what effect, if any, we are having on the great array of problems which life presents to our students. On the other, they may seem disinterested or rebellious. Our own lives may not accomplish the goals we devised when we were inspired, and we look about for ways to make them more meaningful. The story of a teacher whose students, illiterate peasants in the backwaters of Brazil, transformed their own lives, and his, has a certain appeal. Does this man, Paolo Freire, have anything to say to us, …

Rights Discourse And Neonatal Euthanasia, Carl E. Schneider

Articles

Hard cases, they say, make bad law. Hard cases, we know, can also make revealing law. Hard cases identify the problems we have not found a way of solving. They reveal ways the law's goals conflict. They force us to articulate our assumptions and to examine our modes of discourse and reasoning. If there was ever a hard case for the law, it is the question of whether, how, and by whom it should be decided to allow newborn children who are severely retarded mentally or severely damaged physically to die. For many years, the law has not had to …