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When Tenure Standards Are Wrong, James Grimmelmann
When Tenure Standards Are Wrong, James Grimmelmann
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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Ethics For Skeptics, W. Bradley Wendel
Ethics For Skeptics, W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
One of the themes of the 2002 annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools ("AALS") has been that we, as teachers, must do better at engaging our students "where they're at." A number of speakers on various panels addressed the consumerist mentality among students, the desire of a population raised on MTV for multimedia lectures that resemble rapidly paced entertainment with high production values, and the suspicion of students toward claims of authority by teachers that are not backed up by respect and hard work. In addition, I would add a further observation as a teacher of ethics …
Why Law Teachers Should Teach Undergraduates, Kevin M. Clermont, Robert A. Hillman
Why Law Teachers Should Teach Undergraduates, Kevin M. Clermont, Robert A. Hillman
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
For many years, members of the law school faculty at Cornell have taught an introduction to law course that is offered by the government department in the College of Arts and Sciences. The course has surveyed law in general, structured thematically around what law is and what law can and cannot do. Although its teachers have used law school pedagogic techniques in the undergraduate setting, they certainly have not intended the course to be a prelaw practice run. In short, the course--The Nature, Functions, and Limits of Law--is a general education course about law. Our experience leads us to believe …