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Becoming A Law Professor: A Candidate's Guide, Brannon P. Denning, Marcia L. Mccormick, Jeffrey M. Lipshaw
Becoming A Law Professor: A Candidate's Guide, Brannon P. Denning, Marcia L. Mccormick, Jeffrey M. Lipshaw
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This is the Table of Contents and the Introduction to a forthcoming book from the American Bar Association. The authors provide detailed advice and resources for aspiring law professors, including a description of the categories of law faculty (and what they do), possible paths to careers in the legal academy, and "how to" guides for filling out the AALS's Faculty Appointments Register, interviewing at the Faculty Recruitment Conference (the "meat market"), issues for non-traditional candidates, dealing with callbacks and job offers, and getting ready for the first semester on the job.
The One State Solution To Teaching Criminal Law, Or Leaving The Common Law And The Mpc Behind, Chad Flanders
The One State Solution To Teaching Criminal Law, Or Leaving The Common Law And The Mpc Behind, Chad Flanders
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How should criminal law be taught to first-year law students? Professors preparing their classes for the first time, and even veterans of many semesters of criminal law, find themselves facing a dilemma. On the one hand, the common law is no longer good - law in nearly every state; it has been superseded by statute. Even states that leave a large role for the common law usually have a combination of common law and statutory law or strongly limit the scope of the common law. On the other hand, there is no uniform code that actually exists as law in …
A Service Learning Project: Disability, Access And Health Care, Elizabeth Pendo
A Service Learning Project: Disability, Access And Health Care, Elizabeth Pendo
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Last summer, I was thinking about a public service project for my disability discrimination law course. I teach the course in fall, and try to incorporate a project each year. At the same time, I was working on a project looking at barriers to health care for people with disabilities. Some of the barriers are well known, such as lower average incomes, disproportionate poverty, and issues with insurance coverage, to name just a few. I was looking at barriers of a different type, however: those posed by physically inaccessible facilities and equipment. This was a new area for me. Like …
A Dean Of Character, Joel K. Goldstein
A Dean Of Character, Joel K. Goldstein
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Jeff Lewis’s deanship will be remembered for the tangible contributions it made to the development of Saint Louis University School of Law (the School) and to the University of which it is an important part. The size of the faculty increased dramatically through entry-level and lateral hiring (the latter something rarely done before). More resources were made available to support faculty scholarly activities. The School intensified its commitment to clinical and practical skills training, the curriculum was expanded and arranged in a coherent manner to better prepare students for practice, and small-section classes were introduced. The School’s program centers were …
In Forma Pauperis, Sec. 514.040: A Practical User's Guide For Attorneys, Christine E. Rollins
In Forma Pauperis, Sec. 514.040: A Practical User's Guide For Attorneys, Christine E. Rollins
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Missouri attorneys have the ability to have costs and fees waived for their indigent clients.