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(An Enthusiastic) Tribute To Professor Marcus Plant, Joel M. Boyden
(An Enthusiastic) Tribute To Professor Marcus Plant, Joel M. Boyden
Michigan Law Review
A Tribute to Marcus L. Plant
Marcus L. Plant, Allan F. Smith
Marcus L. Plant, Wex S. Malone
Marcus L. Plant 1911-1984, The University Of Michigan Law Faculty
Marcus L. Plant 1911-1984, The University Of Michigan Law Faculty
Michigan Law Review
A Tribute to Marcus L. Plant
Marcus L. Plant, Walter Byers
A New List Of Recommended Reading For Prospective Law Students, Michigan Law Review
A New List Of Recommended Reading For Prospective Law Students, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A List Compiled from the Recommendations of the Faculty of the Michigan Law School
Point/Counterpoint: A Debate On Irony And Interpretation, Richard Lempert, Peter Westen
Point/Counterpoint: A Debate On Irony And Interpretation, Richard Lempert, Peter Westen
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
Can irony play a role in the construction of statutes? In the following articles, legal scholars Richard Lempert and Peter Westen debate the point, taking, as their context, the Supreme Court decision in United Steelworkers v. Weber, a 1979 affirmative action case that brings to the fore the moral dilemmas posed by such programs.
Professor Lempert's initial article originally appeared in Ethics 95 (October 1984), published by the University of Chicago Press. Professor Westen's response, and Lempert's rejoinder to it, were written especially for Law Quadrangle Notes.
Richard Lempert is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of …
Point/Counterpoint: A Debate On Irony And Interpretation, Richard Lempert, Peter Westen
Point/Counterpoint: A Debate On Irony And Interpretation, Richard Lempert, Peter Westen
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
Can irony play a role in the construction of statutes? In the following articles, legal scholars Richard Lempert and Peter Westen debate the point, taking, as their context, the Supreme Court decision in United Steelworkers v. Weber, a 1979 affirmative action case that brings to the fore the moral dilemmas posed by such programs.
Professor Lempert's initial article originally appeared in Ethics 95 (October 1984), published by the University of Chicago Press. Professor Westen's response, and Lempert's rejoinder to it, were written especially for Law Quadrangle Notes.
Richard Lempert is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of …
Preface, Journal Of Law Reform
Preface, Journal Of Law Reform
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This collection of essays is offered not as a .finished product but as part of an on-going discussion among faculty, between faculty and students, and between Michigan faculty and others concerned with legal education. It is our hope that this collection will convey to students that faculty members take seriously their responsibility to provide a comprehensive, quality legal education, to individual faculty members that other faculty are thinking about similar issues, and to faculty at other schools that several ideas about legal education are being explored by Michigan faculty members.
Fairness In Teaching Advocacy, Charles W. Joiner
Fairness In Teaching Advocacy, Charles W. Joiner
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The questions I address are these: Is fairness related to advocacy? Is fairness a concept that law teachers should address in their teaching, in particular in courses involving advocacy? By "courses involving advocacy" I mean courses that teach both law and practice techniques involving the direct protection of the rights of clients, particularly in the courts-for example, civil and criminal procedure and evidence.
Why Would Law Students Benefit From Studying Economics?, Michelle J. White
Why Would Law Students Benefit From Studying Economics?, Michelle J. White
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Why would law students benefit from studying economics? Three reasons come to mind. First, knowing some economics should enable students to understand more fully the issues encountered in a variety of areas of the law. Second, in a variety of areas of the law, economic analysis constitutes a central component of the legal arguments made in prosecuting and defending the case. Third, many law students will become involved in policy-making, whether because they end up working in the executive branch of government or because they become legislators, lobbyists, or legislative staff.
In the following sections, I treat each of the …
Clinical Legal Education: Is Taking Rites Seriously A Fantasy, Folly, Or Failure?, Steven D. Pepe
Clinical Legal Education: Is Taking Rites Seriously A Fantasy, Folly, Or Failure?, Steven D. Pepe
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This article assesses the primary product of law schools-the practicing lawyer-and reviews the criticisms of the adequacy of the initial training for attorneys that law schools provide. After a brief. review of goals of legal education and goals of clinical teaching methods, the article argues that properly structured clinical programs are not based on flawed premises and that the nation's law schools, particularly the leading schools, should not abandon their clinical experiments without further efforts to help clinical legal education achieve its unfulfilled promises. The premises and assertions of this article are not new. Indeed, they are reiterations of a …
Doctrine In A Vacuum: Reflections On What A Law School Ought (And Ought Not) To Be, James Boyd White
Doctrine In A Vacuum: Reflections On What A Law School Ought (And Ought Not) To Be, James Boyd White
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Although this paper will reach a wider audience, in it I mean mainly to address the students and faculty of the University of Michigan Law School. It is meant to be part of a conversation in which members of this community talk to each other about the life they share.
I have written elsewhere about the expectations-the fears and hopes-that one can appropriately bring to law school. In this paper I speak to those who are immersed in ·the process of legal education, on one side of the podium or the other, and wish to say something of what I …
Mediation And Negotiation: Learning To Deal With Psychological Responses, Andrew S. Watson
Mediation And Negotiation: Learning To Deal With Psychological Responses, Andrew S. Watson
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
In this essay I analyze some of the emotional events that occur during mediation and negotiation; the analysis may help us understand many of the problems that arise during the development and application of these legal practice skills. Following the analysis I present a few suggestions about how this teaching might best be accomplished.
The Nobel Prize For Law, Alfred F. Conard
The Nobel Prize For Law, Alfred F. Conard
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
There is no Nobel prize for law. This lack is not in itself a cause for concern, since the discipline of law is replete with its own rewards. But some cause for concern inheres in the implication that law provides very few examples of the kinds of contributions to humanity that merit Nobel prizes.
Is Thinking Like A Lawyer Enough?, Sallyanne Payton
Is Thinking Like A Lawyer Enough?, Sallyanne Payton
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Every year that I attend meetings of the Law School's Committee of Visitors I ask members of the committee how the school might improve the training that we give to our graduates. Every year until this one the lawyers who have responded to this question have given a standard answer: the young lawyers are smart, they say, smarter in many respects than their seniors, but they don't know how to write well. This response usually leads to a discussion of the proper place of skills training in the law school curriculum; lawyers and professors engage in a little jousting over …
Why I Teach Water Law, Joseph L. Sax
Why I Teach Water Law, Joseph L. Sax
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
I began my first law school job in 1962 and water law is the only subject I have taught every year since then. Though I am enthusiastic about all the courses I teach, I confess that water law remains my favorite. I have often asked myself why, because few subjects are considered more peripheral to the central mission of the law schools. In the East and Midwest the course is rarely taught, and in the West-where it has long been a staple- it is pretty much treated as a "nuts-and-bolts" offering for students who will practice in appropriation doctrine states. …
The Law School Of The University Of Michigan: 1859-1984: An Intellectual History, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown
The Law School Of The University Of Michigan: 1859-1984: An Intellectual History, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The intellectual history of the University of Michigan Law School is recorded in the titles of contributions to legal literature published from its organization in October 1859 to the present. These writings demonstrate a continued commitment to legal scholarship and illustrate both the changing patterns in the subjects chosen for research and writing, and the methods utilized for treatment of the subjects.