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Better Writing, Better Thinking: Using Legal Writing Pedagogy In The "Casebook" Classroom (Without Grading Papers), Mary Beth Beazley
Better Writing, Better Thinking: Using Legal Writing Pedagogy In The "Casebook" Classroom (Without Grading Papers), Mary Beth Beazley
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In this Article, Professor Beazley proposes that a Legal Writing revolution is the next revolution in legal education, and that the revolution is not just coming, it has begun. She offers first steps for law school faculty to take in furtherance of this revolution. Professor Beazley argues that the pioneers of this new revolution are Legal Writing faculty. Section I of this Article examines some ways that the law school culture that segregates Legal Writing faculty has both promoted their opportunities to develop innovative pedagogies and inhibited their ability to share those pedagogies with other faculty. Section II explains certain …
Boyd School Of Law Establishes Saltman Center For Conflict Resolution, Jean R. Sternlight
Boyd School Of Law Establishes Saltman Center For Conflict Resolution, Jean R. Sternlight
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This article discusses William S. Boyd School of Law’s establishment of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution.
Lawyers Should Be Lawyers, But What Does That Mean?: A Response To Aiken & Wizner And Smith, Katherine R. Kruse
Lawyers Should Be Lawyers, But What Does That Mean?: A Response To Aiken & Wizner And Smith, Katherine R. Kruse
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Lawyers should be more like social workers. That is the message of Law as Social Work, the provocative essay by Jane Aiken and Stephen Wizner (Aiken & Wizner) in the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy volume, which preceded the conference on Promoting Justice Through Interdisciplinary Teaching, Practice, and Scholarship, hosted by Washington University School of Law in March 2003. Almost as if in reply, Abbe Smith's contribution to the same pre-conference volume reasserts the importance of lawyers as zealous and partisan advocates, using the realities of the criminal defense context to argue for the value of the lawyer's …
Three Views Of Visiting, Terrill Pollman, Jim Levy, Samantha Moppett
Three Views Of Visiting, Terrill Pollman, Jim Levy, Samantha Moppett
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A panel discussion among legal writing instructors of the pros and cons of accepting visiting teaching positions at other law schools.
Irlafarc! A Survey On The Language Of Legal Writing, Terrill Pollman
Irlafarc! A Survey On The Language Of Legal Writing, Terrill Pollman
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Language, like law, is a living thing. It grows and changes. It both reflects and shapes the communities that use it. The language of the community of legal writing professors demonstrates this process. Legal writing professors, who stand at the heart of an emerging discipline in the legal academy, are creating new terms, or neologisms, as they struggle to articulate principles of legal analysis, organizational paradigms conventional to legal writing, and other legal writing concepts. This new vocabulary can be both beneficial and detrimental. It can be beneficial because it expands the substance of an emerging discipline. It also can …
A Tribute To Dean James J. Alfini: Former Dean And Professor Of The Northern Illinois University College Of Law, Jean R. Sternlight, Jeffrey M. Shaman, Nina Appel, Leona S. Green, Daniel Reynolds
A Tribute To Dean James J. Alfini: Former Dean And Professor Of The Northern Illinois University College Of Law, Jean R. Sternlight, Jeffrey M. Shaman, Nina Appel, Leona S. Green, Daniel Reynolds
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This is a tribute to Dean James J. Alfini, as he begins his tenure as Dean of South Texas College of Law.