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Afterword: Collective Knowledge Production Toward Transformative Social Change: A Community-Grounded Model, Steven Bender
Afterword: Collective Knowledge Production Toward Transformative Social Change: A Community-Grounded Model, Steven Bender
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Work Drive Matters: An Assessment Of The Relationship Between Law Students’ Work-Related Preferences And Academic Performance, Jeffrey Minneti
Work Drive Matters: An Assessment Of The Relationship Between Law Students’ Work-Related Preferences And Academic Performance, Jeffrey Minneti
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This article explores the dimensions of law students' schoolwork-related preferences and discusses an empirical assessment of those preferences. The assessment revealed two findings: (1) a positive correlation between students' schoolwork-related preferences and their first-year law school cumulative grade point average (LGPA); and (2) students' schoolwork-related preferences significantly enhanced the predictive power of the traditional law school success predictors, law students' LSAT performance and their undergraduate cumulative grade point average (UGPA). During spring 2014, 215 law students responded to a survey that included questions from the Multidimensional Work Ethic Profile (MWEP) and Work Drive Inventory. Analysis of the responses indicated that …
Toward A Clinical Pedagogy Of Externship, Elizabeth Ford
Toward A Clinical Pedagogy Of Externship, Elizabeth Ford
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Externships offer a tantalizing experiential option for law schools. Students are hungry for the real-world experience, the networking potential, and the chance to take the skills they have learned in the classroom to the next level. Administrators love externships because of their high enrollment, low cost nature: externships leverage small amounts of resources from hundreds of outside organizations. Faculty appreciate these programs because they provide students with context and skills, inspire them in the doctrinal classroom, and require little diversion of resources from the more traditional faculty ranks. However, the danger of grasping too tightly to externships as the experiential …
Applied Legal Storytelling: A Bibliography, Christopher Rideout
Applied Legal Storytelling: A Bibliography, Christopher Rideout
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This article contains a bibliography on the movement known as Applied Legal Storytelling. Those who are interested in Applied Legal Storytelling examine the use of stories—and of storytelling or narrative elements—in law practice, in law school pedagogy, and within the law generally. The Applied Legal Storytelling movement is largely associated with a series of biennial academic conferences that began in 2007, and the majority of the entries in this bibliography originated with presentations at one of those conferences. But the bibliography also acknowledges a number of articles that pre-date 2007 and that could be called precursors. The bibliography first lists …
Presumed Incompetent: Continuing The Conversation, Carmen Gonzalez, Angela P. Harris
Presumed Incompetent: Continuing The Conversation, Carmen Gonzalez, Angela P. Harris
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On March 8, 2013, the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice hosted an all-day symposium featuring more than forty speakers at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to celebrate and invite responses to the book entitled, Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González & Angela P. Harris eds., 2012). Presumed Incompetent presents gripping first-hand accounts of the obstacles encountered by female faculty of color in the academic workplace, and provides specific recommendations to women of color, allies, and academic leaders on ways …
Challenged X 3: The Stories Of Women Of Color Who Teach Legal Writing, Lorraine Bannai
Challenged X 3: The Stories Of Women Of Color Who Teach Legal Writing, Lorraine Bannai
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Much of what has been written concerning the experience of women of color in the legal academy has focused on tenured or tenure-track women of color who teach doctrinal courses. I speak from a somewhat different place-as a woman of color who teaches Legal Writing and who, like most faculty who teach Legal Writing, is untenured. Of course, I nod my head with recognition as I read the stories shared by tenured or tenure-track women of color who teach 2 doctrinal courses, including challenges they face from students and colleagues. At the same time, I also know (1) that untenured …
Engaging First-Year Students Through Pro Bono Collaborations In Legal Writing, Mary Bowman
Engaging First-Year Students Through Pro Bono Collaborations In Legal Writing, Mary Bowman
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This article recommends developing assignments for first-year legal writing courses through collaborations with legal services organizations. The article stems from and describes such ongoing projects at Seattle University School of Law, where several hundred first-year law students have worked on such projects so far. We have partnered with lawyers at organizations like the National Employment Law Project, the ACLU of Washington, and Northwest Justice Project to come up with live issues that they would like to have researched, and they received the best student work product from each class. The partner organizations have used the students’ work in several ways, …
We Have A Dream: Integrating Skills Courses And Public Interest Work In The First Year Of Law School (And Beyond), Sara Rankin, Lisa Brodoff, Mary Bowman
We Have A Dream: Integrating Skills Courses And Public Interest Work In The First Year Of Law School (And Beyond), Sara Rankin, Lisa Brodoff, Mary Bowman
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The clinical and legal writing faculty at the Seattle University School of Law are experimenting with collaborative teaching projects that bring real clients and real legal problems into the first year curriculum. These “integrated skills projects” engage first year students with legal writing faculty, clinical faculty, and public interest work. These projects provide first year students with exceptional training in practical skills, generate remarkable student satisfaction, and re-ignite student passion for the practice of law. This essay (1) introduces a “continuum” of integrated legal skills projects, featuring applied examples of activities that range from discrete to more ambitious; (2) surveys …
Can Law Schools Prepare Students To Be Practice Ready?, Sara Rankin, Susanna K. Ripken, R. Michael Cassidy, James E. Moliterno
Can Law Schools Prepare Students To Be Practice Ready?, Sara Rankin, Susanna K. Ripken, R. Michael Cassidy, James E. Moliterno
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The transcription of 2013 Chapman Law Review Symposium: “The Future of Law, Business, and Legal Education: How to Prepare Students to Meet Corporate Needs”. Professor Rankin, along with James E. Moliterno, R. Michael Cassidy, and Susan B. Myers, answer the first panel question, "Can law schools prepare to students to be practice ready?" Professor Rankin discusses the importance of innovations in legal education, and explains how she is actually changing the first year to focus on real-client and real-world experiences. She explains the innovations taking place at Seattle University in her first year lawyering skills classes, where her first-year students …
Promoting Language Access In The Legal Academy, Gillian Dutton, Beth Lyon, Jayesh Rathod, Deborah Weissman
Promoting Language Access In The Legal Academy, Gillian Dutton, Beth Lyon, Jayesh Rathod, Deborah Weissman
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Since the 1960s, the United States government has paid increasing attention to the rights of language minorities and to the need for greater civic and political integration of these groups. With the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the issuance of Executive Orders, and intervention by the federal judiciary, progress has been made in the realm of language access. State and local courts have likewise taken steps (albeit imperfectly) to provide interpretation and translation assistance to Limited English Proficient persons. Most recently, responding to both lack of services and inconsistent practices, the American Bar Association has set out …
Postscript To A Deanship, Annette E. Clark
Postscript To A Deanship, Annette E. Clark
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The author reflects on her experiences as the dean of the Saint Louis University School of Law and tries to discern lessons that might be useful to other deans.
Derrick A. Bell, Jr.: Serving Two Masters Elegantly, Margaret Chon
Derrick A. Bell, Jr.: Serving Two Masters Elegantly, Margaret Chon
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Tribute to Professor Derrick Bell
A Tribute To Derrick Bell, Henry W. Mcgee
A Tribute To Derrick Bell, Henry W. Mcgee
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Tribute to Professor Derrick Bell
Bell Labs: Derrick Bell’S Inspirational Pedagogy, Charlotte Garden
Bell Labs: Derrick Bell’S Inspirational Pedagogy, Charlotte Garden
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Tribute to Professor Derrick Bell
The Fully Formed Lawyer: Why Law Schools Should Require Public Service To Better Prepare Students For Private Practice, Sara Rankin
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It is now commonly accepted that law schools are graduating students who are under-prepared for practice in the real world. In other words, students that perform adequately in the classroom seem to struggle or suffer — to an unnecessary degree — when they enter practice. It is as though law schools are graduating inchoate or “partially-formed” lawyers, who demonstrate classroom fluency but lack meaningful ability to grapple with the wrinkles and complexity of real-world practice. This article argues that to create practice-ready or “fully formed” lawyers, law schools should reform to prioritize hands-on training in public service. It may seem …
Derrick Bell: Oregon Trailblazer, Steve Bender
Derrick Bell: Oregon Trailblazer, Steve Bender
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Tribute to Professor Derrick Bell
Derrick Bell: Ethical Ambition And Law Teaching, Natasha Martin
Derrick Bell: Ethical Ambition And Law Teaching, Natasha Martin
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Tribute to Professor Derrick Bell
The Least Of These: In Praise Of Professor Tom Holdych’S Integrity And Dedication To Justice For The Disadvantaged, Henry Mcgee
The Least Of These: In Praise Of Professor Tom Holdych’S Integrity And Dedication To Justice For The Disadvantaged, Henry Mcgee
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An obituary for Thomas J. Holdych, contracts and commercial law professor at the Seattle University is presented.
Tribute To Professor Tom Holdych, John Weaver
Tribute To Professor Tom Holdych, John Weaver
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An obituary for Thomas J. Holdych, contracts and commercial law professor at the Seattle University is presented.
The Status Of Clinical Faculty In The Legal Academy: Report Of The Task Force On The Status Of Clinicians And The Legal Academy, Bryan Adamson
The Status Of Clinical Faculty In The Legal Academy: Report Of The Task Force On The Status Of Clinicians And The Legal Academy, Bryan Adamson
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In the midst of ongoing debates within the legal academy and the American Bar Association on the need for "practice-ready" law school graduates through enhanced attention to law clinics and externships and on the status of faculty teaching in those courses, this report identifies and evaluates the most appropriate modes for clinical faculty appointments. Drawing on data collected through a survey of clinical program directors and faculty, the report analyzes the five most identifiable clinical faculty models: unitary tenure track; clinical tenure track; long-term contract; short-term contract; and clinical fellowships. It determines that, despite great strides in the growth of …
Tribute To Professor Thomas J. Holdych, Annette E. Clark
Tribute To Professor Thomas J. Holdych, Annette E. Clark
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An obituary for Thomas J. Holdych, contracts and commercial law professor at the Seattle University is presented.
Tom Holdych: A Tribute, In “In Memory Of Professor Thomas J. Holdych”, Chris Rideout
Tom Holdych: A Tribute, In “In Memory Of Professor Thomas J. Holdych”, Chris Rideout
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An obituary for Thomas J. Holdych, contracts and commercial law professor at the Seattle University is presented.
A Senior Faculty Member’S Favorite Sabbatical: My Teaching Sabbatical, John B. Mitchell
A Senior Faculty Member’S Favorite Sabbatical: My Teaching Sabbatical, John B. Mitchell
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Professor John Mitchell had taken several typical sabbaticals—travel and research culminating in several articles and a book—and up until the last minute, his spring 2009 sabbatical promised nothing very different. And then with a single phone call, his sabbatical book project collapsed. There was nothing else about which he was passionate at that time, and it seemed stupid to arbitrarily choose a topic and then spend the next four years writing a book he didn't care about. In the midst of scrambling desperation, the idea of a sabbatical focused not on a scholarly project, but on his primary teaching focus …
Darth Vader, John B. Kirkwood
Darth Vader, John B. Kirkwood
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An obituary for Thomas J. Holdych, contracts and commercial law professor at the Seattle University is presented.
Reflections On My Colleague, Tom Holdych, Janet Ainsworth
Reflections On My Colleague, Tom Holdych, Janet Ainsworth
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An obituary for Thomas J. Holdych, contracts and commercial law professor at the Seattle University is presented.
International Judicial Affairs, Robert Alsdorf
International Judicial Affairs, Robert Alsdorf
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The article reports on training programs launched by several countries for their judges. It is reported that the International Judicial Affairs (IJA) Committee was established in the U.S. in the year 2007 to develop opportunities for judges to work with fellow judges in other jurisdictions in mutually beneficial ways. Sierra Leone, as reported, has also carried out reforms in their legal system through their Justice Sector Reform Programme (JSRP).
Externships For Millennial Generation Law Students: Bridging The Generation Gap, Susan Mcclellan
Externships For Millennial Generation Law Students: Bridging The Generation Gap, Susan Mcclellan
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This article examines the literature about our newest generation of law students, the Millennials, and offers suggestions to help externship faculty work with supervisors and students to avoid potential problems that may arise from generational differences. After reviewing the literature, the article discusses both positive and negative Millennial generation traits and explains how identified generational problems might arise in externship field placements. The article then offers suggestions from psychologists, managerial literature, and the author's experience to help externship directors and faculty work with field supervisors and students to avoid or resolve issues. The article concludes that members of the Millennial …
Crossover, Richard Delgado
Crossover, Richard Delgado
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Should minority writers aim for a "crossover" audience of mainstream (white) readers or write mainly for a circle of readers like themselves, viz., minorities or people of color? Despite the attractions of achieving crossover status -- including fame, fortune, and book reviews -- the article argues that writers of color should usually visualize an audience of their peers, that is, readers of color. Writing for a broad audience of mostly white readers risks that the minority writer will adopt topics, language, and approaches that will appeal and ring true to this group. Consciously or unconsciously the writer may pull his …
Richard Delgado And The Politics Of Citation, Robert S. Chang
Richard Delgado And The Politics Of Citation, Robert S. Chang
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Twenty-five years ago, Professor Richard Delgado published The Imperial Scholar. The article asserted that a group of white scholars dominated the field of civil rights scholarship to the exclusion of minority scholars. It created a firestorm of sorts with what one critic called a "serious charge of invidious racism on the part of respected legal scholars." Professor Derrick Bell described the piece as "an intellectual hand grenade, tossed over the wall of the establishment as a form of academic protest." Whether as firestorm or grenade, this foundational piece had a tremendous impact on the legal landscape. This brief essay examines …
In Memoriam: Joseph M. Williams, Chris Rideout
In Memoriam: Joseph M. Williams, Chris Rideout
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Professor Chris Rideout pays tribute to Joseph M. Williams, 1933-2008, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago and author of Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, among other highly influential works. Professor Rideout shows his appreciation for Williams' generous support and many contributions to the world of writing instruction, especially legal writing.