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Teaching Cultural Competence In Law School Curricula: An Essential Step To Facilitate Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion In The Legal Profession, 2022 Utah L. Rev. 813 (2022), Phyllis Taite, Nicola "Nicky" Boothe
Teaching Cultural Competence In Law School Curricula: An Essential Step To Facilitate Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion In The Legal Profession, 2022 Utah L. Rev. 813 (2022), Phyllis Taite, Nicola "Nicky" Boothe
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Still Writing At The Master’S Table: Decolonizing Rhetoric In Legal Writing For A “Woke” Legal Academy, 21 The Scholar 255 (2019), Teri A. Mcmurtry-Chubb
Still Writing At The Master’S Table: Decolonizing Rhetoric In Legal Writing For A “Woke” Legal Academy, 21 The Scholar 255 (2019), Teri A. Mcmurtry-Chubb
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
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Can Accessibility Liberate The "Lost Ark" Of Scholarly Work?: University Library Institutional Repositories Are "Places Of Public Accommodation”, 52 Uic J. Marshall L. Rev. 327 (2019), Raizel Liebler, Gregory Cunningham
Can Accessibility Liberate The "Lost Ark" Of Scholarly Work?: University Library Institutional Repositories Are "Places Of Public Accommodation”, 52 Uic J. Marshall L. Rev. 327 (2019), Raizel Liebler, Gregory Cunningham
UIC Law Review
For any body of knowledge – an ark of power or a corpus of scholarship – to be studied and used by people, it needs to be accessible to those seeking information. Universities, through their libraries, now aim to make more of the scholarship produced available for free to all through institutional repositories. However, the goal of being truly open for an institutional repository is more than the traditional definition of open access. It also means openness in a more general sense. Creating a scholarship-based online space also needs to take into consideration potential barriers for people with disabilities. This …
Integrating Adjunct Faculty Into Teaching Real Estate Transactions Law & Practice--Both In The Classroom And Online, 53 Wake Forest L. Rev. 947 (2018), Celeste M. Hammond
Integrating Adjunct Faculty Into Teaching Real Estate Transactions Law & Practice--Both In The Classroom And Online, 53 Wake Forest L. Rev. 947 (2018), Celeste M. Hammond
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
I welcome the invitation to share my experience and ideas on teaching law students about the real world of real estate from a transactional perspective, beyond the appellate cases that are the basis of so much traditional legal education.
Communication Conundrums: Theories About And Tips For Effective Decanal Communication, 48 U. Tol. L. Rev. 211 (2017), Darby Dickerson, Marjorie Buckner
Communication Conundrums: Theories About And Tips For Effective Decanal Communication, 48 U. Tol. L. Rev. 211 (2017), Darby Dickerson, Marjorie Buckner
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
Clear and effective communication is essential for any organization, including a law school, to operate effectively. But communication is often one of the trickiest skills a law dean must seek to master. Once a person adds “Dean” to the front of his or her name, communication norms change. A dean must be sensitive to power structures—whether real or perceived— that exist within the law school. A dean also must be vigilant about how she communicates with others, and how others communicate on her behalf. And she must understand that people will communicate differently with her than with others in the …
Will I Pass The Bar Exam? Predicting Student Success Using Lsat Scores And Law School Performance, 45 Hofstra L. Rev. 753 (2017), Katherine Austin, Catherine Martin Christopher, Darby Dickerson
Will I Pass The Bar Exam? Predicting Student Success Using Lsat Scores And Law School Performance, 45 Hofstra L. Rev. 753 (2017), Katherine Austin, Catherine Martin Christopher, Darby Dickerson
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Incorporating Social Justice Into The Law School Curriculum With A Hybrid Doctrinal/Writing Course, 50 J. Marshall L. Rev. 221 (2017), Rosa Castello
Incorporating Social Justice Into The Law School Curriculum With A Hybrid Doctrinal/Writing Course, 50 J. Marshall L. Rev. 221 (2017), Rosa Castello
UIC Law Review
Educating future lawyers is about more than just teaching them substantive law. We are preparing professionals who will go out into our world and shape and affect it in deep and impacting ways. They will make law, enforce law, determine policy, defend people, advocate, and influence lives and businesses. Therefore, any thorough law school education should teach social justice and encourage students to become more engaged in activism. One way to incorporate social justice into the law school curriculum is to offer specific courses focused on social justice. However, administrators may be concerned about demand for such classes or ability …
Who’S Gonna Take The Weight: Using Legal Storytelling To Ignite A New Generation Of Social Engineers, 50 J. Marshall L. Rev. 231 (2017), Camille Lamar Campbell
Who’S Gonna Take The Weight: Using Legal Storytelling To Ignite A New Generation Of Social Engineers, 50 J. Marshall L. Rev. 231 (2017), Camille Lamar Campbell
UIC Law Review
So I ask the rhetorical question: “Who’s Gonna Take the Weight?” to mobilize law professors—the people responsible for shaping students’ professional identities—to use storytelling techniques to overcome the corrosive effects of stereotypes and implicit biases on controversial clients’ access to legal services and on the lawyer’s professional identity as a social engineer. This article precedes in two parts. Part II explores traditional client selection models and endorses a Houstonian approach to client selection, one that acknowledges the challenges of representing controversial clients within a framework that also acknowledges the social justice consequences of denying representation to controversial clients. Part III …
Beyond The ‘Resiliency’ And ‘Grit’ Narrative In Legal Education: Race, Class, And Gender Considerations, 50 J. Marshall L. Rev. 271 (2017), Christian Sundquist
Beyond The ‘Resiliency’ And ‘Grit’ Narrative In Legal Education: Race, Class, And Gender Considerations, 50 J. Marshall L. Rev. 271 (2017), Christian Sundquist
UIC Law Review
The narrative on modifying legal education to produce entrepreneurial students with resiliency and “grit,” however, often has a troubling class and race-regarding dimension. This Essay argues that the “grit” reform initiative has the potential to rationalize future disparities, by shifting the focus from responding to the continuing impact of poverty and identity bias on student outcomes to bolstering individual character traits and resiliency. Our country has a long and troubling history of adopting such post-oppression “distancing moves” in order to discount the effect that systemic bias has on inequality, including disparate legal outcomes, by focusing solely on personal responsibility and …
Bringing Legal Education Reform Into The First Year: A New Type Of Torts Text, 50 J. Marshall L. Rev. 713 (2017), E. Scott Fruehwald
Bringing Legal Education Reform Into The First Year: A New Type Of Torts Text, 50 J. Marshall L. Rev. 713 (2017), E. Scott Fruehwald
UIC Law Review
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Law Schools And Learning Outcomes: Developing A Coherent, Cohesive, And Comprehensive Law School Curriculum, 64 Clev. St. L. Rev. 661 (2016), Anthony Niedwiecki
Law Schools And Learning Outcomes: Developing A Coherent, Cohesive, And Comprehensive Law School Curriculum, 64 Clev. St. L. Rev. 661 (2016), Anthony Niedwiecki
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
This Article will detail a process that law schools can use to comply with the ABA Standards requiring schools develop their learning outcomes for the entire institution, academic programs, and courses. At the same time, this process can be used as a roadmap for curricular review and planning. As an example, this Article will use the steps that The John Marshall Law School took to review and change its professional skills curriculum. Part I will outline the accreditation requirements for developing and publishing learning outcomes. Part II of the Article will provide an overview of the process of curricular planning …
Prepared For Practice? Developing A Comprehensive Assessment Plan For A Law School Professional Skills Program, 50 U.S.F. L. Rev. 245 (2016), Anthony Niedwiecki
Prepared For Practice? Developing A Comprehensive Assessment Plan For A Law School Professional Skills Program, 50 U.S.F. L. Rev. 245 (2016), Anthony Niedwiecki
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
The new ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools (“ABA Standards”) require law schools to develop and publish learning outcomes that explicitly state what they want their students to be able to do and know upon completion of the law school curriculum. The ABA Standards also require that law schools develop a plan to assess these learning outcomes through course assessment, programmatic assessment,and institutional assessment.In addition to the ABA, regional accreditors of higher education also require that universities and law schools have an extensive learning outcome and assessment plan.These requirements essentially ask schools to …
Experiencing Experiential Education: A Faculty-Student Perspective On University Of Tennessee College Of Law’S Adventure In Access To Justice Author, 50 J. Marshall L. Rev. 11 (2016), Robert Blitt, Reece Brassler
Experiencing Experiential Education: A Faculty-Student Perspective On University Of Tennessee College Of Law’S Adventure In Access To Justice Author, 50 J. Marshall L. Rev. 11 (2016), Robert Blitt, Reece Brassler
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Crisis And Trigger Warnings: Reflections On Legal Education And The Social Value Of The Law, 90 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 615 (2015), Kim D. Chanbonpin
Crisis And Trigger Warnings: Reflections On Legal Education And The Social Value Of The Law, 90 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 615 (2015), Kim D. Chanbonpin
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
This Essay begins by understanding the law school crisis through the framework of disaster capitalism. This framing uncovers the ways in which reformers are taking advantage of the current crisis to restructure legal education. Under the circumstances, faculty may reasonably read the contemporaneous student-led movement to require trigger warnings in the classroom as an assault on academic freedom. This reading, however, clouds the water. Part II attempts to clear the confusion by decoupling the trigger-warning movement from the broader phenomenon of law school corporatization. Trigger-warning demands might alternatively be read as a student critique of traditional law school pedagogy. Especially …
Mind The Gap: Teaching Research As A Fluid, Ever-Present Concept In The First-Year Legal Research And Writing Classroom, 66 Mercer L. Rev. 651 (2015), Julie M. Spanbauer
Mind The Gap: Teaching Research As A Fluid, Ever-Present Concept In The First-Year Legal Research And Writing Classroom, 66 Mercer L. Rev. 651 (2015), Julie M. Spanbauer
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
This Article presents a brief summary of the available research on those students who have used computers throughout their entire educational careers, including their strengths, their weaknesses, and how they differ from their instructors-many of whom did not use computers to any significant degree for research during college and law school. This Article asserts that these differences are cultural and argues that, in the interest of better educating and preparing our students to become lifelong learners who are equipped to self-assess their research, law school teachers must adjust their teaching styles to not only teach to these students' strengths and …
Enriching Online Classroom Discussion (2015), Christopher Bevard
Enriching Online Classroom Discussion (2015), Christopher Bevard
UIC Law White Papers
No abstract provided.
Fostering Interaction And Building Community In The Technosocial Classroom (2014), Christopher Bevard
Fostering Interaction And Building Community In The Technosocial Classroom (2014), Christopher Bevard
UIC Law White Papers
No abstract provided.
The First Thing We Do, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1275 (2014), Jorge Roig
The First Thing We Do, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1275 (2014), Jorge Roig
UIC Law Review
There is currently a concerted effort to dumb down America. In the midst of this, the American Bar Association’s Council of the Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar recently agreed to propose that tenure for law professors be eliminated as a requirement for accreditation of law schools. This article analyzes the arguments for and against tenure in legal academia, and concludes that the main proposed justifications for eliminating tenure are highly questionable, at best. A lawyer is more than a legal technocrat. Lawyers are policy makers and public defenders. They are prosecutors and activists. And the development …
Using A Cultural Lens In The Law School Classroom To Stimulate Self-Assessment, 48 Gonz. L. Rev. 365 (2013), Julie M. Spanbauer
Using A Cultural Lens In The Law School Classroom To Stimulate Self-Assessment, 48 Gonz. L. Rev. 365 (2013), Julie M. Spanbauer
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
The American Bar Association is exerting pressure on United States law schools to improve teaching effectiveness by shifting the evaluation of student learning away from input measures to focus upon output-based assessments. Yet, many legal educators appear to be resistant to and fearful of change, in part, perhaps, due to their comfort with teaching methods such as the Socratic or case-dialogue approach, which demands little accountability for teaching effectiveness and provides more time for the pursuit of the traditional goals of scholarly productivity. This method of teaching as currently utilized in law schools is also innately professor-centric performance art. The …
Teaching Trusts & Estates And Elder Law: Pedagogy For The Future, 117 Penn St. L. Rev. 987 (2013), Susan Cancelosi, Barry Kozak
Teaching Trusts & Estates And Elder Law: Pedagogy For The Future, 117 Penn St. L. Rev. 987 (2013), Susan Cancelosi, Barry Kozak
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
It's Not Just For Death Cases Anymore: How Capital Mitigation Investigation Can Enhance Experiential Learning And Improve Advocacy In Law School Non-Capital Criminal Defense Clinics, 50 Cal. W. L. Rev. 31 (2013), Hugh Mundy
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
As this article proposes, law school criminal defense clinics provide an excellent environment to design and implement a non-capital mitigation investigation protocol based on the techniques used in death penalty cases. From a pedagogical perspective, such a model promotes student development of foundational lawyering skills and values, especially in the vital area of “narrative thinking characteristic of everyday practice.” From a pragmatic standpoint, creation of a mitigation investigation model benefits clinic clients and boosts the likelihood that similar investigative methods will become a staple of the student's post-graduate practice.
Part I charts the evolution of capital mitigation investigation and highlights …
Legal Writing For The Real World: A Practical Guide To Success, 46 J. Marshall L. Rev. 487 (2013), Megan Boyd, Adam Lamparello
Legal Writing For The Real World: A Practical Guide To Success, 46 J. Marshall L. Rev. 487 (2013), Megan Boyd, Adam Lamparello
UIC Law Review
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Legal Writing, The Remix: Plagiarism And Hip Hop Ethics, 63 Mercer L. Rev. 597 (2012), Kim D. Chanbonpin
Legal Writing, The Remix: Plagiarism And Hip Hop Ethics, 63 Mercer L. Rev. 597 (2012), Kim D. Chanbonpin
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
In this Article, I focus on hip hop music and culture as an access point to teach first-year law students about the academic and professional pitfalls of plagiarism. Hip hop provides a good model for comparison because most entering students are immersed in a popular culture that is saturated with allusions to hip hop. As a point of reference for incoming law students, hip hop possesses a valuable currency as it represents something real, experienced, and relatable.
Significant parallels exist between the cultures of United States legal writing and hip hop, although attempting direct analogies would be absurd. Chief among …
Teaching For Lifelong Learning: Improving The Metacognitive Skills Of Law Students Through More Effective Formative Assessment Techniques, 40 Cap. U. L. Rev. 149 (2012), Anthony Niedwiecki
Teaching For Lifelong Learning: Improving The Metacognitive Skills Of Law Students Through More Effective Formative Assessment Techniques, 40 Cap. U. L. Rev. 149 (2012), Anthony Niedwiecki
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
With the widespread criticism of legal education and the proposed changes to the American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation standards, law schools are looking for ways that they can better teach students to be lawyers. In fact, law schools may be facing a perfect storm for significant changes in legal education with the recent release of two high-profile reports criticizing legal education, the major restructuring of law firms and practice because of the weakening economy, and the push to change the ABA's accreditation standards.
These events highlight the need to prepare law students to be practice-ready and to help make them …
Is Our Students Learning - Using Assessments To Measure And Improve Law School Learning And Performance, 15 Barry L. Rev. 73 (2010), Rogelio A. Lasso
Is Our Students Learning - Using Assessments To Measure And Improve Law School Learning And Performance, 15 Barry L. Rev. 73 (2010), Rogelio A. Lasso
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Law School & The Web Of Group Affiliation: Socializing, Socialization, And Social Network Site Use Among Law Students, 27 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 325 (2010), Eric M. Fink
UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law
Online social network sites (“SNS”) have emerged as a significant socio-technical phenomenon in the past several years. Scholars from various disciplines have examined these sites to develop a better understanding of their social significance and implications from a variety of perspectives. Within the burgeoning field of SNS studies, one strand of work focuses on the place of SNSs in students’ educational experiences and the potential pedagogical applications of SNSs. However, the SNS phenomenon generally, and its educational/pedagogical significance in particular, have received scant attention from legal scholars. This article examines the place of SNSs within the contemporary law school experience, …
Borrowing From The B Schools: The Legal Case Study As Course Materials For Transaction Oriented Elective Courses: A Response To The Challenges Of The Maccrate Report And The Carnegie Foundation For Advancement Of Teaching Report On Legal Education, 11 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 9 (2009), Celeste M. Hammond
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Jurisprudence: A Beginner's Simple And Practical Guide To Advanced And Complex Legal Theory, 2 The Crit: Critical Stud. J. 62 (2009), Allen R. Kamp
Jurisprudence: A Beginner's Simple And Practical Guide To Advanced And Complex Legal Theory, 2 The Crit: Critical Stud. J. 62 (2009), Allen R. Kamp
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Embracing Diversity Through A Multicultural Approach To Legal Education, 1 Charlotte L. Rev. 223 (2009), Julie M. Spanbauer, Katerina P. Lewinbuk
Embracing Diversity Through A Multicultural Approach To Legal Education, 1 Charlotte L. Rev. 223 (2009), Julie M. Spanbauer, Katerina P. Lewinbuk
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Developmental Learning Theory And The American Law School Curriculum, 3 J. Marshall (Atlanta) L.J. 33 (2009), Steven D. Schwinn
Developmental Learning Theory And The American Law School Curriculum, 3 J. Marshall (Atlanta) L.J. 33 (2009), Steven D. Schwinn
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.