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In Praise Of Bill Reynolds And Paul Blair, William M. Richman

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

Grit And Legal Education, Emily Zimmerman, Leah Brogan

Pace Law Review

One factor that has received much attention in recent years is “grit,” which has been defined as “perseverance and passion for long-term goals.” Although grit has been studied in a number of different contexts, grit is understudied in the context of legal education. In light of the existing research regarding grit and performance, and the ongoing interest in law student learning, motivation, and performance, we undertook a research project to investigate the relationship between grit and law school academic performance. Although we hypothesized that grit would be positively related to law school GPA, we did not find a statistically significant …

Table Of Contents: Annual Survey 2015

University of Richmond Law Review

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Preface, John J. Hogan

University of Richmond Law Review

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The Seventh Letter And The Socratic Method, Sherman J. Clark

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Caveat

Law teachers use the phrase “Socratic method” loosely to refer to various methods of questioning students in class rather than merely lecturing to them. The merits of such teaching have been the subject of spirited and even bitter debate. It can be perceived as not only inefficient but also unnecessarily combative—even potentially abusive. Although it is clear that some critics are excoriating the least defensible versions of what has been called the Socratic method, I do not attempt to canvas or adjudicate that debate in this brief essay. Rather, I hope to add to the conversation by looking to a …

Drawing (Gad)Flies: Thoughts On The Uses (Or Uselessness) Of Legal Scholarship, Sherman J. Clark

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Caveat

In this essay, I argue that law schools should continue to encourage and support wide-ranging legal scholarship, even if much of it does not seem to be of immediate use to the legal profession. I do not emphasize the relatively obvious point that scholarship is a process through which we study the law so that we can ultimately make useful contributions. Here, rather, I make two more-subtle points. First, legal academics ought to question the priorities of the legal profession, rather than merely take those priorities as given. We ought to serve as Socratic gadflies—challenging rather than merely mirroring regnant …

Grading Rubrics: Their Creation And Their Many Benefits To Professors And Students, Brenda D. Gibson

North Carolina Central Law Review

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Helping A Lawyer To Understand What It Means To Think Like An Architect, Kevin Emerson Collins

Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review

Professor Radin unquestionably influenced legal academia through her ideas, arguments, and scholarship. With that said, my tribute is decidedly personal. To me, Professor Radin was the mentor and role model that I sorely needed when I was figuring out what being a legal academic could mean for me.

Peggy Radin, Mentor Extraordinaire, R. Anthony Reese

Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review

I write to celebrate Peggy Radin’s contributions to the legal academy in her role as a mentor. I know that others will speak to her significant scholarly achievements and important contributions across several fields. I want to pay tribute to the substantial time and energy that Peggy has devoted over the course of her career to mentoring students and young academics. I was extremely fortunate to have had a handful of mentors who helped me become a law professor. (I am also extremely fortunate that some of those mentors became generous senior colleagues who occasionally continue to help me navigate …

Queering Indigenous Legal Studies, Emily Snyder

Dalhousie Law Journal

A handful of scholars have examined sex, gender, and sexuality in relation to Indigenous laws; yet their work is infrequently taken up in the field, and there is a broader need for conversations about what it means to "queer" Indigenous legal studies. In this paper, I centre and examine work that contributes to this queering so as to promote inclusive critical legal education and engagement. I also discuss the implications of not attending to sexuality and develop preliminary propositions for queering Indigenous legal studies.

Strategi Komunikasi Dalam Advokasi Hasil Penelitian (Studi: Mahasiswa Klinik Hukum Anti Korupsi Fakultas Hukum Unpad Tahun 2014), Nur Atnan

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Contribution of Anti Corruption Legal Clinic of Faculty of Law Unpad is making change through research report‟s advocacy. Advocacy aimed to give more advamtage and meaning to the research conducted by the students. However by the observation of the writer, research report‟s advocacy in 2014 has not give significant support to the expexted changes. Writer interested to take research in this activity to analyse communication strategy in research report‟s advocacy. Research conducted by qualitative method through interview and researcher involved in every students‟ activity. Research shows that the main components in communication strategy in advocacy are communication planning, actuating and …

Trajectory Of A Law Professor, Meera E. Deo

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Women of color are already severely underrepresented in legal academia; as enrollment drops and legal institutions constrict further, race and gender disparities will likely continue to grow. Yet, as many deans and associate deans, most of whom are white, step down from leadership positions during these tumultuous times in legal education, opportunities have arisen for women of color to fill those roles in record numbers. However, there are individual and structural barriers preventing access to the leadership level. Significant hurdles have long prevented women of color from entering law teaching. Thus, this Article provides evidence to support the thesis that …

Teaching Remedial Problem-Solving Skills To A Law School's Underperforming Students, John F. Murphy

Nevada Law Journal

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Integrating Skills And Collaborating Across Law Schools : An Example From Immigration Law, Jennifer Lee Koh, Anna Welch

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

With Every Curse There Comes A Wish: Legal Education In A Time Of Change, Olympia Duhart, Ruben J. Garcia

Nevada Law Journal

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How Teaching About Therapeutic Jurisprudence Can Be A Tool Of Social Justice, And Lead Law Students To Personally And Socially Rewarding Careers: Sexuality And Disability As A Case Example, Michael L. Perlin, Alison J. Lynch

Nevada Law Journal

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The Call For Lawyers Committed To Social Justice To Champion Accessible Legal Services Through Innovative Legal Education, George Critchlow, Brooks Holland, Olympia Duhart

Nevada Law Journal

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Tilting At Stratification: Against A Divide In Legal Education, Rebecca Roiphe

Nevada Law Journal

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The Effects Of The Fair Use Doctrine On Text-Book Publishing And Copying; Part Ii, Roger Billings

Akron Law Review

Although not expressly authorized by law, it has, through custom, become regarded as a fair use for scholars to make handwritten copies of copyrighted materials needed for research. The basis for allowing hand-copying is that it is such a slow, tedious method of reproduction that scholars usually choose to purchase the complete work rather than to hand-copy excerpts from it. Consequently, hand-copying does not significantly reduce publishers' sales. However, this reasoning obviously cannot be applied to photocopying. As photocopying, a fast and convenient process, becomes cheaper than buying the book, when a professor desires to make a complete volume for …

House Bill 1219: A Study, Paul M. Scott

Akron Law Review

Because H.B. 1219 does raise certain constitutional questions which will soon come before the courts, and because of its potential impact on higher education in Ohio, a complete study of it is in order. This Comment seeks to do that by analysis of the background events leading up to the bill's introduction, its legislative history, a summary and explanation of the act's important provisions, an analysis of potential constitutional infirmities in view of current court decisions, and a discussion of relevant policy considerations. The purpose of this Comment is not to assess the wisdom or desirability of the statute, but …

Editorial Foreword, Donald E. Wright

Akron Law Review

In recent years, much public comment has centered on the issue of delay in civil and criminal litigation. A survey of six Northeastern Ohio counties was published in 1970 under the title: ORDER IN THE COURTS. The report failed to stir active concern in the legal community because of the lack of available standards against which disposition figures could be measured.

Special Foreword, Stanley A. Samad

Akron Law Review

In the preface to the first issue of the AKRON LAW REVIEW, I observed "that the law review that serves as an instrument of American legal education also serves as a hallmark of the- institution that sponsors it." In reviewing the six full years of publication of the AKRON LAW REVIEW, I conclude that the student editors and the staff have met this challenge well, by publishing a journal of high literary quality, timely in content, and balanced in the selection of materials.

Ethics: Informal Opinion 1151 - Lawyers And The Title "Doctor", Milard King Roper Jr.

Akron Law Review

The legal profession is the only professional group in the United States that has ever prohibited its practicing members with doctorates from using the title "Doctor." Now, with D.R. 2-102(F) of the Code and its interpretation in Informal Opinion 1151, lawyers have been given the opportunity to take advantage of the recognition of their education as being on a par with other doctoral training.

Volume 49, Issue 1 (Summer 2015), University Of Georgia School Of Law

Advocate Magazine

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• From the Dean
• Introducing Dean Bo Rutledge
• The post-postcolonial woman or child
• It's time for postal banking
• Is a tech audit in your future?
• Headlines
• Hirsch Hall Highlights
• Faculty Accomplishments
• Student Briefs
• Alumni/Alumnae Activities
• Why I made a planned gift to Georgia Law

Student Evaluation Of Law Teaching, William Roth

Akron Law Review

So it is that at law schools today no one is particularly happy with their questionnaire and student/facility committees continue to be engaged intermittently in trying to "do something" about it. Everyone agrees that evaluation ought to be done, but few are satisfied that it is now being done properly, or meaningfully. It was into this thicket that the Teaching Methods Section of the Association of American Law Schools set out recently to collect data in the hope that it might lead to a recommended teacher evaluation questionnaire.

Expanding Educational Objectives Through The Undergraduate Business Law Course, Samuel S. Paschall

Akron Law Review

The business law course has the potential to be a rich, valuable educational experience for the college student. But to be so, the course must transcend the mere conveyance of legal information in a format where the instructor's view of the law is set forth in an organized, comprehensive and rote fashion. The law is more than a set of rules to be memorized. A professor should strive to develop students' cognitive skills and present the law as a subject demanding reflection and involving societal values and intellectual practices.' The best means to promote such objectives is to provide a …

The View From My Corner Of The World: A Personal Comment On The Process Of Becoming A Lawyer, Linda B. Klein

Akron Law Review

This comment critiques several aspects of legal education that collectively devolve into what I perceive generally to be a self-perpetuating, institutional dysfunction: a traditional pedagogy, a stifling epistemology,'' and a myopic standardization.

It is my contention that, overall, legal education as presently constituted tends greatly to impede, rather than encourage, students' spiritual and emotional growth as individuals. In both its form and content, this comment confronts directly the conventionalism of law school. Instead of writing one more Law Review article that lacks originality, is boring, humorless, and too long, and has too many footnotes, I am seeking to demonstrate herein …

Introduction To Clinical Teaching For The New Clinical Law Professor: A View From The First Floor, William P. Quigley

Akron Law Review

New clinical teachers, full of enthusiasm and energy, arrive at the law school having just crossed over into the new vocation of professor from their previous work as practicing lawyers. As many as ten eager, dedicated, inexperienced law students will shortly be representing several clients each, under the close supervision of the new clinical faculty member. There is a new office, new coworkers, new cases, new students, but most new of all, a new way of operating. No longer the lone advocate, now the advocate has-become a clinical teacher, working with law students. Dedicated to education and service, the clinic …

James V. Ohio State University: Ohio Declares Promotion And Tunure Records Of State-Supported Universities And Colleges Public Records Subject To Discloure, Robert A. Gerberry

Akron Law Review

This Note will examine the national trend employed by different courts in dealing with the issue of access to peer review materials. Section II of this Note delineates the recent case law in university peer review cases. Next, Section III presents the statement of the case and details the impact of an action in mandamus. Finally, Section IV analyzes the Ohio Supreme Court's ruling in light of the University's arguments of academic freedom and the need for confidentiality.

Address At The Annual School Of Law Dean's Club Dinner: Integrity, Stephen L. Carter

Akron Law Review

I would like to begin by saying how very pleased I am to be here for the Dean's Club Dinner, especially celebrating the 75th anniversary of the University of Akron School of Law. Someone is speculating today that this school may have a higher proportion of its graduates sitting on various courts than I suspect any law school in the country. That's a marvelous achievement and suggests that something very important is going on in the classrooms here. Students are learning the law; not simply being instilled with the love of learning, but are also learning a kind of moral …