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Demystifying Legal Scholarship, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Book Review, George C. Christie

Faculty Scholarship

Reviewing Laura Kalman, Legal Realism at Yale 1927-60 (1986)

The Teaching Of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Lisa G. Lerman

Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.

Virginia Domestic Relations Handbook And Virginia Domestic Relations Case Finder, Matthew N. Ott

University of Richmond Law Review

The Michie Company has released two publications dealing with the changing area of domestic relations law and which provide the busy Virginia practitioner with easy access to the areas within the field of family law practice and the relevant case authorities.

Dedication: Professor Fred W. Peel, Jr., Philip D. Oliver

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Book Review: Law School: Legal Education In America From The 1850s To The 1980s By Robert Stevens, Eric A. Chiappinelli

Seattle University Law Review

This Book Review examines Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s, by Robert Stevens. The Review explains that the book is a history of American legal education from 1850 through 1945, with a foreshortened treatment of events to 1870 and a prolonged view of the period between 1870 and 1945. Stevens’s work is chronological and details three developments: the hegemony of Harvard and later the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools over educational standards; the role of Harvard in establishing the primacy of the case method of instruction; and the …

The Activity Of Being A Lawyer: The Imaginative Pursuit Of Implications And Possibilities, Thomas D. Eisele

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

If law as an activity emerged naively and unpremeditated, as a direction of attention pursued without premonition of what it would lead to, then by now it has hollowed out a character for itself, as Oakeshott says, and has become specified in a "practice." Having acquired this firmness of character, as Oakeshott further says, law may present itself as a puzzle, thus provoking reflection. Thinking about law in this manner or mood is something that I wish to call "philosophy of law," and this is itself an honorable activity with a character and mannerisms of its own.2 In law school, …

How Professionals (Including Legal Educators) "Treat" Their Clients, Edwin H. Greenebaum

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Missouri Law Review Fellows Program Inaugurated, Dale A. Whitman

Faculty Publications

The Missouri Law Review has a distinguished history of service to the legal profession and the academic community. First published more than fifty years ago, the Review has printed many articles and student notes which have served to improve the administration of justice, while at the same time providing hundreds of second- and third-year law students with a uniquely valuable experience in legal analysis, scholarship, and editing. Membership on the Review has become an important credential, reflecting credit on the student members and enhancing their attractiveness to law firms seeking associates and judges seeking clerks.

Dealing With The Limits Of Vision: The Planning Process And The Education Of Lawyers, Lawrence Lederman, Jay Levenson

Articles & Chapters

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Dealing With The Limits Of Vision: The Planning Process And The Education Of Lawyers, Lawrence Lederman, Jay Levenson

Articles & Chapters

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Professional Education Then And Now: Law, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown

Other Publications

The Law Department, the third of those mandated by the state statute of 1837, commenced to function on October 3, 1859. In the morning the three-member law faculty met and elected James Valentine Campbell, an Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, as its dean. In the afternoon, Campbell delivered an address "On the Study of Law" to a crowd of faculty, students, and visitors in the Ann Arbor Presbyterian Church.

The next morning, 90 students - 60 from Michigan, 29 from other states of the Union, and one from Canada - assembled for the first lecture in the prescribed …

Audiovisual Enhancement Of Classroom Teaching: A Primer For Law Professors, Vincent R. Johnson

Faculty Articles

It is increasingly hard to avoid the idea that audiovisual techniques are appropriate—if not essential—to the contemporary law school classroom. Audiovisual aids are already widely employed in the practice of law, continuing legal education, and in most fields of higher and professional education. Yet, what little empirical evidence exists suggests that modern media techniques have had little impact on the traditional law school classroom. Thus it is relevant to ask whether and how audiovisual media can effectively augment the teaching of standard substantive law courses.

Response To Roger Cramton's Article, James Boyd White

Articles

I want to direct attention to only one of the many important issues raised by Professor Cramton's article, namely the peculiar division between academic and religious thought in our culture. In the academic world we tend to speak as though all participants in our conversations were purely rational actors engaged in rational debate; perhaps some people out there in the world are sufficiently benighted that they turn to religious beliefs or other superstitions, but that is not true of us or, if it is true, we hide it, and it ought not be true of them. Ours is a secular …

Honors Convocation, University Of Michigan Law School

Commencement and Honors Materials

Program for the May 15, 1987 University of Michigan Law School Honors Convocation.

Tribute, Charles F. Wilkinson

Publications

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Beyond The Ordinary Religion, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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The Universal And The Particular In Legal Discourses, George P. Fletcher

Faculty Scholarship

My target in this article is a set of views that I shall call the functionalist perspective of comparative law. Of course, the word "functionalist" stands for a number of different theories. In order to be precise about the view that I oppose, I shall set my sights on the arguments developed in Otto Kahn-Freund's inaugural lecture Comparative Law as an Academic Subject, published two decades ago.

On Being A Professional Elder, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

The Professional Elder gives their wisdom to the young in the hopes that the wisdom will enable them to do better than the elders had done. This concept is exemplified through literature and films. However, the Professional Elder—elders in the profession who serve as moral teachers to the young—has diminished over time. This Article seeks to explain how the role of the professional elder has changed over time and the problems with the modern gentlemen’s ethic. He proposes that professional elders can return to serving as authoritative moral teachers through liberal learning and moral craftmanship.

Foreword: Public Health & The Law—A Symposium Dedicated To Professor William J. Curran, Lawrence O. Gostin

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This essay serves as the foreword to Public Health & the Law, a symposium dedicated to Professor William J. Curran held in 1987.

During his career, Professor Curran chaired the Harvard School of Public Health Committee on Human Research; he directed the Program in Law and Public Health; and he was co-director of the Harvard Interfaculty Program in Medical Ethics from 1973 to 1980. He was also an advisor to the World Health Organization and spent two sabbatical periods in Europe with WHO organizations. He advised and lectured in countries throughout the world.

At Harvard Law School and at …

The Brilliant, The Curious, And The Wrong, Pierre Schlag

Publications

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In Memoriam, Professor Harold W. Young, David Swank

David Swank

No abstract provided.