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Towards A New World Of Externships: Introduction To Papers From Externships 4 And 5, Alex Scherr, Harriet N. Katz Oct 2010

Towards A New World Of Externships: Introduction To Papers From Externships 4 And 5, Alex Scherr, Harriet N. Katz

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The scholarly literature on externships is growing and deepening, addressing concerns of importance to field placement programs and to clinicians in general. This Introduction places the issues raised by the subsequent four articles on externships into the context of current national debates about the externship method. These issues, which both extend and diverge from current thinking about externship pedagogy, include: 1) the impact of a harsh economic climate; 2) the educational potential of placements in corporate counsel offices; 3) the argument for compensating students in for-credit placements; and 4) the value of course design for teaching power dynamics in supervisory …


Virginia Bar Exam, July 2010, Section 1 Jul 2010

Virginia Bar Exam, July 2010, Section 1

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Virginia Bar Exam, July 2010, Section 2 Jul 2010

Virginia Bar Exam, July 2010, Section 2

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Virginia Bar Exam, February 2010, Section 2 Feb 2010

Virginia Bar Exam, February 2010, Section 2

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Virginia Bar Exam, February 2010, Section 1 Feb 2010

Virginia Bar Exam, February 2010, Section 1

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Experimenting On Law Students: Why Imposing No Ethical Constraints On Educational Research Using Law Students Is A Bad Idea And Proposed Ethical Guidelines, Scott Devito Dec 2009

Experimenting On Law Students: Why Imposing No Ethical Constraints On Educational Research Using Law Students Is A Bad Idea And Proposed Ethical Guidelines, Scott Devito

Scott DeVito

Under current federal regulations, law school faculties are permitted to engage in human research using students as subjects with little or no ethical oversight. This freewheeling environment runs counter to well-established ethical guidelines for human research and to law professors’ heightened moral duties as members of the Bar and the legal academy. In addition, it exposes students, law faculty, and the legal academy to risks arising out of the use of unregulated human experimentation in law schools. This is inimical to morally good practice. To remedy this ethical problem, this article provides a set of guidelines for law professors who …