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Clinicians Reflect On Covid-19: Lessons Learned And Looking Beyond, The Association Of American Law Schools (Aals) Policy Committee, Deborah Archer, Caitlin Barry, Lisa Bliss, Gautam Hans, Vida Johnson, Carolyn Haas, Lynnise E. Pantin, Kele Stewart, Erica Wilson, The Clinical Legal Education Association (Clea) Committee For Faculty Equity And Inclusion, Priya Baskaran, Jennifer Fernandez, Crystal Grant, Anjum Gupta, Julia Hernandez, Alexis Karteron, Shobha Mahadev

Faculty Scholarship

As a result of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, clinical faculty had to abruptly adapt their clinical teaching and case supervision practices to adjust to the myriad restrictions brought on by the pandemic. This brought specialized challenges for clinicians who uniquely serve as both legal practitioners and law teachers in the law school setting. With little support and guidance, clinicians tackled never before seen difficulties in the uncharted waters of running a clinical law practice during a pandemic.

In this report, we review the responses of 220 clinicians to survey questions relating to how law clinics and clinicians were treated by …

Aman Reflects On "Page-Turning" Opportunities Throughout His Indiana Law Tenure, Kenneth L. Turchi, Alfred Aman

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

After nearly 50 years of practicing, teaching, and administration, Alfred C. (Fred) Aman, Jr., took emeritus status at the end of the 2019–2020 academic year. Earlier this fall, he visited with ergo editor Ken Turchi to reflect on his distinguished career.

Rhetoric & Reality In The Aba Standards, Linda L. Berger

Scholarly Works

The rhetoric of Chapters 3 and 4 of the ABA Standards creates, maintains, and perpetuates hierarchies in law school faculties. Those hierarchies subordinate some categories of faculty members and the courses they teach. Without change in the Standards or their implementation, these hierarchies will remain, and the values and norms of traditionally privileged faculty and subject matters will become even more firmly embedded as representing the best of the legal academy. By adopting the 405(c) “best practices” policy statement, individual law schools and law faculties take upon themselves the power to demonstrate that the ABA Standards are the floor, not …

Encouraging This Particular Form Of (Very Fun) Madness – Roles For Deans And Faculty Members, Martin J. Katz, Phoenix X. F. Cai

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Our broader goal is to encourage experiential learning in the transactions curriculum. I know that all of you are here and do not need convincing. So my goal for this session is to try and provide some persuasive tools to help you convince people at your schools about both the value and the possibility of this type of teaching and learning.

Scholarship With Purpose: The View From A Mission-Driven School, Christine N. Cimini

Articles

This essay explores the ways that a law school’s unique culture impacts the role of the Associate Dean for Scholarship. Written by the first person to hold this position at Vermont Law School (VLS), this essay focuses specifically on how the Associate Dean for Scholarship supports VLS’s commitment “to developing a generation of leaders who use the power of the law to make a difference in our communities and the world.” This vision of the role, as implemented at VLS, includes: providing support to all faculty, regardless of status; supporting faculty who speak to broad audiences; and embracing a broad …

Negotiating Paths, Creepy Crawly Creatures And Things That Go Bump In The Night: The Cautionary Tale Of A Fourth-Year Dean, Linda Ammons

Linda L. Ammons

This essay on the perils and pleasures to be found on the path of a law school dean was written for the 10th Leadership in Legal Education Symposium at the University of Toledo College of Law.

Protecting A Space For Creativity: The Role Of A Law School Dean In A Research University, Alfred C. Aman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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On Reasons For Decanal Disenchantment And Their Wider Implications, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Based on the Dean's Report to the President of the University for the Year 1974-75