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Exporting The Legal Incubator: A Conversation With Fred Rooney, Fred Rooney, Justin Steele
Exporting The Legal Incubator: A Conversation With Fred Rooney, Fred Rooney, Justin Steele
Fred Rooney
A legal conversion between Justin Steele, Executive Articles Editor of the UMass Law Review and Fred Rooney, Director of the International Justice Center for Post-Graduate Development at Touro Law Center.
Exporting The Legal Incubator: A Conversation With Fred Rooney, Fred Rooney, Justin Steele
Exporting The Legal Incubator: A Conversation With Fred Rooney, Fred Rooney, Justin Steele
University of Massachusetts Law Review
A legal conversion between Justin Steele, Executive Articles Editor of the UMass Law Review and Fred Rooney, Director of the International Justice Center for Post-Graduate Development at Touro Law Center.
Letting Go Of Old Ideas, William D. Henderson
Letting Go Of Old Ideas, William D. Henderson
Michigan Law Review
Two recently published books make the claim that the legal profession has changed (Steven Harper’s The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis) or is changing (Richard Susskind’s Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future). The books are interesting because they discuss the types of changes that are broad, sweeping, and dramatic. In suitable lawyer fashion, both books are unfailingly analytical. They both also argue that the old order is collapsing. The Lawyer Bubble is backward looking and laments the legacy we have squandered, while Tomorrow’s Lawyers is future oriented and offers fairly specific prescriptive advice, particularly to those lawyers entering …
Promoting Equitable Law School Admissions Through Legal Challenges To The Lsat, Al Alston
Promoting Equitable Law School Admissions Through Legal Challenges To The Lsat, Al Alston
Al Alston
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Legal Academia And The Blindness Of The Elites, Paul Campos
Legal Academia And The Blindness Of The Elites, Paul Campos
Publications
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Clinical Collaborations: Going Global To Advance Social Entrepreneurship, Deborah Burand, Susan R. Jones, Jonathan Ng, Alicia E. Plerhoples
Clinical Collaborations: Going Global To Advance Social Entrepreneurship, Deborah Burand, Susan R. Jones, Jonathan Ng, Alicia E. Plerhoples
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In the summer of 2012, transactional law clinics from three U.S. law schools: George Washington University; Georgetown University; and the University of Michigan launched a collaboration to serve a common client — Ashoka, a global nonprofit organization that supports close to 3,000 social entrepreneurs across 76 countries. While clinic collaborations within universities happen occasionally, clinic collaborations across universities are unusual. This essay focuses on the motivations, operations, lessons, and next steps of this cross-university, clinical collaboration aimed at advancing social entrepreneurship globally. Specifically, this essay examines why the collaboration was launched, how the collaboration is structured, what the collaboration offers …