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Deconstructing The Law School Deconstructionists, Luke Bierman

Luke Bierman

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Developing Professional Identity Through Reflective Practice, Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus

Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus

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Tough Love: The Law School That Required Its Students To Learn Good Grammar, Ann Nowak

Ann L. Nowak

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Cliff Jumping: Working For A Non-Aba-Accredited Law School - Why The Reward Is Worth The Risk, Katherine Marsh, Jordan Gilbertson

Katherine Marsh

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Making Multi-Disciplinary Teaching Work: A Reflective Analysis Of Teaching Legal Content To Multi-Disciplinary Learners, Danielle Ireland-Piper

Danielle Ireland-Piper

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Teaching Government Law & Policy In Law School: Reflections On Twenty-Five Years Of Experience, Patricia Salkin

Patricia E. Salkin

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As The Twig Is Bent: Law Student Insights Regarding Pro Bono And Public Interest Law, Jan Jacobowitz, Vance Salter

Jan L Jacobowitz

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Of Cops And Bumper Stickers: Notes Toward A Theory Of Selective Prosecution, Richard Delgado

Richard Delgado

The author, Professor Richard Delgado, takes as his point of departure a remark by the chair of the Colorado committee that voted academic sanctions against Ward Churchill. This essay explores the role of retaliatory motives in academic misconduct cases. In Churchill’s case, Colorado authorities delved deeply and painstakingly into Churchill’s publications only when it appeared that the state could not fire him from his tenured position for his inflammatory remarks on the victims of the 9/11 tragedy. What bearing should the investigation’s relation to the hue and cry that led to it have on its own legitimacy? Professor Delgado examines …

Learning Law While Walking The Dog: The Pedagogical Potential Of Podcasting, Kenneth Kristl

Kenneth T Kristl

The typical law school classroom for a doctrinal course utilizes a learning structure that limits opportunities for students to learn directly from the professor. Time constraints inherent in the need for coverage and the desire to keep the class engaged encourages movement through the material. Cognitivist learning theory views learning as involving the movement of information from sensory memory (perception) into short-term, working memory for analysis and organization, and then into long-term memory for storage. This process of information movement suggests that the typical law school classroom creates impediments to student learning. Distracted students who fail to capture the concept …

Cases And Materials On The Law Governing Lawyers, James Moliterno

James E. Moliterno

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More Than One Lane Wide: Against Hierarchies Of Helping In Progressive Legal Advocacy, Rebecca Sharpless

Rebecca Sharpless

Progressive legal scholars and practitioners have created a hierarchy within social justice lawyering. Direct service attorneys — nonprofit attorneys who focus on helping individuals in civil cases — sit at the bottom. In the 1960s, progressive theorists advanced a negative portrayal of direct service attorneys as a class. This discourse has continued through different phases in the development of progressive legal theory. Direct service work is done primarily by women in the service of women, has the aesthetic of traditional women’s work, and can be understood as embodying the thesis that women have a greater existential and psychological connection to …

Reforming The Third Year Of Law School, David Millon, Robert Danforth

David K. Millon

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Accomplishing Your Scholarly Agenda While Maximizing Students’ Learning (A.K.A., How To Teach Legal Methods And Have Time To Write Too), Anna P. Hemingway

Anna P. Hemingway