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The Advocate Sep 2009

The Advocate

The Advocate

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From Grimm To Glory: Simulated Oral Argument As A Component Of Legal Education's Signature Pedagogy, Lisa T. Mcelroy Apr 2009

From Grimm To Glory: Simulated Oral Argument As A Component Of Legal Education's Signature Pedagogy, Lisa T. Mcelroy

Indiana Law Journal

The past two years have been a period of landmark transformation in legal education. With the issuance of the Carnegie and Best Practices for Legal Education Reports, law schools and law professors have revisited the essential process of analyzing and transforming legal pedagogy. This widespread reexamination of the law school curriculum has yielded two important changes in legal education; first, law schools-including those in the top tier-have begun radically to amend their curricular goals and structures; and, second, legal scholars have begun to turn their attention to the theory and implementation of better legal education. As Carnegie and Best Practices …


Citizen As Lawyer, Lawyer As Citizen, Mark Tushnet Mar 2009

Citizen As Lawyer, Lawyer As Citizen, Mark Tushnet

William & Mary Law Review

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The Citizen Lawyer And The Administrative State, Edward Rubin Mar 2009

The Citizen Lawyer And The Administrative State, Edward Rubin

William & Mary Law Review

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Ethics As Self-Transcendence: Legal Education, Faith, And An Ethos Of Justice, Patrick Brown Jan 2009

Ethics As Self-Transcendence: Legal Education, Faith, And An Ethos Of Justice, Patrick Brown

Seattle University Law Review

Ethics is fundamentally about ethos, attitude, one's grounded stance or existential orientation, not the extrinsicism of concepts or the formalism of rules. Ethics concerns not just any orientation, but that intimate and demanding form of personal development manifested in the experience and practice of self-transcendence. Conversely, the neglect of ethics as self-transcendence introduces deep distortions into the way we socialize students into notions of ethics and professionalism. It introduces subsequent distortions into the conditions of legal practice. It encourages a superficial and extrinsic minimalism. It encourages, in effect, the disastrous conception of legal ethics as ethical legalism. I begin by …


I'Ll Start Walking Your Way, You Start Walking Mine: Sociological Perspectives On Professional Identity Development And Influence Of Generational Differences, Melissa Heames Weresh Jan 2009

I'Ll Start Walking Your Way, You Start Walking Mine: Sociological Perspectives On Professional Identity Development And Influence Of Generational Differences, Melissa Heames Weresh

South Carolina Law Review

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