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Providing An Escape For Inner-City Children: Creating A Federal Remedy For Educational Ills Of Poor Urban Schools, Amy J. Schmitz
Providing An Escape For Inner-City Children: Creating A Federal Remedy For Educational Ills Of Poor Urban Schools, Amy J. Schmitz
Faculty Publications
Children in impoverished, urban areas attend dangerous and decrepit schools, where they receive low quality education which fails to prepare them for meaningful participation in the community. Many states, however, provide no legislative or judicial remedy for these children, who desperately need vocational and educational skills to enable them to escape from the deprivation of their urban landscape. Meanwhile, federal officials speak
Risk Management For Lawyers, William H. Fortune, Dulaney O’Roark
Risk Management For Lawyers, William H. Fortune, Dulaney O’Roark
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Lawyers are under siege. We have become objects of scorn, ridicule, and occasional hatred. If you take your child to the Stephen Spielberg movie Jurassic Park, be prepared for the cheers when the cloned Tyrannosaurus Rex gobbles the lawyer—not a bad guy at all—cowering in the outhouse. In San Francisco a client burst into a California law firm and killed eight and wounded six persons before taking his own life. In response, the president of the California bar linked lawyer-bashing to hate crimes and prevailed on the Miller Brewing Company to withdraw a television commercial depicting a "lawyer-roping rodeo" …
Bitter Knowledge: Socrates And Teaching By Disillusionment, Thomas D. Eisele
Bitter Knowledge: Socrates And Teaching By Disillusionment, Thomas D. Eisele
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
This essay examines Socratic teaching by investigating one aspect of my own practice in law school today; its companion essay, "The Poverty of Socratic Questioning: Asking and Answering in the Meno," examines Socratic teaching by investigating Socrates' practice in the Meno. They are meant to complement, and to complicate, one another. They also are meant to extend and to supplement some of the views of Socratic teaching expressed in two earlier essays'ofmine: Must Virtue Be Taught?, 37 J. LEGAL EDUC. 495 (1987); and "Neuer
Mind the Manner of My Speech," 14 LEGAL STUD. F. 253 (1990).