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Why Write?, Erwin Chemerinsky Jun 2017

Why Write?, Erwin Chemerinsky

Erwin Chemerinsky

This wonderful collection of reviews of leading recent books about law provides the occasion to ask a basic question: why should law professors write? There are many things that law professors could do with the time they spend writing books and law review articles. More time and attention could be paid to students and to instructional materials. More professors could do pro bono legal work of all sorts. In fact, if law professors wrote much less, teaching loads could increase, faculties could decrease in size, and tuition could decrease substantially. The answer to the question "why write" is neither intuitive …


Right To Write - Free Expression Rights Of Pennsylvania's Creative Students After Columbine, Barbara Brunner Feb 2016

Right To Write - Free Expression Rights Of Pennsylvania's Creative Students After Columbine, Barbara Brunner

Barbara Brunner

This comment analyzes the current state of students' free speech rights in the context of creative writing assignments and examines potential First Amendment applications to the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), a statewide, mandatory, standards-based exam administered to Pennsylvania public school students. The PSSA, which currently contains a writing assessment for students in sixth, ninth, and eleventh grades requiring students to write essays in response to prompts, is scored anonymously by private entities under contract with the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Those private subcontractors have "red-flagging" procedures in place to identify essays containing imagery or themes that indicate imminent …


Post-Tenure Scholarship And Its Implications, Jeffrey L. Harrison Nov 2014

Post-Tenure Scholarship And Its Implications, Jeffrey L. Harrison

Jeffrey L Harrison

Periodically in the popular press and even in academic circles, the question arises of whether professors should be granted lifetime employment contracts based on a sample of four to six years of a probationary period. Further clouding the issue of how easily tenure should be granted is the question of what determines tenure. Is it a reward for past efforts or based on a forecast of future productivity? These concepts may seem like the same thing but they are not. Accordingly, the huge commitment of resources that occurs when tenure is granted paired with the Author's observations of pre-tenure scholars …


'Integration', Vietnamese Australian Writing, And An Unfinished Boat Story, Michael R. Jacklin Jul 2013

'Integration', Vietnamese Australian Writing, And An Unfinished Boat Story, Michael R. Jacklin

Michael Jacklin

This article contributes to the critical commentary on boat narratives through a reading of an early and little-known example of a Vietnamese Australian boat story: ‘The Whitish-Grey Dove on the Disorientated Boat’, a serialised novella which was published in Integration: The Magazine for Multicultural and Vietnamese Issues from 1994 to 1998. Focusing on this novella and the magazine in which it appeared serves two objectives: the first is to make the argument that Vietnamese Australian writing has a longer and more active history than may be commonly recognized or acknowledged and that ‘the boat’ is a significant figure in this …


Transnational Imaginaries: Reading Asian Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen Jun 2013

Transnational Imaginaries: Reading Asian Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen

Wenche Ommundsen

When did ‘Asian Australian writing’ come into existence? Answering this question is almost as difficult as deciding when people from the regions now known as Asia first arrived in Australia. We know, for example, that Chinese settlers filed petitions protesting their treatment by colonial governments as early as 1855 (Broinowski 11), and that autobiographical writing appeared in the 1920s (Shen 2001). Creative writers started publishing in the 1950s (Mena Abdullah), 60s (Chitra Fernando) and 70s (Ee Tiang Hong, Brian Castro) – and when we know more about publications in languages other than English, these dates are likely to be pushed …


Aqa A2 Spanish Practice Exam Papers - Listening, Reading And Writing - Speaking (Unit 3-4), Alfredo Herrero De Haro Apr 2013

Aqa A2 Spanish Practice Exam Papers - Listening, Reading And Writing - Speaking (Unit 3-4), Alfredo Herrero De Haro

Alfredo Herrero de Haro

This resource contains three practice papers. For each paper there is a CD, a mark scheme and the transcripts for the passage for the listening exercies. These practice papers have been written to help you and your students prepare for the examination for Unit 3 of the AQA A2 Spanish specification for teaching from September 2009. AQA A2 Spanish Practice Exam Papers 3 practice papers for Unit 3 and four papers for Unit 4, covering all 4 skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Everything you need: •Write-on papers which look like the real exam papers •Audio CD and Transcripts of …


Understanding The Cycle Of Procrastination, Meehan Rasch Dec 2012

Understanding The Cycle Of Procrastination, Meehan Rasch

Meehan Rasch

Procrastination is one of the enduring challenges of human existence, as well as one of the chief problems with which law students struggle. Understanding the cycle of procrastination can help law professors and advisors more constructively address students’ issues in this area—not to mention our own.


Developing Professional Identity Through Reflective Practice, Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus Nov 2012

Developing Professional Identity Through Reflective Practice, Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus

Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus

No abstract provided.


Tough Love: The Law School That Required Its Students To Learn Good Grammar, Ann Nowak Nov 2012

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

Ann L. Nowak

No abstract provided.


Sale Of Goods Contract Not To Be Performed Within A Year: Is The Uniform Commercial Code Statute Of Frauds Provision Exclusive?, Sidney Kwestel Aug 2012

Sale Of Goods Contract Not To Be Performed Within A Year: Is The Uniform Commercial Code Statute Of Frauds Provision Exclusive?, Sidney Kwestel

Sidney Kwestel

No abstract provided.


It's Not Just A Writing Problem, Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus Dec 2011

It's Not Just A Writing Problem, Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus

Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus

No abstract provided.


Revising The California Style Manual, Curtis E.A. Karnow Dec 2011

Revising The California Style Manual, Curtis E.A. Karnow

Curtis E.A. Karnow

The note compares styles of legal writing and citation form, and urges changes to style manuals to enable smoother writing, a minimum of citation, and plain English.


Opinion Writing And Opinion Readers, Meehan Rasch Dec 2008

Opinion Writing And Opinion Readers, Meehan Rasch

Meehan Rasch

The authors - a federal appellate judge and his law clerks - bring unique perspectives to bear on the topic of opinion writing and opinion readers. The contents of this Article were inspired in large part by the work done by the authors in editing and preparing the second edition of Judge Aldisert's classic book Opinion Writing, which for many years was distributed to all federal trial and appellate judges, and to all state appellate judges, when they took the bench. A broader audience of professional opinion writers and students of the judicial process now has access to Opinion Writing, …


Teaching Students How To Think Like Lawyers: Integrating Socratic Method With The Writing Process, Mary Kate Kearney, Mary Beth Beazley Dec 1990

Teaching Students How To Think Like Lawyers: Integrating Socratic Method With The Writing Process, Mary Kate Kearney, Mary Beth Beazley

Mary Kate Kearney

No abstract provided.