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Tlc In The Funny Papers, Dana K. Cole
Tlc In The Funny Papers, Dana K. Cole
Akron Law Faculty Publications
The author describes Tom Batiuk's visit to his trial advocacy class during a painting exercise. Mr. Batiuk's Funky Winkerbean series depicting the class is reprinted.
Psychodrama At Harvard, Dana K. Cole
Psychodrama At Harvard, Dana K. Cole
Akron Law Faculty Publications
The author describes his experience teaching trial advocacy at Harvard Law School.
Law Schools As Legal Education Centers, Martin H. Belsky
Law Schools As Legal Education Centers, Martin H. Belsky
Akron Law Faculty Publications
Legal education in the early twentieth century was divided into three concurrent paths-study at one of the "elite" law schools, consisting of mostly full-time students already possessing a college degree; study at one of the other mostly part-time practice based schools; and a course of study with a practitioner/mentor outside of formal educational institutions. ... Graduation was a serious event, as students were already thinking about passing the bar exam. ... Some of the reasons that law schools can deliver legal education to elementary and secondary students, obviously apply to junior college, college, and non-law school graduate and professional education …
Use And Limits Of Syllogistic Reasoning In Briefing Cases, Wilson R. Huhn
Use And Limits Of Syllogistic Reasoning In Briefing Cases, Wilson R. Huhn
Akron Law Faculty Publications
During the nineteenth century, law was equated with science, and legal reasoning was thought to be a species of deductive logic. Consistent with this notion, judicial opinions have traditionally been summarized in the form of syllogisms, that is, as arguments of deductive logic. More specifically, judicial opinions have been described as chains of syllogisms, reasoning from base premises to ultimate conclusions. The principal thrust of this article is to demonstrate that in hard cases, judicial reasoning proceeds not by way of deduction, but by evaluation and balancing.
Accordingly, Part II of this article compares law with science. Historically, law was …
Law Schools As Legal Education Centers, Martin H. Belsky
Law Schools As Legal Education Centers, Martin H. Belsky
Martin H. Belsky
Legal education in the early twentieth century was divided into three concurrent paths-study at one of the "elite" law schools, consisting of mostly full-time students already possessing a college degree; study at one of the other mostly part-time practice based schools; and a course of study with a practitioner/mentor outside of formal educational institutions. ... Graduation was a serious event, as students were already thinking about passing the bar exam. ... Some of the reasons that law schools can deliver legal education to elementary and secondary students, obviously apply to junior college, college, and non-law school graduate and professional education …