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The Need For Social Support From Law Schools During The Era Of Social Distancing, Michele Okoh, Inès Ndonko Nnoko

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Law students have been faced with unparalleled stress during the syndemic. They must cope with being students during the COVID-19 pandemic but also must deal with stress related to social and political unrest. This essay recommends that law schools apply social support theory in developing interventions to effectively address the needs of law students now and in the future.

Social support theory focuses on the value and benefits one receives from positive interpersonal relationships. These positive relationships impact both mental and physical health and promote beneficial short and long-term overall health. However, not all supports are the same, and social …

From Judge To Dean And Back Again: Reflections On Transitions, David F. Levi

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Southeast Of What? Reflections On Seals' Success, Thomas B. Metzloff

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Law Libraries And Laboratories: The Legacies Of Langdell And His Metaphor, Richard A. Danner

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Law Librarians and others have often referred to Harvard Law School Dean C.C. Langdell’s statements that the law library is the lawyer’s laboratory. Professor Danner examines the context of what Langdell through his other writings, the educational environment at Harvard in the late nineteenth century, and the changing perceptions of university libraries generally. He then considers how the “laboratory metaphor” has been applied by librarians and legal scholars during the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The article closes with thoughts on Langdell’s legacy for law librarians and the usefulness of the laboratory metaphor.

Library Director As Change Agent: Analysis Two, Implementing Change In Difficult Times, Femi Cadmus

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Five Steps To Successfully Developing A Law Practice Technology Course, Femi Cadmus

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The Price Of Legal Education, Paul D. Carrington

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The Teaching Of Procedure Across Common Law Systems, Erik S. Knusten, Thomas D. Rowe Jr., David Bamford, Shirley Shipman

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What difference does the teaching of procedure make to legal education, legal scholarship, the legal profession, and civil justice reform? This first of four articles on the teaching of procedure canvasses the landscape of current approaches to the teaching of procedure in four legal systems—the United States, Canada, Australia, and England and Wales—surveying the place of procedure in the law school curriculum and in professional training, the kinds of subjects that “procedure” encompasses, and the various ways in which procedure is learned. Little sustained reflection has been carried out as to the import and impact of this longstanding law school …

Not Your Parents' Law Library: A Tale Of Two Academic Law Libraries, Julian Aiken, Femi Cadmus, Fred Shapiro

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As academic law libraries continue to face the inevitability of a rapidly changing landscape which includes a new breed of digital users with sophisticated technological needs, it remains to be seen what libraries will look like in years to come. It is certain that libraries as we know them today will have changed, but to what extent? An ability to remain adaptable and to anticipate the evolving needs of users in a dynamic environment will continue to be key for libraries to remain relevant, and even to survive, in the 21st century; vital to this endeavor will also be an …

Lieber, Francis (1798-1872), Author And Professor., Paul D. Carrington

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Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816): Teacher, Military Chaplain, Journalist, Lawyer, Satirist, And Judge, Paul D. Carrington

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A Conversation Among Deans, Katharine T. Bartlett, Edward Rubin, W. H. Knight

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On March 10, 2006, the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and Harvard Law Review co-sponsored a conference, "Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change, and a Decade of Gender Studies," to address the number of student experience studies that detail women's lower performance in and dissatisfaction with law school. Rather than advocate for a particular set of responses to the different experiences of men and women in legal education , this conference sought to foster a discussion about the institutional challenges these patterns highlight. As a means of accomplishing this end, law school deans from …

Strategic Planning For Distance Learning In Legal Education: Initial Thoughts On A Role For Libraries, Richard A. Danner

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Distance learning technologies will be used increasingly by law schools both to enhance learning within their existing residential programs and to reach new audiences. For law librarians, the questions involved in serving distance learners are a subset of the questions about the future of the law library that arise from changes in the legal information environment. This article discusses current distance learning alternatives for law schools, and the impacts of distance learning and other technological innovations on the future role of the academic law library in legal education.

The Happy Charade: An Empirical Examination Of The Third Year Of Law School, Mitu Gulati, Richard Sander, Robert Sockloskie

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Tocqueville’S Aristocracy In Minnesota, Paul D. Carrington

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Teaching Civil Procedure: A Retrospective View, Paul D. Carrington

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In Defense Of The Big Tent: The Importance Of Recognizing The Many Audiences For Legal Scholarship, Erwin Chemerinsky, Catherine Fisk

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The Constitutional Law Scholarship Of Thomas Mcintyre Cooley, Paul D. Carrington

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Law As “The Common Thoughts Of Men”: The Law-Teaching And Judging Of Thomas Mcintyre Cooley, Paul D. Carrington

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In this article, Professor Carrington offers an intellectual history of Thomas McIntyre Cooley. Cooley, a close contemporary of Dean Langdell, was in his time the premier judge, law teacher, and legal scholar in America, overshadowing not only Langdell, but his somewhat younger associate, Oliver Wendell Holmes. The twentieth century has neglected, even scorned, Cooley, while elevating Langdell and Holmes: Langdell as the patron of the technographic profession trained by Hessians, and Holmes as the patron of a disengaged academic sub-profession. In the Jacksonian universe producing Cooley, there was little appreciation of the likes of either Landgell and his successors, or …

Maurice Rosenberg, Paul D. Carrington

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Hail! Langdell!, Paul D. Carrington

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The Missionary Diocese Of Chicago, Paul D. Carrington

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This article is an account of legal education in Chicago in the first decade of this century.

William Gardiner Hammond And The Lieber Revival, Paul D. Carrington

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Legal Education For The People: Populism And Civic Virtue, Paul D. Carrington

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Feminist Perspectives On The Ideological Impact Of Legal Education Upon The Profession, Katharine T. Bartlett

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Meaning And Professionalism In American Law, Paul D. Carrington

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One Law: The Role Of Legal Education In The Opening Of The Legal Profession Since 1776, Paul D. Carrington

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Teaching Law In The Antebellum Northwest, Paul D. Carrington

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The Theme Of Early American Law Teaching: The Political Ethics Of Francis Lieber, Paul D. Carrington

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Tribute: Professor Preble Stolz, Paul D. Carrington

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