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Erasing Race From Legal Education, Judith G. Greenberg

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

In this Article, Professor Greenberg argues that law schools claim to treat African American students as if their race is irrelevant, yet law school curricula have a hidden message that African American students are in fact inferior and dangerous to white students. When African American students do not perform as well as white students, they are assumed to have deficient skills and are placed in remedial programs to improve those skills. Professor Greenberg argues that the cause of African American students' poor performance in law school is not necessarily deficient skills, but rather a bias inherent in the structure of …

Fall 1994

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Volume 29, Issue 1 (Fall 1994), University Of Georgia School Of Law

Advocate Magazine

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Graduation 1994: a Call for Legal Professionalism
• Building for the Future - Construction of Law Center South is Underway
• Witnessing History: Alumnus Tom Ehr's Role in the South African Elections and the Future Role of the Dean Rusk Center for International Law
• The Legacy of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun: Q & A with Two of His Former Law Clerks, Now UGA Law Professors
• Homecoming 1994
• Faculty Scholarship - Objecting to Expert Hearsay--Professor Ronald L. Carlson; Dreyfus Case Began a Century Ago--Professor Donald E. Wilkes, Jr.
• Report of Annual Giving: a 20-page Insert Found in the Center …

Building A Better Law School, J. Timothy Philipps

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Keynote Address—The 21st Century Lawyer: Is There A Gap To Be Narrowed?, Robert Maccrate

Washington Law Review

This law school symposium on the Twenty-First Century Lawyer reflects a fundamental shift in the focus of legal education within the academy—from law in the abstract toward the reality of law in the daily work of lawyers. While holding firm to their scholarly mission, law schools are giving increasing attention to the world of lawyer performance and the needs of their students to be prepared to participate effectively in the legal profession. The 1992 Report entitled Legal Education and Professional Development-An Educational Continuum, by a task force of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the …

Introduction: The Maccrate Report—Heuristic Or Prescriptive?, Wallace Loh

Washington Law Review

There is a freight train gathering speed on the tracks of legal education, and it is called SSV—Statement of Skills and Values. This SSV stands as the centerpiece of the Report of the ABA Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap, better known as the MacCrate Report, named after its chair, Robert MacCrate. The MacCrate Report has ignited a rational debate on curricular reform that is becoming increasingly intense. Viewed broadly, SSV may represent the greatest proposed paradigm shift in legal education since Langdell envisioned legal education as the pursuit of legal science through the case …

On Teaching Professional Judgment, Paul Brest, Linda Krieger

Washington Law Review

To answer the question posed by the conveners of this symposium, of course there is a gap between legal education and the legal profession. There has always been one, and quite possibly it has widened somewhat in recent years, if for no other reason than that the world in which lawyers practice has changed so much while legal education has changed relatively little. The external changes include the internationalization of legal transactions, the centrality of technology to many aspects of practice, increased specialization driven by the proliferation and complexity of statutory and regulatory schemes, and the overloading of traditional systems …

Another "Postscript" To "The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education And The Legal Profession", Harry T. Edwards

Washington Law Review

"The Gap Between Legal Education and the Needs of the Profession," the subject of this symposium, is a matter about which I have had much to say over the past two years. In the October 1992 edition of the Michigan Law Review, I expressed my deep concern about "the growing disjunction between legal education and the legal profession," in an article with the same title.

Education For A Public Calling In The 21st Century, Phoebe A. Haddon

Washington Law Review

A decade ago, an issue of the Association of American Law Schools' Journal of Legal Education was devoted to ruminations on selecting lawyers for the twenty-first century. Although some of the papers in the Journal issue offered congratulatory messages to legal educators and the Law School Admissions Council for their work, others more critically assessed legal education and the admissions process, warning of an impending "mid-life crisis" caused in part by an unreflective period of maturation. Focusing on two decades of "applicant explosion," affording the conscious creation of "a more intellectually elite profession,"' a number of the authors who submitted …

From Sink Or Swim To The Apprenticeship: Choices For Lawyer Training, Lucy Isaki

Washington Law Review

Our symposium today asks the question: Is there a gap in lawyer training to be narrowed? My answer is: Probably. Is it any greater than the gap that existed twenty or thirty years ago? I think not. Law schools are graduating women and men well prepared to begin the practice of law. True, there is much that new law school graduates do not yet know. But in a short time—two to three years—most new law graduates gain the skills and substantive knowledge needed to be successful.

Economic Reality Facing 21st Century Lawyers, Thomas D. Morgan

Washington Law Review

Our predictions of future developments may be wrong, but if we do not at least think seriously about what skills these students will need to participate in the rapidly changing legal profession, we as legal educators will be certain to disserve both our students and their future clients.

Narrowing The Gap By Narrowing The Field: What's Missing From The Maccrate Report—Of Skills, Legal Science And Being A Human Being, Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Washington Law Review

I come here today, not to bury the MacCrate Report, but to criticize it, not for what it includes, although that is part of my critique, but for what it leaves out. I also want to situate my critique in the contentious intellectual history of legal education and legal scholarship, that, in my view, has too long polarized both the intellectual value and rigor of "law" (conceived of either as doctrine or theory) and "skills" (those nasty things that real lawyers have to do to express "the law" and represent clients). Among the most recent entries to this debate is …

Back To The Crib?, William B. Stoebuck

Washington Law Review

First, let me note that this Rembe Lecture honors Toni Rembe, Esq., a distinguished graduate of this law school, class of 1960. Toni and I knew each other as fellow students and members of the Washington Law Review, since I was class of 1959. After graduating here, she took a Master of Laws in taxation at New York University in 1961. Then she joined the premier San Francisco law firm of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, where she has long been the head of the tax law division. Toni, who is a Seattle native, has maintained her ties to this city. …

Somewhere Farther Down The Line: Maccrate On Multiculturalism And The Information Age, Burnele V. Powell

Washington Law Review

A couple of months ago, sometime after I was invited by Symposium Editor Ruth Kennedy to participate in today's discussion, I got a telephone call from her. She wanted to know the title of my remarks. I, of course, had no idea, what I would entitle these remarks because I was still freshly in the throes of trying to write these remarks. Only moments before the phone rang, I had been preoccupied with several CDs that I had recently purchased and was thinking about the task ahead of me. It did occur to me, however, that there was something I …

Environmental Justice And The Teaching Of Environmental Law, Richard Lazarus

West Virginia Law Review

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Environmental Injustice And Racism: Making The Connection In Classrooms And Courtrooms, Patrick C. Mcginley

West Virginia Law Review

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A New Approach To Expanding Resources For Environmental Justice: The Professor-In-Residency, M. Casey Jarman, Luke W. Cole

West Virginia Law Review

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A Survivor's Guide To Law School, Erik M. Jensen

West Virginia Law Review

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Environmental Justice In The Classroom: Real Life Lessons For Law Students, Luke W. Cole

West Virginia Law Review

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Eyes To The Future, Yet Remembering The Past: Reconciling Tradition With The Future Of Legal Education, Amy M. Colton

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Note explores the relationship between legal education and the legal profession, and what can be done to stop the two institutions from drifting farther and farther apart. Part I examines the history of the American law school, focusing on how the schools came into existence and what goals they intended to serve. Part II questions whether these goals have been reached, and dissects the present-day law school curriculum in search of both its triumphs and its failures. A necessary part of this curriculum analysis includes examining the evolution of the profession into a creature of both law and business, …

Late Night Confessions In The Hart And Wechsler Hotel, Ann Althouse

Vanderbilt Law Review

I began my work in this field about a decade ago, as a teacher, quite simply, trying to find some coherence, some sense in the notoriously complex doctrine. Finding a scheme of coherence, a framework, really is the process of understanding. To merely observe that the field is chaotic, arcane, or incoherent is to decline the work of understanding. That rejection of the subject matter may be a fair and appropriate reaction: witness my colleagues who regard Federal Courts as a "mind game" or a "crossword puzzle." (Indeed, vast numbers bf laypersons have this reaction to the entire subject of …

Making Elite Lawyers: Visions Of Law At Harvard And Beyond, Daniel A. Cohen

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Making Elite Lawyers: Visions of Law at Harvard and Beyond by Robert Granfield

Toil Of The Firestarters, Peter A. Alces

Michigan Law Review

A Review of In the Company of Scholars: The Struggle for the Soul of Higher Education by Julius Getman

Poised At The Threshold: Sexual Orientation, Law, And The Law School Curriculum In The Nineties, Jane S. Schacter

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Law by William B. Rubenstein

Practicing Poetry, Teaching Law, David A. Skeel Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Before Our Eyes by Lawrence Joseph

Spring 1994

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Volume 28, Issue 2 (Spring 1994), University Of Georgia School Of Law

Advocate Magazine

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introductions
• A Prestigious Honor for Professor Perry Sentell, The "prof" is named first holder of the Marion and W. Colquitt Carter Chair in Tort and Insurance Law.
• UGA's Beltway Connection, Ricki Seidman, Keith Mason and Les Ramirez hold key Clinton administration appointments.
• Presentation of the Robert Benham Portrait
• Law Day 1994, The Law Day address, alumni and student awards.
• Guest Lecturers
• A Season of Success for UGA's Moot Court Program, The Jessup National Title, the ABA National Final Four, The Intrastate Championship and more!
• Student Briefs, Awards and accomplishments
• Students You Should Know, Steve Humphreys, Crystal Chayavadhanangkur …

Playing The Game, Allan C. Hutchinson

Dalhousie Law Journal

Soccer is my game. It has been part of my life and, therefore, a part of me since before I can remember. Much of my early years was spent kicking a ball around in one setting or another. Sleeping or waking, I was never far from a soccer ball. On my own against a wall or with a couple of likeminded friends, I took the part of legendary favourites and played out some of soccer's great games. The stuff of boyhood fantasizing, some of my best memories can still be traced back to my grandfather's back yard or the local …

Uncivil Procedure: Ranking Law Students Among Their Peers, Douglas A. Henderson

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Article does not argue against evaluation, testing, or assessment within law school or outside of it. Nor does it argue against the use of standardized assessment procedures. This Article attempts to discredit the institutional practice of ranking law students among their peers. Part I presents a brief overview of the present system of testing and ranking, its impact on law student careers and the present justifications for these practices. Part II evaluates ranking, and the single end-of-term essay on which it is based, according to psychometric theory, learning theory, and statistical theory. Part III justifies abandoning the system by …

Prosecutors' Peremptory Challenges - A Response And Reply, Lynn A. Helland, Sheldon N. Light, William J. Richards

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Three federal trial attorneys disagree with Professor Richard Friedman's proposal to eliminate the prosecution's peremptories, while Friedman defends his view.