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"Of Law And The River," And Of Nihilism And Academic Freedom, Peter Martin, Robert Gordon, Paul Carrington, Paul Brest, Phillip Johnson, William Van Alstyne, Guido Calabresi, Owen Fiss Dec 2015

"Of Law And The River," And Of Nihilism And Academic Freedom, Peter Martin, Robert Gordon, Paul Carrington, Paul Brest, Phillip Johnson, William Van Alstyne, Guido Calabresi, Owen Fiss

Phillip Johnson

No abstract provided.


Voices Lost And Found: Training Ethical Lawyers For Children, William Kell Dec 2015

Voices Lost And Found: Training Ethical Lawyers For Children, William Kell

William Kell

Symposium: Law and the New American Family Held at Indiana University School of Law Apr. 4, 1997


Training In Law And Psychology: Models From The Villanova Conference, Donald Bersoff, Jane Goodman-Delahunty, J. Grisso, Valerie Hans, Norman Poythress, Ronald Roesch Dec 2015

Training In Law And Psychology: Models From The Villanova Conference, Donald Bersoff, Jane Goodman-Delahunty, J. Grisso, Valerie Hans, Norman Poythress, Ronald Roesch

Norman Poythress

Although the domain of law and psychology is a burgeoning and popular field of study, there has never been a concerted effort to evaluate current training models or to develop newer, more effective ones. Forty-eight invited participants attended a national conference held at Villanova Law School to remedy this deficiency. Working groups addressed issues of education and training for the undergraduate level; for doctoral level programs in law and social science; for forensic clinical training; for joint-degree (JD/PhD-PsyD) programs; for those in practica, internships, and postdoctoral programs; and for continuing education. This article delineates levels and models of training in …


Foreword: Kratovil Symposium Issue Of The John Marshall Law Review, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2004), Celeste M. Hammond Dec 2015

Foreword: Kratovil Symposium Issue Of The John Marshall Law Review, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2004), Celeste M. Hammond

Celeste M. Hammond

No abstract provided.


Foreword: Kratovil Symposium Issue Of The John Marshall Law Review, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2004), Celeste M. Hammond Dec 2015

Foreword: Kratovil Symposium Issue Of The John Marshall Law Review, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2004), Celeste M. Hammond

Celeste M. Hammond

No abstract provided.


Designing And Implementing Jd/Llm Programs, Diane Edelman, Toni M. Fine, Matthew Wladyka, Emily Miletello Dec 2015

Designing And Implementing Jd/Llm Programs, Diane Edelman, Toni M. Fine, Matthew Wladyka, Emily Miletello

Diane Penneys Edelman

Designing and Implementing JD/LLM Programs Diane Penneys Edelman, Director of International Programs & Professor of Legal Writing, Villanova University School of Law Toni M. Fine, Assistant Dean, Fordham Law School Matthew Wladyka, Associate, Hunton & Williams, Washington, DC (J.D. Villanova ’11, LLM Commercial Law, University of Edinburgh ’11) Emily Miletello, Analyst, National Pollution Funds Center, U.S. Coast Guard, Washington, DC (J.D. Villanova ’10, LLM Public International Law, University of Leiden ’10)


Gandhi’S Prophecy: Corporate Violence And A Mindful Law For Bhopal, Nehal A. Patel Dec 2015

Gandhi’S Prophecy: Corporate Violence And A Mindful Law For Bhopal, Nehal A. Patel

Nehal A. Patel

AbstractOver thirty years have passed since the Bhopal chemical disaster began,and in that time scholars of corporate social responsibility (CSR) havediscussed and debated several frameworks for improving corporate responseto social and environmental problems. However, CSR discourse rarelydelves into the fundamental architecture of legal thought that oftenbuttresses corporate dominance in the global economy. Moreover, CSRdiscourse does little to challenge the ontological and epistemologicalassumptions that form the foundation for modern economics and the role ofcorporations in the world.I explore methods of transforming CSR by employing the thought ofMohandas Gandhi. I pay particular attention to Gandhi’s critique ofindustrialization and principle of swadeshi (self-sufficiency) …


The Integrated Law School Curriculum, Adam Lamparello Nov 2015

The Integrated Law School Curriculum, Adam Lamparello

Adam Lamparello

In January 2014, the American Bar Association’s Task Force on the Future of Legal Education stated that “[a]n evolution is taking place in legal practice and legal education needs to evolve with it.” To this end, the Task Force recommended that the law school curriculum “needs to shift still further toward developing the competencies and professionalism required of people who will deliver services to clients.” In fact, the Task Force emphasized that “[a] graduate’s having some set of competencies in the delivery of law and related services, and not just some body of knowledge, is an essential outcome …


Colloquy, Transactional Economics: Victor Goldberg’S Framing Contract Law, Keith A. Rowley, Mark P. Gergen, Victor Goldberg, Stewart Mcaulay Nov 2015

Colloquy, Transactional Economics: Victor Goldberg’S Framing Contract Law, Keith A. Rowley, Mark P. Gergen, Victor Goldberg, Stewart Mcaulay

Mark P. Gergen

Panel discussion among law faculty who teach contracts of 2007 book authored by Victor Goldberg, which suggests that an economic approach to contract interpretation is appropriate.


Addressing Barriers To Cultural Sensibility Learning: Lesson From Social Cognition Theory, Andrea A. Curcio Nov 2015

Addressing Barriers To Cultural Sensibility Learning: Lesson From Social Cognition Theory, Andrea A. Curcio

Andrea A. Curcio

Understanding subconscious biases, their pervasiveness, and their impact on perceptions, interactions, and analyses, helps prepare lawyers to represent people from cultural and racial backgrounds different from their own, and to address both individual and institutional injustice. Two law student surveys suggest many students believe lawyers are less susceptible than clients to having, or acting upon, stereotypes or biases. The survey results also indicate that many students suffer from bias blind spot – i.e. they believe that while others cannot recognize when they are acting based upon stereotypical beliefs and biases, the students know when they are doing so. The survey …


Teaching Tax And Other Tedious Topics, John Bogdanski, Samuel Donaldson Nov 2015

Teaching Tax And Other Tedious Topics, John Bogdanski, Samuel Donaldson

Samuel A. Donaldson

No abstract provided.


United States International Taxation: Cases, Materials, And Problems, Allison Christians, Samuel Donaldson, Phillip Postlewaite Nov 2015

United States International Taxation: Cases, Materials, And Problems, Allison Christians, Samuel Donaldson, Phillip Postlewaite

Samuel A. Donaldson

No abstract provided.


Acing Federal Income Tax, Samuel Donaldson Nov 2015

Acing Federal Income Tax, Samuel Donaldson

Samuel A. Donaldson

No abstract provided.


Federal Income Taxation Of Individuals: Cases, Problems & Materials, Samuel Donaldson Nov 2015

Federal Income Taxation Of Individuals: Cases, Problems & Materials, Samuel Donaldson

Samuel A. Donaldson

No abstract provided.


Addressing Barriers To Cultural Sensibility Learning: Lessons From Social Cognition Theory, Andrea A. Curcio Nov 2015

Addressing Barriers To Cultural Sensibility Learning: Lessons From Social Cognition Theory, Andrea A. Curcio

Andrea A. Curcio

Understanding subconscious biases, their pervasiveness, and their impact on perceptions, interactions, and analyses, helps prepare lawyers to represent people from cultural and racial backgrounds different from their own, and to address both individual and institutional injustice. Two law student surveys suggest many students believe lawyers are less susceptible than clients to having, or acting upon, stereotypes or biases. The survey results also indicate that many students suffer from bias blind spot – i.e. they believe that while others cannot recognize when they are acting based upon stereotypical beliefs and biases, the students know when they are doing so. The survey …


Addressing Barriers To Cultural Sensibility Learning: Lesson From Social Cognition Theory, Andrea A. Curcio Nov 2015

Addressing Barriers To Cultural Sensibility Learning: Lesson From Social Cognition Theory, Andrea A. Curcio

Andrea A. Curcio

Understanding subconscious biases, their pervasiveness, and their impact on perceptions, interactions, and analyses, helps prepare lawyers to represent people from cultural and racial backgrounds different from their own, and to address both individual and institutional injustice. Two law student surveys suggest many students believe lawyers are less susceptible than clients to having, or acting upon, stereotypes or biases. The survey results also indicate that many students suffer from bias blind spot – i.e. they believe that while others cannot recognize when they are acting based upon stereotypical beliefs and biases, the students know when they are doing so. The survey …


Georgia's Public Service Bar Exam Alternative, Andrea A. Curcio, Clark D. Cunningham Nov 2015

Georgia's Public Service Bar Exam Alternative, Andrea A. Curcio, Clark D. Cunningham

Andrea A. Curcio

No abstract provided.


Testing, Diversity, And Merit: A Reply To Dan Subotnik And Others, Andrea A. Curcio, Carol L. Chomsky, Eileen Kaufman Nov 2015

Testing, Diversity, And Merit: A Reply To Dan Subotnik And Others, Andrea A. Curcio, Carol L. Chomsky, Eileen Kaufman

Andrea A. Curcio

The false dichotomy between achieving diversity and rewarding merit frequently surfaces in discussions about decisions on university and law school admissions, scholarships, law licenses, jobs, and promotions. “Merit” judgments are often based on the results of standardized tests meant to predict who has the best chance to succeed if given the opportunity to do so. This Article criticizes over-reliance on standardized tests and responds to suggestions that challenging the use of such tests reflects a race-comes-first approach that chooses diversity over merit. Discussing the firefighter exam the led to the Supreme Court decision in Ricci v. DiStefano, as well as …


Legal Education After Law School: Lessons From Scotland And Englan, Clark D. Cunningham Nov 2015

Legal Education After Law School: Lessons From Scotland And Englan, Clark D. Cunningham

Clark D. Cunningham

This Article addresses the issue of the needed collaboration between law schools and law firms about legal education after law school. The author proposes pilot projects be launched to increase collaboration between legal academics and law firms in the provision of legal education after law school. The Article suggests that the programs emulate the close partnerships that exist between the legal academy and legal profession in England and Scotland. The Article acknowledges why the training of lawyers is different now than in the past. The author compares the American law firm training programs with the post school education that takes …


Should American Law Schools Continue To Graduate Lawyers Whom Clients Consider Worthless?, Clark D. Cunningham Nov 2015

Should American Law Schools Continue To Graduate Lawyers Whom Clients Consider Worthless?, Clark D. Cunningham

Clark D. Cunningham

No abstract provided.


Georgia's Public Service Bar Exam Alternative, Andrea A. Curcio, Clark D. Cunningham Nov 2015

Georgia's Public Service Bar Exam Alternative, Andrea A. Curcio, Clark D. Cunningham

Clark D. Cunningham

No abstract provided.


Bridging The Quality Gap With Medical-Legal Partnerships, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, Robert Pettignano Nov 2015

Bridging The Quality Gap With Medical-Legal Partnerships, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, Robert Pettignano

Sylvia B. Caley

No abstract provided.


Collaborative Diagnosis: Interdisciplinary Problem-Solving Between Physicians And Lawyers, Robert Pettignano, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley Nov 2015

Collaborative Diagnosis: Interdisciplinary Problem-Solving Between Physicians And Lawyers, Robert Pettignano, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley

Sylvia B. Caley

Patient and client-centered practice and accurate problem diagnosis require that we understand the context within which the patient/clients’ problem originated. Effective problem solving depends upon context-specific solutions. This article describes the interaction of a medical clinician/educator and two legal clinicians/educators who work and teach together as part of an interdisciplinary community collaboration. We demonstrate how a pediatric hospital and two medical schools that treat acutely and chronically ill children collaborate with a legal services clinic based in a law school to provide interdisciplinary clinical education for students and engage in interdisciplinary problem solving for the benefit of patients and clients. …


Can Access To A Medical-Legal Partnership Benefit Patients With Asthma Who Live In An Urban Community?, Robert Pettignano, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley Nov 2015

Can Access To A Medical-Legal Partnership Benefit Patients With Asthma Who Live In An Urban Community?, Robert Pettignano, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley

Sylvia B. Caley

Approximately one in 10 children in the U.S. has a diagnosis of asthma. African American and low-income children are more likely to be diagnosed with asthma. They are more likely to suffer the worse outcomes because of low socioeconomic status and environmental exposures. A medical-legal partnership is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a medical entity such as a hospital or clinic and a legal entity such as a lawyer, law school, or legal aid society created to address barriers to health care access and limitations to well-being. Addressing the legal concerns of these patients can improve access to medical services, reduce …


A Case For Including Lawyers On The Care Team, Robert Pettignano, Sylvia Caley, Lisa Bliss Nov 2015

A Case For Including Lawyers On The Care Team, Robert Pettignano, Sylvia Caley, Lisa Bliss

Sylvia B. Caley

The Health Law Partnership (HeLP), is a medical legal partnership that is an innovative partnership and community collaboration between medical and legal professionals to address the social, environmental, and economic factors that adversely impact health. HeLP provides free legal services to vulnerable populations, professional education to health care providers, interdisciplinary education to law students and medical students, and systemic advocacy to address the socio-economic issues requiring regulatory or legislative attention.


Interprofessional Education, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, Patty Roberts, Emily Suski, Robert Pettignano Nov 2015

Interprofessional Education, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, Patty Roberts, Emily Suski, Robert Pettignano

Sylvia B. Caley

As legal educators consider how to improve the outcomes of legal education, maximizing the knowledge, skills, and values taught during the law school experience, consideration should be given to increasing interprofessional learning opportunities in the curricula. As Best Practices for Legal Education suggested, the creative thinking necessary for effective problem-solving includes an understanding of interprofessional dimensions of practice, but interprofessional opportunities are still the exception rather than the norm in legal education. Interprofessional legal education intentionally asks law students to blend the knowledge, skills, and values of two or more professions in order to address complex legal problems. Placing students …


A Model For Interdisciplinary Clinical Education: Medical And Legal Professionals Learning And Working Together To Promote Public Health, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, Robert Pettignano Nov 2015

A Model For Interdisciplinary Clinical Education: Medical And Legal Professionals Learning And Working Together To Promote Public Health, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, Robert Pettignano

Sylvia B. Caley

This article describes the interdisciplinary curriculum of an innovative medical-legal partnership clinic based at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta, Georgia. The law school clinic trains law students who work collaboratively with medical residents from Emory University School of Medicine, fourth year students from Morehouse School of Medicine, and masters in social work students, fellows from the university’s masters in public health program and fellows from the masters in bioethics program at Emory University. The article identifies the goals of the clinic and some of the challenges and opportunities in working with diverse professionals in an interdisciplinary educational …


Interdisciplinary Education, Emily Suski, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, Robert Pettignano, Patricia Roberts Nov 2015

Interdisciplinary Education, Emily Suski, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, Robert Pettignano, Patricia Roberts

Sylvia B. Caley

No abstract provided.


Academic Achievers, Meg Butler Nov 2015

Academic Achievers, Meg Butler

Margaret Butler

No abstract provided.


Looking At The Initial Client Meeting Through An Interdisciplinary Lens: Applying Lessons From The Medical Profession To Law Teaching And Practice, Lisa Radtke Bliss Nov 2015

Looking At The Initial Client Meeting Through An Interdisciplinary Lens: Applying Lessons From The Medical Profession To Law Teaching And Practice, Lisa Radtke Bliss

Lisa Radtke Bliss

In this essay a clinical law professor observes similarities in the way that physicians and lawyers interact with patients and clients during the initial consult/interview, based upon her experiences teaching in a medical legal partnership clinic.