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2016

Law Students

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The Cost Of Opportunity: Student Debt And Social Mobility, Daniela Kraiem Nov 2016

The Cost Of Opportunity: Student Debt And Social Mobility, Daniela Kraiem

Daniela Kraiem

No abstract provided.


Fiat Flux: Evolving Purposes And Ideals Of The Great American Public Law School, Christopher Edley Jr Aug 2016

Fiat Flux: Evolving Purposes And Ideals Of The Great American Public Law School, Christopher Edley Jr

Christopher Edley

This Essay describes the changing role of American law schools throughout the twentieth century and proposes a vision for the future's Great American Law School. Since the founding of Berkeley Law, the definition of the legal profession has progressed from an interior orientation, which focused predominately on trial courts and appellate advocacy, to an exterior orientation with wide consideration of other forms of lawyering. Along a second axis, legal pedagogy has progressed from a careerist orientation, which focused on case analysis and advocacy skills, to a more academic orientation that integrates questions of theory and methodology. Analyzing these trends, this …


Introduction, T. Alper, A. G. Amsterdam, T. E. Edelman, R. Hertz Aug 2016

Introduction, T. Alper, A. G. Amsterdam, T. E. Edelman, R. Hertz

Ty Alper

These analyses, arranged as a mosaic article, emerged from the collaboration of five law students, a practicing lawyer, and two clinical law teachers. In the years since our work began, the students have graduated and are practicing or teaching. We have continued to correspond, exchanging ideas and drafts from time to time, in subgroups or as an ensemble. Although the separate tiles of the mosaic are attributed to the members of the group primarily responsible for crafting them, all parts of the article reflect the work and thinking of the whole group.


Introduction, T. Alper, A. G. Amsterdam, T. E. Edelman, R. Hertz Aug 2016

Introduction, T. Alper, A. G. Amsterdam, T. E. Edelman, R. Hertz

Ty Alper

These analyses, arranged as a mosaic article, emerged from the collaboration of five law students, a practicing lawyer, and two clinical law teachers. In the years since our work began, the students have graduated and are practicing or teaching. We have continued to correspond, exchanging ideas and drafts from time to time, in subgroups or as an ensemble. Although the separate tiles of the mosaic are attributed to the members of the group primarily responsible for crafting them, all parts of the article reflect the work and thinking of the whole group.