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A Greener Shade Of Crimson: Law And The Environment Alumni Forum, Richard J. Lazarus
A Greener Shade Of Crimson: Law And The Environment Alumni Forum, Richard J. Lazarus
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
With the few minutes that I have, I want to respond to or elaborate on some of what was said and speak more directly about the development of the Environmental Law Program. Then I cannot resist commenting on some things which have not been said, but should be . . . In developing a program, one does not need to have gobs and gobs of environmental law courses. You need a core set of courses. You need a minimum of four courses - a minimum - taught by permanent faculty. You need an environmental law survey class. You need a …
The Canon(S) Of Constitutional Law: An Introduction, Mark V. Tushnet
The Canon(S) Of Constitutional Law: An Introduction, Mark V. Tushnet
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Any discipline has a canon, a set of themes that organize the way in which people think about the discipline. Or, perhaps, any discipline has a number of competing canons. Is there a canon of constitutional law? A group of casebook authors met in December 1999 to discuss the choices they had made - what they had decided to include, what to exclude, what they regretted excluding (or including), what principles they used in developing their casebooks. Most of the authors were affiliated with law schools, but some had developed coursebooks for use in undergraduate political science and constitutional history …
Hard Choices: Thoughts For New Lawyers, David C. Vladeck
Hard Choices: Thoughts For New Lawyers, David C. Vladeck
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Rarely do law schools challenge students to examine their assumptions about what being a lawyer really means. Seldom do law schools undertake a probing examination of the role that lawyers play in society and the choices that lawyers have to make in terms of how they spend their working lives. For example, how many of you have a clue about the basic facts of our profession? How many lawyers there are in the United States? What do they do? What percentage work for the government? For large law firms? For small firms? For legal services organizations? For public interest groups? …
Telling Stories In School: Using Case Studies And Stories To Teach Legal Ethics, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Telling Stories In School: Using Case Studies And Stories To Teach Legal Ethics, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In this Foreword I will explore why we use stories and case studies (and whether stories and case studies are equal to the task) to examine ethical and moral issues in the practice of law and provide an introduction to the interesting tales which will enfold in this Symposium issue. I conclude with some thoughts about how stories and cases should be used to teach legal ethics.