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From Judge To Dean: Reflections On The Bench And The Academy, David F. Levi
From Judge To Dean: Reflections On The Bench And The Academy, David F. Levi
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In July of 2007, having served nearly seventeen years as a United States District Judge with chambers in Sacramento, California, I moved to Durham, North Carolina, to become the fourteenth dean of the Duke University Law School. I would concede that in the grand scheme of things such a transition must be deemed unremarkable. Lawyers have become soldiers, presidents, artists, and inn keepers. Judges have left the bench to do much the same. Nonetheless, in the somewhat closed worlds of the federal bench and the legal academy, at a time when the two worlds have seemed to drift apart, such …
Keeping Up With Legal Technology: Five Easy Places, Jennifer L. Behrens
Keeping Up With Legal Technology: Five Easy Places, Jennifer L. Behrens
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Supporting Scholarship: Thoughts On The Role Of The Academic Law Librarian, Richard A. Danner
Supporting Scholarship: Thoughts On The Role Of The Academic Law Librarian, Richard A. Danner
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Discussing the role of the law library in legal education is necessary and essential, both because of the demands libraries place on increasingly tight law school budgets and space, and the challenges that libraries face as the information they collect and organize has moved largely from print to digital formats. This paper explores the roles of academic law librarians in supporting faculty scholarship within the context of the forces affecting libraries, librarians, and legal education in the (still early) twenty-first century. Although it has been more than 30 years since the widespread adoption of the legal research databases in the …
One Student’S Thoughts On Law School Clinics, Jeffrey Ward
One Student’S Thoughts On Law School Clinics, Jeffrey Ward
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Law school offers few opportunities for students to move beyond the ink and paper law of textbooks to see the actual effects of real law on real communities. Because law school clinics offer a rare opportunity for students to see the real and imperfect law-in-action, the import of immersive clinical experiences on the education of tomorrow's lawyers is inestimable. Through clinics, students learn how the law really works, witness its power and its shortcomings, and ideally begin to envision what shape the law ought to take. Expressing a student's perspective on how to make the most of the extraordinary opportunity …
The Pedagogy Of The Old Case Method: A Tribute To “Bull” Warren, Paul D. Carrington
The Pedagogy Of The Old Case Method: A Tribute To “Bull” Warren, Paul D. Carrington
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First in a series of occasional features, "Legends of the Legal Academy," focused on law teachers whose lessons and teaching style left an enduring imprint on their students, their institutions, and the profession. This essay is a modification of a comment on Duncan Kennedy's youthful assault on the legal education that he had recently experienced, Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System (1983). Kennedy's book was republished in 2003 by the New York University Press, with Prof. Carrington's comment as an addendum to its republication.