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From Judge To Dean: Reflections On The Bench And The Academy, David F. Levi Jan 2010

From Judge To Dean: Reflections On The Bench And The Academy, David F. Levi

Faculty Scholarship

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 …


One Student’S Thoughts On Law School Clinics, Jeffrey Ward Jan 2010

One Student’S Thoughts On Law School Clinics, Jeffrey Ward

Faculty Scholarship

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 Jan 2010

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.


A Foundational Proposal For Making The Durham Statement Real, Wayne V. Miller Jan 2010

A Foundational Proposal For Making The Durham Statement Real, Wayne V. Miller

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This outline is an attempt to synthesize the issues surrounding the ambitious project of the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship into a coherent, though still quite preliminary solution. At the heart is the conviction that the problems of digital publishing are best solved by a stable and open organization of and by the stakeholders.