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Not The Evil Twen: How Online Course Management Software Supports Non-Linear Learning In Law Schools, Marie Stefanini Newman
Not The Evil Twen: How Online Course Management Software Supports Non-Linear Learning In Law Schools, Marie Stefanini Newman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
In this article, I will discuss both how today's law students learn through technology, and also theories of personality types and learning styles. I will first review the few existing empirical studies on the subject. Next, I will discuss course Web sites and how they can support, not replace, what happens in the traditional law school classroom. Then, I will discuss how my law school implemented TWEN course Web pages, and discuss the results of a survey of TWEN usage by faculty members at Pace University School of Law. The survey indicates that although TWEN course Web sites have improved …
Tenure: Endangered Or Evolutionary Species, James J. Fishman
Tenure: Endangered Or Evolutionary Species, James J. Fishman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article will review some of the challenges to the system of academic tenure: the efforts to reform, curtail, or eliminate it. It will discuss exogenous factors undermining the institution and then suggest some areas where tenure should evolve, particularly focusing upon academic tenure in legal education. The author argues that the hierarchical structure of traditionally tenured faculty and other faculty, clinicians, and legal writing professors, employed on short or long-term contracts, has undermined academic freedom and tenure.
Developing A Law/Business Collaboration Through Pace's Securities Arbitration Clinic, Jill I. Gross
Developing A Law/Business Collaboration Through Pace's Securities Arbitration Clinic, Jill I. Gross
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article details an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Securities Arbitration Clinic at Pace Law School (“SAC”) and the graduate program at Pace University's Lubin School of Business, designed and initiated by the authors. The purpose of the collaboration is to provide a co-curricular learning experience to both J.D. and graduate business students1 while enhancing the pro bono legal services delivered by SAC to its clients. Part I of this article details the history of SAC before the authors initiated the collaboration, and the reasons SAC needed financial expertise. Part II of this article describes models of interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly between …
Surya Prakash Sinha-In Memory Of Our Colleague, Teacher And Friend, Ralph Michael Stein
Surya Prakash Sinha-In Memory Of Our Colleague, Teacher And Friend, Ralph Michael Stein
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Retired Professor of Law Surya Prakash Sinha died in late July 2005 after a long struggle against cancer. Joining our faculty in 1979 and teaching until 1996, he was a powerful intellectual eminence at our school and a major, highly regarded scholar in the world of Public International Law.