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Norm-Referenced Grading In The Age Of Carnegie: Why Criteria-Referenced Grading Is More Consistent With Current Trends In Legal Education And How Legal Writing Can Lead The Way, Leslie Rose

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In the current environment of curricular innovation and the increased focus on assessment methods, the time is ripe to reexamine grading practices. Part I of this Article defines basic grading principles. Part II summarizes the current state of grading in law school generally, and in legal writing specifically. Part III reviews the current trends in legal education and the related criticism of norm-referenced grading policies. Part IV explains why criteria-referenced grading should be adopted in legal writing classes. Part V argues that criteria-referenced grading should be adopted in other courses and responds to the concerns that such a proposal might …

The Carnegie Effect: Elevating Practical Training Over Liberal Education In Curricular Reform, Mark Yates

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The Carnegie Foundation issued its book-length report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Carnegie Report) in 2007. Although there have been numerous responses to it, relatively few have engaged it with any degree of critical analysis. Law schools across the country have enthusiastically mentioned the Carnegie Report in connection with curricular changes intended to “prepare” students, in the words of the Report, for the practice of law. Mostly these changes amount to adding clinical options or even clinical requirements, adding units to legal writing programs, and updating professional responsibility courses. Very few, if any law schools, however, have …

So You Want To Teach Law, Rachel A. Van Cleave

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After practicing law and perhaps specializing in a particular area for several years, you cannot help but think, "I wish they had taught me [blank] in law school." You start to wonder whether you could teach a class at a local law school. Here are some tips for pursuing such an endeavor.

Class Notes In "Skills" Courses, Wes R. Porter

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Generally. a student's individual notes are near useless in a skills course. Students do "take notes" in our classes. During lectures. demonstrations. performances by their peers and instructor's critiques, they write down something. But. what do these notes look like? How useful are they after the specific exercise and after the course? Do students retain the notes? Turns out, these notes are not very useful at all.

The Importance Of U.S. Law And Teaching Methods To Korean Undergraduates, Helen H. Kang

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I will talk about three aspects of teaching American law outside of the U.S. and incorporating U.S. legal teaching methods or pedagogies in teaching American law. First, I will briefly discuss international trends as they relate to adoption of the American legal education system – in form, substance, and in delivery. Second, I will talk about the reasons for these trends and what they may signify for teaching American law here in Korea. And, finally, I will talk about the future of teaching American law to Korean students and using American teaching methods.

Teaching Gender As A Core Value In The Legal-Writing Classroom, Leslie Rose

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The consistent use of male-gendered generics to represent all people can have a psychological impact on women by making them feel excluded and by reinforcing traditional gender stereotypes-even when that effect is not intended. Social science research demonstrates that language is a social force that can have an impact on how women view themselves and are viewed by others.

Most modem legal writing texts and style manuals recommend that writers use gender-neutral language, which is achieved by avoiding the use of gendered generics (the use of male or female nouns and pronouns to refer to both men and women). For …

David H. Getches: 1942-2011, James N. Corbridge Jr.

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Happiness In Business Or Law, Peter H. Huang

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This article provides a short introduction to recent happiness research and its applications to business or law that is organized as follows. Section I briefly considers: (1) troubling and not so troubling reservations about happiness research, and (2) how money and happiness are related. Section II concisely surveys two sets of applications of happiness research to business, namely: (1) workplace well-being and meaning, and (2) marketing. Section III succinctly reviews two categories of happiness research implications for law: (1) business regulation, and (2) law student and lawyer happiness.