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The Carnegie Effect: Elevating Practical Training Over Liberal Education In Curricular Reform, Mark Yates Oct 2011

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 …


A Primer For Teaching Law As An Adjunct Professor, Rachel A. Van Cleave May 2011

A Primer For Teaching Law As An Adjunct Professor, 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.


So You Want To Teach Law, Rachel A. Van Cleave May 2011

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.