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If Wishes Were Horses: Reflections Without Footnotes On Legal Education, Irving E. Fasan

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This Commentary suggests a solution to the problems with legal education which the author identifies. The author promotes patterning legal education on either the teaching method employed in the field of accounting or medicine. Each approach emphasizes a broader based legal education with more concentration on the practical learning experience. This Commentary culminates by offering a possible way to reform rather than replace the current system of training lawyers.

Live Free Or Die: Perceptions About Law Students, Irving E. Fasan

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This Commentary explores the differences in medical and legal education to highlight some of the problems with the current legal teaching method. Specifically, this Commentary examines how and why the systematic training of a lawyer is inferior to that of a doctor in several ways. The author generally questions the adequacy of the current legal teaching method and how it effects law students' perceptions of themselves. This Commentary identifies the problem while its companion piece offers a solution.

The Teaching Of The Law Of Thailand, Ted L. Mcdorman

Dalhousie Law Journal

Within the last few years Canada has begun to realize that it is a Pacific Rim country with substantial connections and interests in Asia. As part of this awakening Canadian interest in Asian affairs the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria decided to develop and offer a course entitled "Legal Issues in Southeast Asia", with the hope that such a course would provide a forum for a systematic, informed comparison of the legal systems of Asia.

Le Droit Dans Tous Ses États. La Question Du Droit Au Québec 1970-1987, Philip P. Girard

Dalhousie Law Journal

This book contains 30 essays covering many aspects of Quebec law,' divided into five sections: l'Etat, les personnes, les conditions de vie, les organisations, and a final section entitled l'émergence d'une science juridique. The contributions are united in a formal sense in two ways: their authors are all professors in the department of sciences juridiques at l'Université du Québec à Montréal, and they all focus on developments in the period 1970-1987. Thematically, the pieces are united, according to the preface at any rate, in providing, "une lecture critique de l'évolution des tendances de notre droit" during this agitated, exhilarating and …

Educating Men And Women For Service Through Law: Osgoode Hall Law School 1963-1988, Mary Jane Mossman

Dalhousie Law Journal

My work... has assumed the shape of ... a spiral curriculum, circling around the same issues, though trying to keep them open-ended. This statement was penned by Northrop Frye in Spiritus Mundi in the context of reflections about creativity and literary criticism, but it aptly describes as well the intellectual ferment of writing about legal education in Canada during the past few decades. Indeed, Frye's suggestion that the above quotation "may be only a rationalization for not having budged an inch in eighteen years ' may similarly offer an important clue about the legal education debate in Canada and the …

Teaching Professional Responsibility In Law School, Alvin Esau

Dalhousie Law Journal

After eight years of teaching a three-credit course on The Legal Profession and Professional Responsibility to second- and third-year law students, I am left with a sense of great dissatisfaction with the whole enterprise. So deep is my dissatisfaction that I am questioning whether to continue or move into a different course instead. This paper is an opportunity to take stock of my experience and attempt to map out the causes of my dissatisfaction, and to seek some vision, if possible, of what the course should be about, how to teach it, and why I should bother. To give the …

Introduction: The Internationalization Of Law And Legal Practice, Thomas E. Carbonneau

Journal Articles

The Eason-Weinmann Colloquium entitled "The Internationalization of Law and Legal Practice," held in March 1988, addressed the challenges posed to conventional legal practice and rules of law by the evolution of the international marketplace. In light of the increasingly international character of commercial transactions, could or should disputes in transnational business ventures be adjudicated exclusively within national processes and according to domestic strictures? Does the character of these transactions portend the creation of a new genre of lawyering? Are current academic curricula adapted to the molding of this new breed of lawyers? Is a functional international bar possible? Do we …

Crime In The Stacks, Or A Tale Of A Text: A Feminist Response To A Criminal Law Textbook, Mary I. Coombs

Articles

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Recasting Behavior: An Essay For Beginning Law Students, Robert H. Heidt

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Dauer-Brown Letters: Towards A Comprehensive Legal Education, Edward A. Dauer, Louis M. Brown

Cleveland State Law Review

Edward A. Dauer is President of the National Center for Preventive Law at the University of Denver. Louis M. Brown developed and advocates preventive law jurisprudence. In this dialogue, drawn from an exchange of correspondence between them, Dauer and Brown focus their insights on how best to gear law school curricula to train lawyers to handle the complexities of a "real life" practice.

Coping With Change: The Lawyer's Role, Wilton S. Sogg

Cleveland State Law Review

The following articles are the result of an experimental course entitled "Current Problems of Small Business" offered at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Primarily for third-year students, the course was designed to provide a practical learning experience in seminar format. The course focused on business issues, but also taught lawyering skills such as interviewing, counseling, negotiating and drafting. Thus, the students were provided a pragmatic learning experience that can be applied to legal practice.

The Politics Of Law (Teaching) (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens

Faculty Articles

The satiric novel, as a “message” novel, can provide unvarnished truths about the object of satire. Institutions of higher learning, particularly law schools, and the denizens of those institutions, are prime subjects for satire because they take themselves so seriously. Unfortunately, though, The Socratic Method by Michael Levin takes itself as seriously as the law school it is criticizing.

One of the hazards of the satiric novel is that the message may overwhelm the plot and characterization. Levin, in his zeal to awaken the reader to the torture of the law school, and particularly the torture of the law school …

The Catholic Tradition, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

If you stand in the road near one of the on-campus Roman Catholic university law schools in the United States, you can probably see a church spire. You can squint past whatever fire wall or battlement or gothic tower there is on the law building and see the campus church. You can do this at Notre Dame, St. Louis, Creighton, San Francisco, Boston College, and San Diego. If you go inside one of these law buildings, you may find crucifixes, chapels, holy-water fonts, or a statute of Thomas More. But none of these things will tell you what those law …

Of Rules And Discretion: The Supreme Court, Federal Rules And Common Law, Stephen B. Burbank

Notre Dame Law Review

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Voices, Values And Community: Some Reflections On Legal Writing, Frank Pommersheim

Frank Pommersheim

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