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Correlation Versus Causality: Further Thoughts On The Law Review/Law School Liaison, Ronen Perry Dec 2006

Correlation Versus Causality: Further Thoughts On The Law Review/Law School Liaison, Ronen Perry

Ronen Perry

This Essay is the third in a series of articles discussing the relative value of American law reviews, and a response to Professor Alfred Brophy's elaboration of my initial study of the high mathematical correlation between law review quality, as manifested in citation-based measures, and law school reputation. Given my prior interest in the relative value of American law reviews, I have used the abovementioned correlation as a means to explain some of the variance in quality among law reviews. Brophy's empirical findings overlap mine, yet the extent of his analysis, as well as his interpretation and utilization of the …

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The Relative Value Of American Law Reviews: Refinement And Implementation, Ronen Perry Dec 2006

The Relative Value Of American Law Reviews: Refinement And Implementation, Ronen Perry

Ronen Perry

This Article complements a recently published paper in which I discussed the theoretical and methodological aspects of law review rankings. The purpose of this Article is twofold: refinement of the theoretical framework, and implementation. It proposes, defends, and implements a complex ranking method for general-interest student-edited law reviews, based on a judicious weighting of normalized citation frequency and normalized impact factor. It then analyzes the distribution of journals’ scores, and the diminishing marginal difference between them. Finally, it examines the correlation between law schools’ positions in the U.S. News & World Report 2006 ranking and their flagship law reviews’ positions …

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Vol. 57, No. 6, November 21, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School Nov 2006

Vol. 57, No. 6, November 21, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Students, Administration Respond to Prop. 2 •Sarbanes-Oxley Symposium •Focus on Public Interest: Betsey Wiegman •1L Job Search •Take it From Me: Law School Bathrooms •Photos from Bar Night, Jenny Runkles •Adam Dubinsky

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Vol. 57, No. 5, November 7, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School Nov 2006

Vol. 57, No. 5, November 7, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Colorado Senator Speaks About Career, Politics •Open Letter •Debriefing the Halloween Ticket Snafu •Take It From Me •Lipton's New Pyramid Tea Put to the Test •Coffee Cart Arrives in 200 HH •LSSS Fall Wine and Cheese Pics •A Layman's Guide to Pass/Fail •Nannes 3L Challenge Hits its Target •BLSA Date Auction Pics •LSSS Halloween Party Pics •Navigating the PRS with Priorities in Hand

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Vol. 57, No. 4, October 24, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School Oct 2006

Vol. 57, No. 4, October 24, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•An Interview with Alex Joel •Double Booking Problems •Learning the Dual Degree Tango •How to Distinguish Between Law Firms •Harvard Law Changes First-Year Curriculum •Bar Night Pics •Headnotes Pics •Michigan Civil Rights Initiative •Take It from Me •Caminker "Hottest" Dean in the Nation

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Vol. 57, No. 3, October 4, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School Oct 2006

Vol. 57, No. 3, October 4, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Interview with Christine Gregory •Letter to the Editor •U.S. Solicitor General Speaks on SCOTUS •Mainstreaming Feminism in Legal Education •3Ls Stepping Up to the Nannes Challenge •Environmental Law Symposium •The Etiquette of Wrong •Focus on Public Service •Michigan Civil Rights Initiative Lecture Series Schedule •MCRI and Affirmative Action •Banned Book Day Pics •Grabbing a Bite •Pining for Piven •Crossword

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Vol. 57, No. 2, September 19, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School Sep 2006

Vol. 57, No. 2, September 19, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Class of 2009 by the Numbers •Renovations Deserve Our Applause •A Warm Welcome From Dean Caminker •My Return to Cable •Focus on Public Service •3L Pledging Begins with a Bang •The Keys to Success •Bar Night Pics •LSSS Gives the Lowdown on the Upcoming Year •Japanese Cuisine in the McNamara Terminal •Grade Curves •Crossword

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Vol. 57, No. 1, August 28, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School Aug 2006

Vol. 57, No. 1, August 28, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Tips for Early Interview Week and Beyond •All I Ever Needed to Know About OCI I Learned Doing My Laundry •Get Your Dream Job in Your Dream City •Top 10 Things Not to Say on Callbacks •If You Can Dodge the Wrench You Can Dodge These Interview Questions •The OCI Drinking Game! •The Opening of Law School Dating Season •10 Things Not to Do as a Summer Associate •Crossword •Green OCI

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An Essay On Strategies For Facilitating Learning, David Barnhizer Jun 2006

An Essay On Strategies For Facilitating Learning, David Barnhizer

David Barnhizer

There is a convenient assumption among many American law teachers that the existing model of the American law school works effectively. This includes the belief that the dominant methods and goals are not only appropriate and comprehensive but are being achieved. The reality is quite different. Law teachers tend to be amateurs from the perspective of the quality of our teaching. We are largely unaware of the most effective ways to structure a curriculum, integrate course offerings and design and execute individual courses. This essay focuses on goals, strategies and techniques for the facilitation of student learning. It reflects a …

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Academic Freedom On The Rack: Stretching Academic Freedom Beyond Its Constitutional Limits In Fair V. Rumsfeld, Rory Thomas Gray Jun 2006

Academic Freedom On The Rack: Stretching Academic Freedom Beyond Its Constitutional Limits In Fair V. Rumsfeld, Rory Thomas Gray

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Vol. 56, No. 11, April 4, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School Apr 2006

Vol. 56, No. 11, April 4, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Prof. Friedman Goes to Washington •Community Mourns Loss of Alumnus •Editorial: Lame Ducks Quack Thanks •Atkinson: M-Law's Jack of All Trades •Prof. Schneider on OCI and Your Future as a Lawyer •Students, Caminker Discuss Wireless Policy •Senior Day is What You Want it to Be: Make it Count •Putting it All on the Table •Alumnus Considers Duke Rape Allegations, Campus Tensions, Unfair Policies •The Handlebars of the Soul •APALSA Origins Festival Photos •LSSS Prom Photos •Introducing the Poetry of T.S. Eliot •An Open Letter to the Female Law School Community •How the Profs Stole Summer •Griot Photos •Crossword •A Day …

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Vol. 56, No. ∞, April 1, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School Apr 2006

Vol. 56, No. ∞, April 1, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Michigan Law to Drop to No. 11: Class of 2006 Officially Apologizes

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Late Night Thoughts On Blogging While Reading Duncan Kennedy's Legal Education And The Reproduction Of Hierarchy In An Arkansas Motel Room, Franklin G. Snyder Apr 2006

Late Night Thoughts On Blogging While Reading Duncan Kennedy's Legal Education And The Reproduction Of Hierarchy In An Arkansas Motel Room, Franklin G. Snyder

Faculty Scholarship

It has been more than twenty years since Duncan Kennedy published his seminal 'Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy'. In it he called for a radical assault on the hierarchies embedded in American law schools. But that assault failed. Over the past two decades, the hierarchies of legal education have, if anything, become even more fixed, insular, and status-driven, even while the elites of the practicing bar have changed dramatically and become more open to outsiders. It is vastly easier for the graduate of a fourth-tier law school to become a partner at an elite law firm than it …

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Paid Family Leave In American Law Schools: Findings And Open Questions, Laura T. Kessler Mar 2006

Paid Family Leave In American Law Schools: Findings And Open Questions, Laura T. Kessler

ExpressO

There exists a substantial literature on the status of women in the legal profession, including studies on women students’ experiences in law schools, gender bias on law school faculties, and family leave policies and practices among legal employers. However, no recent study examines the family leave policies and practices in American law schools. This study seeks to fill that gap. Its findings are threefold. First, almost three quarters of law schools provide wage replacement during a family leave that is more generous than required by federal law. Second, there is a positive relationship between teaching at top-tier and private law …

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Vol. 56, No. 10, March 21, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School Mar 2006

Vol. 56, No. 10, March 21, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Destination Gulfport: Spring Break in the Wake of Katrina •Editorial: About Those Grade Curves •Everything That's Fit to Moot (Court) •Mark West on Japan, Fashion and Why Dean Croley Will Never be on 'The Daily Show' •LSSS Candidates Share Statements •Don't Let Your Life Bully You •Bar Month Photos •Reflections on my Term: Successes and Failures •Which Me is Me? •MSA Representative Candidates Speak Out •Grade Curves •The Ancient Art of Mixtaping •Question on the Quad •It IS Wrong to Yell Fire in a Crowded Library: You Shouldn't Yell in the Law Library •SFF Auction Photos

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Vol. 56, No. 9, February 21, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School Feb 2006

Vol. 56, No. 9, February 21, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Don't Panic! Save Yourself (Jail) Time, Trouble With 'The Law Student's Guide to the Planet' •Coke Ban Can Beat the Real Thing •Ann Arbor Has a 'Starry Night' •In Re Kwan •An Open Apology to Christina Whitman •Introducing the Poetry of Wallace Stevens •I Know What You Did Last Semester •'Term of Arts' Opening Photos •Michigan Hoops '06: Just Another Tease? •Crossword •Question on the Quad

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Vol. 56, No. 8, February 7, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School Feb 2006

Vol. 56, No. 8, February 7, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Renovations to Destroy Locker Monstrosity •Community Mourns Loss of Student •A Half-Hour with Prof. Brensike •Lawopen is Not a Toy •The King of Spain Never Rushes •Introducing the Poetry of Ranier Maria Rilke •Rogue Wave Hits High Tide with Descended Like Vultures •Mr. Wolverine Photos •How to Get Better Grades in Law School Just by Talking Real Smart-Like •The Last Chance... to do What? •50 Ways to Leave Your Landlord •2006 Honda Civic SI: Return of the King •Crossword

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Life's Golden Tree: Empirical Scholarship And American Law, Carl E. Schneider, Lee E. Teitelbaum Feb 2006

Life's Golden Tree: Empirical Scholarship And American Law, Carl E. Schneider, Lee E. Teitelbaum

Articles

What follows is a simplified introduction to legal argument. It is concerned with the scheme of argument and with certain primary definitions and assumptions commonly used in legal opinions and analysis. This discussion is not exhaustive of all the forms of legal argument nor of the techniques of argument you will see and use this year. It is merely an attempt to introduce some commonly used tools in legal argument. It starts, as do most of your first-year courses, with the techniques of the common-law method and then proceeds to build statutory, regulatory, and constitutional sources of law into the …

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Vol. 56, No. 7, January 24, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School Jan 2006

Vol. 56, No. 7, January 24, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•3Ls and Profs Give Note Taking Tips •Editorial: First-Day Reading Board Should be Online •South African Justice Gives MLK Talk •Summer Holiday in Cambodia: It's Not Just a Job, It's an Adventure •Take Advantage of Public Service Activities •Introducing the Poetry of Hart Crane •Admissions A.D. Shares Her Career Path, Thoughts on Public and Private Practice •Bar Night Photos •The Long, Dark, Car Repair of the Soul •A Bar I May Actually Not Enjoy •There is Hope Yet for the Jobless •Students Should Unite Against Senseless Internet Policy •SFF: What it is, What it Does, and Why You Should Care …

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William W. Cook: Articles From Law Quad Notes About William W. Cook, Margaret A. Leary Jan 2006

William W. Cook: Articles From Law Quad Notes About William W. Cook, Margaret A. Leary

Books

This collection of articles published from 2002-2004 is the embryo of a biography I hope to complete so that full information about the life and times of William W. Cook (1858- 1930) is accessible. Cook was important to the University of Michigan and its Law School because he gave virtually all of his considerable fortune to the Law School, and was the first individual to give so much.

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University Of Michigan Law School Faculty, 06/07, University Of Michigan Law School Jan 2006

University Of Michigan Law School Faculty, 06/07, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Biographies of the University of Michigan Law School faculty.

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Negative Action Versus Affirmative Action: Asian Pacific Americans Are Still Caught In The Crossfire, William C. Kidder Jan 2006

Negative Action Versus Affirmative Action: Asian Pacific Americans Are Still Caught In The Crossfire, William C. Kidder

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

The author concludes that Espenshade and Chung's inattention to the distinction between negative action and affirmative action effectively marginalizes APAs and contributes to a skewed and divisive public discourse about affirmative action, one in which APAs are falsely portrayed as conspicuous adversaries of diversity in higher education. The author will also argue that there is ample reason to be concerned about the harmful effects of divisive and empirically unsupported claims about APAs influencing the public debate over affirmative action, particularly in Michigan, where an anti-affirmative action initiative nearly identical to California's Proposition 209 will appear on the November 2006 ballot. …

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Academic Freedom: Disciplinary Lessons From Hogwarts, Emily M. Calhoun Jan 2006

Academic Freedom: Disciplinary Lessons From Hogwarts, Emily M. Calhoun

Publications

No abstract provided.

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Maiming The Cubs, James J. White Jan 2006

Maiming The Cubs, James J. White

Articles

In the last twenty years much has been written about the deleterious effect that law school has on the mental well-being of law students.' Many have called for "humanizing" law school. In support of their case, the advocates of humanizing cite numerous anecdotes, much scholarly writing in the psychology literature, and even a few rigorous studies of law students. A principal voice is that of Professor Krieger who has done the most careful and elaborate study, a study of students at two law schools.1 You should understand that Professor Krieger and his cohorts do not merely claim that we make …

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Unanimously Wrong, Dale Carpenter Jan 2006

Unanimously Wrong, Dale Carpenter

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

The Supreme Court was unanimously wrong in Rumsfeld v. FAIR. Though rare, it's not the first time the Court has been unanimously wrong. Its most notorious such decisions have come, like FAIR, in cases where the Court conspicuously failed even to appreciate the importance of the constitutional freedoms under attack from legislative majorities. In these cases, the Court's very rhetoric exposed its myopic vision in ways that now seem embarrassing. Does FAIR, so obviously correct to so many people right now, await the same ignominy decades away? FAIR was wrong in tone, a dismissive vox populi, adopted by a Court …

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The Economics Of Open Access Law Publishing, Jessica D. Litman Jan 2006

The Economics Of Open Access Law Publishing, Jessica D. Litman

Articles

The conventional model of scholarly publishing uses the copyright system as a lever to induce commercial publishers and printers to disseminate the results of scholarly research. Recently, we have seen a number of high-profile experiments seeking to use one of a variety of forms of open access scholarly publishing to develop an alternative model. Critics have not quarreled with the goals of open access publishing; instead, they've attacked the viability of the open access business model. If we are examining the economics of open access publishing, we shouldn't limit ourselves to the question whether open access journals have fielded a …

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Maiming The Cubs, James J. White Jan 2006

Maiming The Cubs, James J. White

Articles

It is easy to believe that students are made anxious and even depressed by law school and that the anxiety and depression stay with many students throughout school. It is harder to believe that these stresses cause permanent and irreversible change and that the ills of lawyers are traced in any meaningful way to the stresses of the three years of law school.

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Why China?: A Startling Transformation, Nicholas C. Howson Jan 2006

Why China?: A Startling Transformation, Nicholas C. Howson

Articles

Another vantage point—the view from inside China— reveals a process of transformation even more startling and far-reaching than the external manifestations of China’s rise.

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