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Oral History Interview With Low Kee Yang: Conceptualising Smu, Kee Yang Low Nov 2010

Oral History Interview With Low Kee Yang: Conceptualising Smu, Kee Yang Low

Oral History Collection

The interview covered: first involvement with SMU, university education in Singapore, curriculum, CIRCLE values, private university, logo, teaching pedagogy, interview students for admissions, legal aspects, incorporation of SMU, first day of class, law school, challenges, student recruitment, law internships, Juris Doctor programme, challenges.

Biography:

Associate Professor of Law, SMU, 2000–present

Member of SMU start-up team

Professor Low Kee Yang joined the start-up team for SMU in 1998; one of his responsibilities was supervising legal matters. He served as deputy dean of the business school from 1999 to 2002 and chaired the organising committee for the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business …


North Dakota Law, Rob Carolin Oct 2010

North Dakota Law, Rob Carolin

North Dakota Law

Alumni Magazine of the University of North Dakota School of Law


Florida State Law Alumni Magazine (Fall 2010), Florida State University College Of Law Office Of Development And Alumni Affairs Oct 2010

Florida State Law Alumni Magazine (Fall 2010), Florida State University College Of Law Office Of Development And Alumni Affairs

Alumni Newsletter & FSU Law Magazine

No abstract provided.


Roll Over Langdell, Tell Llewellyn The News: A Brief History Of American Legal Education, Stephen R. Alton Jul 2010

Roll Over Langdell, Tell Llewellyn The News: A Brief History Of American Legal Education, Stephen R. Alton

Faculty Scholarship

The origin of this essay is a presentation the author made at the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas on December 10, 2008. This essay is derived from the author's presentation, which originally was entitled "A Brief and Highly Selective History of American Legal Education and Jurisprudence. " In this essay, the author provides an overview of the history and development of legal education in America, emphasizing the establishment and evolution of the case method of instruction in American law schools and focusing on the influence of American jurisprudence on the development of legal education in …


North Dakota Law, Rob Carolin Apr 2010

North Dakota Law, Rob Carolin

North Dakota Law

Alumni Magazine of the University of North Dakota School of Law


Florida State Law Alumni Magazine (Spring 2010), Florida State University College Of Law Office Of Development And Alumni Affairs Apr 2010

Florida State Law Alumni Magazine (Spring 2010), Florida State University College Of Law Office Of Development And Alumni Affairs

Alumni Newsletter & FSU Law Magazine

No abstract provided.


Deepening The Discourse Using The Legal Mind’S Eye: Lessons From Neuroscience And Psychology That Optimize Law School Learning, Hillary Burgess Mar 2010

Deepening The Discourse Using The Legal Mind’S Eye: Lessons From Neuroscience And Psychology That Optimize Law School Learning, Hillary Burgess

Hillary Burgess

Research demonstrates that incorporating visual aids and exercises into learning environments improves learning with higher-order cognitive skills such as “thinking like a lawyer.” This article argues that because law school learning focuses on the highest order cognitive skills, professors optimize the learning environment by including visual aids and visual exercises.

This article begins by defining what higher order cognitive skills are by mapping common law school learning tasks onto a leading taxonomy of learning objectives. This article argues that the legal curriculum engages all six levels of learning by traditionally teaching the lowest four levels of learning and by traditionally …


The Prosser Notebook: Classroom As Biography And Intellectual History, Christopher Robinette Feb 2010

The Prosser Notebook: Classroom As Biography And Intellectual History, Christopher Robinette

Christopher J Robinette

When a former student offered to let me see his grandfather's Torts notebook, I was intrigued. The 70-year-old black notebook has developed a patina, but is in remarkably good condition. The sides have a lightly textured surface. The spine, not damaged by cracks, has several small gold stripes running across it. The notebook belonged to a first-year law student named Leroy S. Merrifield during the 1938-39 academic year at the University of Minnesota Law School. Merrifield used it to record notes during his Torts class. His professor was William Prosser.

Because Prosser's papers likely have been destroyed, Merrifield's notebook offers …


Japan’S Legal Education Reforms From An American Law Professor’S Perspective, Jeffrey Lubbers Jan 2010

Japan’S Legal Education Reforms From An American Law Professor’S Perspective, Jeffrey Lubbers

Reports

This paper describes and analyzes Japan’s reform of legal education. This reform that began in 2004—a new system of legal education, coupled with changes in the national bar examination and in the national legal training institute for successful exam-takers—was part of a wideranging national law reform movement in Japan. As a result, 74 universities across Japan established graduate-level “law schools,” most of which were added to pre-existing undergraduate law departments. The new law schools provide a degree equivalent to an American Juris Doctor (JD) degree. These law degrees became the main prerequisite for taking the national bar exam. The pass …


A Little More Mascara: Response To Making Up Is Hard To Do, Darren Rosenblum Jan 2010

A Little More Mascara: Response To Making Up Is Hard To Do, Darren Rosenblum

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Response to the exploration of the dynamics of race, gender, and sexual orientation in the law school classroom by Professors Adrienne Davis and Robert Chang.


Top 10 Law School Home Pages Of 2009, Roger V. Skalbeck Jan 2010

Top 10 Law School Home Pages Of 2009, Roger V. Skalbeck

Law Faculty Publications

This brief ranking report attempts to identify the best law school home pages based entirely on objective criteria. The goal was to include elements that make websites easier to use for sighted as well as visually impaired users. Most elements require no special design skills, sophisticated technology or significant expenses


The Legal Writing Institute: Celebrating 25 Years Of Teaching & Scholarship, Robin Boyle Jan 2010

The Legal Writing Institute: Celebrating 25 Years Of Teaching & Scholarship, Robin Boyle

Faculty Publications

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BRITTANY FLOWE: Welcome everyone. I am Brittany Flowe, the Lead Articles editor of the Mercer Law Review. On behalf of all the students and faculty, we are truly grateful for your presence here today. We are excited and honored to be celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversa­ry of the Legal Writing Institute. Thank you all for being here; we are looking forward to a wonderful panel. Now, I would like to introduce Dean Daisy Hurst Floyd.

DEAN DAISY FLOYD: Thank you everyone. Good morning. It is my great privilege to welcome you to Macon, to Mercer University, and to Mercer University's …


Contested Meanings: Achievement And Ambition At An Elite Law School, Deborah Waire Post Jan 2010

Contested Meanings: Achievement And Ambition At An Elite Law School, Deborah Waire Post

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.