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A Summary Reflection On Legal Education, Robert Pascal, Olivier Moreteau Dec 2014

A Summary Reflection On Legal Education, Robert Pascal, Olivier Moreteau

Olivier Moréteau

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Enduring Hierarchies In American Legal Education, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, Andrew P. Morriss, William D. Henderson Jul 2014

Enduring Hierarchies In American Legal Education, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, Andrew P. Morriss, William D. Henderson

Indiana Law Journal

Although much attention has been paid to U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of U.S. law schools, the hierarchy it describes is a long-standing one rather than a recent innovation. In this Article, we show the presence of a consistent hierarchy of U.S. law schools from the 1930s to the present, provide a categorization of law schools for use in research on trends in legal education, and examine the impact of U.S. News’s introduction of a national, ordinal ranking on this established hierarchy. The Article examines the impact of such hierarchies for a range of decision making in law school …


Innovation In Teaching Llcs: Introduction, Lyman P.Q. Johnson Apr 2014

Innovation In Teaching Llcs: Introduction, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

Lyman P. Q. Johnson

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Notre Dame Law School: Catholicism, Conscience And Commitment, Martha Vazquez Mar 2014

Notre Dame Law School: Catholicism, Conscience And Commitment, Martha Vazquez

Notre Dame Law Review

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The Danger Of Nonrandom Case Assignment: How The S.D.N.Y'S 'Related Cases' Rule Has Shaped The Evolution Of Stop-And-Frisk Law, Katherine Macfarlane Jan 2014

The Danger Of Nonrandom Case Assignment: How The S.D.N.Y'S 'Related Cases' Rule Has Shaped The Evolution Of Stop-And-Frisk Law, Katherine Macfarlane

Journal Articles

The Southern District of New York’s local rules are clear: "[A]ll active judges . . . shall be assigned substantially an equal share of the categories of cases of the court over a period of time." Yet for the past fourteen years, Southern District Judge Scheindlin has been granted near-exclusive jurisdiction over one category of case: those involving wide-sweeping constitutional challenges to the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policies. In 1999, Judge Scheindlin was randomly assigned Daniels v. City of New York, the first in a series of high-profile and high-impact stop-and-frisk cases. Since then, she has overseen an uninterrupted stream of equally …


Teaching Llcs Through A Problem-Based Approach, Michelle M. Harner, Robert J. Rhee Jan 2014

Teaching Llcs Through A Problem-Based Approach, Michelle M. Harner, Robert J. Rhee

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Teaching Llcs By Design, Anne M. Tucker Jan 2014

Teaching Llcs By Design, Anne M. Tucker

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Innovation In Teaching Llcs: Introduction, Lyman P.Q. Johnson Jan 2014

Innovation In Teaching Llcs: Introduction, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.