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From The Editors, Ezra Rosser, Robert Dinerstein
From The Editors, Ezra Rosser, Robert Dinerstein
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Although this issue arrives on desks roughly two years after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, it offers a degree of continuity with our usual fare concerning scholarship about legal education. Our next double-length issue will explore in depth matters of teaching modality, technology, and change connected with the ongoing pandemic. This issue offers fresh perspectives on matters of long-standing concern-line drawing, pro bono requirements, pedagogy, law student instruction of high school students, and bar exams. We found the articles, as well as the three book reviews that fill out this issue, to be engaging and insightful and we hope …
The Current Anxiety About "Jd Advantage" Jobs: An Analysis, Susan Carle
The Current Anxiety About "Jd Advantage" Jobs: An Analysis, Susan Carle
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The Failure To Grapple With Racial Capitalism In European Constitutionalism, Jeffrey Miller
The Failure To Grapple With Racial Capitalism In European Constitutionalism, Jeffrey Miller
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Since the 1980s prominent scholars of European legal integration have used the example of U.S. constitutionalism to promote a federal vision for the European Community. These scholars, drawing lessons from developments across the Atlantic, concluded that the U.S. Supreme Court had played a key role in fostering national integration and market liberalization. They foresaw the possibility for the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to be a catalyst for a similar federal and constitutional outcome in Europe. The present contribution argues that the scholars who constructed today’s dominant European constitutional paradigm underemphasized key aspects of the U.S. constitutional experience, including judgments …
The Legal Scholar's Guide Book Reviews, Jamie Abrams
The Legal Scholar's Guide Book Reviews, Jamie Abrams
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Success in law school and in the legal profession often involves mastering and navigating the plethora of unwritten rules and norms that govern institutions and communities. Differences in access to those unwritten rules can privilege and advance some while disadvantaging others. A second-generation law student, for example, is far more likely to know about the professional value of law review than a first-generation law student. Law scholarship is particularly plagued by an insularity that can yield a problematic echo chamber within elite institutions and privileged communities. Thus, the more legal scholarship can be explicitly demystified, taught, and mentored, the more …
From The Editors, Ezra Rosser, Robert Dinerstein
From The Editors, Ezra Rosser, Robert Dinerstein
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
For many law professors, the experiences they had as law students often serve as the primary lens through which they make sense of their own students' experiences. Who could doubt the value in connecting with students over the stress of the first legal research and writing memo or over the challenge involved in learning the rule against perpetuities? But the legal academy will surely prosper from learning directly from students themselves. That is where the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) project comes in.