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In The Beginning: Foundations Of A Successful Deanship, Neil Fulton

Lincoln Memorial University Law Review Archive

The job of a modern law school dean is demanding and complex. Decanal tenures are increasingly short. Those who take on the work of being a law school dean are asked to accomplish a great deal in a short period of time. As a result, the first year of any decanal tenure is vital. The lessons of experience learned by many deans and foundational ideas of leadership scholars provide guideposts for new deans to chart a course through their first year. This essay explores those ideas for new deans to consider and implement in their own way.

Clinicians Reflect On Covid-19: Lessons Learned And Looking Beyond, The Association Of American Law Schools (Aals) Policy Committee, Deborah Archer, Caitlin Barry, Lisa Bliss, Gautam Hans, Vida Johnson, Carolyn Haas, Lynnise E. Pantin, Kele Stewart, Erica Wilson, The Clinical Legal Education Association (Clea) Committee For Faculty Equity And Inclusion, Priya Baskaran, Jennifer Fernandez, Crystal Grant, Anjum Gupta, Julia Hernandez, Alexis Karteron, Shobha Mahadev

Faculty Scholarship

As a result of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, clinical faculty had to abruptly adapt their clinical teaching and case supervision practices to adjust to the myriad restrictions brought on by the pandemic. This brought specialized challenges for clinicians who uniquely serve as both legal practitioners and law teachers in the law school setting. With little support and guidance, clinicians tackled never before seen difficulties in the uncharted waters of running a clinical law practice during a pandemic.

In this report, we review the responses of 220 clinicians to survey questions relating to how law clinics and clinicians were treated by …

Aman Reflects On "Page-Turning" Opportunities Throughout His Indiana Law Tenure, Kenneth L. Turchi, Alfred Aman

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

After nearly 50 years of practicing, teaching, and administration, Alfred C. (Fred) Aman, Jr., took emeritus status at the end of the 2019–2020 academic year. Earlier this fall, he visited with ergo editor Ken Turchi to reflect on his distinguished career.

Rhetoric & Reality In The Aba Standards, Linda L. Berger

Scholarly Works

The rhetoric of Chapters 3 and 4 of the ABA Standards creates, maintains, and perpetuates hierarchies in law school faculties. Those hierarchies subordinate some categories of faculty members and the courses they teach. Without change in the Standards or their implementation, these hierarchies will remain, and the values and norms of traditionally privileged faculty and subject matters will become even more firmly embedded as representing the best of the legal academy. By adopting the 405(c) “best practices” policy statement, individual law schools and law faculties take upon themselves the power to demonstrate that the ABA Standards are the floor, not …

Encouraging This Particular Form Of (Very Fun) Madness – Roles For Deans And Faculty Members, Martin J. Katz, Phoenix X. F. Cai

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Our broader goal is to encourage experiential learning in the transactions curriculum. I know that all of you are here and do not need convincing. So my goal for this session is to try and provide some persuasive tools to help you convince people at your schools about both the value and the possibility of this type of teaching and learning.

Measuring Merit: The Shultz-Zedeck Research On Law School Admissions, Kristen Holmquist, Marjorie Shultz, Sheldon Zedeck, David Oppenheimer

Marjorie M. Shultz

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Reforming The Law School Curriculum From The Top Down, R. Michael Cassidy

Journal of Legal Education

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Law Student Plagiarism: Contemporary Challenges And Responses, Robin F. Hansen, Alexandra Anderson

Journal of Legal Education

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What Courses Should Law Students Take? Lessons From Harvard's Biglaw Survey, John C. Coates Iv, Jess M. Fried, Kathryn E. Spier

Journal of Legal Education

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The Experiential Sabbatical, Martin H. Pritikin

Journal of Legal Education

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Measuring Merit: The Shultz-Zedeck Research On Law School Admissions, Kristen Holmquist, Marjorie Shultz, Sheldon Zedeck, David Oppenheimer

Journal of Legal Education

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Analyzing Carnegie's Reach: The Contingent Nature Of Innovation, Stephen Daniels, Martin Katz, William Sullivan

Journal of Legal Education

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Designing A Law Library To Encourage Learning, Lee F. Peoples

Journal of Legal Education

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The Professor And The Judge: Introducing First-Year Students To The Law In Context, Michael B. Mushlin, Lisa Margaret Smith

Journal of Legal Education

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Scholarship With Purpose: The View From A Mission-Driven School, Christine N. Cimini

Articles

This essay explores the ways that a law school’s unique culture impacts the role of the Associate Dean for Scholarship. Written by the first person to hold this position at Vermont Law School (VLS), this essay focuses specifically on how the Associate Dean for Scholarship supports VLS’s commitment “to developing a generation of leaders who use the power of the law to make a difference in our communities and the world.” This vision of the role, as implemented at VLS, includes: providing support to all faculty, regardless of status; supporting faculty who speak to broad audiences; and embracing a broad …

Book Review Of Failing Law Schools, By Brian Z. Tamanaha, David Burk

Journal of Legal Education

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American Law Schools In A Time Transition, Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Journal of Legal Education

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The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession In Crisis, By Stephen J. Harper (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens

Faculty Articles

Stephen J. Harper’s The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis, is the latest iteration of the “institutional failure” or “business disaster” story. A number of such books were published around 1990, and have been quite popular since then, for businesses (such as Enron and Tyco) keep failing in such spectacular fashion. The Great Recession that began in December 2007 led to another round of business disaster books, and like their forebears these books make a hard sell for the claim that the disaster was of a titanic nature. And where the business disaster book is found, the legal disaster book …

My Top Ten Tips For Good Deaning, Michael Coper

Journal of Legal Education

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Clinical Faculty In The Legal Academy: Hiring, Promotion And Retention, Bryan L. Adamson, Calvin Pang, Bradford Colbert, Kathy Hessler

Journal of Legal Education

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Student Perspectives On Legal Education: A Longitudinal Empirical Evaluation, Cassandra M.S. Florio, Steven J. Hoffman

Journal of Legal Education

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Is It Fair? Law Professors' Perceptions Of Tenure, Katherine Barnes, Elizabeth Mertz

Journal of Legal Education

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Rankings, Economic Challenge, And The Future Of Legal Education, Gene R. Nichol

Journal of Legal Education

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Tenure And The Law Library Director, James M. Donovan, Kevin B. Shelton

Journal of Legal Education

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Impoverishing "The Greatest Law School In The World": The Financial Collapse Of Harvard Law School, 1895-1909, Bruce A. Kimball

Journal of Legal Education

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Before The Paper Chase: Student Culture At Harvard Law School, 1895-1915, Bruce A. Kimball

Journal of Legal Education

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Book Review Of The Trials Of Academe: The New Era Of Campus Litigation, By Amy Gajda, Joseph D. Mandel

Journal of Legal Education

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Student Cheats And Those Who Harbor Them, Sue D. Naim

Journal of Legal Education

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Missing Missions: Further Reflections On Institutional Pluralism (Or Its Absence), Jerome Organ

Journal of Legal Education

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Negotiating Paths, Creepy Crawly Creatures And Things That Go Bump In The Night: The Cautionary Tale Of A Fourth-Year Dean, Linda Ammons

Linda L. Ammons

This essay on the perils and pleasures to be found on the path of a law school dean was written for the 10th Leadership in Legal Education Symposium at the University of Toledo College of Law.