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Playing The Game Of Life, John E. Donaldson

Popular Media

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Field Of Deans, Richard Gershon

Richard Gershon

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Of Rants And Money, Jack Mcneill

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

We should create and maintain a bright line between professionals and nonprofessionals in law libraries. If we fail to acknowledge any difference between professionals and non-professionals, why should our employers? The least we should ask of people seeking to enter the profession is to make a commitment to the profession by earning a degree. Rather than act as individuals within a profession, we must act as professional individuals, continually aware of how our individual actions will influence our field. Perhaps then we can stop ranting and begin enjoying the fruits of our professional labor.

Psychodrama And The Training Of Trial Lawyers: Finding The Story, Dana K. Cole

Akron Law Faculty Publications

The author attempts in this article to make trial lawyers and trial advocacy teachers aware of a tool called psychodrama and how it is being used in prepartation for trial and at trial.

Teaching Legal Analysis Using A Pluralistic Model Of Law, Wilson R. Huhn

Akron Law Faculty Publications

The purpose of this Article is to describe a pluralistic model of reasoning that may be used to teach the skills of legal analysis. There are different ways to categorize legal arguments. Perhaps the most common method is to identify different legal arguments with specific schools of jurisprudence or moral philosophy. This is the standard approach followed by leading scholars such as Lon Fuller. In a classic article, Fuller illustrated how a murder case could be analyzed utilizing jurisprudential frameworks such as positivism, natural law, social contract, practical wisdom, and legal realism. Another example of this method of characterizing legal …

The Use Of Video-Conferencing Technology In Legal Education: A Practical Guide, Catherine Arcabascio

Faculty Scholarship

This article explores the use of advanced computer technologies to offer distance learning programs in United States law schools. It begins with an explanation of the original distance learning methods and differentiates them from current methods that incorporate computer-based technologies. The article also explains the different types of technologies available for use in distance learning and describes the model currently in use at the Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University ("Law Center"). Finally, it discusses the pedagogical and planning issues that arise when using this technology, the hardware that is required, and the costs associated with this type …

Make The Student The Professor, Katharine F. Nelson

Katharine F. Nelson

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Legal Skills For A Transforming Profession, Gary A. Munneke

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The legal profession is undergoing dramatic changes that will drive a reformation in legal education. Legal educators must anticipate these changes to effectively prepare students for the practice of law in the twenty-first century. In order to be proficient practitioners, these students will require an expanded set of professional skills. Although the current legal skills paradigm was articulated by the American Bar Association MacCrate Task Force in 1991, it is time to reexamine legal skills with an eye toward preparing students to practice law in the new millennium. In Section II, this article examines trends in modern society and the …

Psychodrama And The Training Of Trial Lawyers: Finding The Story, Dana K. Cole

Dana Cole

The author attempts in this article to make trial lawyers and trial advocacy teachers aware of a tool called psychodrama and how it is being used in prepartation for trial and at trial.

Teaching Legal Analysis Using A Pluralistic Model Of Law, Wilson R. Huhn

Wilson R. Huhn

The purpose of this Article is to describe a pluralistic model of reasoning that may be used to teach the skills of legal analysis. There are different ways to categorize legal arguments. Perhaps the most common method is to identify different legal arguments with specific schools of jurisprudence or moral philosophy. This is the standard approach followed by leading scholars such as Lon Fuller. In a classic article, Fuller illustrated how a murder case could be analyzed utilizing jurisprudential frameworks such as positivism, natural law, social contract, practical wisdom, and legal realism. Another example of this method of characterizing legal …

The Jeffersonian Vision Of Legal Education, Davison M. Douglas

Faculty Publications

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Legal Education Reform: Modest Suggestions, Alan Watson

Scholarly Works

No approach to legal education will be perfect, given that (in my opinion) a law school should serve various purposes. But I should like to offer a few modest and practical suggestions. They are modest in that they do not require additional time for law studies. They are practical in that they will increase the exposure of students both to law as practice and to law as an intellectual discipline. In addition they involve no greater burden on law schools.

First, and this should not be controversial -- but I fear will be the most controversial -- would be the …

Surveying Gender Bias At One Midwestern Law School, Lisa A. Wilson, David H. Taylor

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Learning Through Service In A Clinical Setting: The Effect Of Specialization On Social Justice & Skills Training, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez

Faculty Scholarship

Arguing against the trend toward specialization in clinical legal education, this essay addresses potential limitations of specialized legal clinics in furthering the dual mission of clinical legal education: social justice and skills training. It points out that specialized clinics limit access to justice by leaving the myriad needs of clients partially unmet. They limit students' learning about the complex needs of clients and students' ability to discover broad inequities in the legal system. Specialization makes it more difficult to train students to be creative problem solvers, and affects their professional socialization

Reflections On Good (Law) Teaching, Mary Kate Kearney, Mary Jane Kearney

Mary Kate Kearney

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A Era Pós-Napster, Ivo T. Gico

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.

O artigo analisa questões referentes à divugação não autorizada de obras artísticas pela internet e os problemas enfrentados pela indústria fonográfica, contrastando o direito ao acesso à informação, controle e seu papel fundamental na construção de uma democracia. The article examines issues relating to unauthorized disclosure of artistic works on the Internet and the problems faced by the music industry, opposed by the access to information rights, control and its fundamental role in the building of a democracy.

Why You Should Use A Course Web Page, E. Joan Blum

E. Joan Blum

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It All Begins With You: Improving Law School Learning Through Professional Self-Awareness And Critical Reflection, Filippa M. Anzalone

Filippa Marullo Anzalone

From the author's introduction: This paper grows out of my reflections on my own introduction to learning theory. In it, I hope to accomplish two things. First, I present a modest proposal for becoming a better teacher. My thesis is simple: by knowing more about ourselves and our own learning processes, preferences, and inclinations, we will become better teachers. We will discover why we have elected to teach as we do, and we will also uncover when we have been on automatic pilot, blithely accepting the role of law professor, as conceived by our institutions, our students' expectations, and our …

Teaching Ethical, Holistic Client Representation In Family Adr, Phyllis E. Bernard

Phyllis E. Bernard

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Values And Lawyering Skills, John J. Capowski

John J. Capowski

No abstract provided.