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Attendee Discussion: How Should Legal Educators And Law Schools Respond To These Changes?, Michael Kelly, Robert Rhee, Gillian Hadfield, Jeanne Charn, William Henderson, Clark Cunningham

Robert Rhee

Michael Kelly. "The Gaping Hole in American Legal Education." Major changes that have occurred in law during the last three decades (such as intense competition and phenomenal increases in compensation in the private sector, and consolidation in law practices of all kinds) have been driven by tightly managed and strongly focused practice organizations. But understanding how organizations function is not part of law school curricula or pedagogy or the agenda of those who would reform legal education. Equipping law students for a career in law in the 21st Century now requires understanding organizations, whether lawyers represent them, oppose them or …

Legal Writing And Other Lawyering Skills, Nancy Schultz, Louis Sirico

Nancy Schultz

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Resolving Legal Disputes In The Metaverse: A Meditation On Teaching Mediation Skills And Perspectives In Virtual Worlds, Andrea M. Seielstad

Andrea M. Seielstad

Posted on bepress Legal Repository.

A Tiny Heart Beating: Student-Edited Legal Periodicals In Good Ol' Europe, Luigi Russi, Federico Longobardi

Luigi Russi

This paper has a twofold aim: to analyze the possible opportunities disclosed by the observed growth of student- dited law reviews in Europe and to propose an innovative model of student participation to legal publication.

The first part explores the phenomenon of student-edited law reviews in the U.S., focusing on its recognized educational benefits. Among others, it is observed that participation in student-edited law reviews might promote greater scholarly maturity among J.D. students, who might in turn be better equipped for a career in the academia after finishing law school, in comparison to their same-age European peers. Hence, there follows …

An Introduction To Us Legal Education And Preparation For The Practice Of Law, Judith Mcmorrow

Judith A. McMorrow

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An Interdisciplinary Framework For Understanding And Cultivating Law Student Enthusiasm, Emily Zimmerman

Emily Zimmerman

Anecdotal evidence abounds about the loss of enthusiasm experienced by law students. Law review articles too note this loss of enthusiasm and the demoralization of law students that occurs during their time in law school. However, although the loss of law student enthusiasm is frequently noted, little has been done to systematically analyze law student enthusiasm. Existing literature does not provide a definition of “law student enthusiasm” or a foundation of theory and research for understanding law student enthusiasm and its significance in legal education.

In an effort to fill the gap in our understanding of law student enthusiasm, this …

An Interdisciplinary Framework For Understanding And Cultivating Law Student Enthusiasm, Emily Zimmerman

Emily Zimmerman

Anecdotal evidence abounds about the loss of enthusiasm experienced by law students. Law review articles too note this loss of enthusiasm and the demoralization of law students that occurs during their time in law school. However, although the loss of law student enthusiasm is frequently noted, little has been done to systematically analyze law student enthusiasm. Existing literature does not provide a definition of “law student enthusiasm” or a foundation of theory and research for understanding law student enthusiasm and its significance in legal education. In an effort to fill the gap in our understanding of law student enthusiasm, this …

Sailing Against The Wind: How A Pre-Admission Program Can Prepare At-Risk Students For Success In The Journey Through Law School And Beyond, Julie M. Spanbauer, Sonia Bychkov Green, Maureen Straub Kordesh

Julie M. Spanbauer

ABSTRACT This article provides a scholarly analysis of an innovative and recently created summer special admissions program designed to provide an opportunity for “at-risk” students. This new program, the “Summer College to Assess Legal Education Skills” (SCALES), was created to provide access and opportunity to students who otherwise would not be admitted to law school because their law school indicators fall below the minimum requirements for admission. Thus, the students enrolled in the program include immigrants, minorities, and nontraditional returning students, many of whom represent the first generation in a family to earn a college degree. To the delight and …

Toxic Diversity: Race, Gender And Law Talk In America, Dan Subotnik

Dan Subotnik

Toxic Diversity offers an invigorating view of race, gender, and law in America. Analyzing the work of preeminent legal scholars such as Patricia Williams, Derrick Bell, Lani Guinier, and Richard Delgado, Dan Subotnik argues that race and gender theorists poison our social and intellectual environment by almost deliberately misinterpreting racial interaction and data and turning white males into victimizers. Far from energizing women and minorities, Subotnik concludes, theorists divert their energies from implementing America's social justice agenda.

Insisting, in the words of James Baldwin, that “not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it …

Abortion And Divorce Law In Ireland, Jennifer Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

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The 'Story' Of Harvard, Daniel Coquillette

Daniel R. Coquillette

No abstract provided.

Legal Research, Nancy Schultz, Louis Sirico

Nancy Schultz

No abstract provided.

Keycite Research Guide, Filippa Anzalone

Filippa Marullo Anzalone

No abstract provided.

Technology In The Classroom: Writing Labs, Judith Tracy

Judith B. Tracy

No abstract provided.

Hypertext For Law Students: A Preliminary Report On Computer Law On Disk, 2.0 (With R. Shiels), Ronald Staudt

Ronald W Staudt

No abstract provided.

The Electronic Law School: A 1992 Snapshot Of The Center For Law And Computers At Chicago-Kent College Of Law, Ronald Staudt

Ronald W Staudt

No abstract provided.

Educating For Professional Competence In The Twenty-First Century: Educational Reform At Chicago-Kent College Of Law, Gary Laser

Gary S. Laser

No abstract provided.

Law Schools Become Computers R Us, Ronald Staudt

Ronald W Staudt

No abstract provided.

Looking Forward To 'Building Bridges', Filippa Anzalone

Filippa Marullo Anzalone

No abstract provided.

News From Salzberg International Conference On Substantive Technology In Academic Application Of Computers To Legal Education August 23-25, Ronald Staudt

Ronald W Staudt

No abstract provided.

The Goals And Missions Of Law Schools, Larry Barnett, W. Van Alstyne, Joseph Julin

Larry D Barnett

This provocative study explores the reasons for the public perception of "too many lawyers" and the failure of current legal education to meet present needs for competent legal services at an affordable cost. The principal reason for that failure, the authors argue, lies in the unquestioning acceptance of a Prestige Model created almost a century ago. The success of that model, largely unaltered to this day, has acted as a constraint on curriculum modification geared to the realities of today's society. The explosions of knowledge, population and government regulation in recent decades require recognition of the need for substantial curriculum …

Cd-Rom Captures Law Texts On Compact Disks, Ronald Staudt

Ronald W Staudt

No abstract provided.

Law Schools Help Lawyers Learn To Use Computers, Ronald Staudt

Ronald W Staudt

No abstract provided.

Computer Education For All First-Year Students, An Update From Iit Chicago-Kent College Of Law, Ronald Staudt

Ronald W Staudt

No abstract provided.

Slicing The Big Tomato, Daniel Coquillette

Daniel R. Coquillette

Orientation Speech to the Entering Class, Boston University Law School

Issues Regarding The Interface Between Group Legal Services And Clinial Legal Education, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.