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A Tribute To Professor Mark H. Grunewald, Samuel W. Calhoun, Robert T. Danforth, Sidney S. Evans, Edward O. Henneman, Andrew W. Mcthenia, Brian C. Murchison, Joan M. Shaughnessy, Barry Sullivan, John W. Vardaman, Mark A. Williams May 2018

A Tribute To Professor Mark H. Grunewald, Samuel W. Calhoun, Robert T. Danforth, Sidney S. Evans, Edward O. Henneman, Andrew W. Mcthenia, Brian C. Murchison, Joan M. Shaughnessy, Barry Sullivan, John W. Vardaman, Mark A. Williams

Washington and Lee Law Review

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A Blueprint For A Fairer Aba Standard For Judging Law Graduates’ Competence: How A Standard Based On Students’ Scores In Relation To The National Mean Mbe Score Properly Balances Consumer Safety With Increased Diversity In The Bar, William Wesley Patton Sep 2017

A Blueprint For A Fairer Aba Standard For Judging Law Graduates’ Competence: How A Standard Based On Students’ Scores In Relation To The National Mean Mbe Score Properly Balances Consumer Safety With Increased Diversity In The Bar, William Wesley Patton

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

Current and recently proposed American Bar Association (ABA) standards regarding students’ bar passage rates have a significant disparate impact on states that have adopted difficult bar examination passage standards (the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE cut scores). Many scholars have demonstrated that the ABA bar passage standards have a negative impact on diversity in the bar by discouraging law schools from enrolling large numbers of minority students, who have, traditionally, performed below state mean in passage rates on the exam. This study presents a new and supplemental standard for the ABA to use in monitoring student outcome measures and law schools’ …


Virginia Bar Exam, February 2017, Section 1 Feb 2017

Virginia Bar Exam, February 2017, Section 1

Virginia Bar Exam Archive

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Virginia Bar Exam, February 2017, Section 2 Feb 2017

Virginia Bar Exam, February 2017, Section 2

Virginia Bar Exam Archive

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The State Of Legal Research Education: A Survey Of First-Year Legal Research Programs, Or “Why Johnny And Jane Cannot Research”, Caroline L. Osborne Jul 2016

The State Of Legal Research Education: A Survey Of First-Year Legal Research Programs, Or “Why Johnny And Jane Cannot Research”, Caroline L. Osborne

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The Pledge For The Public Good: A Student-Led Initiative To Incorporate Morality & Justice In Every Classroom, Alexi Freeman, Katherine Steefel Mar 2016

The Pledge For The Public Good: A Student-Led Initiative To Incorporate Morality & Justice In Every Classroom, Alexi Freeman, Katherine Steefel

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Plyler Students At Work: The Case For Granting Law Licenses To Undocumented Immigrants, Lindy Stevens Mar 2015

Plyler Students At Work: The Case For Granting Law Licenses To Undocumented Immigrants, Lindy Stevens

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Collection Of Student Loans: A Critical Examination, Doug Rendleman, Scott Weingart Mar 2014

Collection Of Student Loans: A Critical Examination, Doug Rendleman, Scott Weingart

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Remedies: A Guide For The Perplexed, Doug Rendleman Apr 2013

Remedies: A Guide For The Perplexed, Doug Rendleman

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Remedies is one of a law student’s most practical courses. Remedies students and their professors learn to work with their eyes on the question at the end of litigation: what can the court do for the successful plaintiff? Remedies develops students’ professional identities and broadens their professional horizons by reorganizing their analysis of procedure, torts, contracts, and property around choosing and measuring relief - compensatory damages, punitive damages, an injunction, specific performance, disgorgement, and restitution. This article discusses the law-school course in Remedies - the content of the Remedies course, the Remedies classroom experience, and Remedies outside the classroom through …


Can And Should Human Rights Themes Impact Decision-Making In A Law School? Reflections From The U.S. Perspective, Nora V. Demleitner Mar 2013

Can And Should Human Rights Themes Impact Decision-Making In A Law School? Reflections From The U.S. Perspective, Nora V. Demleitner

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Human rights (HR) issues, which often reveal themselves from a comparative perspective, are not categorized as such in law schools though they lie beneath fundamental structural decisions. Institutional funding and access directly impact educational, social, economic – and racial -- equality. Curriculum development and coverage – in doctrinal courses and so-called "clinics"– require reflection upon the amount of resources expanded on the teaching of human rights, the connections made between human rights and related subject areas, the restriction of human rights discourse to specific courses. Student affairs regularly deal with human rights questions ranging from religious to disability accommodations. The …


The Challenges To Legal Education In 1973 And 2012: An Introduction To The Anniversary Issue Of The Hofstra Law Review, Nora V. Demleitner Jan 2012

The Challenges To Legal Education In 1973 And 2012: An Introduction To The Anniversary Issue Of The Hofstra Law Review, Nora V. Demleitner

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Innovative Transactional Pedagogies, Joan Macleod Heminway, Michael A. Woronoff, Lyman P.Q. Johnson Jan 2011

Innovative Transactional Pedagogies, Joan Macleod Heminway, Michael A. Woronoff, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

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Our law schools are embracing in a more powerful way innovative transactional pedagogies that address not only theory, policy, and doctrine, but also legal skills. This transcribed panel discussion explores three of these pedagogies – teaching corporate finance as advanced contract drafting, teaching numeracy, and teaching substance and skill in contract drafting through the use of in-office meetings and analytical memos – and describes how they are being implemented in law teaching. The panel was part of the “Transactional Education: What’s Next?” conference hosted by the Emory University School of Law’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice on June 4-5, …


Techniques To Teach Substance And Skill In Contract Drafting: In-Office Meetings And Analytical Memos, Lyman P. Q. Johnson Jan 2011

Techniques To Teach Substance And Skill In Contract Drafting: In-Office Meetings And Analytical Memos, Lyman P. Q. Johnson

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This short article is based on a talk at Emory Law School on Transactional Lawyering. One overall pedagogical aim of a transactional course (or any business contract drafting course) is to link skills training with insistence on in-depth substantive learning about law and business. In this way, skills training – although acknowledged to be practical – also can be recognized as intellectually demanding, a point not always appreciated by proponents of more traditional law teaching. Two techniques for making the connection – in-office meetings and detailed “companion” analytical memos – are described.


Comparative And International Health Law, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost Jan 2003

Comparative And International Health Law, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

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The Social Responsibility Of Corporate Law Professors, Lyman P.Q. Johnson Jan 2002

The Social Responsibility Of Corporate Law Professors, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

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Most statements of corporate social responsibility focus on the responsibilities of corporate decision makers or their advisors Professor Johnson argues that corporate law professors-the persons who educate the students who will become lawyers counseling corporate decision makers-also have a social responsibility. He believes that professors should find various ways to raise the subject of corporate social responsibility in the basic corporations course, and he advocates rejecting a classroom approach that addresses only shareholder-manager relations After describing several possible ways to do this, Professor Johnson spotlights fiduciary laws as a fruitful area to enrich student understandings of director duties in a …


A Defense Of Legal Education In The 1990s, Thomas D. Morgan Jan 1991

A Defense Of Legal Education In The 1990s, Thomas D. Morgan

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Telling A Story About Storytelling, Andrew W. Mcthenia Jan 1990

Telling A Story About Storytelling, Andrew W. Mcthenia

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Legal Education In The United States, John Ritchie Sep 1964

Legal Education In The United States, John Ritchie

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Student Eligibility For The Virginia Barexamination: An Observation Onthe Recent Amendment, Robert R. Huntley, Jr. Sep 1961

Student Eligibility For The Virginia Barexamination: An Observation Onthe Recent Amendment, Robert R. Huntley, Jr.

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.