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The Impact Of The Americans With Disabilities Act On Legal Education And Academic Modifications For Disabled Law Students: An Empirical Study, Donald H. Stone
The Impact Of The Americans With Disabilities Act On Legal Education And Academic Modifications For Disabled Law Students: An Empirical Study, Donald H. Stone
All Faculty Scholarship
Law schools face the challenge of providing disabled students with reasonable accommodations in their academic setting in a fair and equitable manner. Disabled law students continue to demand academic modifications in course examinations by claiming to be persons with mental or physical disabilities. Law schools are also beginning to see requests for extension of time for degree completion, priority in course registration, and authorization to tape record classes, all by virtue of an entitlement under the mandates of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Persons with a wide range of disabilities are seeking academic modifications from their law schools. What …
The Revolving Door Part I: A Federal Prosecutor Returns To School, Frank O. Bowman Iii
The Revolving Door Part I: A Federal Prosecutor Returns To School, Frank O. Bowman Iii
Faculty Publications
Law teaching is hard work. To my trial lawyer friends who expressed envy at the easy life I must be enjoying, I often said they should imagine having to prepare and present five or six oral arguments a week, every week, for months on end. To the novice teacher presenting several courses for the first time, the task often feels just that daunting. As practicing lawyers, we flatter ourselves that we are "experts" in our fields, and thus that it would be a simple matter to step over to the local law school and, with minimal preparation, unburden ourselves of …
Teacher Power In The Law School Classroom, Julie Macfarlane
Teacher Power In The Law School Classroom, Julie Macfarlane
Dalhousie Law Journal
Law teachers make choices over syllabus material, teaching methods and assessment formats, and thus inevitably exercise some control over what and how students learn. The actualpowerof each individual law professor will depend on the context of her particular classroom and her perceived credibility, generally defined by the university as the demonstration of a particular (rationalist) model of subject expertise. The intrinsic hierarchies and highly competitive culture of law school sustain this traditional model of knowledge along with its congruent image of the professor as autonomous, powerful and the focus of the classroom. Feminist law teachers and others who wish to …
The Use And Effectiveness Of Various Learning Materials In An Evidence Class, Stephen J. Shapiro
The Use And Effectiveness Of Various Learning Materials In An Evidence Class, Stephen J. Shapiro
All Faculty Scholarship
Like many law teachers, I take reasonable care in selecting the outside materials I require my students to use (or recommend to them) in preparing for class and studying for the exam. I base my choice on my own notions of what would be most helpful to them in learning the material, preparing for class, succeeding on the exam, and preparing to be lawyers. I carefully weigh such matters as length of assignment, interest to the students, and active versus passive learning.
My assessment, however, is based almost entirely on my own notions of what the students will find most …
5, Amy D. Ronner
"Simple Truths" About Moral Education , Eleanor W. Myers
"Simple Truths" About Moral Education , Eleanor W. Myers
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
“Some Kind Of Lawyer”: Two Journeys From Classroom To Courtroom And Beyond, Terry Birdwhistell
“Some Kind Of Lawyer”: Two Journeys From Classroom To Courtroom And Beyond, Terry Birdwhistell
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
In January 1996 a panel of the American Bar Association released a report concluding that "discrimination continues to permeate the structures, practices and attitudes of the legal profession." It has been a long journey in women's efforts to obtain equity in both law schools and in the legal profession generally. This article is composed of two interviews with University of Kentucky College of Law graduates: Norma Boster Adams (’52) and Annette McGee Cunningham (’80). Twenty-eight years separated Norma Adams and Annette Cunningham at the College of Law. They faced different obstacles and chose varied paths to success. While each can …
Books Vs. Non-Book Information, Betty W. Taylor
Books Vs. Non-Book Information, Betty W. Taylor
UF Law Faculty Publications
Book survival, particularly in the field of law, is faced with various challenges in this modern age of computer technology." Are law librarians at the crossroads where we have chosen non-book resources over books because of their superiority in content and value? Will books survive? Will only some types of books survive? These questions serve as fodder for futurists, happy solutions for financial woes of administrators, and concern of librarians about service, space, and, perhaps most important of all, their own survival.
A Decade Of Developments In Performance-Based Legal Education, Deborah A. Schmedemann, Christina L. Kunz
A Decade Of Developments In Performance-Based Legal Education, Deborah A. Schmedemann, Christina L. Kunz
Faculty Scholarship
This tribute summarizes some of the accomplishments of William Mitchell college of Law in performance-based learning in legal education between 1986 and 1996. It first chronicles developments in the first-and second-year performance-based courses and then turns to upper-level curricular developments. At each point, it touches on course development and scholarship--the parallel tracks pursued by faculty focusing on performance-based legal education. As a result of these developments, the college is well positioned to contribute to the growth of performance-based learning in legal education nationally.
Confronting Expectations: Women In The Legal Academy, Christine Haight Farley
Confronting Expectations: Women In The Legal Academy, Christine Haight Farley
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
A seemingly insurmountable barrier to women's success in legal academia is the way they are perceived. Numerous studies have shown that women are perceived as less competent than men and that the same work is evaluated more critically when it is thought to have been done by a woman than by a man. This problem exists in all aspects of life, but it is especially acute for women in professional roles, such as academics. Legal academia, however, seems to be particularly resistant to viewing women as equally competent. The article presents original empirical research that shows that student evaluations of …
Ethical Commitments, Anthony V. Alfieri
How We Teach: A Survey Of Teaching Techniques In American Law Schools, Steven I. Friedland
How We Teach: A Survey Of Teaching Techniques In American Law Schools, Steven I. Friedland
Seattle University Law Review
A person's law school teaching is predicated on or supported by one or more learning theories, therefore, Part II of this Article discusses cognitive and developmental learning theories and how they relate to law school teaching methods. Part III explains the teaching survey that was sent to the law schools, including the questionnaire used and the type of respondents who answered. Part IV of the Article reproduces the questionnaire results. Part V analyzes those results. This Article concludes that teaching methods should be consciously related to the learning process. Only by focusing on how students learn can a teacher truly …
Russian Women Lawyers In Post-Soviet Russia, Phoebe W. Brown
Russian Women Lawyers In Post-Soviet Russia, Phoebe W. Brown
Georgia State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Chaotic Pseudotext, Paul F. Campos
Book Review, Marianne Wesson
Teaching Research To Faculty: Accommodating Cultural And Learning-Style Differences, Jane Thompson
Teaching Research To Faculty: Accommodating Cultural And Learning-Style Differences, Jane Thompson
Publications
Ms. Thompson explores the challenge of teaching law school faculty how to research effectively, especially in light of a unique "faculty culture" and differences in individual learning styles.
This Could Be Your Culture--Junk Speech In A Time Of Decadence, Pierre Schlag
This Could Be Your Culture--Junk Speech In A Time Of Decadence, Pierre Schlag
Publications
No abstract provided.
Judicial Knowledge, William B. Fisch
Judicial Knowledge, William B. Fisch
Faculty Publications
This paper reviews rules governing the use by judges in United States courts of their personal knowledge - as distinguished from that supplied by the parties in the adjudication of a civil case, whether of the particular facts out of which the dispute arises, or of general information with which the particular facts must be processed, or of law which is to be applied to the particular facts.
Searches, Seizures, Confessions, And Some Thoughts On Criminal Procedure: Regulation Of Police Investigation -- Legal, Historical, Empirical, And Comparative Materials, Daniel B. Yeager
Faculty Scholarship
Criminal procedure casebooks densely populate the market but rarely are reviewed. In Criminal Procedure: Regulation of Police Investigation-Legal, Historical, Empirical, and Comparative Materials, Christopher Slobogin copes with the anxiety of influence by writing a different sort of text. Simply put, the book is outwardly somewhat homely. Aesthetics aside, the book is mostly excellent and astonishingly so for a first edition. As the subtitle promises, the book has something for everyone: historians, empiricists, comparativists, theoreticians, case-crunchers, and practitioners. This review essay tracks the book's crowning achievement-the refreshing and inventive "perspectives" chapter that opens the book. The essay then reflects on …
The Odds Against Teaching Conflicts, Gene R. Shreve
The Odds Against Teaching Conflicts, Gene R. Shreve
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Development Of Law Firm Training Programs: Coping With A Turbulent Environment, Edwin H. Greenebaum
Development Of Law Firm Training Programs: Coping With A Turbulent Environment, Edwin H. Greenebaum
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
A Tribute To Jerry Israel: A Friend With A Messy Office, Debra A. Livingston
A Tribute To Jerry Israel: A Friend With A Messy Office, Debra A. Livingston
Faculty Scholarship
My legal education began with Jerry Israel.
During the fall of 1977, I was assigned to his section of Criminal Law. From the very first day of class, Jerry made it clear to us that the problems of crime and punishment were at once profoundly important and elusively difficult. Jerry taught from judicial opinions in the classic Socratic mode. Each day we were forced to grapple with the perplexing manner in which the language of precedent, so comforting when first encountered in the frame of an opinion, turned to quicksilver when tested against new cases, real or hypothetical.
Legal Education In The 1990s, Louise L. Hill