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1996

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The Revolving Door Part I: A Federal Prosecutor Returns To School, Frank O. Bowman Iii Apr 1996

The Revolving Door Part I: A Federal Prosecutor Returns To School, Frank O. Bowman Iii

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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 …


Judicial Knowledge, William B. Fisch Jan 1996

Judicial Knowledge, William B. Fisch

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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.