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Legal education

2011

University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

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The Method And The Message, Corie Rosen Sep 2011

The Method And The Message, Corie Rosen

Nevada Law Journal

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Injecting Law Student Drama Into The Classroom: Transforming An E-Discovery Class (Or Any Law School Class) With A Complex, Student-Generated Simulation, Paula Schaefer Sep 2011

Injecting Law Student Drama Into The Classroom: Transforming An E-Discovery Class (Or Any Law School Class) With A Complex, Student-Generated Simulation, Paula Schaefer

Nevada Law Journal

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Legal Education Comes To Nevada: The Creation Of The William S. Boyd School Of Law, Mary Berkheiser Jan 2011

Legal Education Comes To Nevada: The Creation Of The William S. Boyd School Of Law, Mary Berkheiser

Scholarly Works

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Getting Real About Legal Realism, New Legal Realism And Clinical Legal Education, Katherine R. Kruse Jan 2011

Getting Real About Legal Realism, New Legal Realism And Clinical Legal Education, Katherine R. Kruse

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Jerome Frank’s call for a “clinical lawyer-school” is cited so frequently in clinical scholarship that it borders on the canonical. Like many calls for reform in legal education, Frank’s plea for clinical lawyer-schools was based on a critique of the appellate case method of legal instruction. However, unlike most critiques, the legal realist critique was embedded within a jurisprudential challenge to the meaning of law itself, arising from American Legal Realism. Running through legal realist jurisprudence was a distinction between the “law in books” and the “law in action,” with the idea that law is not found primarily in statutes …