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Crisis And Trigger Warnings: Reflections On Legal Education And The Social Value Of The Law, 90 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 615 (2015), Kim D. Chanbonpin
Crisis And Trigger Warnings: Reflections On Legal Education And The Social Value Of The Law, 90 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 615 (2015), Kim D. Chanbonpin
Kim D. Chanbonpin
This Essay begins by understanding the law school crisis through the framework of disaster capitalism. This framing uncovers the ways in which reformers are taking advantage of the current crisis to restructure legal education. Under the circumstances, faculty may reasonably read the contemporaneous student-led movement to require trigger warnings in the classroom as an assault on academic freedom. This reading, however, clouds the water. Part II attempts to clear the confusion by decoupling the trigger-warning movement from the broader phenomenon of law school corporatization. Trigger-warning demands might alternatively be read as a student critique of traditional law school pedagogy. Especially …
Embracing Diversity Through A Multicultural Approach To Legal Education, 1 Charlotte L. Rev. 223 (2009), Julie M. Spanbauer, Katerina P. Lewinbuk
Embracing Diversity Through A Multicultural Approach To Legal Education, 1 Charlotte L. Rev. 223 (2009), Julie M. Spanbauer, Katerina P. Lewinbuk
Julie M. Spanbauer
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Testing, Discrimination, And Opportunity: A Reply To Professor Harvey Gilmore, Dan Subotnik
Testing, Discrimination, And Opportunity: A Reply To Professor Harvey Gilmore, Dan Subotnik
Dan Subotnik
This article was written as part of an ongoing dialog about the author’s previous article, "Does Testing = Race Discrimination?: Ricci, The Bar Exam, the LSAT, and the Challenge to Learning," which defended the Supreme Court’s decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, as well as defending testing more generally against charges of irrelevance, racial obtuseness, and most seriously, race discrimination. This article specifically responds to an article written by Professor Harvey Gilmore which focuses mostly on the SAT and the LSAT.