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Problems In Legal Education 1971, Cleveland State Law Review
Problems In Legal Education 1971, Cleveland State Law Review
Cleveland State Law Review
Six problems in legal education, much discussed recently, were posed by the Editors of this Review to a number of the top educators in the legal world. These questions were and are frankly difficult and controversial, but their answers are important to our system of legal education and to our society. Capsule answers given by these concerned educators are believed to be interesting and significant. Each is a personal rather than a representative opinion. Brief answers such as these, of course, are not expected to be, nor do they pretend to be, complete or profound. Their purpose is to indicate …
Old And New Type Bar Exams, Melvin Nord
Old And New Type Bar Exams, Melvin Nord
Cleveland State Law Review
Bar exams are intended to protect the public by insuring that only competent persons are licensed to practice law. What comprises competency, however, is a difficult question to answer; and how competency is to be determined is even more difficult. As with most difficult questions, the usual approach has been simply to ignore them and "play it by ear." The result has been bar exams in many states which are of marginal value to the public and which have at the same time been extremely unfair to the applicants.
Make Room For The Students: Governance Of The Law School, John J. Regan
Make Room For The Students: Governance Of The Law School, John J. Regan
Cleveland State Law Review
Should students share the power? The issue of student participation in the governance of colleges and universities concerns virtually every institution of higher education in the country. Confrontations at some universities have focused on this issue as one of the prime causes of student discontent. Other institutions have plunged quickly into investigations and discussions of the question to head off such disturbances.