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Clinical Legal Education From A Systems Perspective, Edgar S. Cahn
Clinical Legal Education From A Systems Perspective, Edgar S. Cahn
Cleveland State Law Review
This article seeks to address some of the consequences of choosing to make the imparting of lawyering competency a primary objective of legal education and utilizing a clinical methodology to accomplish that objective. My basic argument is that more is entailed than simply the addition of a clinic. In effect, one is talking about "system design." Regardless of the scale of that system, the emergence of competency criteria has direct applicability to the design and grading of final examinations in conventional classroom courses. The larger the scale of a clinic within a school's curriculum, the more significant the consequences for …
The League Of Ohio Law Schools: Past Failure - Future Success, Stanley E. Harper Jr.
The League Of Ohio Law Schools: Past Failure - Future Success, Stanley E. Harper Jr.
Cleveland State Law Review
In a recent article Dean Stanley Samad stated that the League of Ohio Law Schools "is unique in legal education." In fact the Ohio League is the only formal state-wide association of law schools in the United States. Throughout its twenty-five year history the Ohio League has served on the one hand as a kind of legal education policeman and on the other hand as a liaison agent between the Ohio law schools, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Board of Bar Examiners, and the Supreme Court of Ohio.
Are Evening Law Schools Better Than Day Schools, William Samore
Are Evening Law Schools Better Than Day Schools, William Samore
Cleveland State Law Review
In the field of legal education, there long has been a certain myth-the myth of the natural superiority of day law schools over evening law schools.