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Actively Achieving Greater Racial Equity In Law School Classrooms, Catherine Bramble, Rory Bahadur
Actively Achieving Greater Racial Equity In Law School Classrooms, Catherine Bramble, Rory Bahadur
Cleveland State Law Review
2020 illustrated the ongoing pervasiveness of implicit and explicit racism in our society. Less well-acknowledged and recognized is the extent to which Socratic pedagogy also reflects those pervasive racist realities while simultaneously resulting in inferior learning based on a teaching method invented 150+ years ago. Despite this racist and outdated reality, the legal academy has been reluctant to alter the traditional method of teaching. Tangible, empirical evidence obtained from data-driven cognitive learning science research demonstrates that active learning not only improves learning outcomes for all students, but also mitigates the structural effects of racism in the classroom thereby increasing racial …
Is Law A Discipline? Forays Into Academic Culture, Gene R. Shreve
Is Law A Discipline? Forays Into Academic Culture, Gene R. Shreve
Cleveland State Law Review
This Article explores academic culture. It addresses the reluctance in academic circles to accord law the full stature of a discipline. It forms doubts that have been raised into a series of four criticisms. Each attacks an academic feature of law, inviting the question: Is law different from the rest of the university in a way damaging its stature as an academic discipline? The Article concludes that, upon careful examination of each criticism, none establishes a difference between law and other disciplines capable of damaging law’s stature.
Self-Interest And Sinecure: Why Law School Can’T Be “Fixed” From Within, David Barnhizer
Self-Interest And Sinecure: Why Law School Can’T Be “Fixed” From Within, David Barnhizer
David Barnhizer
The issue of how best to do a legal education is being approached as if it were an intellectual and pedagogical question. Of course in a conceptual sense it is. But from a political and human perspective (law faculty, deans and lawyers) it is a self-interested situation in terms of how does this affect me? The reality is that for law faculty and deans it is mainly a life style, status, economic benefit and political situation in which the various interests protected by the traditional faculty slot placeholders [as well as the non-traditional practice-oriented teachers) are being masked by self-serving …
The Mystery Of David Barnhizer, Sheldon Gelman
The Mystery Of David Barnhizer, Sheldon Gelman
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Professor Sheldon Gelman recalls the professional contributions and personal qualities of his colleague Professor David Barnhizer upon the occasion of his retirement.
What I Did Last Summer: A Few Thoughts On Getting Tenure, Christopher Sagers
What I Did Last Summer: A Few Thoughts On Getting Tenure, Christopher Sagers
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Professor Sagers shares his humorous reflections on obtaining tenure, noting that even if tenure is not really all that funny, and even if it courts some controversy, it turns out that it is nevertheless really interesting.
Thanks, But I'M Just Looking : Or Why I Don't Want To Be A Dean, Susan J. Becker
Thanks, But I'M Just Looking : Or Why I Don't Want To Be A Dean, Susan J. Becker
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
The author discusses the challenges facing law faculty who consider taking on the duties of law school administration.
Making The Move From Law Practitioner To Law Professor, Or How Not To Simplify Your Life, Susan J. Becker
Making The Move From Law Practitioner To Law Professor, Or How Not To Simplify Your Life, Susan J. Becker
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
The author discusses her transition from litigation practice to teaching law. She concludes that there are three discrete yet connected components of a law professor's job which closely parallel that of a litigator: teaching, administrative service, and scholarship.
On Defining Academic Scholarship, Stephen J. Werber
On Defining Academic Scholarship, Stephen J. Werber
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
In 1970, I left the world of a litigation attorney and joined that of academia. One of the first survival lessons that I learned was that, in order to gain tenure and ultimately achieve the pinnacle of full professor, I had to establish myself as a scholar. This, I learned, meant that I had to publish. Perusal of the Personnel Policies of our University, which are similar to those of many others, indicated that a key to a successful career was that I produce "an outstanding record as a scholar." The closest definition to the term in the personnel policies …
Advice For The New Law Professor: A View From The Trenches, Susan J. Becker
Advice For The New Law Professor: A View From The Trenches, Susan J. Becker
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
A decade ago, Professor Douglas Whaley published an essay that offers comfort and advice to those commencing the metamorphosis from practitioners, judicial clerks, and students into professors of law. The purpose of this article is twofold: to offer a confirmation from the trenches of many of Professor Whaley's observations and to supplement his suggestions with some of my own.
The Woman Law Student: The View From The Front Of The Classroom, Jurate Jason, Lizabeth Moody, James Schuerger
The Woman Law Student: The View From The Front Of The Classroom, Jurate Jason, Lizabeth Moody, James Schuerger
Cleveland State Law Review
The primary purpose of this study was to examine law professors' opinions on selected areas of the professor-student relationship with primary focus on the professors' views of and reactions to women law students. A secondary purpose of the study was to stimulate law professors to examine their attitudes and behavior toward women law students.
A Few Words About Law Teaching, Robert A. Leflar
A Few Words About Law Teaching, Robert A. Leflar
Cleveland State Law Review
The purpose of these few paragraphs will be to look for a quick moment at the law teacher's job as it appears both in retrospect and prospect to one whose law school teaching spans more than forty years and whose fortunate experience at working with other jobs in the law has given him reason to appreciate mightily the happy chance that led him as a youth into the teaching branch of the legal profession.
Random Gripes Of A Law Professor, Marcus Schoenfeld
Random Gripes Of A Law Professor, Marcus Schoenfeld
Cleveland State Law Review
Let use begin at the beginning-the "slave markets." Everyone, both "buyers" and "sellers," agree that it's an exhausting, demeaning,and inefficient way to hire professors. But the art form remains remarkably constant, since no better means of mass matchmaking has yet been devised. Possibly we should adopt the British system, requiring all schools to advertise their openings in the Times classified section. More likely, we will start computerizing to remove the last vestiges of humanity from the system. But until the system is basically changed, why not try to smooth out some rough spots?
Then And Now: A Bit Of Autobiography And An Argument, Vernon X. Miller
Then And Now: A Bit Of Autobiography And An Argument, Vernon X. Miller
Cleveland State Law Review
I am old enough to give my younger colleagues (and a few of my contemporaries) some advice. Study the 1920's. They were a law teachers' decade. Even you, honestly sophisticated as you are, can find out how the profession got to where it is. No one of us can afford to stop growing. The profession needs you as lawyers because the profession is under siege. The university schools need you as lawyers because the schools just could forfeit their power in the profession.
Current Controversies About Legal Education (A Survey), Ray Forrester, Leon Green, John G. Hervey, Fred E. Inbau
Current Controversies About Legal Education (A Survey), Ray Forrester, Leon Green, John G. Hervey, Fred E. Inbau
Cleveland State Law Review
Ten current questions on major controversial problems of legal education, of wide general interest and importance, were posed by the Editors of this review to leading legal educators. These questions were and are frankly difficult and controversial, but their answers are of vital importance to our system of legal education and to our society. Capsule answers given by these distinguished personages are believed to be interesting and significant.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 succinctly the approach of outstanding American "opinion …