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Summer Law Study Abroad 1995, Marketing

Law School Bulletins & Prospectus

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The Reports Of The Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania, Joel Fishman

Joel Fishman

This article reviews the history of the court reports of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from mid-eighteenth century to present along with a bibliography of the reports.

Why Teach International Family Law In Conflicts?, William L. Reynolds

Faculty Scholarship

[The author] sets forth a challenge to conflicts professors: to teach international family law in their conflict of laws classes. At present, many conflicts professors avoid teaching international family law, in part because the study of this subject is complicated by several statutes addressing particularly difficult issues. Ignorning international family law is unwise, because many United States citizens and lawyers are likely to confront such problems.

Teaching Commercial Law In The Third Year: A Short Report On A Business Organizations Commercial Law Clinic, John F. Dolan, Russell A. Mcnair Jr.

Law Faculty Research Publications

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Anti-Intellectualism, Pierre Schlag

Publications

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Tomorrow's Law Schools: Globalization And Legal Education, 32 San Diego L. Rev. 137 (1995), Alberto Bernabe

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

The recent changes in world political and economic structures call for an adjustment of legal education theory. The movement toward the globalization of the economy will open opportunities for the expansion of the market of legal services. However, it will also affect the availability and accessibility of those services. This essay describes some of the effects of the globalization movement on legal education and proposes some changes to help meet the challenge of preparing lawyers for practice in this new and rapidly changing world.

Manuscript Selection Anti-Manifesto, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

Joining a conversation begun by James Lindgren, An Author's Manifesto, 61 U. Chi. L. Rev. 527 (1994), Prof. Tobias discusses the process of submission, review, and editorial work on articles published in student-edited law reviews.

An Author's Manifesto (Manifesto) constructively criticizes the amazingly arcane process of law review publication and affords salient suggestions for its improvement. The essay treats two aspects of this process-the selection of manuscripts and the editing of articles which sustain that venerable institution: student-edited law journals. Manifesto regales readers with many terrible tales of travesties which involve article editing but recounts comparatively few sordid stories that …

Impartiality In The Classroom: A Personal Account Of A Struggle To Be Evenhanded In Teaching About Abortion, Samuel W. Calhoun

Scholarly Articles

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The Catholic Sponsorship Of Legal Education: A Bibliography, William J. Wagner, Denise M. Ryan

Scholarly Articles

The present bibliography offers access to the base of knowledge that is essential to the Catholic sponsorship of legal education. It references information on the nature and history of Catholicism, the Law, the Legal Profession, and the University, as these four elements relate to formulating a philosophy of Catholic legal education, and to designing and putting into effect a program of legal education suited to a Catholic school. As further general categories suited to analyzing the requisites of these tasks, the bibliography employs the following headings: 1) philosophical issues; 2) historical issues; 3) academic policies and oversight; and 4) government …

Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter 1995)

IU Law Update

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Rosalie Wahl: Her Extraordinary Contributions To Legal Education, James F. Hogg

Faculty Scholarship

Justice Rosalie Wahl is well-known as the first woman to be appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court, but she has made a lesser known, yet critical, contribution to the quality and effectiveness of legal education in this country. As chair of the American Bar Association's Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Wahl created the MacCrate Commission. The MacCrate Report charts the way for improvement in law school teaching and learning, and the discussion following the report lead to the creation of an ABA Commission to take testimony and review the ABA Accreditation Standards. Wahl also chaired this …

Learning By Doing - Preparing Law Students For The Practice Of Law: The Legal Practicum, John O. Sonsteng, Roger S. Haydock

Faculty Scholarship

The MacCrate Report outlined ten skills that are essential for every practicing attorney and should ideally be taught in every law school. The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) concluded that these ten skills cannot be effectively obtained through every law school curriculum because of each school's individual, economic limitations. This article demonstrates how one law school—William Mitchell College of Law, in St. Paul, Minnesota—has , since 1984, incorporated a cost effective Legal Practicum course into its curriculum to help meet the MacCrate Report goal of providing the law student with the opportunity to learn and apply fundamental lawyering skills. …

Dough, Re, Me: The Scale Of Justice (A Descant For Entering First-Year Law Students), Kelly Kunsch

Faculty Articles

In his own inimitable style, Mr. Kunsch reengineers the well-known "Do Re Mi "from The Sound of Music to help introduce new law students to the legal profession.

A Better Spirit, Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte

Florida State University Law Review

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Teacher, Leader, Servant, W. Dexter Douglass

Florida State University Law Review

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Classes Of 1995-1996, North Carolina Central School Of Law

Class Profiles

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A Teacher’S Trouble: Risk, Responsibility And Rebellion, Lisa G. Lerman

Scholarly Articles

What follows is an edited transcript of a session at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 7, 1995. The meeting was a joint plenary session of the AALS Section on Professional Responsibility and the Section on Clinical Legal Education. The meeting was planned and the role plays were written by Professors Margaret Martin Barry and Lisa Lerman of The Catholic University of America and Professor Homer La Rue of Howard University.

The purpose of the program was to foster interaction among teachers of professional responsibility and clinical teachers about …

Jacques Of All Trades: Derrida, Lacan, And The Commercial Lawyer, Sidney Delong

Faculty Articles

Professor DeLong’s article provides humorous advice for legal professors on how to apply deconstructionist and post-Freudian theory to commercial law classes. Professor DeLong explains that the key to the successful integration of postmodern thought into your own scholarship is stunningly simple: all you have to do is not care whether you really get it right. He describes how you too will soon be turning out articles like "The Social Construction of Cowness in the Packers and Stockyards Act," or "Silencing the Lambs: Narratives of Loss and Evisceration in the Packers and Stockyards Act," or "Cattle Prods and Cutting Pens: A …

Fee-For-Service Clinical Teaching: Slipping Toward Commercialism, Lisa G. Lerman

Scholarly Articles

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Clinical Education In A Different Voice: A Reply To Robert Rader, Robert Dinerstein

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Gasshūkoku Ni Okeru Hōgakkai To Hōjitsumukai [The Worlds Of Academics And Legal Practice In The United States], Daniel H. Foote

Articles

I prepared this paper for a symposium entitled, "Academics and Practitioners in Japan and the United States: Can the Two Worlds Ever Meet?" When I saw the symposium title, my first reaction was that it might seem strange to ask whether the worlds of academics and legal practice can ever meet in the United States. After all, to a large degree the history of the law school in the United States has been that of an institution dedicated to the training of legal practitioners; the vast majority of US law professors are members of the bar; and many, if not …

And Then Suddenly Seattle University Was On Its Way To A Parallel, Integrative Curriculum, John B. Mitchell, B. Hollingsworth, P. Clark, R. Lidman

Faculty Articles

This is a story of change so sudden that it surprised even those who most fervently sought it. For nearly a decade, Seattle University School of Law has offered an extensive typical skills curriculum. All students are involved in an intensive two year writing program. The simulated Comprehensive Pretrial and Trial Advocacy Program trains over 150 students a year, while in the Law Practice Clinic, 60 students a year represent domestic and criminal clients. Course offerings that fill out the lawyering skills supports are offerings such as ADR, Negotiations, and Appellate Advocacy, along with judicial and public service externships and …

Normative, And Somewhere To Go? Reflections On Professional Responsibility, Richard F. Devlin Frsc

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

In this article the author offers some reflections on professional responsibility. He straddles the optimist and pessimist perspectives espousing ''pessoptimism" as a more adequate position than either extreme. The author begins by deconstructing the title of the conference in which the paper was delivered: "A New Look: A National Conference on the Legal Profession and Ethics," which took place in Calgary, in June 1994. Pursuing a middle path between the optimistic and pessimistic approaches to professional responsibility, the author outlines the parameters of his ethical vision which provides some directions for legal practice. There are three elements to his restructured …

Pretrial Practice: Teaching Law Students How To Prepare Cases For Trial In A Simulation Course, Lloyd B. Snyder

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

With a colleague, Jack Guttenberg, I team-teach a four-credit, one-semester simulation course at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law called Pretrial Practice. We have taught Pretrial Practice seven times since we first offered it in the spring of 1988. The course takes students through the process of preparing two cases for trial, beginning with initial client interviews and culminating in one case with a settlement negotiation and, in the other, a final pretrial conference with a local judge.Pretrial Practice provides students with an opportunity, in one semester, to engage in all the activities necessary to develop and prepare a case for …

Of Rat Time And Terminators, David R. Barnhizer

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

A version of rat time is being created within the legal profession as law schools pump 40,000 graduates a year into a saturated system. Understanding our present condition as a period of rat time can help us diagnose the problems of the legal profession, identify the future responsibilities of law schools and the profession, and create more effective solutions than the bandaids that have been proposed or applied thus far. This is particularly important because lawyers and law schools have lost their way. They are afraid to address their most troubling problems and to take the principled actions necessary for …

Migration: A Natural Growth Process For Libraries (Part One Of Two), Georgia Briscoe

Publications

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Why Not A Shared Database For Legal Serial Patterns?, Georgia K. Briscoe

Publications

Just as bibliographic records are shared by law libraries through a national database, serial publication pattern data could also be shared. The author presents a history of the movement toward such a database and offers a specific proposal for its creation.

Idaho's Law School Plans For The Approaching Millennium, John A. Miller

Articles

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Some Thoughts On A More Humanist And Equitable Legal Education, A. Wayne Mackay

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

This article starts with the premise that all teaching is a communication of values between student and teacher. An important challenge in confronting law is making it more inclusive and equitable. A critical step in this process is first recognizing one's own biases. Only then will genuine dialogue about the inherent biases in the legal profession and in law schools be possible. Making law schools more inclusive entails not only superficial changes, but an examination of what is taught, how it is taught and how students are evaluated.

Stuck Inside The Heartland With Those Coastline Clerking Blues Again, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Circuit Judge Edward Becker, and Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi deserve kudos for helping to craft, implement, and publicize an efficacious solution to the increasing difficulties engendered by the selection of federal judicial law clerks. The jurists' essay, The Federal Judicial Law Clerk Hiring Problem and the Modest March 1 Solution, which recently appeared in the Yale Law Journal, is a must read for all those who participate in the process of law clerk hiring.

The concerted efforts of Justice Breyer and Judges Becker and Calabresi have apparently succeeded in bringing considerable order out of chaos, …