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Full-Text Articles in Legal Education
Optimizing A Law School’S Course Schedule, Shelley Saxer, Gary M. Thompson
Optimizing A Law School’S Course Schedule, Shelley Saxer, Gary M. Thompson
The University of New Hampshire Law Review
[Excerpt] “Just like other educational institutions, law schools must schedule courses by taking into consideration student needs, faculty resources, and logistical support such as classroom size and equipment needs. Course scheduling is an administrative function, typically handled by an Assistant Dean or an Associate Dean, who works with the faculty and the registrar to balance these considerations in advance of the registration process. Usually, the entire academic year is scheduled in advance, although the spring semester may be labeled tentative until registration begins for that semester. It’s hard to imagine, but some schools even publish a two-year schedule of upper-division …
Legal Separation: The Relationship Between Law School And The Central University In The Late Nineteenth Century, Mark Bartholomew
Legal Separation: The Relationship Between Law School And The Central University In The Late Nineteenth Century, Mark Bartholomew
Journal Articles
Using Yale Law School as an example, this Article describes the interaction between university-affiliated law schools and the larger university during a crucial period in the development of legal education: the last third of the nineteenth century. At the same time, the Article contrasts Yale with other law schools of the day to show what made Yale unique and how Yale’s nineteenth-century idiosyncrasies would come to shape legal education at other schools in the twentieth century. Part I examines the university administration’s attitude toward the law school and how it typified law school-university relations in the late nineteenth century. Part …
Notice Students' Similarities - Not Differences [With Previous Generations], Sophie M. Sparrow
Notice Students' Similarities - Not Differences [With Previous Generations], Sophie M. Sparrow
Law Faculty Scholarship
This article discusses one law professor’s successful teaching strategies for strengthening the analytical and writing skills of her students.
Diversity: Do You Really Want It?, Angela Mae Kupenda
Diversity: Do You Really Want It?, Angela Mae Kupenda
Journal Articles
Diversity. Do you really want it? In many of the diversity workshops I have attended, the facilitators assume that the answer is yes and set out to help the educational institution acquire more diversity. But given continuing fears and prejudices in our society, this is a mistaken, and perhaps premature assumption. Yet, when you are asked, as an educator or administrator, whether you want students of different races and colors, from varying socio-economic backgrounds, and with different perspectives, your response may be that "wanting" is irrelevant. You "need" diversity given our country's changing demographics, your institution's need to generate tuition …