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Best Practices On ‘Best Practices’: Legal Education And Beyond, Ira P. Robbins

Ira P. Robbins

“Best practices” has become one of the most common research and development techniques in the United States and throughout the international community. Originally employed in industry, the concept sought to identify superior means to achieve a goal through “benchmarking,” thereby allowing companies to obtain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. In recent decades, the use of best practices has become widely popularized, and is frequently utilized in the areas of administrative regulation, corporate governance, and academia. As the term has grown in popularity, however, so too has room for its abuse. In many instances, the term has been invoked to …

‘Best Practices’: What’S The Point?, Ira P. Robbins

Ira P. Robbins

In a separate article - Best Practices on “Best Practices”: Legal Education and Beyond - Professor Robbins formulated a paradigm for “best practices” and applied it to the book, Best Practices for Legal Education. Professor Robbins concluded that the book did not meet any of the criteria necessary to constitute best practices and, further, that using the concept of best practices when thinking and writing about legal education is misleading and inappropriate. The primary author of the book, Roy Stuckey, responded, claiming that “best” can mean something other than best, that the difference really doesn’t matter, and that the debate …

Vol. 39, No. 07 (October 11, 2010)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

República E Monarquia: Desfazendo Confusões, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Há pelo menos três sentidos essencias da palavra República... Se os confundirmos, estamos perdidos, nunca nos entenderemos. O sentido mais profícuo é o material ou substancial e intermédio: nem o que diz que todas as sociedades políticas o são (sentido hoje quase esquecido), nem o que identifica formalmente as repúblicas com todas as sociedades que não têm rei, sem lhes verificar requisitos éticos. Há um "quid" especial nas Repúblicas para quem é republicano. E que não tem nada a ver com o que nelas vêem os monárquicos ou os indiferentes (?)...

Vol. 39, No. 06 (October 4, 2010)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

The Faces Of Law In Theory And Practice: Doctrine, Rhetoric, And Social Context, Richard Boldt, Marc Feldman

Richard C. Boldt

No abstract provided.

Creac Scramble: An Active Self-Assessment Exercise, Meredith Aden

Popular Media

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Clinic Times, University Of Michigan Law School

Newsletters

Fall 2010 issue of the University of Michigan Law School Clincs' newsletter

Planning And Practice - The Rooftops Project: Report Summarizing Results Of A Survey Of Not-For-Profit Organizations, James Hagy

Rooftops Project

The Rooftops Project's first national field study of the attitudes and approaches of not-for-profit organizations with respect to the owned, leased or hosted real estate that supports their core missions and operations.

Uwlaw, Fall 2010, Vol. 62

Alumni Magazines

Cover story: For the Defense

Message from the Dean, page 2

News

• Dean Testy Leads UW's Search for a New President, page 3
• Barer Institute Designed to Overcome Obstacles, page 3
• Introducing New LSAA President (Maurice Classen '04), page 4
• Year of the Women (Student Bar Association President Sarra Yamin and Graduate and Professional Student Senate President Sarah Reyneveld), page 4
• Wrongfully Convicted, Free at Last (Innocence Project Northwest), page 5
• From Kabul to D.C., a Triumphant Year for Moot Court and Mock Trial Teams, pages 6-7

Robert Flennaugh II ('96): Criminal Defense, pages 8-10, photos

Joshua Colangelo-Bryan ('99): When …

Class Of 2013 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law

Incoming 1L Photos (Facebooks)

Photographs of incoming law students for the St. Mary’s University School of Law, class of 2013

In Practice, V. 11, No. 1, Fall 2010

In Practice

No abstract provided.

Volume 34, Issue 2 (Fall 2010)

Transcript

No abstract provided.

Frames Of Injustice: The Bias We Overlook, Adam Benforado

Indiana Law Journal

The Cultural Cognition Project (CCP) at Yale Law School and the Project on Law and Mind Sciences (PLMS) at Harvard Law School draw on similar research and share a similar goal of uncovering the dynamics that shape risk perceptions, policy beliefs, and attributions underlying our laws and legal theories. Nonetheless, the projects have failed to engage one another in a substantial way. This Article attempts to bridge that gap by demonstrating how the approach taken by PLMS scholars can crucially enrich CCP scholarship. As a demonstration, this Article engages the case of Scott v. Harris, 550 US. 372 (2007), the …

Towards A New World Of Externships: Introduction To Papers From Externships 4 And 5, Alex Scherr, Harriet N. Katz

Scholarly Works

The scholarly literature on externships is growing and deepening, addressing concerns of importance to field placement programs and to clinicians in general. This Introduction places the issues raised by the subsequent four articles on externships into the context of current national debates about the externship method. These issues, which both extend and diverge from current thinking about externship pedagogy, include: 1) the impact of a harsh economic climate; 2) the educational potential of placements in corporate counsel offices; 3) the argument for compensating students in for-credit placements; and 4) the value of course design for teaching power dynamics in supervisory …

Clinical Legal Education At A Generational Crossroads: X Marks The Spot, Praveen Kosuri

All Faculty Scholarship

Clinical legal education is at a crossroads. Three distinct generations – Baby Boomers, Generation-Xers, and Millennials – with incredibly varied life experiences and expectations will determine the path forward by the way they relate to each other. This essay discusses the current state of clinical legal education as created and led by the Baby Boomers who were typically movement lawyers from the 1960s and 1970s. Written from the perspective of a Gen-Xer, the essay challenges the norms of social justice and law reform as the primary drivers behind clinical education and argues for a greater ideological neutrality in determining the …

How Lawyers (Come To) See The World: A Narrative Theory Of Legal Pedagogy, Randy D. Gordon

Faculty Scholarship

Even if one believes that law is not an autonomous discipline, few would dispute that it is a conservative institution and that its members are trained via a pedagogical method quite different from that of other professions. A central aspect of this training is the case method and — thus — the specialized narrative form that appellate opinions take. This essay examines the case method and suggests ways to crack it open — without discarding it — and thereby achieve one of the goals set forth in the Carnegie Report: namely, to supplement the analytical, rule-based mode of reasoning inherent …

Volume 44, Issue 1 (Fall 2010), University Of Georgia School Of Law

Advocate Magazine

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Patents and Vegetable Crop Diversity
• The Copenhagen Climate Change Accord
• Researching Georgia Legislative History
• 150 Facts Representing 150 Years
• Headlines
• Conference Explores Ethical Challenges Associated with Controversial or High-Profile Cases
• Cleland Speaks at Public Interest Weekend
• Hirsch Hall Highlights
• 11th Service Learning Opportunity Created at Georgia Law
• Rusk Center Reports
• Human Rights Perspective Adds Value to Climate Change Discussion
• Faculty Accomplishments
• Law Library Chief Retires
• Class of 2010 Commencement
• Alumni Activities
• Brumby Receives Distinguished Service Scroll Award

Pedro E O Lobo, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Somos constantemente bombardeados com desgraças. Os telejornais coleccionam desgraças pelo mundo, até de poucos mortos, todas juntas. O catastrofismo é empolado por privilegiados e ociosos (que disso não se dão conta), que gostariam de mais privilégios, e cuja ociosidade precisa de ser preenchida com emoções fortes, ainda que artificiais. Quando é necessário unir os Portugueses e trabalhar muito, precisamente nos acenam com o mito do Dom Sebastião... Como seria a desilusão dos incautos por eles arrastados se acaso triunfassem as suas pretensões... O presente artigo pretende sublinhar a importância do triunfo do princípio da responsabilidade sobre os impulsos tanáticos, suicidas, …

Vol. 61, No. 1, September 30, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Dean Z Speaks •Zach Letter Law •Trivial Pursuit of Justice •Law and Lit •The Ex-Pat Perspective •Trespassing with Felix •Kicking It Old School •Grade Curves

Vol. 39, No. 05 (September 27, 2010)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

República E Justiça Social, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Será a República socialmente indiferente? Algumas experiências concretas (e desde logo a I República portuguesa) levaram alguns, sobretudo mais adeptos de transformações mais profundas e violentas, a criticar o republicanismo por contrário à Justiça Social, ou, pelo menos, como muito tímido nessa matéria. Mas será que a República é, por natureza, anti-social, a-social ou mesmo conservadora? Não nos parece...

Vol. 39, No. 04 (September 20, 2010)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

República, Adjectivos E Números, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Políticos e comentadores que falam em renovação das instituições e a tal querem dar novo nome, caem quase sempre em expressões de conotação perigosa à luz da História política.Felizmente as nossas Repúblicas não têm numeração oficial. Em tempo de comemorações, há quem fale em mais Repúblicas do que duas. E mesmo quem se preocupe com os 100 anos da República se não se contar o interregno, o “Estado Novo”. Mas o que os republicanos comemoram é um século desde a implantação da República (1910). É esse momento que se celebra.

Vol. 39, No. 03 (September 13, 2010)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Vol. 39, No. 02 (September 6, 2010)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Building Communities, Changing Lives: Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic & Clinical Studies Program, Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Clinic Brochures

The brochure describes the offerings in clinical legal education available through the Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic and the Clinical Studies Program at the William S. Boyd School of Law.

El Fraude Político En La Argentina, Horacio M. Lynch

Horacio M. LYNCH

Ensayo que indaga el concepto del “fraude electoral o político” buscando la acepción correcta del término y de sus maniobras conexas, y eventualmente cómo pueden denominarse las actividades enderezadas a manipular la opinión pública para influir en el resultado de las elecciones entorpeciendo el libre ejercicio del sufragio (¿delitos contra la Constitución?) y eventualmente cómo pueden prevenirse y sancionarse. En la Ia. Parte se indaga (a) en su acepción amplia, sobre el fraude electoral en la Argentina a lo largo de un siglo: sus prácticas iniciales y como ha ido evolucionando y sofisticando; (b) en qué medida maniobras de manipulación …

September/October 2010 Newsletter

Ergo

No abstract provided.

Reading And Writing Workshop/Road To Law School, Tanya Pierce

Tanya Pierce

No abstract provided.