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Conquering The Elephant, Wanda Temm

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This chapter in Beyond One L: Stories About Finding Meaning and Making a Difference in Law discusses the bar exam, the challenges and endurance required to pass, the role professors play in preparing their students, and personal stories of attorneys and their myriad journeys conquering this beast.

Beyond One L features stories that explore first, second, and third year experiences as well as stories beyond law school on subjects including taking the bar, searching for judicial clerkships, practicing law, and leaving law practice to become a teacher or judge.

Teaching Legal History Through Legal Skills., Howard Bromberg

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I revolve my legal history courses around one methodology: teaching legal history by means of legal skills. I draw on my experience teaching legal practice and clinical skills courses to assign briefs and oral arguments as a means for law students to immerse themselves in historical topics. Without distracting from other approaches, I framed this innovation as teaching legal history not to budding historians but to budding lawyers.

Law, Economics, And Torture, James Boyd White

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This paper addresses three sets of questions, among which it wishes to draw connections: (1) Why has there been so little resistance to the recent massive transfer of national wealth to the rich and super-rich? It is the majority who are injured, and they presumably hold the power in a democracy: why have they not exercised it? (2) Why are law schools so dominated by questions of policy, with rather little interest in the intellectual and linguistic activities of the practicing lawyer and judge? Why indeed do judicial opinions themselves seem so often to be written in a dead and …

Making Sense Of Criminal Law, James Boyd White

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When a student comes to law school, he leaves behind a world he knows and understands and turns to another world, that of the law, which at the beginning he cannot comprehend. He is immersed in a body of literature that is at once assertive and confusing; he attends a series of classes in which his teacher seems to make the unsettling assumption that he already knows what he came to learn. One question he will naturally ask himself of all this - his experience of the law - is whether it makes any sense to him. And for a …

The University And The Aims Of Professional Education, Terrance Sandalow

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The graduate schools of elite American universities, Daniel Bell wrote not many years ago (though before "elite" had become a term of opprobrium), stand at the center of their parent institutions, a position from which they dominate not only American higher education but, increasingly, the intellectual life of the nation. Michigan was, of course, high on Bell's list of elite universities, and it is, therefore, fitting that we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of its graduate school as an occasion worthy of celebration.