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Illuminating Innumeracy, Lisa Milot

Scholarly Works

Everyone knows that lawyers are bad at math. Many fields of law, though — from explicitly number-focused practices like tax law and bankruptcy, to the less obviously numerical fields of family law and criminal defense — require interaction with, and sophisticated understandings of, numbers. To the extent that lawyers really are bad at math, why is that case? And what, if anything, should be done about it?

In this Article, I show the ways in which our acceptance of innumeracy harms our ability to practice and think about the law. On a practical level, we miscalculate numbers, oversimplify formulas, and, ultimately, misapply ...

Across The Curriculum: Integrating Transactional Skills Instruction, Jean M. Whitney, Lori D. Johnson, Richard A. Rawson

Scholarly Works

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Rethinking U.S. Legal Education: No More "Same Old, Same Old", Nancy B. Rapoport

Scholarly Works

In this Essay, I suggest that we should think about how to create a curriculum that encourages students to develop a variety of skill sets. Law students simply don’t need three years of Socratic questioning regarding the fine details of court opinions. They need a wide range of experiences, preferably building on skill sets (like the twenty-six Berkeley factors) that effective lawyers have developed. A law school’s curriculum should have courses that focus on different factors in each year of law school. Ultimately, what we should be teaching law students is how to develop the judgment to advise ...

The Learned-Helpless Lawyer: Clinical Legal Education And Therapeutic Jurisprudence As Antidotes To Bartleby Syndrome, Amy D. Ronner

Touro Law Review

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Training Army Judge Advocates To Advise Commanders As Operational Law Attorneys, Richard P. Dimeglio

Boston College Law Review

Today, U.S. Army commanders and the military lawyers assigned to advise them—Army Judge Advocates—find themselves operating in areas of extreme legal complexity, where nuanced political and strategic implications are often at the forefront, and where “black letter law” is rarely sufficient to render competent advice. Through formal training at The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, observance of the lessons learned by other Judge Advocates collected by the Center for Law and Military Operations, and hands-on training at Combat Training Centers, Army Judge Advocates are prepared to address the ever-increasing operational demands of the commanders ...

One Small Step For Legal Writing, One Giant Leap For Legal Education: Making The Case For More Writing Opportunities In The "Practice-Ready" Law School Curriculum, Sherri Lee Keene

Faculty Scholarship

Legal writing is more than an isolated practical skill or a law school course; it is a valuable tool for broadening and deepening law students’ and new attorneys’ knowledge and understanding of the law. If experienced legal professionals, both professors and practitioners alike, take a hard look back at their careers, many will no doubt remember how their work on significant legal writing projects advanced their own knowledge of the law and enhanced their professional competence. Legal writing practice helps the writer to gain expertise in a number of ways: first, the act of writing itself promotes learning; second, close ...

Case Studies And The Classroom: Enriching The Study Of Law Through Real Client Stories, Michael Millemann

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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To Forge New Hammers Of Justice: Deep-Six The Doing-Teaching Dichotomy And Embrace The Dialectic Of "Doing Theory", Barbara L. Bezdek

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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Expanding Our Vision: Integrating Clinical Experience And Insights Into The Larger Curriculum, Deborah Weimer

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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Coming Off The Bench: Observations Of A Rookie Clinician, Renée Mcdonald Hutchins

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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A Brief Reflection On The Multiple Identities And Roles Of The Twenty-First Century Clinician, Michael Pinard

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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Finding Your Balance On The Tightrope: Reflections From A Clinical Life, Brenda Bratton Blom

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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Teaching To Encourage More To Do, Ellen Weber

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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Walking The Clinical Tightrope: Between Teaching And Doing, Stephen Wizner

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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Walking The Clinical Tightrope: Embracing The Role Of Teacher, Jane H. Aiken

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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Editorial Note - Dialogue - Walking The Clinical Tightrope: Celebrating 30 Years Of Clinical Education At The University Of Maryland School Of Law

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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Vol. 44, No. 01 (January 14, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 44, No. 02 (January 22, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 44, No. 03 (January 28, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 44, No. 04 (February 4, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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