The Non-Management Side Of Academic Administration, 2010 University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
The Non-Management Side Of Academic Administration, Michael A. Fitts
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Time-Honored Model For The Profession And The Academy, 2010 University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
A Time-Honored Model For The Profession And The Academy, Michael A. Fitts
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Dean's Perspective On Ed Baker, 2010 University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
A Dean's Perspective On Ed Baker, Michael A. Fitts
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Wise Man Of The Law, 2010 Univ of Penn Law School
A Wise Man Of The Law, Anthony J. Scirica
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.: Scholar, Law Reformer, Teacher, And Mentor, 2010 University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.: Scholar, Law Reformer, Teacher, And Mentor, Catherine T. Struve
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Excitement Of Interdictory Ideas: A Response To Professor Anders Walker, 2010 St. John's University School of Law
The Excitement Of Interdictory Ideas: A Response To Professor Anders Walker, Marc O. Degirolami
Faculty Publications
The very first time that I taught criminal law, I would occasionally tell my six-year-old son, Thomas, about selected cases and situations that I had come across. Thomas enjoyed these discussions—more than I would have guessed: he was captivated by the horror of Dudley & Stephens, he was uncomfortably intrigued by shaming punishments, he was appropriately outraged at all manner of outcomes that seemed to him too harsh or too lenient. But most of all, he wanted to test his own burgeoning intuitions about right and wrong, good and evil, the permitted and the forbidden, against my "criminal law stories." …
Opposition To Clinics Tests Attorney-Client Privilege; Students Working On Pro Bono Cases Leave Schools Vulnerable To Confidentiality Challenges, 2010 University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Law
Opposition To Clinics Tests Attorney-Client Privilege; Students Working On Pro Bono Cases Leave Schools Vulnerable To Confidentiality Challenges, Patrick C. Brayer
Faculty Works
This National Law Journal article draws attention to past attempts by government and private parties to pierce the protections of the attorney client relationship, specifically confidentiality, when it comes to the representation of clients by law school clinics. Several law school clinics and innocence projects have defended themselves against actions by prosecuting attorney offices and opposing parties who have attempted to obtain information that is traditionally protected by state and federal confidentiality rules. Law school clinics, public interest organizations, innocence projects, government agencies and Public Defender organizations can better protect themselves from future attempts by opposing parties to invade the …
The Technology Of Law, 2010 University of Pittsburgh School of Law
The Technology Of Law, Bernard J. Hibbitts
Articles
This paper argues that contemporary fascination with the law of technology (IP, cyberlaw, etc.) has led us to overlook the fundamental impact of the "technology of law," and offers suggestions for creating "neterate" lawyers more comfortable with and cognizant of technology itself. The author describes how the legal news service JURIST implements many of these suggestions and provides a unique learning experience for its law student staffers.
The Accidental Elder Law Professor, 2010 Mitchell Hamline School of Law
The Accidental Elder Law Professor, A. Kimberley Dayton
Faculty Scholarship
This Article discusses my somewhat unusual and erratic path to becoming an Elder Law professor. My story, told more or less in chronological order, is a first-person narrative of one woman’s journey to achieve, if not academic renown, then at least personal satisfaction in the realm of the legal academy. It does not aspire to convey ponderous wisdom about the best way to teach Elder Law or the importance of scholarly productivity as a measure of one’s legitimacy. On the contrary, I hope the Article will illustrate that, in the same way the field of Elder Law has grown and …
Teaching Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory, Practice, And Assessment, 2010 California Western School of Law
Teaching Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory, Practice, And Assessment, Linda Morton, Howard Taras, Vivian Reznik
Faculty Scholarship
In this article, we offer our own theory-based methodology for teaching interprofessional collaboration to law students and we present our preliminary data on its effectiveness. Part I explicates the definition and development of interdisciplinary collaboration. Part II describes how we have grounded our course in current theory, and Part III explains the extent to which our efforts have been successful. Finally, in Part IV, we offer additional thoughts regarding the teaching of interdisciplinary collaboration and pose questions and ideas for future data collection.
Doing Good While Doing Deals: Early Lesson In Launching An International Transactions Clinic, 2010 Unviersity of Michigan Law School
Doing Good While Doing Deals: Early Lesson In Launching An International Transactions Clinic, Deborah Burand
Articles
That is not to say that the launch of this clinic was easy. Four of the most challenging issues the ITC faced in its first year of operation were: 1) developing a client pool, 2) defining client projects so as to be appropriate to student clinicians’ skill levels and capacity, 3) making use of efficient and inexpensive technology to foster international communication with clients and transaction management, and 4) tapping supervisory attorney talent capable of supporting student clinicians in their international transactional work. The first two issues were the biggest challenges that we faced in launching the ITC and so …
Top 10 Law School Home Pages Of 2009, 2010 Georgetown University Law Center
Top 10 Law School Home Pages Of 2009, Roger Skalbeck
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The website home page represents the virtual front door for any law school. It’s the place many prospective students start in the application process. Enrolled students, law school faculty and other employees often start with the home page to find classes, curricula and compensation plans. Home page content changes constantly. Deciding which home pages are good is often very subjective. Creating a ranking system for “good taste” is perhaps impossible.
The ranking report "Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2009" includes a tabulation of fourteen objective design criteria to analyze and rank 195 law school home pages. The intent …
Governing Board Accountability: Competition, Regulation And Accreditation, 2010 Georgetown University Law Center
Governing Board Accountability: Competition, Regulation And Accreditation, Judith C. Areen
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article examines the three primary ways in which the governing boards of American colleges and universities are held to account: (1) competition; (2) regulation, including state nonprofit corporation laws, tax laws, and licensing laws; and (3) accreditation. It begins by tracing how lay (meaning nonfaculty) governing boards became the dominant form of governance in American higher education. It argues that governing boards provide American institutions of higher education with an exceptional degree of autonomy from state control and that, together with the shared governance approach that gives faculties primary responsibility for academic matters, they have been a vital factor …
How Judicial Hostility Toward Environmental Claims And Intimidation Tactics By Lawyers Have Formed The Perfect Storm Against Environmental Clinics: What's The Big Deal About Students And Chickens Anyway?, 2010 Georgetown University Law Center
How Judicial Hostility Toward Environmental Claims And Intimidation Tactics By Lawyers Have Formed The Perfect Storm Against Environmental Clinics: What's The Big Deal About Students And Chickens Anyway?, Hope M. Babcock
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Since 1976, when the first environmental clinic was started at the University of Oregon’s law school, clinics have proliferated. Today, approximately one out of five law schools has an environmental clinic. With respect to clinics in general, the Association of American Law Schools Directory of Law Teachers lists “nearly 1400 full-time faculty teaching clinical courses.” Yet far from being an uncontroverted part of the academic landscape, clinics—particularly environmental clinics—have endured political blowback from challenging the environmentally destructive behavior of major economic interests. The effectiveness of environmental clinics is no greater than established environmental organizations—perhaps less effective given the length of …
Law School Classes With Twitter (!), 2010 New York Law School
Law School Classes With Twitter (!), Stephen Ellmann
Other Publications
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An Autobiography Of A Digital Idea: From Waging War Against Laptops To Engaging Students With Laptops, 2010 Georgetown University Law Center
An Autobiography Of A Digital Idea: From Waging War Against Laptops To Engaging Students With Laptops, Diana R. Donahoe
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This is an autobiographical account of my attempt to bridge the digital divide to meet students' changing needs. When I first began teaching at Georgetown University Law Center in 1993, I employed many traditional teaching techniques and used printed textbooks. However, laptops soon began peppering my classroom; at first there were only a few, and then suddenly almost every student was hiding behind a laptop. I noticed that my students were looking down at their screens, typing furiously, instead of watching me while I discussed my material written on the blackboard or projected overhead. When I realized that I was …
Closing The Legislative Experience Gap: How A Legislative Law Clerk Program Will Benefit The Legal Profession And Congress, 2010 Georgetown University Law Center
Closing The Legislative Experience Gap: How A Legislative Law Clerk Program Will Benefit The Legal Profession And Congress, Dakota S. Rudesill
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Most federal law today is statutory or rooted in statutes, which are created through a complicated process best understood through work experience inside legislatures. This article demonstrates that America’s most influential lawyers are not getting it. My new empirical analysis of the work experience of the top 500 lawyers nationwide as ranked by Lawdragon.com finds that work experience in legislative bodies is dramatically less common among the profession’s leaders than is formative work experience in courts, government executive agencies, private practice, and academe. This article continues the empirical study of the professional experience of the legal profession’s elite published in …
Finding The Middle Ground In Collection Development: How Academic Law Libraries Can Shape Their Collections In Response To The Call For More Practice-Oriented Legal Education, 2010 Georgetown University Law Center
Finding The Middle Ground In Collection Development: How Academic Law Libraries Can Shape Their Collections In Response To The Call For More Practice-Oriented Legal Education, Leslie A. Street, Amanda M. Runyon
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
To examine how academic law libraries can respond to the call for more practice-oriented legal education, the authors compared trends in collection management decisions regarding secondary sources at academic and law firm libraries along with law firm librarians’ perceptions of law school legal research training of new associates.
Law School Histories: A Panel Discussion, 2010 Campbell University School of Law
Law School Histories: A Panel Discussion
Campbell Law Review
At the Sixty-First Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools held in Palm Beach, Florida in July 2008, a panel was convened to discuss the researching, writing, and publishing of law school histories. What follows is an edited transcript of the program.
The Pedagogy Of "Yes We Can": Teaching Reformative Legal Justice In The Age Of Obama, 2010 Florida A&M University College of Law
The Pedagogy Of "Yes We Can": Teaching Reformative Legal Justice In The Age Of Obama, Leroy Pernell
Journal Publications
These brief comments, delivered as part of the 5th Annual Fred Gray Sr. Civil Rights Symposium, Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law October 21, 2009, do not challenge whether law schools and the profession sufficiently make the case for public service and commitment to societal good; admittedly most existing standards and curricula do. Rather, these comments address the opportunity for legal education to tap, and expand on, a heightened psychological and emotional commitment that might be engendered in law students following the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States.