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A Bibliography Of Faculty Scholarship,
2018
The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law
A Bibliography Of Faculty Scholarship, Law Library
Scholarly Articles and Other Contributions
The purpose of this bibliography is to record in one place the substantial body of scholarship produced by the current faculty at the Catholic University, Columbus School of Law. From its humble beginnings under the tutelage of founding Dean William Callyhan Robinson, through its adolescent period when, like so many other American law schools, it was trying to define its pedagogical niche, to its eventual merger with the Columbus University Law School in 1954, the law school at Catholic University has always retained a scholarly and remarkably productive faculty. The sheer quantity of writing, the breadth of research and the ...
De-Grading Assessment: Rejecting Rubrics In Favor Of Authentic Analysis,
2018
Seattle University School of Law
De-Grading Assessment: Rejecting Rubrics In Favor Of Authentic Analysis, Deborah L. Borman
Seattle University Law Review
Assigning grades is the least joyful duty of the law professor. In the current climate of legal education, law professors struggle with issues such as increased class size, providing “practice-ready” graduates, streamlining assignments, and accountability in assessment. In an effort to ease the burden of grading written legal analyses, individual professors or law school writing programs or both may develop articulated rubrics to assess students’ written work. Rubrics are classification tools that allow us to articulate our judgment of a written work. Rubrics may be as extensive as twenty categories and subcategories or may be limited to only a few ...
Chinese And American Forum On Legal Information And Law Libraries: Highlights From Hangzhou,
2018
Concordia Univeristy School of Law
Chinese And American Forum On Legal Information And Law Libraries: Highlights From Hangzhou, Ning Han, Evelyn Ma, Wei Luo
Ning Han
The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Chinese and American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries (CAFLL) was held in Hangzhou, China, June 1-2, 2017. More than sixty law school deans, law librarians, and law professors from more than fifty law schools in China attended the conference. Overseas attendees included more than twenty-five law librarians and library directors from Germany, Canada, as well as the presidents of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and International Association of Law Libraries (IALL).
Table Of Contents And Masthead,
2018
Pepperdine University
Table Of Contents And Masthead, Cameron Fraser
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Better Briefs,
2018
St. Mary's University School of Law
Better Briefs, Lydia Fearing
St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics
Abstract forthcoming
Using Appellate Clinics To Focus On Legal Writing Skills,
2018
University of Michigan Law School
Using Appellate Clinics To Focus On Legal Writing Skills, Timothy Pinto
Articles
Five years ago, I went to lunch with a colleague. I was teaching a legal writing course to 1L students, and he taught in a clinic in which 2L and 3L students were required to write short motions and briefs. Several of his students had taken my writing class as 1Ls, and he had a question for me. "What the heck are you teaching these students?" he asked as we sat down. He explained that several of his students were struggling with preparing simple motions. They were not laying out facts clearly. They were not identifying key legal rules. In ...
The Pro Bono Collaborative Project Spotlight: Pro Bono Collaborative Aci Civil Legal Clinics Project Expands To Women's Facility (05-03-2018),
2018
Roger Williams University
The Pro Bono Collaborative Project Spotlight: Pro Bono Collaborative Aci Civil Legal Clinics Project Expands To Women's Facility (05-03-2018), Roger Williams University School Of Law
Pro Bono Collaborative Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
“And/Or” And The Proper Use Of Legal Language,
2018
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
“And/Or” And The Proper Use Of Legal Language, Ira P. Robbins
Maryland Law Review
The use of the term and/or is pervasive in legal language. Lawyers use it in all types of legal contexts—including statutes, contracts, and pleadings. Beginning in the 1930s, however, many judges decided that the term and/or should never be used in legal drafting. Ardent attacks on the term included charges that it was vague, if not meaningless, with some authorities declaring it to be a “Janus-faced verbal monstrosity,” an “inexcusable barbarism,” a “mongrel expression,” an “abominable invention,” a “crutch of sloppy thinkers,” and “senseless jargon.” Still today, critics maintain that the construct and/or is inherently ambiguous ...
What We Still Don't Know About What Persuades Judges – And Some Ways We Might Find Out,
2018
University of Michigan Law School
What We Still Don't Know About What Persuades Judges – And Some Ways We Might Find Out, Edward R. Becker
Articles
Over 25 years ago, in his foreword to the first volume of Legal Writing, Chris Rideout nailed it: legal writing as actually practiced by lawyers and judges needs to improve, “[b]ut more fundamental inquiry into legal writing...is needed as well.” The intervening decades have seen many laudable efforts on the latter front, as our collective scholarly discipline, then in its infancy, has matured. But one particular question that Rideout identified remains largely unaddressed by our discipline, although recent developments suggest a welcome increase in attention to the topic. Specifically, Rideout explained that our field did not know as ...
Legal Corpus Linguistics: Gambling To Gaming Language Powers And Probabilities,
2018
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
Legal Corpus Linguistics: Gambling To Gaming Language Powers And Probabilities, Kezziah Dale
UNLV Gaming Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Reclaiming A Great Judge's Legacy,
2018
University of Maine School of Law
Reclaiming A Great Judge's Legacy, Frank M. Coffin
Maine Law Review
In the legal profession a deep sigh of relief is heard over the land. After roughly two decades of incubation, the long-awaited biography of the great judge has arrived, Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge, by Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther. The book, in my opinion, is well worth the wait. Nearly 700 pages, plus a hundred more for footnotes, it nevertheless represents a heroic condensation of some 100,000 different items on file at Harvard Law School, including no fewer than 50,000 items of correspondence, 1,000 district court opinions, and nearly 3,000 circuit court opinions ...
Citation Literacy,
2018
University of North Carolina
Citation Literacy, Alexa Z. Chew
Arkansas Law Review
Citation literacy is the ability to read and write citations.[1] That’s it. The rest of this article will unpack what’s in those ten words and why they matter.
Acknowledgments,
2018
James Madison University
Acknowledgments, Howard S. Carrier
International Journal on Responsibility
Serious work to bring the International Journal on Responsibility to life commenced during the summer of 2015. In the intervening period between conceptualization and publication, many organizations and individuals within James Madison University and the wider community have contributed enormously to bringing the journal to fruition.
Who Is Responsible For Ethical Legal Education, For What And To Whom? Case Of Kosovo,
2018
Haxhi Zeka University
Who Is Responsible For Ethical Legal Education, For What And To Whom? Case Of Kosovo, Sabiha Shala, Gjylbehare Muharti
International Journal on Responsibility
Legal education continues to be one of the most demanded areas of study from the younger generation in Kosovo. As result, the number of law graduates is quite high. On the other hand, the rule of law sector is quite fragile, judges and lawyers are perceived by parts of the society to be ethically dysfunctional. The trust in judicial institutions is quite low. The debate which is going on now is whose main responsibility for such a situation that is. Is the duty of the higher education institutions providing legal education, or is it a responsibility of educational institutions at ...
Resolving The Paradox Of Holding People Responsible,
2018
Indiana University Bloomington
Resolving The Paradox Of Holding People Responsible, Hal Pepinsky
International Journal on Responsibility
Regardless of justification, it is commonplace throughout the U.S. criminal justice system as in everyday life to teach our offenders and children alike that wrong actions “have consequences,” namely, those authority figures promise to impose upon them. We do so in the name of holding people responsible for their actions, or in legal parlance in civil law, holding them accountable or liable. I noticed that in Norwegian, responsibility, accountability and liability translate into one word, ansvar, which I have translated from Germanic to Latin roots as “responsiveness.” In practice, the state of being responsive to others with whom one ...
Political Flip-Flopping, Political Responsibility, Current Governance, And The Disenfranchised,
2018
Northeastern llinois University
Political Flip-Flopping, Political Responsibility, Current Governance, And The Disenfranchised, T.Y. Okosun
International Journal on Responsibility
No abstract provided.
What Does Responsibility Mean To Me?,
2018
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence based at the University of Rochester
What Does Responsibility Mean To Me?, Arun Gandhi
International Journal on Responsibility
No abstract provided.
Who Is Responsible To Do What For Whom? A Letter From The Editor-In-Chief,
2018
James Madison University
Who Is Responsible To Do What For Whom? A Letter From The Editor-In-Chief, Terry Beitzel
International Journal on Responsibility
No abstract provided.
Law School News: New Faculty For Fall '18 (04-12-2018),
2018
Roger Williams University
Law School News: New Faculty For Fall '18 (04-12-2018), Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
On Appeal: Courts, Lawyering, And Judging,
2018
University of Maine School of Law
On Appeal: Courts, Lawyering, And Judging, Richard L. O'Meara
Maine Law Review
If one were to ask the members of the Maine legal community to define the term “judicial temperament,” many would answer the question simply by referring to Frank Coffin. Judge Coffin's newest book, On Appeal: Courts, Lawyering, and Judging, illustrates why the Judge has earned such overwhelming respect. This highly personal work permits readers a glimpse “behind the scenes” at the judicial life of a man who has forged a highly successful career of public service marked by sensitive, fair, and well-reasoned decision-making and by good-humored, collegial relationships with all of his colleagues in the legal community and beyond.
