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Maine State Law And Legislative Reference Library, John Barden The University of Maine

Maine State Law And Legislative Reference Library, John Barden

Maine Policy Review

The Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library provides reference assistance to legislators, the judiciary, state agencies, members of the bar, and citizens across the state of Maine and beyond from its rich and unique collection of legal and legislative materials.


Teaching Business Law In The New Economy; Strategies For Success, Kamille Wolff Dean University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Teaching Business Law In The New Economy; Strategies For Success, Kamille Wolff Dean

Journal of Business & Technology Law

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Teaching Amidst Transformation: Integrating Global Perspectives On The Financial Crisis Into The Classroom, Shruti Rana University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Teaching Amidst Transformation: Integrating Global Perspectives On The Financial Crisis Into The Classroom, Shruti Rana

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.


Book Review - Henke: California Law Guide, Second Edition, Nancy J. Kitchen Pepperdine University

Book Review - Henke: California Law Guide, Second Edition, Nancy J. Kitchen

Pepperdine Law Review

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Motions In Motion: Teaching Advanced Legal Writing Through Collaboration, Richard Strong, Elizabeth Shaver, Sarah Morath The University of Akron School of Law

Motions In Motion: Teaching Advanced Legal Writing Through Collaboration, Richard Strong, Elizabeth Shaver, Sarah Morath

Richard Strong

Legal education is at a crossroads. Practitioners, academics, and students agree that more experiential learning opportunities are needed in law school.

In 2007, the Carnegie Foundation report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Carnegie Report), called for law schools to provide apprentice experiences to better prepare prospective attorneys for the world of practice. That same year, the Best Practices in Legal Education advocated for “experiential education” and “encourage[d] law school[s] to expand its use.” More recently, in August 2011, the American Bar Association adopted a resolution sponsored by the New York Bar Association summoning law schools ...


Motions In Motion: Teaching Advanced Legal Writing Through Collaboration, Elizabeth Shaver, Sarah Morath, Richard Strong The University of Akron School of Law

Motions In Motion: Teaching Advanced Legal Writing Through Collaboration, Elizabeth Shaver, Sarah Morath, Richard Strong

Elizabeth Shaver

Legal education is at a crossroads. Practitioners, academics, and students agree that more experiential learning opportunities are needed in law school.

In 2007, the Carnegie Foundation report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Carnegie Report), called for law schools to provide apprentice experiences to better prepare prospective attorneys for the world of practice. That same year, the Best Practices in Legal Education advocated for “experiential education” and “encourage[d] law school[s] to expand its use.” More recently, in August 2011, the American Bar Association adopted a resolution sponsored by the New York Bar Association summoning law schools ...


Motions In Motions: Teaching Advanced Legal Writing Through Collaboration, Sarah J. Morath, Elizabeth Shaver, Richard Strong The University of Akron School of Law

Motions In Motions: Teaching Advanced Legal Writing Through Collaboration, Sarah J. Morath, Elizabeth Shaver, Richard Strong

Sarah J Morath

Legal education is at a crossroads. Practitioners, academics, and students agree that more experiential learning opportunities are needed in law school.

In 2007, the Carnegie Foundation report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Carnegie Report), called for law schools to provide apprentice experiences to better prepare prospective attorneys for the world of practice. That same year, the Best Practices in Legal Education advocated for “experiential education” and “encourage[d] law school[s] to expand its use.” More recently, in August 2011, the American Bar Association adopted a resolution sponsored by the New York Bar Association summoning law schools ...


Nine Secrets For Living With Judges , J.P. Vero Pepperdine University

Nine Secrets For Living With Judges , J.P. Vero

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Res Ipsa Non Loquitur: The Writing Of Opinions, Harold H. Kolb Jr. Pepperdine University

Res Ipsa Non Loquitur: The Writing Of Opinions, Harold H. Kolb Jr.

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Professional Legal Writing Declaring Your Independence, Patrick R. Hugg Pepperdine University

Administrative Decision Writing , Irvin Stander Pepperdine University

Administrative Decision Writing , Irvin Stander

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Professional Writing Methodology , Patrick R. Hugg Pepperdine University

Professional Writing Methodology , Patrick R. Hugg

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

Characterizing attorneys as professional writers, in the literary sense, who just happen to work in the legal milieu, this article discusses the author’s principles of “Professional Writing Methodology.”


Style In Judicial Writing, Griffin B. Bell Pepperdine University

Style In Judicial Writing, Griffin B. Bell

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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The Unseen Hand In Administrative Law Decisions: Organizing Principles For Findings Of Fact & (And) Conclusions Of Law, Michael Frost Pepperdine University

The Unseen Hand In Administrative Law Decisions: Organizing Principles For Findings Of Fact & (And) Conclusions Of Law, Michael Frost

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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Evidence Column, Paul R. Troeh Jr Pepperdine University

Evidence Column, Paul R. Troeh Jr

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


The Art Of Legal Writing, Thomas E. Spahn Pepperdine University

Mobile Apps For Legal Research On The Go, Wiener-Rogers Law Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

A Brief Guide To Finding International Treaties, Jennifer Sekula College of William & Mary Law School

A Brief Guide To Finding International Treaties, Jennifer Sekula

Library Staff Publications

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Cat, Cause, And Kant, Richard J. Peltz-Steele University of Massachusetts School of Law

Cat, Cause, And Kant, Richard J. Peltz-Steele

Faculty Publications

These are precarious times in which to launch a new law school and a new law review. Yet here we are. The University of Massachusetts is now in its first year of operation with provisional ABA accreditation. This text is a foreword to the first general-interest issue of the University of Massachusetts Law Review. Now marks an appropriate time to take stock of what these institutions mean to accomplish in our unsettled legal world.


Oh, The Treatise!, Richard A. Danner Duke Law

Oh, The Treatise!, Richard A. Danner

Faculty Scholarship

This foreword to the Michigan Law Review’s 2013 Survey of Books Related to the Law considers the history of the American legal treatise in light of the well-known criticisms of legal scholarship published by Judge Harry Edwards in 1992. As part of his critique, Edwards characterized the legal treatise as “[t]he paradigm of ‘practical’ legal scholarship.” In his words, treatises “create an interpretive framework; categorize the mass of legal authorities in terms of this framework; interpret closely the various authoritative texts within each category; and thereby demonstrate for judges or practitioners what ‘the law’ requires.” Part I examines ...