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Learning And Serving: Pro Bono Legal Services By Law Students, David L. Chambers, Cynthia F. Adcock

Articles

All lawyers' codes of professional ethics in the United States expect members of the bar to perform legal services for low-income persons. In practice, as we all know, many lawyers perform a great deal of such service while others do little or none. By much the same token, the accreditation rules of the American Bar Association urge all law schools to provide students with opportunities to do pro bono legal work; by much the same token, some schools in the United States have extensive programs for their students but many do not. In 1998, the Association of American Law Schools …

Building Pediatric Law Careers: The University Of Michigan Law School Experience, Melissa Breger, Suellyn Scarnecchia, Frank E. Vandervort, Naomi Woloshin

Articles

There are several obstacles to training and supporting pediatric lawyers. Children are a relatively new group of clients and law schools have not traditionally provided pediatric training. The required training is particularly challenging to deliver because it is inherently interdisciplinary, requiring faculty and students to look outside of the law school to obtain necessary knowledge. The greatest obstacle to developing the careers of pediatric lawyers is the low pay and low prestige typically afforded children's lawyers. As a result, law students reasonably question the likelihood of developing a successful career in the field. The number of available jobs is limited …

Introduction: Performing Latcrit, Robert S. Chang, Natasha Fuller

Faculty Articles

This introduction examines the four articles in this cluster on LatCrit praxis. The four articles can be seen as case studies that explore different aspects of LatCrit praxis. Pedro Malavet examines the role literature and the arts can play as a form of antisubordinationist practice. Nicholas Gunia focuses on Jamaican music as a particular site of antisubordinationist practice, showing us that resistance comes in many forms and that LatCrit practitioners must have a broad theory for social change that is not limited to legislatures, courtrooms, classrooms, and law reviews. Alfredo Mirande Gonzalez employs personal narrative to tell us how he …

Johnny's In The Basement/Mixing Up His Medicine: Therapeutic Jurisprudence And Clinical Teaching, Keri K. Gould, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

Clinical legal education is both more exhilarating and more stressful than "traditional" legal education. It forces students to confront their pre-existing assumptions about the practice of law and the representation of clients (frequently, indigent and marginalized individuals), and it similarly forces them to integrate new doctrine, theory, and practice in a very different way than "regular" law classes demand.

Therapeutic jurisprudence considers the role of the law as a therapeutic agent, and examines all aspects of the legal system in an effort to determine whether it is operating therapeutically or anti-therapeutically, and suggests that legal decision-makers consider the potential impact …

The Future Debate On Multidisciplinary Practice In The United States, Sydney M. Cone Iii.

Articles & Chapters

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Stepping Outside The Box: Viewing Your Client In A Whole New Light, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.

There Is A Method(Ology) To This Madness: A Review And Analysis Of Feedback In The Clinical Process, Victor M. Goode

Oklahoma Law Review

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Hard Choices: Thoughts For New Lawyers, David C. Vladeck

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Rarely do law schools challenge students to examine their assumptions about what being a lawyer really means. Seldom do law schools undertake a probing examination of the role that lawyers play in society and the choices that lawyers have to make in terms of how they spend their working lives. For example, how many of you have a clue about the basic facts of our profession? How many lawyers there are in the United States? What do they do? What percentage work for the government? For large law firms? For small firms? For legal services organizations? For public interest groups? …

Imagining The Future: Training Hong Kong Lawyers For The 21 St Century, David N. Smith

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Hong Kong must commit itself now to becoming one of the leaders in legal education in Asia and the world. To do so, it must dramatically rethink the structure, process and content of legal education. This will not be easy, but it is essential if Hong Kong is to continue to serve as one of the great centres of finance, trade and technology in the world and if it is to maintain and secure a position of leadership in 21st century China and the Pacific region.

Vol. 17, No. 14 (November 30, 1999)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Judicial Notice November 29th, 1999 V26 N4, The Catholic University Of America, Columbus School Of Law

Judicial Notice

No abstract provided.

Vol. 17, No. 08 (October 18, 1999)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

The Weekly October 13, 1999, North Carolina Central School Of Law

NCCU Law School Weekly

No abstract provided.

Vol. 17, No. 07 (October 11, 1999)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Vol. 17, No. 06 (October 4, 1999)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Why In-House Live Client Clinics Won't Work In Romania: Confessions Of A Clinician Educator, Rodney J. Uphoff

Faculty Publications

Romanians eat our Big Macs, wolf down pizza slices at Pizza Hut, and guzzle Coca-Cola. They wear baseball caps, Nike clothing, and tennis shoes. They listen to American rap and pop music, see American movies with Romanian subtitles, and watch all of our old television shows. Romanians of all ages, but especially the young, hunger and thirst for all things Western, particularly from the United States. Doesn't it follow, then, that Romanian law schools ought to have - and, indeed, Romanian law professors would want - that symbol of an innovative, modern American law school curriculum: a live client clinical …

Fall 1999

Bill of Particulars

No abstract provided.

100 Years Of Women At The University Of Buffalo, Buffalo Law Review

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Of Counsel, Volume 4 | Fall 1999, North Carolina Central University School Of Law

Of Counsel

No abstract provided.

Volume 24, No. 2

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Aswani K. Datt, Christine Doucet, Cameron MacKeen

Legal Education, Professionalism, And The Public Interest, Alfred C. Aman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Vol. 50, No.2, September 21, 1999, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Student Senate Elections Next Wednesday & Thursday •The Economist •1L Reflections •What Law Review? •3 Second Memory •Movie Reviews •Gotta Go

The Weekly September 14, 1999, North Carolina Central School Of Law

NCCU Law School Weekly

No abstract provided.

The Weekly September 7, 1999, North Carolina Central School Of Law

NCCU Law School Weekly

No abstract provided.

Profile, Summer 1999, Vol. 9, No. 1

Alumni Magazines

No abstract provided.

Vol. 16, No. 14 (April 26, 1999)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Constructions Of Client Competence And Theories Of Practice, Robert Rubinson

All Faculty Scholarship

An entrenched stereotype about the elderly is that they inevitably experience a progressive decline in cognitive function - what the Article calls the "idea of decrement." The vast majority of elderly, however, do not experience declining competence for most or all of their lives. Nevertheless, attorneys interpret much of what elderly clients say and do as the product of cognitive impairment, and sometimes even the elderly themselves construct stories about the world and their circumstances in line with the idea of decrement. These attitudes and social constructions, interacting in complex ways, can distort the ability of attorneys to represent elderly …

Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 1999)

Alumni Update

No abstract provided.

Vol. 16, No. 10 (March 29, 1999)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Professional And Ethical Issues In Legal Externships: Fostering Commitment To Public Service, Lisa G. Lerman

Scholarly Articles

In this Article, I explore the larger issue of professional choices presented to law student externs. Then I explore some of the particular ethical dilemmas that law students and their teachers encounter in externship programs.