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Volume 1, Number 3 of the University of Michigan Law School Staff Newsletter.

Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring 1997)

IU Law Update

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Clark Memorandum: Spring 1997, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, J. Reuben Clark Law School

The Clark Memorandum

• Anonymous No More (Lovisa Lyman)
• Fiddler on the U.N. Roof (Charles D. Cranney)
• In the Beginning (Carl S. Hawkins)
• Unmeasured Factors of Success (John E. Carmack)

Legal Narratives, Theraputic Narratives: The Invisibility And Omnipresence Of Race And Gender, Leslie G. Espinoza

Michigan Law Review

My first introduction to Denise Gray was through a form. The intake sheet was dated October 17, 1994. The legal problem was straightforward. My introduction to Denise Gray would come much later. I am a clinical law professor. The clinic, Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau, is known as "LAB." I teach students law by supervising them as they represent, usually for the first time, a real person with real problems.

Vol. 47, No. 6, January 28, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Students Lament Syvereud's Departure •Law School Panel on Affirmative Action for MLK Day Celebration •Exam Ticket Frustration •Blanks Pans Hip New Music •Michigan Students Explore Cambodia •Whitman Takes the Reins •The Two Sides of Larry Flynt •B&B Reveal Resolutions

Vol. 12, No. 02 (January 20, 1997)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Learning From Colleagues: A Case Study In The Relationship Between "Academic" And "Ecological" Clinical Legal Education, Robert J. Condlin

Faculty Scholarship

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Classes Of 1998-1999, North Carolina Central School Of Law

Class Profiles

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Testing The Grades: Evaluating Grading Models In Clinical Legal Education, Stacy Brustin, David Chavkin

Scholarly Articles

This article describes the structure and findings of the Catholic University grading experiment. It reviews the advantages and disadvantages traditionally ascribed to graded courses and analyzes the available research on this subject. The article concludes with the recommendations proposed by the clinical faculty. These recommendations are designed to maximize the advantages and minimize the disadvantages of a graded system of evaluation.

Eye On The World, Jose E. Alvarez, Virginia A. Gordan

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

In a special section coinciding with the International Reunion of Law School graduates, Law School graduates who are deeply involved in the globalization of legal practice respond to the question, "If you could leap ahead 10 years, how do you think what you are doing now will change?" And in a thought-provoking prologue, Professor of Law Jose Alvarez and Assistant Dean for International Programs Virginia A. Gordan consider the historical - and historic - impact of Law School graduates from overseas on the legal profession.

Clinical Legal Education Gets High Marks, Maureen Laflin

Articles

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A Field Trip To Benetton And Beyond: Some Thoughts On Outsider Narrative In A Law School Clinic, Carolyn Grose

Faculty Scholarship

This essay explores the process of teaching students—and ourselves—to listen to and accept different versions of reality. Such exploration results in a proposition that is easy to state but difficult to accomplish: that in order to achieve this goal, we must challenge the students' "common sense”—their sense that they "know" how people act—by offering examples of behaviors that differ from that knowledge, without triggering the very "common sense" we are trying to combat. Toward this end, the first section of the essay presents a hypothetical initial interview with a client, and the student interviewer's reactions to her, which reflect the …

Specialist Certification For Lawyers: What Is Going On?, Judith Kilpatrick

University of Miami Law Review

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Preparing The New Law Graduate To Practice Law: A View From The Trenches, Rodney J. Uphoff, James J. Clark, Edward C. Monahan

Faculty Publications

Most legal educators reject the premise that the primary mission of the law school is to train law students to practice law. Rather, most law professors claim that their primary function is to teach students to think like lawyers. To many commentators, however, the academic community's antipractice attitude has spawned an unhealthy dichotomy between theory and practice, a division within the academic community, and a chasm between law schools and the practicing bar. Moreover, this dissonance or gap between law school and practice significantly contributes to the fact that most law graduates are substantially unprepared to function as lawyers when …

Kentucky Lawyer, 1997, University Of Kentucky College Of Law

Annual Magazines

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Comparing United States And New Zealand Legal Education: Are U.S. Law Schools Too Good?, Gregory S. Crespi

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article offers a thoughtful comparison of the legal educational systems of the United States and New Zealand. The author highlights the significant differences between these two legal educational systems by contrasting their admissions policies, clinical programs, "law-and-economics" electives, and staffing of required courses. Based on this analysis, the author concludes that although U.S. law schools are clearly "better," such superiority may have been achieved at too high of a cost, in terms of both the substantial resources now devoted to legal education which could otherwise be applied to alternative uses and the problematic effects of the stratified legal educational …

Comparing United States And New Zealand Legal Education: Are U.S. Law Schools Too Good?, Gregory S. Crespi

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

This Article offers a comparison of the legal education systems of the United States and New Zealand. While it was originally published in 1997 in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and has been largely overlooked in more recent years, it is germane to the current vigorous debate regarding what changes need to be made in American legal education. I highlight in this Article several significant differences between these two systems by contrasting their admissions policies, clinical programs, availability of "law-and-economics" electives, and staffing of required courses. Based on this analysis, I concluded that although American law schools were clearly …

Fostering Diversity In The Legal Profession: A Model For Preparing Minority And Other Non-Traditional Students For Law School, Lorraine K. Bannai, Marie Eaton

Faculty Articles

Undergraduate institutions, on their own and in partnership with law schools, can and should play a more significant role in expanding the pool of law school applicants from non-traditional backgrounds. The Law and Diversity Program at Western Washington University was conceived out of this desire to prepare non-traditional students for the study of law and thereby help bring more diversity to the legal profession. This article discusses the model used by the Law and Diversity Program to prepare non-traditional students for law school and the program's success in accomplishing its goals. It was the hope of the author to create …

Striving To Teach “Justice, Fairness, And Morality”, Jane H. Aiken

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The MacCrate Report has reinvigorated legal education by identifying fundamental skills and values that are essential to effective lawyering. As we go through the process of ensuring that we train students in these fundamentals, we should not ignore the values identified in the report. At the heart of these values is the injunction that lawyers should strive to promote justice, fairness, and morality. Law schools and law teachers can play a significant role in instilling in our students a passion to ensure justice.

Less Is More: Teaching Legal Ethics In Context Symposium: 1997 W. M. Mikeck Foundation Forum On The Teaching Of Legal Ethics, Bruce A. Green

Faculty Scholarship

We who teach legal ethics employ many of the teacher's arts to win our students' appreciation for the course. We do not always succeed. As Deborah Rhode has observed, "[t]here are inherent problems and infinite ways to fail in teaching this subject." Yet, we continue to seek a method for teaching the course effectively. If nothing else, our efforts have led to the development of a substantial body of literature on teaching legal ethics to which this Article will contribute. Its focus is on what, rather than how, to teach. This Article asks: What should be the content of the …

A Year In Practice: The Journal Of A Reflective Clinician, Stacy Caplow

Faculty Scholarship

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Jim's Modest Proposal, Kenney F. Hegland

William & Mary Law Review

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Comment On Moliterno, Legal Education, Experiential Education, And Professional Responsibility, Lance Liebman

William & Mary Law Review

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Legal Education, Experiential Education, And Professional Responsibility, James E. Moliterno

William & Mary Law Review

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Rule, Story, And Commitment In The Teaching Of Legal Ethics, Roger C. Cramton, Susan P. Koniak

William & Mary Law Review

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Rules, Story And Commitment In The Teaching Of Legal Ethics, Roger C. Cramton, Susan P. Koniak

Faculty Scholarship

The ABA requires each "approved" law school to provide each student "instruction in the duties and responsibilities of the legal profession." First adopted in August, 1973, in the midst of the Watergate disclosures, this requirement has never been interpreted and is infrequently referred to or enforced in the accreditation process. The professional responsibility requirement is the only substantive teaching requirement imposed by the ABA.

Should the ethics teaching requirement be scrapped? We consider that question in Part I. Although we ultimately conclude the rule should be maintained, we believe this fundamental question must be asked. Given the disdain many legal …

Vol. 47, No. 2, September 23, 1996, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Decline in Percentage of Women in the Class of 1999 •Law School Again (and Again) Welcomes Visiting, Adjunct Faculty •International Law Workshop Begins •Course Evaluations in a Nutshell •Incompatible Hiring Criteria •Letters to the Editor •Commentary: Faculty Hiring •Blanks' Culture Corner •Four Years Out: Are We Having Fun Yet? •B&B's BS 1st Year Quiz

Negotiating Demands For Justice: Public Interest Law As A Problem Solving Dialogue, David Dominguez

In the Public Interest

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Profile, Summer 1996, Vol. 6, No. 1

Alumni Magazines

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Clark Memorandum: Spring 1996, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, J. Reuben Clark Law School

The Clark Memorandum

• In Memoriam: Rex E. Lee (Richard Wilkins)
• The Ethical Professional (Constance K. Lundberg)
• Selected Letters (Woody Deem)
• The Best Season (Aileen H. Clyde)
• The Man Behind the Bow Tie (Edward L. Kimball)