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Legal Education In Transition: Trends And Their Implications, Michael A. Millemann, Sheldon Krantz

Faculty Scholarship

This is a pivotal moment in legal education. Revisions in American Bar Association accreditation standards, approved in August 2014, impose new requirements, including practice-based requirements, on law schools. Other external regulators and critics are pushing for significant changes too. For example, the California bar licensing body is proposing to add a practice-based, experiential requirement to its licensing requirements, and the New York Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, is giving third-year, second semester students the opportunity to practice full-time in indigent legal services programs and projects. Unbeknown to many, there have been significant recent changes in legal education that …

Assessing Experiential Learning, Jobs And All: A Response To The Three Professors, Robert J. Condlin

Faculty Scholarship

Does clinical practice experience improve a law student’s chances of getting a legal job? If not, would it, if employers were given better information about that experience? And if not, are there other reasons to justify a law school’s decision to fund a clinical program? The answer to the first two questions is almost certainly no. For many reasons—the uneven and situation-driven nature of clinical practice experience, the Delphic quality of practice evaluations, the availability of more effective in-house training options, and the like—most private law firms prefer to trust conventional academic credentials more than practice experience in deciding whom …

Four Futures Of Legal Automation, Frank A. Pasquale, Glyn Cashwell

Faculty Scholarship

Simple legal jobs (such as document coding) are prime candidates for legal automation. More complex tasks cannot be routinized. So far, the debate on the likely scope and intensity of legal automation has focused on the degree to which legal tasks are simple or complex. Just as important to the legal profession, however, is the degree of regulation or deregulation likely in the future.

Situations involving conflicting rights, unique fact patterns, and open-ended laws will remain excessively difficult to automate for an extended period of time. Deregulation, however, may effectively strip many persons of their rights, rendering once-hard cases simple. …

Synergy And Tradition: The Unity Of Research, Service, And Teaching In Legal Education, Frank A. Pasquale

Faculty Scholarship

Most non-profit law schools generate public goods of enormous value: important research, service to disadvantaged communities, and instruction that both educates students about present legal practice and encourages them to improve it. Each of these missions informs and enriches the others. However, technocratic management practices menace law schools’ traditional missions of balancing theory and practice, advocacy and scholarly reflection, study of and service to communities. This article defends the unity and complementarity of law schools’ research, service, and teaching roles. (For those short on time, the chart on pages 45-46 encapsulates the conflicting critiques of law schools which this article …

Law School Based Incubators And Access To Justice – Perspectives From Deans, Patricia E. Salkin, Ellen Suni, Niels Schaumann, Mary Lu Bilek

Journal of Experiential Learning

At the end of February 2015, law professors, law deans, incubator staff and attorneys, and self-selected others gathered at California Western School of Law for the Second Annual Conference on Law School Incubators and Residency Programs. The incubators that are the subject of this article tend to focus on transition to law practice and access to justice, and some are also working to incorporate technology for the practice of law as a means of enhancing access to justice. As more law schools decide to host, sponsor or offer an incubator, and following our panel discussion at the February 2015 incubator …

The Professional, Spring 2015, Henry Latimer Center For Professionalism

The Professional Newsletter

The Professional is a publication of The Florida Bar Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism. It is published triannually and provides practical information regarding professionalism relevant to the practice of law in Florida.

Singapore Management University Report To Stakeholders 2014 - 2015, Singapore Management University

Report to Stakeholders

This has been a landmark year for both Singapore and Singapore Management University (SMU) with SG50 and SMU15 celebrations marking the nation's 50 years and University's 15 years of progress respectively. The University was honoured to host Singapore’s Prime Minister Mr Lee Hsien Loong who delivered the 7th Ho Rih Hwa Leadership in Asia Public Lecture. This was especially poignant as Singapore’s first Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew gave the series’ inaugural lecture in 2002. Mr Lee Hsien Loong discussed the significant challenges facing Singapore over the next 50 years. You can read about his thought-provoking lecture in one …

The Malaysia Report: National Landscape, Current Challenges And Opportunities For Growth, Institute For Societal Leadership, Natalia R. Rodrigues

Institute of Societal Leadership Research Collection

Malaysia’s story is one of pluralism. Like many nations in Southeast Asia, its borders are not drawn along ethnic lines. Immigration and the influence from colonial European powers were particularly prominent in Malaysia because of its many important ports. Thus, many aspects of the country – its economy, its people – are very different on the coasts than they are in the interior of the country, a distinction which generally mirrors the divide between urban and rural areas as well.

The Pittsburg Micropolitan Area Economic Report, Quarter 2, 2015, Pittsburg State University. Gladys A. Kelce College Of Business

Pittsburg Micropolitan Reports

The Pittsburg Micropolitan Area Economic Report is created by the Business and Economic Research Center (BERC) at Pittsburg State University.

The Pittsburg Micropolitan Area Economic Report, Quarter 4, 2015, Pittsburg State University. Gladys A. Kelce College Of Business

Pittsburg Micropolitan Reports

The Pittsburg Micropolitan Area Economic Report is created by the Business and Economic Research Center (BERC) at Pittsburg State University.

The Year In Review 2014: Selected Cases From The Alaska Supreme Court And The Alaska Court Of Appeals

Alaska Law Review Year in Review

No abstract provided.

Salt Equalizer, Vol. 2015, Issue 1, Society Of American Law Teachers

SALT Equalizer

Contents of This Issue:

Survey Information and Methodology, at 1.

2014-15 SALT Salary Survey, at 1.

About SALT and SALT Membership, at 3.

Survey Instrument, at 5.

SALT Salary Survey 2013-2014, at 5.

Roundtable On Increasing Author Diversity In Legal Scholarship: Program And Bibliography, Jason Hawkins

2015: Roundtable on Increasing Author Diversity in Legal Scholarship: Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Environmental Law At Maryland: 2015 Year In Review

Environmental Law at Maryland

No abstract provided.

Aftershocks: The Human Impact Of U.S. Deportations To Post-Earthquake Haiti, University Of Chicago Law School - Global Human Rights Clinic, University Of Miami Law School Immigration Clinic, University Of Miami Law School Human Rights Clinic

Global Human Rights Clinic

Haiti still reels from the devastating effects of the January 12, 2010 earthquake that killed over 300,000 people, rendered one in seven Haitians homeless, and wreaked $9 billion of damage in a country whose 2009 GDP was only $7 billion. At least 85,000 people still live in internally displaced person camps (IDP camps) and many have moved back into shoddy structures that would not survive another earthquake. The cholera epidemic that struck Haiti in the wake of the earthquake has been characterized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as “the worst cholera outbreak in recent history,” killing …

2014 Touro College & University System Faculty Publications, Touro College & University System

Faculty Publications Books

This is the 2014 edition of the Faculty Publications Book of the Touro College & University System. It includes all eligible 2014 publication citations of faculty within the Touro College & University System, including New York Medical College (NYMC). It was produced as a joint effort of the Touro College Libraries and the Health Sciences Library at NYMC.

The Curious Case Of Competition And Quality, Maurice Stucke, Ariel Ezrachi

Scholarly Works

Alongside the consideration of price, competition authorities recognize that quality can be as, if not more, important in some markets. But as competition authorities also recognize, identifying the dimensions of competition important to many consumers is difficult. Even when these dimensions of quality are identified, measuring them represents additional challenges.

To circumvent these challenges, competition authorities rely on several heuristics when assessing a merger’s, cartel’s or monopolistic restraint’s impact on quality. Often the heuristics work well for the competition authorities.

Our paper, however, identifies several scenarios where these heuristics break down, when competition and quality are not positively correlated, and …

Wanting To Do More But Bound To Do Less: A Law Librarian's Dilemna, Paul Mclaughlin

Law Library Faculty Scholarship

The role of the law librarian has changed from managing the contents of a library’s collection of books to knowing how to find information sources located around the world contained in a variety of formats, taking part in instruction, and participating in networking activities. Law librarians are constrained by legal and professional codes. If they are cautious, law librarians can assist, instruct, and reach out to public patrons and students while operating within the professional guidelines that govern them.

The Rise Of Renewables And Distributed Generation In Minnesota, Jacob B. Shoop

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Wanting To Do More But Bound To Do Less: A Law Librarian’S Dilemma, Paul Mclaughlin

Scholarly Works

The role of the law librarian has changed from managing the contents of a library’s collection of books to knowing how to find information sources located around the world contained in a variety of formats, taking part in instruction, and participating in networking activities. Law librarians are constrained by legal and professional codes. If they are cautious, law librarians can assist, instruct, and reach out to public patrons and students while operating within the professional guidelines that govern them.

Some Early Thoughts On Liability Standards For Online Providers Of Legal Services, Benjamin H. Barton

Scholarly Works

This article discusses how legal malpractice, products liability, and negligence might apply to providers of online legal services.

Annual Report Town Of Milan, Milan, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2014., Milan Town Representatives

Milan, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Stemming The Tide Of Aboriginal Incarceration, Miriam Kelly, Hilde Tubex

The University of Notre Dame Australia Law Review

Western Australia’s prison population has the highest rate of Aboriginal over-representation in Australia. Research on the criminogenic effect of imprisonment suggests that the use of imprisonment as a deterrent to future offending is not empirically supported and that imprisonment may in fact contribute to further offending. Consequently, this article explores theoretical debates surrounding penality as a way to inform alternative crime control strategies to imprisonment. It will be argued that any strategy to reduce Aboriginal imprisonment rates could benefit from a perspective that views Aboriginal imprisonment as a manifestation of Aboriginal resistance to settler colonial dominance.

Teaching The Digital Caveman: Rethinking The Use Of Classroom Technology In Law School, James B. Levy

Chapman Law Review

No abstract provided.

Enigma: A Variation On The Theme Of Legal Writing’S Place In Contemporary Legal Education, Ian Gallacher

College of Law - Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Does Your Local Control Accountability (Lcap) Plan Deliver On The Promise Of Increased Or Improved Services For English Learners? 10 Research Aligned Rubrics To Help Answer The Question And Guide Your Program, Californians Together, The California Association For Bilingual Education (Cabe), California Rural Legal Assistance (Crla), The Center For Equity For English Learners (Ceel)

Practitioner Journal Articles

As California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) came into effect in 2013, districts were given more flexibility to use state resources and create a new school finance system to improve/increase services for students with greater needs for support, including English Learners (ELs), students from low-income backgrounds, and foster youth. Local Education Agencies (LEAs) were tasked with preparing the Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAPs) to describe how districts use their plans to meet their annual goals for all students. To aid LEAs in their design and implementation of programs to address the needs of ELs, Californians Together, the California Association …

State Of New Hampshire Annual Report Of Coos County For The Year Ending December 31, 2014., Coos County Representatives

Coos County, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a county in the state of New Hampshire.

The Legacy Of Salmon P. Chase, Carter B. Westmoreland

Freedom Center Journal

Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase used his legal training and political career to being the ongoing process of truly freeing African Americans.

A Timeline Of The History Of The Catholic University Of America School Of Law, Frances M. Brillantine

Miscellaneous Historical Documents

A timeline of the Law School's history from 1887 until 2015.

Journal Of The House Of Representatives State Of Colorado: Seventieth General Assembly First Regular Session At Denver, The State Capitol, Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House and Senate Journals

No abstract provided.