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Professional Responsibility As A Lawyering Skill, Michael E. Wolfson

Law and Contemporary Problems

Little has been done to teach professional responsibility in a way that provides students with more than a mere sampling of rules and principles. In an attempt to move Beyond mere tinkering with the way professional responsibility is taught, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles restructured the way it taught the subject by creating a class that fully integrated ethics and lawyering skills into a single required course.

New Horizons In The Role Of Law Schools In Teaching Legal Ethics, Robert F. Drinan

Law and Contemporary Problems

Legal Ethics became a required course in the late 1970s; however, the requirement of this course both helped and hindered the development of the status of legal ethics as a respected discipline. The role of law schools in teaching legal ethics is explored.

Of Rat Time And Terminators, David R. Barnhizer

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

A version of rat time is being created within the legal profession as law schools pump 40,000 graduates a year into a saturated system. Understanding our present condition as a period of rat time can help us diagnose the problems of the legal profession, identify the future responsibilities of law schools and the profession, and create more effective solutions than the bandaids that have been proposed or applied thus far. This is particularly important because lawyers and law schools have lost their way. They are afraid to address their most troubling problems and to take the principled actions necessary for …

Eyes To The Future, Yet Remembering The Past: Reconciling Tradition With The Future Of Legal Education, Amy M. Colton

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Note explores the relationship between legal education and the legal profession, and what can be done to stop the two institutions from drifting farther and farther apart. Part I examines the history of the American law school, focusing on how the schools came into existence and what goals they intended to serve. Part II questions whether these goals have been reached, and dissects the present-day law school curriculum in search of both its triumphs and its failures. A necessary part of this curriculum analysis includes examining the evolution of the profession into a creature of both law and business, …

Vol. 44, No. 7, January 24, 1994, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Search for New Law Dean Continues •Res Gestae Needs Your Help to Survive •Cyberlawyers: Some Thoughts on a New Breed •Heard Any Good Scandals Lately? •Professor Questions USA Patriotism •Phi Delta Phi: The Tradition Continues •The Docket •Crossword •Swarthmore Tries to Please All, Pleases No One •TV Offers Filler for Bored Student •The Year in Music: One Critic's Kvetchings •Royal Hints on Winter Recreation •How I Stopped Worrying About Law School & Learned to Love the TV

Pro Bono Legal Work: For The Good Of Not Only The Public, But Also The Lawyer And The Legal Profession, Nadine Strossen

Michigan Law Review

I agree with Judge Edwards that "the lawyer has an ethical obligation to practice public interest law - to represent some poor clients; to advance some causes that he or she believes to be just." I also concur in Judge Edwards' opinion that "[a] person who deploys his or her doctrinal skill without concern for the public interest is merely a good legal technician - not a good lawyer."

Rather than further develop Judge Edwards' theme that lawyers have a professional responsibility to do pro bono work, I will offer another rationale for such work, grounded in professional and individual …

Stewardship, Donald B. Ayer

Michigan Law Review

While I agree with much that Judge Edwards has proposed, I thus submit that his formulations of the problem are partial - a bit like those of the blind men examining different parts of the elephant. The law's current unhappiness is only partly described as that of law schools and practicing lawyers going in different directions, of law practice becoming too commercial, or of law schools failing to serve the needs of the practicing lawyers and judges with practical teaching and scholarship. All of these observations, while correct as far as they go, miss the root of the problem, which …

The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education And The Legal Profession: A Postscript, Harry T. Edwards

Michigan Law Review

In this essay I offer a postscript to "The Growing Disjunction." It is not possible for me to "respond" directly to the other participants in this symposium, because I had no opportunity before publication to read what they have written. I will therefore limit myself to two tasks. First, I will briefly discuss several issues raised in the article. Second, and most important, I wish to share a representative sample of the responses I have received regarding the article. These responses, I think, provide good evidence of the magnitude of the problem that we face.

Mad Midwifery: Bringing Theory, Doctrine, And Practice To Life, Barbara Bennett Woodhouse

Michigan Law Review

I share Judge Edwards' concern about the health of legal education and about lawyers as a force in society. I differ, however, in defining the sickness and prescribing the cure, at least when it comes to teaching. In my view, we need to integrate, not to dichotomize and polarize further, the practical and the impractical, the doctrinal and the theoretical. His critique, and my intuitive response to it, challenged me to examine and articulate where we disagree, based on what I have learned in my five years in the classroom and what it is I hope to accomplish in my …

The Growth Of Interdisciplinary Research And The Industrial Structure Of The Production Of Legal Ideas: A Reply To Judge Edwards, George L. Priest

Michigan Law Review

This brief response will attempt to repair these various deficiencies, though only in part because of the difficulty of the subject. It will try to explain more fully the rise of interdisciplinary legal research and will sketch the broader structure of the production and dissemination of new ideas about law and the legal system. The relationship between legal education and legal practice implicates an understanding of the "market" for legal ideas. To describe ideas as the subject of a "market," of course, has become conventional. In my view, however, the market metaphor most typically distorts our understanding of the issue, …

Judge Edwards' Indictment Of "Impractical" Scholars: The Need For A Bill Of Particulars, Sanford Levinson

Michigan Law Review

I can summarize my response as follows: Although Judge Edwards' article certainly seems to be leveling a heartfelt indictment, it lacks a sufficiently precise bill of particulars to know exactly whom he has accused of doing what. Nor does one know exactly what penalty Judge Edwards would exact from the miscreants. Unless he supplies such a bill, his indictment should be dismissed, though, presumably, without prejudice to its reinstatement should he wish to do the hard work of supplying evidence for the charges he set out.

Vol. 43, No. 10, April 5, 1993, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Hungry for Justice, Hungry for Peace •Pro Bono Could Become More than an Option •Page: Tackle Inner City Educational Barriers •Could we Have Been More Diligent? •Gender Journal Responds to RG Article •Rodney King Verdict: Future Legal Repercussions? •Law Students Seek to Add Women to the Walls •Haitian Refugee Problem: A Real-Life Drama •Judge Promotes Equal Rights for Children •Shaw to Attend Conference in South Africa •New Section Grateful for Program •The Docket •In the Line of Fire: A Clerkship •Summer Starters Dominate Moot Court •And Now, a Word on Our Faculty •Law in the Raw

Vol. 43, No. 9, March 22, 1993, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Harvard Leaks Vote on MacKinnon Offer •UM Settles Pornography Dispute •LSSS Elections: Youthful Experience Dominates •Legal World Rocked by Controversy •This Full House Should Have Been Flushed •New Externship Rule: Burr on Law School's Butt •Family Law Project Undergoes Changes •Fall Grades •The Docket •1993 SFF Auction Raises Needed Funds •The 'Royal Mail' has Arrived •Law in the Raw

Vol. 43, No. 6, January 25, 1993, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•1L Campus Interviews Increase •MLK Day Panel Puts Focus on Jury in Rodney King Case •3L May Face Charges in Lawyers' Club Incident •Executive Orders Not End for Pro-Choicers •Student Describes Police Abuses in Lawyers' Club •Lawyers Under Attack… Again? •How Should Yale Spend His Money? •The Docket •The Lawyer's Vacation: A Prediction •Practice Safe Sex: Keep Your Socks On •Crossword •Shaw Will Return to Legal Defense Fund on Two-Year Leave

Deconstructing Los Angeles Or A Secret Fax From Magritte Regarding Postliterate Legal Reasoning: A Critique Of Legal Education, C. Garrison Lepow

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Article asks readers to imagine the shapes and colors of legal issues; it examines how people communicate and develop ideas through moving, metamorphosing images, especially computer graphics, and why methodology affects the eventual product of thought. Like dance, legal issues are described better through action than through words. Therefore, this Article challenges the principles of verbal reasoning upon which our legal system is based.

Vol. 42, No. 9, January 27, 1992, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Poor Get Dumped On •Kamisar Seeks Anti-Euthanasia Voices •Minority Underrepresentation Noted on MLK Day •Law School Lacks Practical Guidance •Open Meetings Should be Open •Michigan Needs Women's Law Journal •Should Classes be Cancelled on MLK Day? •Things Other than Landfills are Stinking in New Jersey •The Docket •Symposium Speakers to Define Democracy •Shh! New Library Policy Implemented •1Ls Cope With Diminished Prospects •Thoughts from the Armchair •Thongs Ice "Crushers" •Mixed Metaphors, Mixed Results: Haynes' Poison, Kasdan's Grand Canyon •Law in the Raw

Modern Legal Times: Making A Professional Legal Culture, Michael S. Ariens

Faculty Articles

Lawyers’ belief in their professionalism was fostered by the creation and development of modern legal institutions. Law schools, bar associations, organizations like the American Law Institute, as well as the system of legal directories, the regional case reporter system, and continuing legal education groups all contributed greatly to the making of a distinctly professional culture of law in America. These institutions prospered in part because of their ideological fit with the professionalizing ethos embodied in Christopher Columbus Langdell’s statement that “law is a science.”

Legal institutions, then, must be evaluated through the ideological lens which encouraged and fostered the notion …

Pursuing Justice In An Unjust World: Arjuna In America, Marc Galanter

Cleveland State Law Review

The knowledge that emerges from research is not automatically translated into policy, but becomes part of a political struggle. But deepening that struggle by challenging our understandings and liberating us from false problems and false solutions is one of the things that law schools can do for justice. The quest for justice is a political quest. In his stirring essay, ‘Politics as a Vocation,’ surely one of the most profound examinations of the nature of political action, Max Weber tells us that the political vocation demands passion, responsibility and something more: "... the decisive psychological quality of the Politician [is] …

The Justice Mission Of The Law Schools, Linda Greene

Cleveland State Law Review

A Conference on the Justice Mission of the Law Schools is timely, and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s words about being “a drum major for justice” offer to us a vision of that mission. They demand that we reexamine the role of the law school to determine whether we have taken into account the question of justice while ordering our institutional priorities. The title of this conference implicitly asks whether we can continue to reproduce legal culture without evaluating the impact of that culture on both the powerful as well as the powerless. Legal educational institutions cannot right all historical wrongs …

Incorporating Into A Seminar Or Clinical Course The Representation Of An Indigent Death Row Inmate Seeking Certiorari In The United States Supreme Court, Margery Malkin Koosed

Cleveland State Law Review

It appeared at the Justice Mission Conference that there was general consensus on several matters. First, there seemed to be considerable support for "bringing more doses of reality into the classroom." Second, many faculty wished to encourage a greater sense of professional service among their students. Third, a good number of criminal justice section members observed that capital case decisions of the United States Supreme Court were fine vehicles for class discussion of essential issues. In keeping with these views, I have concluded that I will once again include in my upcoming seminar course an opportunity for students to assist …

The Burdens Of Educational Loans: The Impacts Of Debt On Job Choice And Standards Of Living For Students At Nine American Law Schools, David L. Chambers

Articles

American law students are borrowing large sums of money. For graduates at many schools, cumulative debts of $40,000 from college and law school have become the norm, and debts of $50,000, $60,000, and even more are common. The sums students are borrowing are much larger today than they were ten years ago, even after adjusting for increases in the cost of living. They have risen at a considerably faster pace than the starting salaries at small law firms and government agencies. They have even risen at a faster pace than the starting salaries in many large firms. The new pattern …

Vol. 42, No. 8, December 6, 1991, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Gottschalk: We Can Meet '92-'93 Needs •Huber Trashes Junk Science •1Ls Find Time for Moot Court •Thinking About That Future Job? Don't Forget Academia •Semester Ends: Did We Get Our Money's Worth? •Streisand's Prince Gets You All Gushy Inside •Speaker: Soviet Jews Face Immigration Challenges •Professor Pildes v. Dr. Manitsky

Vol. 41, No. 4, February 18, 1991, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Harvard Prof tells of the Final Civil Rights Act •Students 'Die' to Protest the War •Letters to the Editor •Bush Selling the War •Mr. Bush, the Real Battles are at Home •Why Going to War is Wrong •The Docket •Newsbriefs •Baseball Salaries Approaching that of Lawyers •Thongs Ice Route to Finals •Jodis Takes the Big One •A Moose, Nintendo, and Toe Jam •Law in the Raw

Debts, Job Choices, And Financial Burden: Educational Debts At Nine American Law Schools, David L. Chambers

Books

American law students are borrowing large sums of money. For graduates at many schools, cumulative debts of $35,000 from college and law school have become the norm and debts of $40,000, $50,000 and even more are common. The sums students are borrowing are much larger today than they were ten years ago, even after adjusting for increases in the cost of living. They have risen at a vastly faster pace than the initial salaries at small law firms and government agencies. They have even risen at a faster pace than the initial salaries in many large firms. The new pattern …

Vol. 40, No. 20, November 7, 1990, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Krieger Says Offers Will Come… Be Patient •Sports Agent Steinberg to Speak Friday •Project Shelter Hosts Bash •Give us a Break! •A Clarification •Everyone Always Talks About the 'Whether'… •Thongs Take Bite Out Dental Students •Editors Lift Suspension: Steroid Tests Inconclusive •NBA: Not Basketball, Actually •Law in the Raw

Engendering Law Faculties, Carl Tobias

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

Vol. 40, No. 8, March 14, 1990, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Law Grad Balances Ideals, Employment •Judge Chen To Speak •Computer Committee to Give Student Views to Dean •Clinic Experience Vital •SFF Needs Support to Meet Goal •Legalizing Drugs - A Tragic Idea •Classifieds •1990 NCAA Basketball Tournament Contest •Selection Committee Faced Competing Factors •Murder at the RG •Law in the Raw

Vol. 40, No. 7, February 28, 1990, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•University of Michigan Law Student Runs for Ann Arbor City Council •News Briefs •Time For a Change •Student Questions White's Views •Classifieds •The University of Manitsky Law School Bulletin •Dot and Me A Hemingway-esque Trek into the World of Bowling •Shakes Out Red, Turns Blue •Basketball Results •Uncle Sue Wants You! •Law in the Raw

Vol. 40, No. 4, February 7, 1990, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Speaker Discusses Law Firm Commitment •Library Glass Breaks •New Hope for Quadrangle •Family Law Project Names New Administrator •On Waiting … •Racism and the Law: Hand in Hand •Keeping Time •Dial-900-URA-JERK •Michigan Better Without Higgins •Law in the Raw

Legal Aid, Public Service And Clinical Legal Education: Future Directions From India And The United States, Frank S. Bloch, Iqbal S. Ishar

Michigan Journal of International Law

In this article, the legal aid traditions and broader public service agendas of clinical legal education in both countries are explored. These sections are followed by a comparison of the legal aid and public service components of the clinical curriculum in the two countries. It is observed that while clinical programs in the United States have tended to shift their focus away from legal aid and public service goals to broader academic and educational goals consistent with the integration of clinical legal education into the law school mainstream, clinical programs in India have remained firmly rooted in and closely tied …