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Nova Law Review Full Issue Volume 1

Nova Law Review

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Studies Of Legal Education: A Review Of Recent Reports, Thomas L. Shaffer, Robert S. Redmount

Journal Articles

Early in 1972, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education published its report on legal education. It is the most prominent study of legal education in the last decade, and typical of discourse in and about law schools—urbane, speculative, unempirical, conceptual, rarely student-centered. The authors of the Carnegie report were articulate law teachers. They wrote with their feet up and their pipes lit, without attention to facts which did not come from their considerable experience. The value of such reports is the thoughtfulness of the people who write them, and their predictive accuracy is due to the fact that people who …

Juvenile Problems And The Law: Teacher's Manual, Richard Balnave, Anchorage School District

Other Works

In 1976, Anchorage School District (ASD) and the Criminal Justice Center at University of Alaska, Anchorage, collaborated to develop a law-related curriculum for 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade classrooms, with teacher's manuals written to supplement the basic texts chosen for the program, the "Law in Action" series by Linda Riekes and Sally Mahe Ackerly (West Publishing Company, 1975). This teacher's manual for the unit taught to eighth-graders, "Juvenile Problems and the Law," focuses on the legal aspects of juvenile delinquency and contains information regarding "helping" agencies. The teacher's manual reflects improvements to the original lessons, supplementary classroom activities, supplementary media, …

Performance Evaluation, Education, And Testing: Alternatives To Punishment In Professional Regulation, Kenneth J. Kavanaugh

University of Miami Law Review

This article outlines the existing concept of self-regulation and focuses on the deficiencies and inadequacies of that concept. The author proposes that to be effective, self-regulation must encompass more than the traditional disciplinary functions of bar association grievance committees. Specific proposals include: mandatory recertification of attorneys; requiring continued professional education for specialties and for areas in which an individual lawyer has demonstrated weakness; creating administrative machinery to monitor the entire spectrum of professional regulation; assigning quality ratings to individual attorneys; and implementing an aggressive public information program to solicit the public's opinion and to publicize steps the legal profession has …

Some Thoughts Concerning Mandatory Continuing Legal Education In Indiana, Douglass G. Boshkoff

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Stock, Corporations, And Native Land Claims Settlement: One Of A Series Of Articles On The Native Land Claims, Stephen Conn

Books & monographs

This article focuses on the role of village and regional corporations as established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) of 1972. The booklet presents a simulated case study and open-ended class discussion questions relative to the use, purpose, and development of corporations, how corporations are managed and governed, and provisions of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act which led to changes in Alaska law with regard to Alaska Native shares in ANCSA corporations. The article is one of a series by different authors designed to stimulate reading and discussion at an advanced secondary or adult level.

Legal Education For A Frontier Society: A Survey Of Alaskan Needs And Opportunities In Education, Research And The Delivery Of Legal Services, John E. Havelock

Reports

Alaska is the only state of the United States that does not have a law school. This 1975 study, commissioned by the Alaska Legislative Council and the University of Alaska, is the first comprehensive investigation of the demand for legal and law-related services in Alaska and how that demand can best be met, including an examination of the feasibility of establishing a law school in the state. The study describes contemporary methods of delivering legal services in the state, with particular focus on the needs of rural and middle income Alaskans, and evaluates their cost and efficiency. It evaluates the …

The Clinical Law Experiment: Michigan's First Five Years, Steven D. Pepe

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Many Michigan law alumni continue to inquire about the Clinical Law Program, now entering its fifth year of fulltime operation. Prof. Al Conard's "Letter from the Law Clinic" in the fall, 1973, Law Quadrangle Notes gave a perceptive and entertaining glimpse into some of the case situations at the clinic and the types of learning in which clinic students are engaged. This article will sketch the development and operation of our clinical experiment in legal education. A future article will explore the goals, methodology, and problems of clinical legal education. A third and final article will focus on a particular …

Now That You're In It, What Will You Get Out Of It?: Advice On Law School From Those Who Have Been There And Beyond, Reed Dickerson, Robert W. Meserve, Ronald A. May

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Report Of The Dean 1973-1974, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

My assessments of the Law School have tended more to describe developments than to state aspirations. I continue to assess things in that vein; my preference for leadership in the Dean's Office is to build on the goals which are implicit in the work of the tireless, dedicated people who teach and learn law at Notre Dame. My hope in approaching our enterprise in this way is to discover myself, and to help my colleagues discover, the power with which they serve God, the University, the community, our embattled profession, and one another. "This power in us," St. Paul said, …

Revolution In Latin American Legal Education: The Colombian Experience, E. A. Laing

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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The Evaluation Of A Clinical Legal Education Program: A Proposal, Junius L. Allison

Vanderbilt Law Review

Even though the Code of Professional Responsibility sets only general standards for competency, the competence of individual lawyers is now an area of active inquiry by the courts. Likewise, Legal Services are subject to regular evaluations. While these evaluations have had poor track records, the fault lies with their administration rather than their concept. If the practice of law is subject to scrutiny, it follows that schools for training the lawyers, and certainly parts of their curricula, such as clinical programs, can be evaluated." Legal education on its most basic level is preparation for a profession, the 'public profession of …

An Empirical Investigation Of The Relationship Between Lawyering Skills And Legal Education, Deedra Benthall-Nietzel

Kentucky Law Journal

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2-1-1: The 4th Revolution In Legal Education, Michael I. Sovern

Faculty Scholarship

If we were to count the great changes in legal education from Charles Evans Hughes' day to this, we would find ourselves with a short list. The shift from apprenticeship to school was already well begun by the time Mr. Hughes was graduated from the Columbia School of Law in 1884. The case method was a new idea, but it would become the orthodox methodology in a startlingly short time. By the turn of the century, a number of law schools had moved from two- to three-year programs, but two years was still enough for admission to the bar in …

Report Of The Dean 1972-1973, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

These are curious times for American legal education, especially curious perhaps at this university law school, because we claim adherence to the traditions of Thomas More. Our profession has for more than two centuries provided rulers for America, as it provided leaders, including More himself, for More's England—presidents and speakers, senators and administrators, benign manipulators in American corridors of power. More than a few of America's lawyer leaders have been educated at Christian, university law schools, and, as I think about Notre Dame law students this summer, I hope we are educating more than a few replacements for the lawyer-leaders …

The Delivery Of Legal Services: Some Ethical Considerations In The Use Of Law Students, Roger C. Wolf

Faculty Scholarship

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Studying Law As The Possibility Of Principled Action, Gordon A. Christenson

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

The study of law may be viewed as the critical analysis of a system of logically coherent rules governing action. In the United States, the responsibility for legal education has traditionally fallen upon the law schools. Within the legal profession and law schools a restive spirit now prevails, seeking to further clarify the meaning of that responsibility.' Two responses appear in the law schools, for good or ill.

Report Of The Dean 1971-1972, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

This is my first report to you as dean of the Notre Dame Law School. It seems to me important to begin it with an assessment of the decade that intervened between 1961, when I graduated from the Law School, and 1971, when Father Hesburgh appointed me to be dean. I assess, of course, a decade of law at Notre Dame during most of which (1963-71) I participated as a member of the faculty. I made this assessment, in approximately these terms, to Father Burtchaell and to our students in March, 1971; to our Advisory Council in April, 1971; and …

"Headwinds" Minority Placement In The Legal Profession, Harry T. Edwards

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

It is an undisputed fact that less than 2 per cent of the nation's estimated 200,000 lawyers are black. To paraphrase the words of one commentator:
"There is no need here to define exactly what constitutes 'shortage' or to dwell upon the question whether the number of black lawyers should be exactly proportionate to black population. The number of black lawyers is so small that there is a shortage by definition, and obviously we are years from facing the more refined question of whether, by definition, such a shortage has ceased to exist.

However, in the decade since 1960, particularly …

Some Thoughts On Training For The Law, Paul D. Carrington

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

A substantial part of the 1971 meeting of the Association of American Law Schools was devoted to an examination of Training for the Public Professions of the Law: 1971, a report to the Association by its Curriculum Study Project Committee, chaired by Professor Carrington. Followed are edited excerpts from the report.

Manners, Morals And Legal Education, Thomas Ehrlich

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Many spokesmen for the legal profession have been calling on the law schools to pay more attention to ethical responsibilities, usually meaning manners and civility. But many of today's law students believe that the profession is not meeting some of its public responsibilities. When that problem is squarely faced, with the law schools' help, then good manners should follow.

The Law Farm - 1984, Alfred F. Conard

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Extracts from an address delivered to the Southeastern Conference of Law Schools at Charlottesville, Virginia, August 23 1971, by Professor Conard, President of the Association of American Law Schools.

To address this Southeastern Conference of Law Schools in Charlottesville imposes a responsibility which is unique in my experience. Hovering over this campus is the spirit of the fathers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States...

We have been engaged today in the consideration of the provocative models of a two-year curriculu, and a clinical third year. We have probably fallen into the old rut of …

Law Reform And Law For The Layman: A Challenge To Legal Education, Walter Barnett

Vanderbilt Law Review

Most of the current debate over academic neutrality has centered on whether the university as an institution--the faculty and students as a corporate body--should take formal positions on political issues, such as the war in Vietnam. This article will address the related, but perhaps more mundane, question whether law professors should take a more active role in providing legal services to government and to the public when this activity might provoke attacks on academic freedom. Traditionally, law professors who have sought to serve society in ways other than educating lawyers have engaged in the following five extramural activities:' (1) The …

Forum Juridicum: Indigent Representation By Law Students, J. Arthur Smith

Louisiana Law Review

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The Changing Structure Of Education At Stanford Law School, Thomas Ehrlich, Thomas E. Headrick

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Roundtable On Administrative Law: Proceedings, William Burnett Harvey

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Forum Juridicum: The Law School In A Changing Society, A. E. Papale

Louisiana Law Review

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The Published Works Of Elliott E. Cheatham, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

The Published Works of Elliott E. Cheatham

conflict of laws, legal education, professional standards

BOOKS CASES AND MATERIALS ON CONFLICT OF LAWS Chicago, 1936(with others); 2d edition, 1941; 3d edition, Brooklyn, 1951; 4th edition, 1957; Supplement, 1961; 5th edition, 1964.

CASES AND OTHER MATERIALS ON THE LEGAL PROFESSION. Chicago, 1938; 2d edition, Brooklyn, 1955.

COURS GENERAL SUR PROBLEMES ET METHODES EN MATIERE DECONFLIT DE LOIS. Paris, 1960. A LAWYER WHEN NEEDED. New York, 1963.

ARTICLES

What Can Law Schools Do to Raise the Standards of the Legal Profession? Symposium on Co-operative Efforts to Raise the Standards of the Legal Profession), …

The Role Of The Law School In Continuing Legal Education, Robert R. Wright

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Comparative Legal Research, Some Remarks On "Looking Out Of The Cave", Hessel E. Yntema

Michigan Law Review

Despite this risk and without limiting discussion of comparative legal research to a Platonic theory of knowledge-to which I for one would not accede-the text prompts first the inquiry, unavoidable in a constructive discussion of the matter, whether contemporary legal study in the United States is concerned with shadows in an intellectual cave-or in other words, whether it is true, as I was told years ago, partly perhaps in jest, by a late distinguished member of the Supreme Court, then Attorney General, when, encountering me on a visit to the Department of Justice, he kindly asked what I was looking …