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Full-Text Articles in Law
Legal Education: The Classroom Experience, Thomas L. Shaffer, Robert S. Redmount
Legal Education: The Classroom Experience, Thomas L. Shaffer, Robert S. Redmount
Thomas L. Shaffer
No abstract provided.
Report Of The Dean 1973-1974, Thomas L. Shaffer
Report Of The Dean 1973-1974, Thomas L. Shaffer
Thomas L. Shaffer
No abstract provided.
Report Of The Dean 1972-1973, Thomas L. Shaffer
Report Of The Dean 1972-1973, Thomas L. Shaffer
Thomas L. Shaffer
No abstract provided.
Learning The Law-Thoughts Toward A Human Perspective, Thomas L. Shaffer, Robert S. Redmount
Learning The Law-Thoughts Toward A Human Perspective, Thomas L. Shaffer, Robert S. Redmount
Thomas L. Shaffer
No abstract provided.
Report Of The Dean 1971-1972, Thomas L. Shaffer
Report Of The Dean 1971-1972, Thomas L. Shaffer
Thomas L. Shaffer
No abstract provided.
Vulnerable Populations And Transformative Law Teaching: A Critical Reader, Chapter 6 - Vulnerability In Contracting: Teaching First-Year Law Students About Inequality And Its Consequences, Deborah Post, Deborah Zalesne
Vulnerable Populations And Transformative Law Teaching: A Critical Reader, Chapter 6 - Vulnerability In Contracting: Teaching First-Year Law Students About Inequality And Its Consequences, Deborah Post, Deborah Zalesne
Deborah W. Post
Traditional legal pedagogy fails to demonstrate the relationship of contract to the subordination of vulnerable populations. As a result, students rarely see the complex web of interrelationships where economic activity takes place or the legal regime that maintains it. Students are not taught how to interrogate the discourse or dismantle the systems and structures that oppress subordinated communities. This Essay describes a technique that we have developed to help students learn the meaning of law and its cultural, social, and structural significance. The traditional framing of the study of contract doctrine as one that is objective, neutral, and fair avoids …
A Search For Balance In The Whirlwind Of Law School: Spirituality From Law Teachers, Thomas Shaffer
A Search For Balance In The Whirlwind Of Law School: Spirituality From Law Teachers, Thomas Shaffer
Thomas L. Shaffer
No abstract provided.
Studies Of Legal Education: A Review Of Recent Reports, Thomas Shaffer, Robert Redmount
Studies Of Legal Education: A Review Of Recent Reports, Thomas Shaffer, Robert Redmount
Thomas L. Shaffer
No abstract provided.
Reassessing Law Schooling: The Sterling Forest Group, Thomas L. Shaffer
Reassessing Law Schooling: The Sterling Forest Group, Thomas L. Shaffer
Thomas L. Shaffer
No abstract provided.
Moral Implications And Effects Of Legal Education Or: Brother Justinian Goes To Law School, Thomas L. Shaffer
Moral Implications And Effects Of Legal Education Or: Brother Justinian Goes To Law School, Thomas L. Shaffer
Thomas L. Shaffer
No abstract provided.
Collaboration In Studying Law, Thomas L. Shaffer
Collaboration In Studying Law, Thomas L. Shaffer
Thomas L. Shaffer
No abstract provided.
Thirteen Rules For Academic Meetings, Thomas Shaffer
Thirteen Rules For Academic Meetings, Thomas Shaffer
Thomas L. Shaffer
No abstract provided.
The Catholic Tradition, Thomas L. Shaffer
Teaching Trademark Theory Through The Lens Of Distinctiveness, Mark P. Mckenna
Teaching Trademark Theory Through The Lens Of Distinctiveness, Mark P. Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
This contribution to the annual teaching edition of the Saint Louis University Law Journal encourages teachers to begin trademark law courses using the concept of distinctiveness as a vehicle for articulating producer and consumer perspectives in trademark law. Viewing the law through these sometimes different perspectives helps in approaching a variety of doctrines in trademark law, and both perspectives are relatively easy to grasp in the context of distinctiveness.
Transcription Of 2013 Chapman Law Review Symposium: "The Future Of Law, Business, And Legal Education: How To Prepare Students To Meet Corporate Needs", Leo E. Strine Jr., Bradley Borden, Robert J. Rhee, Tania King, Lee Cheng
Transcription Of 2013 Chapman Law Review Symposium: "The Future Of Law, Business, And Legal Education: How To Prepare Students To Meet Corporate Needs", Leo E. Strine Jr., Bradley Borden, Robert J. Rhee, Tania King, Lee Cheng
Robert Rhee
No abstract provided.
Good-Bye Christopher Columbus Langdell?, K.K. Duvivier
Good-Bye Christopher Columbus Langdell?, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
The call of this Article was to take "A Prospective Look" at Environmental and Natural Resources Law for the next 40 years with a special focus on law school teaching. Daunted by the hubris involved in prognosticating so far into the future, this piece more modestly explores three areas in which law school teaching is currently changing: I. Methods of Presentation; II. Use of Skills Exercises; and III. Influence of Digital Technologies and the Internet. To add an empirical component, the author canvassed AALS members about pedagogies they used both in class and outside of classroom time, as well as …
Using The Client-File Method To Teach Transactional Law, Bradley T. Borden
Using The Client-File Method To Teach Transactional Law, Bradley T. Borden
Bradley T. Borden
This Article presents a teaching method (the client-file method) for transactional law courses that combines the business school case-study method with the law school case method. The client-file method of teaching requires students to become familiar with real-word legal issues and the types of documents and information that accompany matters that transactional clients bring to attorneys (i.e., the contents of a client file). The method also requires students to learn and apply substantive law to solve problems that arise in a transactional law practice. Because the client-file method places students in a practice setting, it helps them become more practice-ready …
Formative Assessment In Law Doctrinal Classes: Rethinking Grade Appeals, Roberto L. Corrada
Formative Assessment In Law Doctrinal Classes: Rethinking Grade Appeals, Roberto L. Corrada
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
This article describes a practice I began several years ago to encourage students to review their midterm exams and to learn formatively from their exam and their review of it. The practice involves encouraging midterm grade appeals coupled with a high success rate (what I term, "robust" grade appeals). The practice has a number of ancillary benefits, I believe, in addition to the central benefits—getting students to learn more about law, learn from their mistakes and write better exams by meaningfully engaging and critiquing their own work on exams. This article describes and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of such …
Tackling "Arithmophobia": Teaching How To Read, Understand, And Analyze Financial Statements, Paula J. Williams, Kris Anne Tobin, Eric Franklin, Robert J. Rhee
Tackling "Arithmophobia": Teaching How To Read, Understand, And Analyze Financial Statements, Paula J. Williams, Kris Anne Tobin, Eric Franklin, Robert J. Rhee
Robert Rhee
This discussion presents different ideas on how to teach accounting and practical finance to law students.
Extending Courthouse 'Keys' To Those In Need, Linda L. Ammons
Extending Courthouse 'Keys' To Those In Need, Linda L. Ammons
Linda L. Ammons
No abstract provided.
Lessons From Teaching Students To Negotiate Like A Lawyer, John M. Lande
Lessons From Teaching Students To Negotiate Like A Lawyer, John M. Lande
Faculty Publications
This article reports my observations from teaching those courses and offers suggestions for future efforts to improve legal education. My experience supports the (1) focus on negotiation in a wide range of situations in addition to the final resolution of disputes and transactions, (2) addition of "ordinary legal negotiation" to the two traditional theories of negotiation, and (3) use of multi-stage simulations in addition to traditional single-stage simulations. These approaches were critical in providing students with a more realistic understanding of negotiation. This article also describes experiments with other teaching techniques in my courses.
Specialization In Law And Business: A Proposal For A J.D./'Mbl' Curriculum, Robert J. Rhee
Specialization In Law And Business: A Proposal For A J.D./'Mbl' Curriculum, Robert J. Rhee
UF Law Faculty Publications
This paper provides the specific details of how an interdisciplinary program of law and business can be structured in a three-year J.D. program. The program envisioned is a J.D./”M.B.L.”, which is distinguished from the better known J.D./M.B.A. The “M.B.L.” stands for “masters of business law,” which is simply an idea tag. The moniker can represent a program conferring a supplemental degree in law and business, or simply a specialized course of study to complete a J.D. Either way, the program is an interdisciplinary program of concentrated study in core transaction-oriented law courses and core business courses. The most effective education …
Addressing Shortfalls In Traditional Legal Education: Ut's Concentrations And Capstones And Waller Lansden's Schola2juris Program, George Kuney, Joseph Watson
Addressing Shortfalls In Traditional Legal Education: Ut's Concentrations And Capstones And Waller Lansden's Schola2juris Program, George Kuney, Joseph Watson
Scholarly Works
Law school’s traditional educational model needs to be revamped. The traditional law firm’s summer associate model needs restructuring. Some might say they are both broken. Across the country, educators, and commentators are talking about legal education reforms and leading law firms are confronting how to improve the age-old mechanism for recruiting law students.
In the recent past, the legal employment landscape provided no incentive for law firms to question their traditional recruiting practices. The traditional law-firm recruitment model — the summer-associate program — is often little more than a glorified summer camp for some of the most highly educated — …
Tales Of A Fourth Tier Nothing, A Response To Brian Tamanaha's Failing Law Schools, Lucille A. Jewel
Tales Of A Fourth Tier Nothing, A Response To Brian Tamanaha's Failing Law Schools, Lucille A. Jewel
Scholarly Works
This is a paper written in response to Professor Brian Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools. Much of the book is laudable for highlighting the serious structural, policy, and moral issues confronting legal education today. However, I disagree with several of Professor Tamanaha’s ideas for reforming our system. In this paper, I write from the perspective of a tenured legal writing professor teaching at a for-profit fourth tier school, in fact, one of the schools that Tamanaha repeatedly implies are the problem and not the solution for the legal education crisis.
Part One addresses the idea, which dates back to 1921, that …
Harmonizing Current Threats: Using The Outcry For Legal Education Reforms To Take Another Look At Civil Gideon And What It Means To Be An American Lawyer, Cathryn Miller-Wilson
Harmonizing Current Threats: Using The Outcry For Legal Education Reforms To Take Another Look At Civil Gideon And What It Means To Be An American Lawyer, Cathryn Miller-Wilson
Cathryn A. Miller-Wilson
"Harmonizing Current Threats: Using the Outcry for Legal Education Reforms to Take Another Look at Civil Gideon and What it Means to be an American Lawyer," makes the argument that, like medical education, legal education should be seen as a public responsibility. With the extra government funding that would come from this view of legal education, Miller-Wilson proposes incorporating "teaching law firms" after law school for students to practice in various specialties before graduation, similar to a medical residency.
Harmonizing Current Threats: Using The Outcry For Legal Education Reforms To Take Another Look At Civil Gideon And What It Means To Be An American Lawyer, Cathryn Miller-Wilson
Harmonizing Current Threats: Using The Outcry For Legal Education Reforms To Take Another Look At Civil Gideon And What It Means To Be An American Lawyer, Cathryn Miller-Wilson
Cathryn A. Miller-Wilson
"Harmonizing Current Threats: Using the Outcry for Legal Education Reforms to Take Another Look at Civil Gideon and What it Means to be an American Lawyer," makes the argument that, like medical education, legal education should be seen as a public responsibility. With the extra government funding that would come from this view of legal education, Miller-Wilson proposes incorporating "teaching law firms" after law school for students to practice in various specialties before graduation, similar to a medical residency.
The Viability Of The $30 Casebook: Intellectual Property, Voluntary Payment, Open Distribution, And Author Incentives, Lydia P. Loren
The Viability Of The $30 Casebook: Intellectual Property, Voluntary Payment, Open Distribution, And Author Incentives, Lydia P. Loren
Lydia P Loren
It is not uncommon for a new hardbound copy of today’s law school casebooks to exceed $200. And, each year, the prices inch ever higher. After exploring the various dynamics in the traditional publishing market that have led to the current prices for casebooks, this article describes the experiences of Semaphore Press, a publisher of law school casebooks that offers a very different approach to providing law school casebooks. Semaphore Press offers digital copies of required textbooks for law school classes (in pdf format with no digital rights management (DRM) restrictions) at a suggested price of $30. In addition, students …
"Practice Ready Graduates": A Millennialist Fantasy, Robert J. Condlin
"Practice Ready Graduates": A Millennialist Fantasy, Robert J. Condlin
Robert J. Condlin
The sky is falling on legal education say the pundits, and preparing “practice ready” graduates is one of the best strategies for surviving the fallout. This is a millennialist version of the argument for clinical legal education that dominated discussion in the law schools in the 1960s and 1970s. The circumstances are different now, as are the people calling for reform, but the two movements are alike in one respect: both view skills training as legal education’s primary purpose. Everything else is a frolic and detour, and a fatal frolic and detour in hard times such as the present. No …
Gender And The Crisis In Legal Education: Remaking The Academy In Our Image, Paula A. Monopoli
Gender And The Crisis In Legal Education: Remaking The Academy In Our Image, Paula A. Monopoli
Paula A Monopoli
American legal education is in the grip of what some have called an “existential crisis.” The New York Times proclaims the death of the current system of legal education. This is attributed, in part, to the incentivizing of faculty to produce increasingly abstract scholarship and the costs this imposes on pedagogy and the mentoring of students. At the same time, despite women graduating from law schools in significant numbers since the 1980s, they continue to lag behind in the most prestigious positions in academia—tenured, full professorships: From academic year 1998-99 to academic year 2007-08, the percentage of women full professors …
Book Review: The Three And A Half Minute Transaction: What Sticky Boilerplate Reveals About Contract Law And Practice, Andrea J. Boyack
Book Review: The Three And A Half Minute Transaction: What Sticky Boilerplate Reveals About Contract Law And Practice, Andrea J. Boyack
Andrea J Boyack
This review situates Gulati & Scott’s findings with respect to sovereign debt instruments and the contracting process in the context of a legal profession on the brink of change. Gulati and Scott’s book addresses the inexplicable failure of lawyers to respond to a sovereign debt litigation outcome by clarifying a boilerplate provision after an adverse judicial interpretation. Their fascinating study of boilerplate in sophisticated transactional legal practice is timely and compelling both in terms of the specific story it tells, namely the persistence of the pari passu clause in sovereign debt instruments, as well as its broader implications: Structural flaws …