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Affirmative Inaction: A Quantitative Analysis Of Progress Toward “Critical Mass” In U.S. Legal Education, Loren M. Lee
Affirmative Inaction: A Quantitative Analysis Of Progress Toward “Critical Mass” In U.S. Legal Education, Loren M. Lee
Michigan Law Review
Since 1978, the Supreme Court has recognized diversity as a compelling government interest to uphold the use of affirmative action in higher education. Yet the constitutionality of the practice has been challenged many times. In Grutter v. Bollinger, for example, the Court denied its use in perpetuity and suggested a twenty-five-year time limit for its application in law school admissions. Almost two decades have passed, so where do we stand? This Note’s quantitative analysis of the matriculation of and degrees awarded to Black and Latinx students at twenty-nine accredited law schools across the United States illuminates a stark lack of …
Against Practice, Anthony V. Alfieri
Against Practice, Anthony V. Alfieri
Michigan Law Review
This Review examines the theory/practice dichotomy in legal education through the prism of the Carnegie Foundation's Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law. Descriptively, it argues that the Foundation's investigation of law school curricular deficiencies in the areas of clinical-lawyer skills, professionalism, and public service overlooks the relevance of critical pedagogies in teaching students how to deal with difference-based identity and how to build cross-cultural community in diverse, multicultural practice settings differentiated by mutable and immutable characteristics such as class, gender, and race. Prescriptively, it argues that the Foundation's remedial call for the curricular integration of clinical lawyer …
Toil Of The Firestarters, Peter A. Alces
Toil Of The Firestarters, Peter A. Alces
Michigan Law Review
A Review of In the Company of Scholars: The Struggle for the Soul of Higher Education by Julius Getman
Legal Education: Its Causes And Cure, Marc Feldman, Jay M. Feinman
Legal Education: Its Causes And Cure, Marc Feldman, Jay M. Feinman
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Law School: Legal Education in America From the 1850s to the 1980s by Robert Stevens
Legal Education And The Reproduction Of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against The System, Michigan Law Review
Legal Education And The Reproduction Of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against The System, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System by Duncan Kennedy
The Alienation Of Law Students, Paul D. Carrington, James J. Conley
The Alienation Of Law Students, Paul D. Carrington, James J. Conley
Michigan Law Review
Not many years ago, as much as one-fifth of a first-year class at The University of Michigan Law School did not return for the second year. It was a cause of regret that so much waste and frustration was associated with this non-event. Whether students failed or voluntarily withdrew, their time, money, and opportunity were lost.
Packer & Ehrlich: New Directions In Legal Education, Richard C. Maxwell
Packer & Ehrlich: New Directions In Legal Education, Richard C. Maxwell
Michigan Law Review
A Review of New Directions in Legal Education by Herbert L. Packer and Thomas Ehrlich