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Celebrating The Lawyering Process, Michael Meltsner
Celebrating The Lawyering Process, Michael Meltsner
Michael Meltsner
This article describes the origins and shaping of the classic text, with special emphasis on the goals of the authors and the developmental phase of clinical legal education from which their work emerged. The author surveys Gary Bellow's unique role and influence from the perspective of a contemporary, and identifies innovative teaching approaches that the text facilitated. Comments from law teachers over the years highlight the utility and importance of the book. The article raises a major concern about the failed effort to alter conventional modes of legal education by employing clinical role methodologies as an alternative curricular organizing principle …
Whither Legal Education, Michael Meltsner
Whither Legal Education, Michael Meltsner
Michael Meltsner
Adaption of remarks discussing current law school curricula and clinical legal education delivered by the author at a 1985 Symposium sponsored by the New York Law School.
Feeling Like A Lawyer, Michael Meltsner
Feeling Like A Lawyer, Michael Meltsner
Michael Meltsner
An address to the National Clinical Law Teachers Conference, arguing that clinic experience provides opportunities for understanding group and interpersonal relations that while essential to successful legal practice are largely disregarded in the mainstream law school curriculum and denigrated in certain constructs of the lawyer’s role.
Scenes From A Clinic, Michael Meltsner, Philip Schrag
Scenes From A Clinic, Michael Meltsner, Philip Schrag
Michael Meltsner
In this essay the authors describe a law school clinic in which students are able to carefully examine their goals, a variety of learning techniques that may be useful to them in the future, as well as the personal and group relationships they encounter as professionals.
Report From A Clepr Colony, Michael Meltsner, Philip Schrag
Report From A Clepr Colony, Michael Meltsner, Philip Schrag
Michael Meltsner
No abstract provided.
Clinical Education At Columbia: The Columbia Legal Assistance Resource, Michael Meltsner
Clinical Education At Columbia: The Columbia Legal Assistance Resource, Michael Meltsner
Michael Meltsner
A brief description of one of the first modern clinical programs at a major law school.