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Legal History Meets The Honors Program, Robert Bennett
Legal History Meets The Honors Program, Robert Bennett
Robert B. Bennett
In this article, the author discusses the "Law and Culture" course that he developed to teach in the Butler University Honors Program. The course looks at some landmark periods or events in legal history and explores how those events were the product of their culture, and how they affected their culture. Among the events or periods that the author has looked at in iterations of this course were the survival instinct on display in "Regina v. Dudley and Stephens," the Nuremberg trials, the Scopes Monkey Trial, the modern American litigation explosion, and the events surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court decision …
Introduction, A Conversation With Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Sharon Beckman
Introduction, A Conversation With Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Sharon Beckman
Sharon Beckman
No abstract provided.
Cali Lesson - Ohio Citation, Rebecca Mattson, Carolyn Broering-Jacobs
Cali Lesson - Ohio Citation, Rebecca Mattson, Carolyn Broering-Jacobs
Rebecca A. Mattson
This lesson teaches Ohio citation as governed by the Supreme Court of Ohio's recently published guide, Writing Manual: A Guide to Citations, Style and Judicial Opinion Writing (the "Writing Manual"). This lesson covers only the material contained in part I of the Writing Manual, which the lesson will refer to as the Citation Manual.
Webex From An Instructor's Perspective, Jennifer Mart-Rice, Terri Iacobucci, Jaesook Gilbert
Webex From An Instructor's Perspective, Jennifer Mart-Rice, Terri Iacobucci, Jaesook Gilbert
Jennifer Mart-Rice
No abstract provided.
Inventing The New Classroom, Jennifer Mart-Rice, Debra Denslaw, Susan Boland, Jesse Bowman
Inventing The New Classroom, Jennifer Mart-Rice, Debra Denslaw, Susan Boland, Jesse Bowman
Jennifer Mart-Rice
No abstract provided.
Mission: Impossible, Mission: Accomplished Or Mission: Underway? A Survey And Analysis Of Current Trends In Professionalism Education In American Law Schools, Alison Kehner, Mary Ann Robinson
Mission: Impossible, Mission: Accomplished Or Mission: Underway? A Survey And Analysis Of Current Trends In Professionalism Education In American Law Schools, Alison Kehner, Mary Ann Robinson
Mary Ann Robinson
No abstract provided.
Law And Negotiation: Necessary Partners Or Strange Bedfellows?, Nancy Schultz
Law And Negotiation: Necessary Partners Or Strange Bedfellows?, Nancy Schultz
Nancy Schultz
To what degree does legal authority dictate the outcomes of negotiations? Scholars have discussed the issue, and law students argue about it in their negotiation classes. A survey of practicing lawyers reveals that knowing the law is an important part of the preparation for negotiation, but that legal authority is not the primary determinant of negotiated outcomes in practice. Financial constraints, bargaining power, and negotiating skill are all reported as having a greater effect on negotiated outcomes than the law.
One Small Step For Legal Writing, One Giant Leap For Legal Education: Making The Case For More Writing Opportunities In The "Practice-Ready" Law School Curriculum, Sherri Keene
Sherri Keene
Legal writing is more than an isolated practical skill or a law school course; it is a valuable tool for broadening and deepening one’s knowledge and understanding of the law. If experienced legal professionals, both professors and practitioners alike, take a hard look back at their careers, many will no doubt remember how their work on significant legal writing projects advanced their own knowledge of the law and enhanced their professional competence. Legal writing practice helps the writer to gain expertise in a number of ways: first, the act of writing itself promotes learning; second, close work on legal writing …
How To Turn Around Your Classroom, Jalae Ulicki
How To Turn Around Your Classroom, Jalae Ulicki
Jalae Ulicki
Technology presentation on the creation of effective student response questions for use in class; determining the uses for data collected to create a higher level of engagement in the classroom; and how to use the data to enhance future classes
Learning By Magic - It Is Not A Trick, Stephen Gerst
Learning By Magic - It Is Not A Trick, Stephen Gerst
Stephen A Gerst
No abstract provided.
Teaching Values And Lawyering Skills, John Capowski
Teaching Values And Lawyering Skills, John Capowski
John J. Capowski
No abstract provided.
Why I Teach, Amanda Smith
Animal Law Unit Outline, Anne Louise Schillmoller
Animal Law Unit Outline, Anne Louise Schillmoller
Anne Schillmoller
As a significant growth area of law, the central aim of this unit is to enable students to identify and evaluate the legal frameworks which regulate various types of human-animal interaction and to consider the ways in which these frameworks impact upon the interests of animals. In addition, the unit provides an opportunity for students to identify and critique the ways in which animals are conceptualised in law, including the philosophical, scientific and economic assumptions which inform the law relating to animals. Finally, the unit will enable students to reflect upon the adequacy of laws relating to animals and to …
Law 10487 Animal Law 2nd Edition, Anne Louise Schillmoller, Amber Hall
Law 10487 Animal Law 2nd Edition, Anne Louise Schillmoller, Amber Hall
Anne Schillmoller
To some extent, the name of this unit, ‘Animal Law’, is a misnomer. While the central concern of this unit is with the well-being and protection of non-human animals, its practical focus is upon the ways in which humans and human institutions, including the apparatus of law, regard, regulate, and interact with non-human beings. Such a focus exhorts ‘we’ humans to reflect upon our behaviours, practices, attitudes and responsibilities towards non-human animals. Specifically, it requires us to interrogate and challenge the assumed sovereignty of humans over animals, the ways in which human interests are routinely privileged over those of animals, …
Attendee Discussion: How Should Legal Educators And Law Schools Respond To These Changes?, Michael Kelly, Robert Rhee, Gillian Hadfield, Jeanne Charn, William Henderson, Clark Cunningham
Attendee Discussion: How Should Legal Educators And Law Schools Respond To These Changes?, Michael Kelly, Robert Rhee, Gillian Hadfield, Jeanne Charn, William Henderson, Clark Cunningham
Robert Rhee
Michael Kelly. "The Gaping Hole in American Legal Education." Major changes that have occurred in law during the last three decades (such as intense competition and phenomenal increases in compensation in the private sector, and consolidation in law practices of all kinds) have been driven by tightly managed and strongly focused practice organizations. But understanding how organizations function is not part of law school curricula or pedagogy or the agenda of those who would reform legal education. Equipping law students for a career in law in the 21st Century now requires understanding organizations, whether lawyers represent them, oppose them or …
The Goals And Missions Of Law Schools, Larry Barnett, W. Van Alstyne, Joseph Julin
The Goals And Missions Of Law Schools, Larry Barnett, W. Van Alstyne, Joseph Julin
Larry D Barnett
This provocative study explores the reasons for the public perception of "too many lawyers" and the failure of current legal education to meet present needs for competent legal services at an affordable cost. The principal reason for that failure, the authors argue, lies in the unquestioning acceptance of a Prestige Model created almost a century ago. The success of that model, largely unaltered to this day, has acted as a constraint on curriculum modification geared to the realities of today's society. The explosions of knowledge, population and government regulation in recent decades require recognition of the need for substantial curriculum …