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Cooperation And Turnover In Law Faculties: A Game-Theoretic Model And An Empirical Study, Shi-Ling Hsu

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A standard account of group cooperation would predict that group stability would bring about greater cooperation because repeat-play games would allow for sanctions and rewards. In an academic unit such as a department or a law faculty, one might thus expect that faculty stability would bring about greater cooperation. However, academic units are not like most other groups. Tenured professors face only limited sanctions for failing to cooperate, for engaging in unproductive conflict, or for shirking. This article argues counter-intuitively that within limits, some level of faculty turnover may enhance cooperation. Certainly, excessive and persistent loss of faculty is demoralizing, …

The Uneasy Case For The Retirement Of Professor Douglas A. Kahn, Jeffrey H. Kahn

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Don Weidner: Man Of Action, Margaret "Peggy" A. Rolando

Florida State University Law Review

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A Tribute To Dean Don Weidner, Rebecca Hanner White

Florida State University Law Review

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In Appreciation: Don Weidner, Charles W. Ehrhardt

Florida State University Law Review

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What's New About The New Normal: The Evolving Market For New Lawyers In The 21st Century, Bernard A. Burk

Florida State University Law Review

Everyone agrees that job prospects for many new law graduates have been poor for the last several years; there is rather less consensus on whether, when, how, or why that may change as the economy recovers from the Great Recession. This Article analyzes historical and current trends in the job market for new lawyers in an effort to predict how that market may evolve.

The Article derives quantitative measurements of the proportion of law graduates over the last thirty years who have obtained initial employment for which law school serves as rational substantive preparation (“Law Jobs”). In comparing entry-level hiring …

When Socrates Meets Confucius: Teaching Creative And Critical Thinking Across Cultures Through Multilevel Socratic Method, Erin Ryan

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Human Nature As A New Guiding Philosophy For Legal Education And The Profession, Lawrence S. Krieger

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Fundraising Tips For Deans With Intermediate Development Programs, Donald J. Weidner

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The Inseparability Of Professionalism And Personal Satisfaction: Perspectives On Values, Integrity And Happiness, Lawrence S. Krieger

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This article suggests a more effective approach to professionalism training based on a modern understanding of human nature. It explains (1) the many empirically established connections between life satisfaction and the values and motivations that would promote professional behavior among lawyers, and (2) the role of character integrity in maintaining physical and emotional wellness. It then describes an approach to teaching this material in the classroom or clinical setting, in order to foster both professionalism and career satisfaction among law students.

Institutional Denial About The Dark Side Of Law School, And Fresh Empirical Guidance For Constructively Breaking The Silence, Lawrence S. Krieger

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In the day-to-day business of legal education there is remarkably little evidence that we are aware of the unhealthy-unhappy-law-student(lawyer) problem.' The core of this article is a description of recent psychological research on the components of happiness and life satisfaction. This research provides an objective framework for understanding the pervasive problems in legal settings and thus can lead to constructive discussion and intervention. I first review empirical and anecdotal evidence of the dark side of law school, the process of denial among faculty, and failing paradigms at the heart of legal education. I then discuss the helpful recent research, and …

Psychological Insights: Why Our Students And Graduates Suffer, And What We Might Do About It, Lawrence S. Krieger

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Law As A Learned Profession: The Forgotten Mission Field Of The Professionalism Movement, Rob Atkinson

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Liberating Lawyers: Diverging Parallels In Intruder In The Dust And To Kill A Mockingbird, Rob Atkinson

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Professor Atkinson hopes William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust will replace Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird as our favorite story of lawyerly virtue. In both stories, a white male lawyer and his protégé try to free a black man falsely accused of a capital crime. But below these superficial similarities, Professor Atkinson finds fundamental differences. To Kill a Mockingbird, with its father-knows-best attorney, Atticus Finch, celebrates lawyerly paternalism; Intruder in the Dust, through its aristocratic black hero, Lucas Beauchamp, and his lay allies, challenges the rule of lawyers, if not law itself. The first urges us to …

Law School Engagement In Professionalism And Improved Bar Relations, Donald J. Weidner

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What We're Not Telling Law Students -- And Lawyers -- That They Really Need To Know: Some Thoughts-In-Action Toward Revitalizing The Profession From Its Roots, Lawrence S. Krieger

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The Florida Supreme Court Commission On Professionalism And The Crises Of Legal Education, Donald J. Weidner

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The Crises Of Legal Education: A Wake-Up Call For Faculty, Donald J. Weidner

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Introduction: It Just Isn't Fair, Steven G. Gey

Florida State University Law Review

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Irreplaceable Compassion, Intelligence, And Humility, John W. Frost, Ii

Florida State University Law Review

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A True Hero, Steven J. Uhlfelder

Florida State University Law Review

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One Can Make A Difference, Rollin Alexis

Florida State University Law Review

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He Never Asked If He Could Help: He Asked How He Could Help, Jennifer Greenberg

Florida State University Law Review

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Bless His Heart, Donald J. Weidner

Florida State University Law Review

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He Meant A Lot To Us, The Honorable James Joanos

Florida State University Law Review

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The Legacy Of Steve Goldstein, Carol Gregg

Florida State University Law Review

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There Is No One Who Can Do What He Did, Charles W. Ehrhardt

Florida State University Law Review

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A Better Spirit, Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte

Florida State University Law Review

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Teacher, Leader, Servant, W. Dexter Douglass

Florida State University Law Review

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A Dean's Letter To New Law Faculty About Scholarship, Donald J. Weidner

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