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Law Teachers' Writing, James Boyd White

Michigan Law Review

Judge Edwards divides scholarship into the theoretical and the practical, and, while conceding the place and value of both, argues that there is today too much of the former, too little of the latter. The result, he says, is an increasing and unfortunate divide between the life of law practice and the writing of law teachers. One can understand his complaint readily enough, especially coming as it does from an overworked judge. I myself have had perceptions and feelings somewhat like those that seem to animate Judge Edwards, though I would express them differently: for me the relevant line is …

Preface: Academic Freedom And Legal Education, J. Peter Byrne

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Preface to a collection of papers delivered at a conference on Academic Freedom and Legal Education, held at the Tulane University School of Law on April 3 and 4,1992. Speaking or writing about academic freedom propels one from current controversies toward implicit or explicit propositions about the nature and goals of legal education.

Constructions Of The Client Within Legal Education, Ann Shalleck

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Clinical Contexts: Theory And Practice In Law And Supervision, Ann Shalleck

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Thoughts Evoked By "Accounting And The New Corporate Law", Ted J. Fiflis

Publications

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Legal Education, Feminist Epistemology, And The Socratic Method, Susan H. Williams

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Nurturing The Impulse For Justice, Lynne N. Henderson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Tribute To Donald A. Winslow, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr., Elbert P. Tuttle, Patricia T. Morgan, W. Thomas Halbleib Jr., Susan Stockton, Robert Weir

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This article is comprised of a series of tributes to Donald A. Winslow, who was a law professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law.

Letter To Judge Harry Edwards, James J. White

Articles

Dear Harry: I write to second your statements concerning the disjunction between legal education and the legal profession and also to quibble with you. By examining the faculty, the curriculum, and the research agenda at Michigan, your school and mine, I hope to illustrate the ways in which you are right and to suggest other ways in which you and your clerk informants may be too pessimistic.

The Scholar As Advocate, Rebecca S. Eisenberg

Articles

Academic freedom in this country has been so closely identified with faculty autonomy that the two terms are often used interchangeably, especially by faculty members who are resisting restraints on their freedom to do as they please. While there may be some dispute as to whether or how far academic freedom protects the autonomy of universities or of students, the autonomy of faculty members seems to lie close to the core of the traditional American conception of academic freedom. As elaborated by the American Association of University Professors, this conception of academic freedom calls for protecting individual faculty members from …

The Mind In The Major American Law School, Lee C. Bollinger

Faculty Scholarship

Legal scholarship is significantly, even qualitatively, different from what it was some two or three decades ago. As with any major change in intellectual thought, this one is composed of several strands. The inclusion in the legal academic community of women and minorities has produced, not surprisingly, a distinctive and at times quite critical body of thought and writing. The emergence of the school of thought known as critical legal studies has renewed and extended the legal realist critique of law of the first half of the century. But more than anything else it is the interdisciplinary movement in legal …

Teaching Professional Responsibility In Law School, Leah Wortham

Scholarly Articles

I was pleased to be asked to write about teaching professional responsibility in law school. Ten years and sixteen classes of professional responsibility have allowed me to form many views. The following is organized in a variation of the journalist's standard five questions (who, what, when, where, and how). I consider WHAT to teach in professional responsibility courses, WHO should teach them, WHEN to teach the subject, HOW to teach it, and WHY it is hard to do.

Wake The Nation: Law Student Insights Into The New Jerusalem, Thomas L. Shaffer, Anthony J. Fejfar

Journal Articles

Mike Nichols's 1988 movie Working Girl gave Melanie Griffith "a star-making showcase" for her talents; it gave Harrison Ford a chance to show that he could play light comedy; and its theme song, Let the River Run, won an Academy Award for Carly Simon. After watching and discussing the movie with groups of law students from our respective universities, we noticed that both the movie and the song make a religious claim, one that we take seriously.

Erastian And Sectarian Arguments In Religiously Affiliated American Law Schools, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

The legal education establishment in the United States some time ago gave up discouraging religiously affiliated law schools. Its support for them now, however, is conditioned on their approaching religious affiliation in a manner that is seen as consistent with the dominant American attitude toward religion—that religion is a private affair and that public moral issues, including issues of jurisprudence and professional ethics, are secular issues, to be talked about in secular language, pursuant to secular principles, and in a secular style.

I begin here by considering the requirement of the American Bar Association, in its Standards for the Approval …

Cataloging Reform: An Overview For Academic Law Librarians, Joseph W. Thomas

Journal Articles

Mr. Thomas explains the issues involved in cataloging reform and suggest methods for streamlining procedures without destroying quality, with particular reference to academic law libraries.

Cultural Literacy And The Adversary System: The Enduring Problems Of Distrust, Misunderstanding And Narrow Perspective, Jeffrey W. Stempel

Scholarly Works

The meandering road to discovery reform illustrates, among other things, the ineffectiveness of an atomized profession that lacks either sufficient understanding of the adversary system or the resources and forcefulness to address the practical impact of adversarialism. In some ways, lawyers reforming litigation can be characterized as poorer investigators than the sixsome who examined the elephant. The elephant sleuths were guilty of isolation and ignorance. Lawyers and policy makers not only exhibit a lack of information and empathy, but also often show an unwarranted distrust of or contempt for the elements of the profession with which they disagree. Unfortunately, however, …