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Deborah W. Post

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Vulnerable Populations And Transformative Law Teaching: A Critical Reader, Chapter 6 - Vulnerability In Contracting: Teaching First-Year Law Students About Inequality And Its Consequences, Deborah Post, Deborah Zalesne Nov 2013

Vulnerable Populations And Transformative Law Teaching: A Critical Reader, Chapter 6 - Vulnerability In Contracting: Teaching First-Year Law Students About Inequality And Its Consequences, Deborah Post, Deborah Zalesne

Deborah W. Post

Traditional legal pedagogy fails to demonstrate the relationship of contract to the subordination of vulnerable populations. As a result, students rarely see the complex web of interrelationships where economic activity takes place or the legal regime that maintains it. Students are not taught how to interrogate the discourse or dismantle the systems and structures that oppress subordinated communities. This Essay describes a technique that we have developed to help students learn the meaning of law and its cultural, social, and structural significance. The traditional framing of the study of contract doctrine as one that is objective, neutral, and fair avoids …


Teaching Interdisciplinarily: Law And Literature As Cultural Critique, Deborah Waire Post Apr 2011

Teaching Interdisciplinarily: Law And Literature As Cultural Critique, Deborah Waire Post

Deborah W. Post

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Student Film: Stambovsky V. Ackley, Lindsey Barovick, Lauran Cannataro, Ray Castronovo, Conrad Chayes, Julia Surette, Kenneth Zawistowski, Deborah Post Jan 2011

Student Film: Stambovsky V. Ackley, Lindsey Barovick, Lauran Cannataro, Ray Castronovo, Conrad Chayes, Julia Surette, Kenneth Zawistowski, Deborah Post

Deborah W. Post

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Misuse And Abuse Of The Lsat: Making The Case For Alternative Evaluative Efforts And A Redefinition Of Merit, Phoebe Haddon, Deborah Post Jan 2011

Misuse And Abuse Of The Lsat: Making The Case For Alternative Evaluative Efforts And A Redefinition Of Merit, Phoebe Haddon, Deborah Post

Deborah W. Post

No abstract provided.