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Lawyering Skills And Clinical Cooperation: Teaching Spanish For Lawyers At John Marshall, Kim D. Chanbonpin, Sarah Dávila-Ruhaak
Lawyering Skills And Clinical Cooperation: Teaching Spanish For Lawyers At John Marshall, Kim D. Chanbonpin, Sarah Dávila-Ruhaak
Kim D. Chanbonpin
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Crisis And Trigger Warnings: Reflections On Legal Education And The Social Value Of The Law, Kim D. Chanbonpin
Crisis And Trigger Warnings: Reflections On Legal Education And The Social Value Of The Law, Kim D. Chanbonpin
Kim D. Chanbonpin
In the same moment that law schools are embracing neoliberal strategies in response to the economic crisis caused by declining admissions, students in the classroom have begun to agitate for advance content notices (or “trigger warnings”) to alert them to any potentially trauma-inducing course materials. For faculty who have already adopted a defensive posture in response to threats to eliminate tenure, this demand feels like an additional assault on academic freedom; one that reflects a distressing student-as-consumer mentality. From this vantage point, students are too easily cast as another group of adversaries when, in actuality, students are straw targets who …