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Dickinson Law's Contexts & Competencies Course: A "One-Pager" For Nalp, Laurel S. Terry Dec 2017

Dickinson Law's Contexts & Competencies Course: A "One-Pager" For Nalp, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

This one-page handout was distributed at the NALP (National Association of Law Placement) 2018 Annual Education Conference. This Handout supplemented the slides about Penn State Dickinson Law's required first year course called "Practicing Law in a Global World: Contexts & Competencies" that were part of 2018 NALP education session entitled "Preparing Students to Practice: Cutting Edge Professional Development Curriculums." (The program was moderated by Kate McBride from Notre Dame; speakers included Elisabeth Beal, Assistant Dean, Office of Career Services from William & Mary Law School; Amy Hancock, former Director of Professional Development at Andrews Kurth LLP; and Allison Regan, Assistant …

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The Bologna Process And Its Implications For U.S. Legal Education, Laurel S. Terry Dec 2006

The Bologna Process And Its Implications For U.S. Legal Education, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

Virtually all European countries are in the midst of a massive multi-year project intended to dramatically restructure higher education in Europe. This project, which is known as the Bologna Process or Sorbonne-Bologna, began less than ten years ago when four European Union (EU) countries signed a relatively vague agreement. The Bologna Process has now grown to forty-six countries, including all of the EU Member States and nineteen non-EU countries. The Bologna Process participants have agreed to form the European Higher Education Area or EHEA by 2010; among other goals, the EHEA is intended to help Europe better compete in the …

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A Survey Of Legal Ethics Education In Law Schools, Laurel S. Terry Dec 1999

A Survey Of Legal Ethics Education In Law Schools, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

This book chapter, which was published in 2000, provides an overview of legal ethics education in U.S. law schools. Since 1974, legal ethics instruction has been required in law schools by the major accrediting body for law schools. The methods by which this require­ment has been satisfied vary, but the result is a much richer ethics literature than existed previously and a variety of approaches to the topic. This book chapter begins with an overview of the regulation of U.S. lawyers. The second section discusses the history of the legal ethics course requrirement. This section includes data from surveys published in …

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