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2013

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Studies Of Legal Education: A Review Of Recent Reports, Thomas Shaffer, Robert Redmount Nov 2013

Studies Of Legal Education: A Review Of Recent Reports, Thomas Shaffer, Robert Redmount

Thomas L. Shaffer

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Gender And The Crisis In Legal Education: Remaking The Academy In Our Image, Paula A. Monopoli Aug 2013

Gender And The Crisis In Legal Education: Remaking The Academy In Our Image, Paula A. Monopoli

Paula A Monopoli

American legal education is in the grip of what some have called an “existential crisis.” The New York Times proclaims the death of the current system of legal education. This is attributed, in part, to the incentivizing of faculty to produce increasingly abstract scholarship and the costs this imposes on pedagogy and the mentoring of students. At the same time, despite women graduating from law schools in significant numbers since the 1980s, they continue to lag behind in the most prestigious positions in academia—tenured, full professorships: From academic year 1998-99 to academic year 2007-08, the percentage of women full professors …

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The Law And The Little Big Horn: What Beginning Law Students Can Learn From General Custer, Samuel W. Calhoun Jan 2013

The Law And The Little Big Horn: What Beginning Law Students Can Learn From General Custer, Samuel W. Calhoun

Samuel W. Calhoun

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Remedies Reveals The Seamless Web.Pdf, Candace Kovacic-Fleischer Dec 2012

Remedies Reveals The Seamless Web.Pdf, Candace Kovacic-Fleischer

Candace Kovacic-Fleischer

INTRODUCTION: Remedies is a course that consolidates many of the concepts learned in the first year of law school and some from the second. A typical Remedies course will reintroduce principles from constitutional law, compare and contrast torts and contracts, and apply criminal concepts in civil contexts. Teaching Remedies can be both challenging and rewarding. Challenging because it crosses a wide variety of subject areas. Rewarding because it weaves a variety of subject areas into the "seamless web" of the law, eliciting from students an occasional "aha." Early classes in law school tend to separate courses into discrete subject areas, …

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