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On The Battlefield Of Merit: Harvard Law School, The First Century, By Daniel R. Coquillette And Bruce A. Kimball, John Henry Schlegel

Book Reviews

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Does Law School Still Make Economic Sense?: An Empirical Analysis Of "Big" Law Firm Partnership Prospects And The Relationship To Law School Attended, Edward S. Adams, Samuel P. Engel

Buffalo Law Review

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What Is Criminal Law About?, Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg

Journal Articles

In a recent critique, Jens Ohlin faults contemporary criminal law textbooks for emphasizing philosophy, history and social science at the expense of doctrinal training. In this response, we argue that the political importance of criminal law justifies including reflection about the justice of punishment in the professional education of lawyers. First, we argue that both understanding and evaluating criminal law doctrine requires consideration of political philosophy, legal history, and empirical research. Second, we argue that the indeterminacy of criminal law doctrine on some fundamental questions means that criminal lawyers often cannot avoid invoking normative theory in fashioning legal arguments. Finally, …

The Open Access Advantage In Legal Education’S Age Of Assessment, Elizabeth G. Adelman

Book Reviews

Reviewing James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson & Caroline Osborne, The Open Access Advantage for American Law Reviews.

K. William Gibson's Flying Solo: A Survival Guide For The Solo And Small Firm Lawyer, 5th Ed., Brian T. Detweiler

Law Librarian Book Reviews

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Latcrit Praxis @ Xx: Toward Equal Justice In Law, Education And Society, Tayyab Mahmud, Athena D. Mutua, Francisco Valdes

Journal Articles

This article marks the twentieth anniversary of Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory or the LatCrit organization, an association of diverse scholars committed to the production of knowledge from the perspective of Outsider or OutCrit jurisprudence. The article first reflects on the historical development of LatCrit’s substantive, methodological, and institutional commitments and practices. It argues that these traditions were shaped not only by its members’ goals and commitments but also by the politics of backlash present at its birth in the form of the “cultural wars,” and which have since morphed into perpetual “crises” grounded in neoliberal policies. With this …

In This, The Winter Of Our Discontent: Legal Practice, Legal Education, And The Culture Of Distrust, Alfred S. Konefsky, Barry Sullivan

Buffalo Law Review

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The History Of The American Bar Association Accreditation Standards For Academic Law Libraries, Theodora Belniak

Law Librarian Journal Articles

Using materials from the American Bar Association (ABA), such as annual reports and conference reports as well as other periodical materials, this article reviews the standards used to define academic law libraries from the formation of the ABA to the present and discusses the impact of the standards on the law library as an institution.

Legal Education In Crisis, And Why Law Libraries Are Doomed, James G. Milles

Journal Articles

The dual crises facing legal education - the economic crisis affecting both the job market and the pool of law school applicants, and the crisis of confidence in the ability of law schools and the ABA accreditation process to meet the needs of lawyers or society at large - have undermined the case for not only the autonomy, but the very existence, of law school libraries as we have known them. Legal education in the United States is about to undergo a long-term contraction, and law libraries will be among the first to go. A few law schools may abandon …

Teaching The Power Of Empathy In Domestic And Transnational Experiential Public Defender Courses, Cary Bricker

Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal

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Is It Time For Real Reform: Nysba's 20 Years Of Examining The Bar Exam, Mary A. Lynch, Kim Diana Connolly

Other Scholarship

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Time: An Empirical Analysis Of Law Student Time Management Deficiencies, Christine P. Bartholomew

Journal Articles

This Article begins the much needed research on law students’ time famine. Time management complaints begin early in students’ legal education and generally go unresolved. As a result, practicing attorneys identify time famine as a leading cause of job dissatisfaction. To better arm graduating students, law schools must treat time as an essential component of practice-readiness. Unfortunately, most law schools ignore their students’ time management concerns, despite growing calls for greater “skills” training in legal education.

To date, legal scholarship has overlooked psychological research on time management. Yet, this research is an essential starting point to effective instruction. Rather than …

Towards Engaged Scholarship, John R. Nolon, Michelle Bryan Mudd, Michael Burger, Kim Diana Connolly, Nestor Davidson, Matthew Festa, Jill I. Gross, Lisa Heinzerling, Keith H. Hirokawa, Tim Iglesias, Patrick C. Mcginley, Sean Nolon, Uma Outka, Jessica Owley, Kalyani Robbins, Jonathan Rosenbloom, Christopher Serkin

Journal Articles

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The Analytic Classroom, Todd E. Pettys

Buffalo Law Review

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Piety And Profession: Simon Greenleaf And The Case Of The Stillborn Bowdoin Law School, 1850–1861, Alfred S. Konefsky

Journal Articles

In 1850, Bowdoin College turned to former Harvard professor Simon Greenleaf when it sought to establish a law school. Although the school did not materialize, Greenleaf wrote a remarkable report that reveals anxieties about the profession, competing visions of legal education, and controversies over the meaning of the science of law in antebellum New England.

Encountering Attica: Documentary Filmmaking As Pedagogical Tool, Teresa A. Miller

Journal Articles

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Motivations For Law Student Pro Bono: Lessons Learned From The Tuscaloosa Tornado, Kelly Alison Behre

Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal

After a tornado devastated Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on April 27, 2011, law students at the University of Alabama organized and engaged in substantial legal and nonlegal service. Narratives from these students in the midst of their volunteer efforts reveal detailed accounts of their experiences and motivations for their service. In a time in which national law student pro bono rates remain low and law students continue to lose interest in social justice issues during their time in law school, these student narratives offer insight into why law students chose to volunteer through the lens of students who rose to the occasion …

The Faculty Workshop, Pierre Schlag

Buffalo Law Review

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Going To The Experts To Move Students From Skeptics To Believers, Laura Reilly

Other Scholarship

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Law Schools Under Siege: The Challenge To Enhance Knowledge, Creativity, And Skill Training, Robert I. Reis

Journal Articles

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For The Love Of The Case File, Christine P. Bartholomew

Other Scholarship

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Distributed Graduate Seminars: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Studying Land Conservation, Jessica Owley, Adena R. Rissman

Journal Articles

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American Legal Theory And American Legal Education: A Snake Swallowing Its Tail?, John Henry Schlegel

Journal Articles

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Pedagogy And Critique: Values And Assumptions In The Law School Classroom, Richard Michael Fischl

The Docket

Michael Fischl offers further reflections on the importance of Emeritus Professor James Atleson's scholarship, in response to our Symposium on James Atleson's Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law: A Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Retrospective, 57 Buff. L. Rev. 629.

Normalizing Trepidation And Anxiety, Christine P. Bartholomew, Johanna Oreskovic

Journal Articles

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Back Cover, Ub Law Forum

UB Law Forum

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On The Scene At Guantanamo, Ub Law Forum

UB Law Forum

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Eighteen Or Thirty, But Not Twenty-Two, John Henry Schlegel

Journal Articles

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What To Count, What To Report: The Revised Aba Annual Questionnaire (Aall Program Report), Ellen T. Mcgrath

Law Librarian Other Scholarship

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Remembering Louis Del Cotto, Cheryl D. Block

Buffalo Law Review

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