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Getting To Maybe: An Interview With Michael Fischl & Jeremy Paul, Kiel Brennan-Marquez, Riley Breakell

Connecticut Law Review

Since 1999, Getting to Maybe has served as a key resource for first-year law students. Professors Michael Fischl and Jeremy Paul wrote the definitive guide on how to excel on law school exams and master legal reasoning. Professors Fischl and Paul have not only had a massive impact at UConn Law, but they’ve also influenced thousands of law students nationally and legal education as a whole.

UConn Law Professor Kiel Brennan-Marquez and Riley Breakell, UConn Law Class of 2023, sat down with the authors to discuss Getting to Maybe and the 2023 release of the second edition. The conversation features …

Navigating Legal Ethics And Law School Curricula: Attempting To Find Technology Competency Without A Compass, Jessica De Perio Wittman, Kathleen (Katie) Brown

Faculty Articles and Papers

Comment 8 of Model Rule 1.1 of the Professional Rules of Conduct requires attorneys to be ethically accountable for technology competence. However, the drafting of the language of Rule 1.1 is vague. As a result, attorneys, law firms, and law schools apply Rule 1.1 differently and emphasize topics they deem most important. Per American Bar Association (ABA) Standard 301, law schools must maintain a rigorous program of legal education that prepares their students for effective, ethical, and responsible participation as members of the legal profession. Law schools have summarily responded to Rule 1.1 and Standard 301 by adding and offering …

What’S (Race In) The Law Got To Do With It: Incorporating Race In Legal Curriculum, Sonia M. Gipson Rankin

Connecticut Law Review

Gen Z is defined as including persons born after 1996 and, in 2018, the first Gen Z would have been twenty-two years old, the historically traditional age that many complete undergraduate studies and enter law school. With Gen Z entering law schools, the legal academy has been wholeheartedly preparing for the arrival of the first truly digital native generation in a myriad of ways. However, law training has been slow to progress in addressing the unspoken complexities of context and unconscious bias in the classroom with this population. Today’s Gen Z students were predominately raised in de facto segregated schools …

Existence As A Threat, Alena M. Allen

Connecticut Law Review

There is an ongoing debate in the legal academy about how and whether to integrate race into curricula. For people of color, race impacts their day-to-day lives in ways large and small. In the law school setting, the experience of students of color is often a fraught one. For many students of color, navigating law school is akin to walking a tight rope. This Essay attempts to highlight the myriad challenges facing students of color, and it offers some thoughts about how to create a more inclusive environment

Minimizing The Impact Of Cognitive Bias In Transactional Legal Education, Alina Ball

Connecticut Law Review

This Article explores methods law professors can employ to address the cognitive biases their law students possess. This Article provides concrete thoughts on how transactional law clinics can utilize the social, political, and neuroscience research included in this symposium edition.

The Role Of Lawyers And Law Schools In Fostering Civil Public Debate, Jennifer K. Robbennolt, Vikram D. Amar

Connecticut Law Review

Partisanship can make policy discussion and civil debate difficult. Partisan differences in how facts and policies are understood contribute to the escalation of conflict and a lack of cooperation. Lawyers are not immune from these human tendencies. But good lawyers have, and good law schools teach, values, knowledge, and skills that can aid in fostering and modeling more productive debate and resolution of conflict.

Lawyers are trained and socialized to internalize and safeguard the foundational tenets of our constitutional democracy, to uphold the law even when it does not reflect their own individual preferences. The professional rules of conduct encourage …

Self-Knowledge For Lawyers: What It Is And Why It Matters, Thomas Morawetz

Faculty Articles and Papers

Anyone who has taught in law schools for three decades or more has witnessed a paradigm shift in legal education. From the 1960s through the 1980s, it was common to ask how law school differs from the kind of practical training that might be acquired in, say, apprenticeship to a practitioner. A frequent answer was to compare law schools with graduate schools in arts and sciences and to argue that the law students were taught similar skills of reasoning, normative evaluation, cultural contextualization, and self-examination. For the most part it was taken for granted that academic scholars aspired to these …

A Middle School Guide To Debate, Mock Trial And Critical Thinking, Gary W. Levvis

Torrington Articles

This book is a guide for middle school students trying to navigate the rules and strategies of debate and mock trial. Hopefully, it will also serve as a valuable tool for teachers and coaches and, in particular, for college students who are assisting middle school debate teams as a form of community engagement.

What Is The Value Of Associations, Or Is It Safe To Row Alone, Darcy Kirk

Faculty Articles and Papers

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

Connecticut Law Review

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The Other Side Of The Picket Line: Contract, Democracy, And Power In A Law School Classroom, Michael Fischl

Faculty Articles and Papers

his essay - from a forthcoming symposium on teaching from the left in the NYU Review of Law & Social Change - offers an account of the successful union organizing campaign among custodial and landscaping workers at the University of Miami during the 2005-06 academic year, focusing in particular on the role played by faculty during the course of the campaign. It examines a fractious debate generated by faculty who held classes off campus in order to support the striking workers and the author's own decision to put the question of whether to honor the picket line to a vote …

It's Not About The Fox: The Untold History Of Pierson V. Post, Bethany Berger

Faculty Articles and Papers

For generations, Pierson v. Post, the famous fox case, has introduced students to the study of property law. Two hundred years after the case was decided, this Article examines the history of the case to show both how it fits into the American ideology of property, and how the facts behind the dispute challenge that ideology. Pierson is a canonical case because it replicates a central myth of American property law, that we start with a world in which no one has rights to anything and the fundamental problem is how best to convert it to absolute individual ownership. The …

On The Value Of Prison Visits With Incarcerated Clients Represented On Appeal By A Law School Criminal Defense Clinic, Timothy Everett

Faculty Articles and Papers

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A Woman's World, Michael Fischl

Faculty Articles and Papers

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In Appreciation Of Alan Cullison, Stephen Utz

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Cultivating Feminist Critical Inquiry, Anne Dailey

Faculty Articles and Papers

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The Deanship, Ellen Ash Peters

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Preliminary Reflections On The Professional Development Of Solo And Small Law Firm Practitioners, Leslie Levin

Faculty Articles and Papers

Solo and small law firm practitioners have long been regarded as marginal, unmentored, unethical and inadequately trained members of the legal profession. Yet technological advances and demographic changes in this segment of the bar suggest reasons for re-examining this view. In an effort to gain a clearer understanding of the current state of the professional development of these lawyers, 41 solo and small firm practitioners in the New York City metropolitan area were interviewed about their work lives and professional development. The questions posed were designed to explore how, if at all, office settings, mentors and other colleagues contribute to …

On The Unique Value Of Law School Clinics, Paul Chill

Faculty Articles and Papers

This is an edited version of a speech given by the author on April 21, 1999, upon receiving the 1999 University of Connecticut Law Review Award for “excellence in legal scholarship and service to the legal community.”

Mpre Reconsidered, The, Leslie Levin

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Commentary: A Law Professor's Suggestions For Estate And Trust Reform, Robert Whitman

Faculty Articles and Papers

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The Ethics Of Mediation Evaluation: Some Troublesome Questions And Tentative Proposals, From An Evaluative Lawyer Mediator, James Stark

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Preliminary Reflections On The Establishment Of A Mediation Clinic, James Stark

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Comments By Angel Oquendo, Ángel Oquendo

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Foreword, Ellen Ash Peters

Faculty Articles and Papers

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The Research Assistant Pool In The Law Library, Darcy Kirk

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Directiveness In Clinical Supervision, Jon Bauer

Faculty Articles and Papers

This article, first published in 1993 but not previously available on SSRN, explores the attitudes and practices of clinical law teachers relating to issues of “directiveness” in their clinical supervision. The inquiry focuses on the tension between the educational value of student autonomy and clinicians’ professional interest in ensuring high quality client representation. The authors conducted a survey of clinicians teaching at law schools throughout the United States.

Ethics And Style: The Lessons Of Literature For Law, Thomas Morawetz

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Soia Mentschikoff And Karl Llewellyn: Moving Together To The University Of Chicago Law School, Robert Whitman

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Introduction: Observations On Teaching Griswold, Hugh Macgill

Faculty Articles and Papers

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