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In Praise Of Bill Reynolds And Paul Blair, William M. Richman
In Praise Of Bill Reynolds And Paul Blair, William M. Richman
Maryland Law Review
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Legal Education In Transition: Trends And Their Implications, Michael A. Millemann, Sheldon Krantz
Legal Education In Transition: Trends And Their Implications, Michael A. Millemann, Sheldon Krantz
Faculty Scholarship
This is a pivotal moment in legal education. Revisions in American Bar Association accreditation standards, approved in August 2014, impose new requirements, including practice-based requirements, on law schools. Other external regulators and critics are pushing for significant changes too. For example, the California bar licensing body is proposing to add a practice-based, experiential requirement to its licensing requirements, and the New York Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, is giving third-year, second semester students the opportunity to practice full-time in indigent legal services programs and projects. Unbeknown to many, there have been significant recent changes in legal education that …
Are We There Yet? Aligning The Expectations And Realities Of Gaining Competency In Legal Writing, Sherri Lee Keene
Are We There Yet? Aligning The Expectations And Realities Of Gaining Competency In Legal Writing, Sherri Lee Keene
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Assessing Experiential Learning, Jobs And All: A Response To The Three Professors, Robert J. Condlin
Assessing Experiential Learning, Jobs And All: A Response To The Three Professors, Robert J. Condlin
Faculty Scholarship
Does clinical practice experience improve a law student’s chances of getting a legal job? If not, would it, if employers were given better information about that experience? And if not, are there other reasons to justify a law school’s decision to fund a clinical program? The answer to the first two questions is almost certainly no. For many reasons—the uneven and situation-driven nature of clinical practice experience, the Delphic quality of practice evaluations, the availability of more effective in-house training options, and the like—most private law firms prefer to trust conventional academic credentials more than practice experience in deciding whom …
Synergy And Tradition: The Unity Of Research, Service, And Teaching In Legal Education, Frank A. Pasquale
Synergy And Tradition: The Unity Of Research, Service, And Teaching In Legal Education, Frank A. Pasquale
Faculty Scholarship
Most non-profit law schools generate public goods of enormous value: important research, service to disadvantaged communities, and instruction that both educates students about present legal practice and encourages them to improve it. Each of these missions informs and enriches the others. However, technocratic management practices menace law schools’ traditional missions of balancing theory and practice, advocacy and scholarly reflection, study of and service to communities. This article defends the unity and complementarity of law schools’ research, service, and teaching roles. (For those short on time, the chart on pages 45-46 encapsulates the conflicting critiques of law schools which this article …
Roundtable On Increasing Author Diversity In Legal Scholarship: Program And Bibliography, Jason Hawkins
Roundtable On Increasing Author Diversity In Legal Scholarship: Program And Bibliography, Jason Hawkins
2015: Roundtable on Increasing Author Diversity in Legal Scholarship: Bibliography
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