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Using Foreign Authority To Teach Foreign-Trained Llms, Andrew Jensen Kerr

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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Grasp The Subject, The Words Will Follow: Reinforcing Doctrinal Learning And Building Skills And Competencies Through Legal Writing Exercises, Veronica Finkelstein

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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Using Technology To Teach The Flipped Classroom: A Presentation Of Various Tools, Techniques, And Tips, Duane R. Donahoe, Jessica Wherry, Shakira Pleasant, Kristen Murray

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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The Integrated Law School Curriculum, Adam Lamparello

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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Peer Editing On A Large Scale: Protecting Anonymity, Encouraging Class Participation, And Increasing Awareness Of Learning Objectives, Jennifer Franklin

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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Bridging The Gap Between Required First And Second Year Legal Writing Courses And The Evolving Roles Of Students And Professors, Jessica K. Webb, Heather Baum

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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It's Alive! Breathing New Life Into Old Topics, Olympia Duhart, Amanda Foster, Hugh Mundy

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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Experiments In Pedagogy: The Pro Humanitate Project, Abigail Perdue

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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Fairy Tales And The Importance Of Telling A Story, Brian Nese

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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Teaching Electronic Legal Research: Bookless But Not Bootless, Sharon A. Pocock

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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Making It Stick: Using The Science Of Successful Learning In The Legal Writing Classroom, Craig T. Smith

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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A Conversation About Discipline Building, Ruth Anne Robbins, Ellie Margolis, Sherri Keene

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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All The Law's A Stage: Using Vocal Techniques From Theatre To Improve Presentation Skills, Stephen Paskey

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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Add-On Contract Drafting Workshops, Martha M. Ertman

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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From Grade Achievement To Knowledge Acquisition - Shifting Student Focus, Shelly Deadder, Kelly Burgess

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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We're Not In Memo And Brief Land Any More: "Statutes And Rules And Regs! Oh My!", Jan M. Levine, Ann Schiavone

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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Using Cognitive Science In The Persuasive Writing Classroom, Laura Webb, Christopher Corts

The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference

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Helping Our Students Reach Their Full Potential: The Insidious Consequences Of Stereotype Threat, Russell A. Mcclain

Faculty Scholarship

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Law And Economics: Contemporary Approaches, Martha T. Mccluskey, Frank A. Pasquale, Jennifer Taub

Faculty Scholarship

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The Market Myth And Pay Disparity In Legal Academia, Paula A. Monopoli

Faculty Scholarship

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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

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

Faculty Scholarship

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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

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

2015: Roundtable on Increasing Author Diversity in Legal Scholarship: Bibliography

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Debunking The Myths Surrounding Student Scholarly Writing, Kristina V. Foehrkolb, Marc A. Desimone Jr.

Maryland Law Review

There is a tendency to view scholarly writing by law students as an exercise that has little utility in preparing them for the actual practice of law. This assumption is unfounded; to the contrary, scholarly writing in law school gives students a unique learning opportunity that is surprisingly close to how students will learn and write when they enter practice. While few law schools take advantage of this valuable learning tool, law school journals have long served as a vehicle and an outlet for student scholarship. Relying on the practices of some of the country’s top journals and using our …

One Small Step For Legal Writing, One Giant Leap For Legal Education: Making The Case For More Writing Opportunities In The "Practice-Ready" Law School Curriculum, Sherri Lee Keene

Faculty Scholarship

Legal writing is more than an isolated practical skill or a law school course; it is a valuable tool for broadening and deepening law students’ and new attorneys’ knowledge and understanding of the law. If experienced legal professionals, both professors and practitioners alike, take a hard look back at their careers, many will no doubt remember how their work on significant legal writing projects advanced their own knowledge of the law and enhanced their professional competence. Legal writing practice helps the writer to gain expertise in a number of ways: first, the act of writing itself promotes learning; second, close …

"Practice Ready Graduates": A Millennialist Fantasy, Robert J. Condlin

Faculty Scholarship

The sky is falling on legal education say the pundits, and preparing “practice ready” graduates is one of the best strategies for surviving the fallout. This is a millennialist version of the argument for clinical legal education that dominated discussion in the law schools in the 1960s and 1970s. The circumstances are different now, as are the people calling for reform, but the two movements are alike in one respect: both view skills training as legal education’s primary purpose. Everything else is a frolic and detour, and a fatal frolic and detour in hard times such as the present.

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Contemporary Trusts And Estates - An Experiential Approach, Jerome Borison, Naomi R. Cahn, Susan N. Gary, Paula A. Monopoli

Faculty Scholarship

In this essay in a special issue dedicated to teaching trusts and estates, the co-authors of Contemporary Trusts & Estates: An Experiential Approach (2d. ed. Aspen 2014) reflect on how the teaching of trusts and estates can integrate policy, practice, doctrine, and centuries of tradition. They describe the genesis of their problem-based casebook and the influence of the Carnegie Report on their choice of pedagogic framework. Each of the co-authors embraced the fundamental principles advocated by the Carnegie Report, which counsels that legal education should integrate “theoretical and practical legal knowledge and professional identity.” This essay goes on to outline …