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An Underestimated Showcase Of Student Scholarship: Law School Institutional Repositories, Dajiang Nie

Duquesne Law Review

Law schools have been using institutional repositories as a showcase for law journals and faculty scholarly achievements for a long time, but law school institutional repositories fail to collect student scholarship regularly. Aspects of law school institutional repositories make no sense when directly benefiting both students and law schools and failing to display student scholarship. This Article examines student scholarship in law school institutional repositories, analyzing its current status, advantages, and keys to success. The Article shows that law school institutional repositories underappreciate student scholarship, and the content of student repositories also lacks diversity. This approach impairs the positive impacts …

Foreword: Artificial Intelligence: Thinking About Law, Law Practice, And Legal Education, Jan M. Levine

Duquesne Law Review

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The Automation Of Legal Reasoning: Customized Ai Techniques For The Patent Field, Dean Alderucci

Duquesne Law Review

As Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continue to transform numerous aspects of our everyday lives, their role in the legal profession is growing in prominence. A subfield of Al with particular applicability to legal analysis is Natural Language Processing (NLP). NLP deals with computational techniques for processing human languages such as English, making it a natural tool for processing the text of statutes, regulations, judicial decisions, contracts, and other legal instruments. Paradoxically, although state-of-the-art Machine Learning and NLP algorithms are able to learn and act upon patterns too complex for humans to perceive, they nevertheless perform poorly on many cognitive …

The Ghost In The Machine: Artificial Intelligence In Law Schools, Emily Janoski-Haehlen, Sarah Starnes

Duquesne Law Review

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Allowing Autistic Academics The Freedom To Be Autistic: The Ada And A Neurodiverse Future In Pennsylvania And Beyond, Brandon Stump

Duquesne Law Review

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Cross-Cultural Differences In Plagiarism: Fact Or Fiction?, Diana J. Simon

Duquesne Law Review

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Office Hours Are Not Obsolete: Fostering Learning Through One-On-One Student Meetings, Deshun Harris

Duquesne Law Review

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Democracy Begins At Home: Agreements, Exchanges, And Contracts In The American Law School, Noah Kupferberg

Duquesne Law Review

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Foreword, Brandon Stump

Duquesne Law Review

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Experiential Learning And Assessment In The Era Of Donald Trump, Jamie R. Abrams

Duquesne Law Review

Law teaching is turning a critical corner with the implementation of new ABA accreditation standards requiring greater skills development, experiential learning, and student assessment. Years of debate and discourse preceded the adoption of these ABA Standards, followed by a surge in programming, conferencing, and listserv activity to prepare to implement these standards effectively. Missing from the dialogue about effective implementation of standards has been thoughtful consideration of how implementing these requirements will intersect with the challenges, realities, opportunities, and complexities of political divisiveness and polarization so prevalent in society and university campuses today.

Law schools are notably implementing these pedagogical …

Teaching Public Policy Drafting In Law School: One Professor's Approach, Lisa A. Rich

Duquesne Law Review

This article provides an overview of the Drafting for Public Policy course offered at the Texas A&M University School of Law. The article addresses the theoretical and pedagogical underpinnings of the course, including how such a course easily encompasses the teaching of cultural context and awareness, as well as professional identity, and encourages students to engage deeply in the policymaking process. It also explores the continued relevance of the work of Harold D. Lasswell, as well as that of Myres McDougal and Anthony Kronman. These works, from 1943 and 1993 respectively, resonate now because they called on law schools to …

Capital Lawyering & Legislative Clinic, Rex D. Frazier

Duquesne Law Review

This article outlines an approach for teaching law students about advocacy beyond the judicial branch, with particular emphasis on legislative advocacy. Given the long and well-documented shift away from the judicial branch as the primary source of original public law, it is critical to teach law students that legislative advocacy is more than just an "alternative"o r "non-traditional" legal career option and, instead, is one which regularly involves "real lawyering." Just as law students learn practical trial skills through moot court, shouldn't they learn practical legislative advocacy skills through simulated legislative hearings? Further, can law students move beyond traditional approaches …

A Law And Economics Critique Of The Law Review System, Timothy T. Lau

Duquesne Law Review

The law review system prizes placement of articles in highlyranked journals, and the optimum method to ensure the best placement, which many scholars have intuited, is a saturation submission strategy of submitting articles to as many journals as possible. However, there has neither been an explanation as to what incentivizes this submission strategy nor any analysis as to what happens to scholars who cannot afford this strategy. This article uses a law and economics approach to study the incentive structures of the law review system, and identifies two features of the system that encourage saturation submission and punishes the poorly-resourced: …

The Practical Use Of The Trial Advocacy Course In Today's Legal Education Curriculum, A. Michael Gianantonio

Duquesne Law Review

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Accomplishing Your Scholarly Agenda While Maximizing Students' Learning (A.K.A., How To Teach Legal Methods And Have Time To Write Too), Anna P. Hemingway

Duquesne Law Review

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Misadventures Of A Law School Misfit, Harvey Gilmore

Duquesne Law Review

If the brilliant, legendary playwright Rod Serling were still with us, he might have described a law school graduate's credentials something like this-consider if you will, the law school graduate's perfect resume: 1) graduated first in his class from "Ivy League University"; 2) graduated first in his class from "Ivy League Law School"; 3) law review editor; and 4) elevation to Big-Firm partnership.

Dedication - Ronald Ross Davenport - Educator, Activist, Leader, John Heinz

Duquesne Law Review

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Dedication - Ronald Davenport, Henry J. Mcanulty

Duquesne Law Review

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Dedication - Ronald Ross Davenport - An Appreciation, Kenneth L. Hirsch

Duquesne Law Review

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Dedication - Ronald R. Davenport - The Pursuit Of Excellence, Cornelius F. Murphy Jr.

Duquesne Law Review

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