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Vol. 51, No. 6, December 5, 2000, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•How to Get As in Law School •ATL Farewell •Final Words •Photo Tribute •For What It's Worth… •The Insider •We Three Films •Album of the Year •Gift Guide

Vol. 51, No. 5, November 7, 2000, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•The Insider •Shout Out to My Holmes •Letter: RG Lacks Sensitivity, Embarrassment to Law Community •Letter: Smackin' the Ho, Yingtao Knows Nothing About Football •Your Guide to the 2000 National Election •Election Year Photo Phunnies •For What It's Worth... •Thanksgiving Under the Federal Rules •Compacted Disc Reviews

Vol. 51, No. 4, October 24, 2000, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•See If Your Vote Matters •Pity for Nineveh •The Insider •The Gulag •Iceland's Greatest Import •Election 2000 Candidate Quote Quiz! •Telling a Ding from a Dong •Equal Access for Students & Professors •A No-Fear Vote for Nader •For What It's Worth… •To Be of Use

Vol. 51, No. 3, October 10, 2000, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Dumb or Dumber: Who Will Lead the Free World in 2001? •Stand Together •Helpful Hints for 1Ls •The Insider •Election 2000 •For What It's Worth •Confessions of a 2L Transfer

Vol. 51, No. 2, September 26, 2000, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Ralph Nader Speaks at Michigan Theater •Senate Sightings •Test Your Interview Prowess •Pants-Wearing Women of All Countries, Unite! •The Insider •An Unolympian Olympics •The Young and the Reckless •For What It's Worth

Vol. 51, No. 1, September 13, 2000, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Wolverine Denied Access •Law Review Selects No New Members •Wolverine Access Swallows Students Whole •Geographically Confused? •Hello Kitty, Law School Joins Forces •I Loved My Summer Job •Three Second Memory •The Insider •1L Demographics •For What It's Worth

Bringing The Practice To The Classroom: An Approach To The Professionalism Problem, Steven H. Goldberg

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The first section of this article presents a brief history and description of a professionalism movement that continues to urge law schools to do more to solve the “professionalism problem.” The second discusses legal education's failure to bring professionalism into the law school curriculum. The third describes the structure and teaching method of The Practice—a different kind of course about professionalism—while the fourth discusses the professionalism content of the course. I conclude with a plea for law faculty to direct their considerable talents toward collecting stories and data about the profession and creating material to facilitate law school courses that …

The Incredible Shrinking Law School, Phillip J. Closius

All Faculty Scholarship

The University of Toledo College of Law faculty and administration performed a task that may be unprecedented in modern American legal education. During a series of luncheon meetings we focused on the topic of enrollment--what size student body should we have given the realities of our market and the pedagogical goals we wish to achieve. We analyzed this issue without either an extensive reliance on our revenue stream or the risk of losing resources if we admitted fewer students. Since we administer both a full- and part-time (mainly evening) program, we also discussed our obligation to serve our metropolitan community …

Vol. 50, No. 12, April 18, 2000, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Campbell Competition Screws Internet Pornographers •Faculty Approves Changes to Calendar and Curriculum •South Africa III •The Social Problem of Coase •Above the Law •Redemption Song •3 Second Memory •Reflections •The Best is Yet to Come •Wrecked Weekend •The Big 1L Picture

Silence And Silencing: Their Centripetal And Centrifugal Forces In Legal Communication, Pedagogy And Discourse, Margaret E. Montoya

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Language and voice have been subjects of great interest to scholars working in the areas of Critical Race Theory and Latina/o Critical Legal Theory. Silence, a counterpart of voice, has not, however, been well theorized. This Article is an invitation to attend to silence and silencing. The first part of the Article argues that one's use of silence is an aspect of communication that, like accents, is related to one's culture and may correlate with one's racial identity. The second part of the Article posits that silence can be a force that disrupts the dominant discourse within the law school …

Vol. 50, No. 11.5, April 1, 2000, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•UMLaw to Install Classroom Internet Access •Admissions Data Released •SFF Auction to be Held via eBay •RG to Adopt New Profanity Policy •1L's Lost Book Found in Well •Letters to the Editor •I Was a 1L Teletubby •The Complete SFF Auction Item List

Vol. 50, No. 11, March 28, 2000, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Blood Will Flow Thursday •LSSS Ballot Box Opens Next Week •South Africa II •Interview •Grade Curve •Movie Reviews •The Final Darrow

Vol. 50, No. 10, March 14, 2000, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Enough Stolen Laptops •It Really is that Bad •Olfactory Education •South Africa Memoirs •Oscar Predictions •March Madness

Vol. 50, No. 9, February 22, 2000, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Sweatshops & the Mob •Classic Flattery •Clarence Darrow •Play by the Rules •Joan on the Ball •Resume Writing Tips

Vol. 50, No. 8, February 8, 2000, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Donna Lopiano Delivers Keynote Address at Title IX Symposium •Protest Marks Title IX Symposium •Title IX, "Sexists," and Equality of Opportunity •1999/2000 Law School Faculty and Staff Salaries •Super Bowl World •Grade This •Dance Marathon •Horoscopes •Cheeto Rebel •Movie Reviews

Vol. 50, No. 7, January 25, 2000, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Curriculum Committee to Recommend Calendar Changes •LSSS Decides to Leave Vacant 2L Representative Position Unfilled •Federalist View •A Dream Job •Grading the Exam •Y2K Resolutions •Sports Predictions •This Too Shall Pass

Michigan's Minority Graduates In Practice: Answers To Methodological Queries, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams

Articles

Before making a few remarks in response to those who commented on our article (Lempert, Chambers, and Adams 2000), we would like to express our gratitude to the editors of Law and Social Inquiry for securing these commentaries and to the people who wrote them. The comments both highlight the potential uses to which our research and similar studies may be put and give us the opportunity to address methodological concerns and questions that other readers of our article may share with those who commented on it. The responses to our work are of two types. Professors Nelson, Payne, and …

Bye-Bye Bluebook?, Pamela Lysaght, Grace C. Tonner

Articles

In March 2000, Aspen Law & Business published a new citation manual, the ALWD Citation Manual-A Professional System of Citation.' Developed mostly as a "restatement of citation," the ALWD Citation Manual not only provides the legal academy with a text that simplifies teaching legal citation, but also provides judges and lawyers with a helpful desktop reference book. This article explains why a new citation manual was created and highlights some of its significant features?

Avoiding Common Problems In Using Teaching Assistants: Hard Lessons Learned From Peer Teaching Theory And Experience, Edward R. Becker, Rachel Croskery-Roberts

Articles

A majority of American law schools rely on teaching assistants to help administer first-year legal writing, research, and analysis (LWRA) courses. Specifically, surveys jointly conducted by the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) and the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) consistently detail the extensive use many LWRA professors make of teaching assistants. Likewise, Julie Cheslik recognized in her article about her 1994 survey on the use of TAs in the typical LWRA course that "[o]ne of the most prevalent uses of peer teachers in the law school setting is the employment of upper-level law students as teaching assistants in the first-year …

Michigan's Minority Graduates In Practice: The River Runs Through Law School, Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, Terry K. Adams

Articles

This paper reports the results of a 1997-98 survey designed to explore the careers of the University of Michigan Law School's minority graduates from the classes of 1970 through 1996, and of a random sample of Michigan Law School's white alumni who graduated during the same years. It is to date the most detailed quantitative exploration of how minority students fare after they graduate from law school and enter law practice or related careers. The results reveal that almost all of Michigan Law School's minority graduates pass a bar exam and go on to have careers that appear successful by …

Learning And Serving: Pro Bono Legal Services By Law Students, David L. Chambers, Cynthia F. Adcock

Articles

All lawyers' codes of professional ethics in the United States expect members of the bar to perform legal services for low-income persons. In practice, as we all know, many lawyers perform a great deal of such service while others do little or none. By much the same token, the accreditation rules of the American Bar Association urge all law schools to provide students with opportunities to do pro bono legal work; by much the same token, some schools in the United States have extensive programs for their students but many do not. In 1998, the Association of American Law Schools …

Corporate Finance, Corporate Law And Finance Theory, Peter H. Huang, Michael S. Knoll

Publications

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Teaching Corporate Law From An Option Perspective, Peter H. Huang

Publications

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What Law Schools Are Doing To Accommodate Students With Learning Disabilities, Donald H. Stone

All Faculty Scholarship

The year 2000 marks the tenth anniversary of the 1990 passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). It also marks a quarter century since the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (“EAHCA”). The EAHCA opened the doors for disabled children to receive a free and appropriate education. As a result of this special education law, many disabled young people were able to succeed and are now knocking at law schools' doors seeking admission.

On July 26, 1990, Congress enacted the ADA, a landmark civil rights bill designed to open up all aspects of American life to …