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Book Review | Practice Perspectives: Vault’S Guide To Legal Practice Areas, Tina M. Brooks
Book Review | Practice Perspectives: Vault’S Guide To Legal Practice Areas, Tina M. Brooks
Tina M. Brooks
In this book review, Tina M. Brooks discusses Practice Perspectives: Vault’s Guide to Legal Practice Areas by Rachel Marx Boufford (editor).
Testing, Diversity, And Merit: A Reply To Dan Subotnik And Others, Andrea Curcio, Carol Chomsky, Eileen Kaufman
Testing, Diversity, And Merit: A Reply To Dan Subotnik And Others, Andrea Curcio, Carol Chomsky, Eileen Kaufman
Eileen Kaufman
The false dichotomy between achieving diversity and rewarding merit frequently surfaces in discussions about decisions on university and law school admissions, scholarships, law licenses, jobs, and promotions. “Merit” judgments are often based on the results of standardized tests meant to predict who has the best chance to succeed if given the opportunity to do so. This Article criticizes over-reliance on standardized tests and responds to suggestions that challenging the use of such tests reflects a race-comes-first approach that chooses diversity over merit. Discussing the firefighter exam that led to the Supreme Court decision in Ricci v. DiStefano, as well as …
The Practice Of Law As Moral Discourse, Thomas Shaffer
The Practice Of Law As Moral Discourse, Thomas Shaffer
Thomas L. Shaffer
No abstract provided.
Character And Community: Rispetto As A Virtue In The Tradition Of Italian-American Lawyers, Thomas Shaffer, Mary Shaffer
Character And Community: Rispetto As A Virtue In The Tradition Of Italian-American Lawyers, Thomas Shaffer, Mary Shaffer
Thomas L. Shaffer
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Cat, Cause, And Kant, Richard Peltz-Steele
Cat, Cause, And Kant, Richard Peltz-Steele
Richard J. Peltz-Steele
These are precarious times in which to launch a new law school and a new law review. Yet here we are. The University of Massachusetts is now in its first year of operation with provisional ABA accreditation. This text is a foreword to the first general-interest issue of the University of Massachusetts Law Review. Now marks an appropriate time to take stock of what these institutions mean to accomplish in our unsettled legal world.
Women Of Color In Law Teaching: Shared Identities, Different Experiences, Katherine Vaughns
Women Of Color In Law Teaching: Shared Identities, Different Experiences, Katherine Vaughns
Katherine L. Vaughns
No abstract provided.
What Is A Lawyer? A Reconstruction Of The Lawyer As An Officer Of The Court, Deborah Hussey Freeland
What Is A Lawyer? A Reconstruction Of The Lawyer As An Officer Of The Court, Deborah Hussey Freeland
Deborah M. Hussey Freeland
This paper engages with the central question in legal ethics concerning the lawyer's role, analyzing this fundamental question in terms of professional identity. Literature in this debate frames the lawyer either as a professional who exists entirely to serve her client (the "standard conception"), or as a professional whose primary duties are to the legal system. I reposit and examine the lawyer's professional identity as an officer of the court--an identity marginalized by those who favor the standard conception--noting that the phrase was coined to draw attention to a supplanting threat to legal professionalism. Providing a uniquely detailed examination of …