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Speaker, “Litigating Religion”, Michael Helfand
Speaker, “Litigating Religion”, Michael Helfand
Michael A Helfand
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The Way To Carnegie: Practice, Practice, Practice, Alan Minuskin
The Way To Carnegie: Practice, Practice, Practice, Alan Minuskin
Alan D. Minuskin
Along with colleagues on the clinical faculty at Boston College Law School, I organized a day-long symposium on the need for reforms in legal education in the United States. I also served as moderator of one of the three panel presentations that comprised the conference. The particular subject matter of the panel I moderated was the value of clinical pedagogy in legal education with special attention to differences in models employed and proposed at leading U.S. law schools.
Tenants' Rights In Massachusetts, Alan Minuskin
Tenants' Rights In Massachusetts, Alan Minuskin
Alan D. Minuskin
This was a presentation that I give three times a year to participants in a program operated by WATCH and a group from Brandeis University about tenants' legal rights in Massachusetts, as well as ethical guidelines governing the assistance they may provide to those they serve.
The Rise Of The Common Law Of Federal Pleading: Iqbal, Twombly And The Application Of Judicial Experience, Henry S. Noyes
The Rise Of The Common Law Of Federal Pleading: Iqbal, Twombly And The Application Of Judicial Experience, Henry S. Noyes
Henry S. Noyes
With its decisions in Twombly and Iqbal, the Supreme Court established a new federal pleading standard: a complaint must state a plausible claim for relief. Many commentators have written about the meaning of plausibility. None has focused on the Court’s statement that “[d]etermining whether a complaint states a plausible claim for relief...will be a context-specific task that requires the reviewing court to draw on its judicial experience and common sense.” In this article, I make and support several claims about the meaning and application of judicial experience. First, in order to understand and define the plausibility standard, one must understand …