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Is The Turkey Halal? Genetically Modified Animal Feed Regulation Where East Meets West, Jennifer Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

Turkey’s Biosafety Law (2010) imposes some of the world’s most stringent restrictions on the import, release and marketing of genetically modified foodstuffs. The Biosafety Board has not approved a single food event; the Council of State has suspended approval of MON 810; Turks have endured meat and milk price spikes; herders are going bankrupt for lack of affordable feed; and importers have been arrested and prosecuted for trace contamination with unapproved GMOs. It’s a pox an all their houses: Turks want nothing do with GM foodstuffs.

The culprit? The “precautionary principle,” which authorizes taking precautions in the face of scientific …

Spirals And Schemas: How Integrated Law School Courses Create Higher-Order Thinkers And Problem Solvers, Jennifer Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

As legal educators continue to shift focus to preparing students for practice, they should put integrated first-year courses and curricula into the top tier of potential reform vehicles. Integration refers to the extent to which a course or curriculum blurs disciplinary boundaries as well as boundaries between doctrine and authentic learning activities. Integrated courses promote active, deep learning that facilitate orderly knowledge construction and reveal more connections between vital legal concepts. The authenticity of integrated courses improves students’ retention and transfer of knowledge. Such accessible, interconnected knowledge in such a vital learning environment is like intellectual rocket fuel to law …

Suppose The Class Began The Day The Case Walked In The Door . . ., Jennifer Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

Problem-solving is the manifestation of a lawyer’s expertise. Unfortunately, the first year of law school is too highly compartmentalized and often semi-rote-learning experience that does not disturb what are many students’ passive undergraduate school learning strategies. Once taught the same way in law school, students are unlikely to develop the more intellectually sophisticated, relational learning strategies to make the cross-topical and cross-disciplinary connections of which problem-solving expertise is made.

This article argues that horizontally and vertically integrated first-year courses with spiral designs that prioritize honing students’ analytical and problem-solving capacities can break this cycle and prepare students with more self-directed …

It’S All About The People: Hierarchy, Networks, And Teaching Assistants In A Civil Procedure Classroom Community, Jennifer E. Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

This article provides a blueprint for a “civic community in a law school classroom” that would better prepare many students for what is likely to be their professional future based on natural social hierarchy and network dynamics. It uses experiences from the author's own teaching career to illustrate hierarchy and network dynamics and how to use them to enrich the pedagogical and social experience of a first year course. It also roots those experiences in principles from social psychology, organizational behavior, transformative leadership and all levels of education literature.

Modern law school classrooms fall into two categories: the "polar model" …

It's All About The People: Personal Jurisdiction, Lord Of The Rings And Classroom Community In Civil Procedure I, Jennifer E. Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

This article describes my ongoing experiments with “learning communities” and “spiral curricula” in my Civil Procedure I classes, as influenced by my eight years as a sole practitioner in Western Kentucky. Despite endorsement from many education theorists and classroom teachers and potential effectiveness in combating student disaffection, neither has made more than the shallowest dent in legal education. “Classroom community” implies a less stratified and more culturally respectful education experience that is more rewarding, more honorable and more likely to be urban law school graduates’ professional future. Spiral curriculum design facilitates analytical depth that leads to a sense of the …

The Beat Goes On: Griswold V. Connecticut And The Rhythms Of The Law, Jennifer Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

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It's All About The People: Creating A "Community Of Memory" In Civil Procedure Ii, Part One, Jennifer E. Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

In Fall 2008, a nascent classroom community emerged among my Civil Procedure students, teaching assistants and I. That term’s adventure eventually became the vital “past” for the fully formed community that would knit students of future classes together as one.

The genesis of this early classroom community was my ideal of “the good lawyer” as the small-firm or small-jurisdiction practitioner I had known as a seven-year solo practitioner in a town of 50,000 people. That ideal was a combination of “the rhythms of the law” that run throughout the specialties; a more respectful and less stratified model of professionalism, and …

The Private World Of Juvenile Court: Mothers, Mental Illness And The Relentless Machinery Of The State, Jennifer E. Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

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Before Creation, There Was The Big Bang, Jennifer E. Spreng, Javier M. Leija

Jennifer E Spreng

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The Food And Drug Administration And The Pharmacy Profession: Partners To Ensure The Safety And Efficacy Of Pharmacogenomic Therapy, Jennifer E. Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

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Solving “The Burklow Problem”: Federal Question Jurisdiction Of Tucker Act And Labor-Management Relations Act Cases After Textron Lycoming V. Uaw, Jennifer E. Spreng, Roberto J. Escobar

Jennifer E Spreng

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Conscientious Objectors Behind The Counter: Statutory Defense To Tort Liability For Failure To Dispense Contraceptives, Jennifer E. Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

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Pharmacists And The Duty To Dispense Emergency Contraceptives, Jennifer E. Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

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When ‘Welfare’ Becomes ‘Work Support’: Exempting Earned Income Tax Credit Payments In Bankruptcy, Jennifer Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

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Three Divisions In One Circuit? A Critique Of The Recommendations From The Commission On Structural Alternatives For The Federal Courts Of Appeals, Jennifer E. Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

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The Icebox Cometh: A Former Clerk’S View Of The Proposed Ninth Circuit Split, Jennifer E. Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

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Scenes From The Southside: A Desegregation Drama In Five Acts, Jennifer E. Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

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Failing Honorably: Balancing Tests, Justice O’Connor And The Free Exercise Of Religion, Jennifer E. Spreng

Jennifer E Spreng

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