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Mandatory Prelicensure Legal Internship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Again, Stephen R. Alton
Mandatory Prelicensure Legal Internship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Again, Stephen R. Alton
Faculty Scholarship
This Article explores the wisdom of imposing an internship requirement on aspiring lawyers as a prerequisite for licensure. It is my position that such a requirement can be beneficial to the new attorney, to the profession, and to the public and should thus be mandated for all those who seek admission to the practice of law. This Article begins by briefly examining the history in the United States of law-office, apprenticeship as a means of legal education. I then proceed to an examination of modern internship requirements in England and Canada. There follows a discussion of some of the more …
A Law & Economics Perspective On A "Traditional" Torts Case: Insights For Classroom And Courtroom, Robert H. Lande
A Law & Economics Perspective On A "Traditional" Torts Case: Insights For Classroom And Courtroom, Robert H. Lande
All Faculty Scholarship
This article is from a symposium, "Five Approaches to Legal Reasoning in the Classroom: Contrasting Perspectives on O'Brien v. Cunard S.S. Co. Ltd.," 57 Missouri L. Rev. 345 (1992). The symposium contains five articles that analyze this case from, respectively, traditionalist, Law & Economics, Critical Legal Studies, Feminist, and Critical Race Theories perspectives.
This article analyzes the O'Brien case from a Law & Economics perspective. It does so in a manner suitable for presentation in a Torts class or a Law & Economics class. It explains the basic terminology and approach. It analyzes the economics underlying the vaccination requirement, whether …
The Faces Of Law In Theory And Practice: Doctrine, Rhetoric, And Social Context, Richard C. Boldt, Marc Feldman
The Faces Of Law In Theory And Practice: Doctrine, Rhetoric, And Social Context, Richard C. Boldt, Marc Feldman
Faculty Scholarship
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The Legal Profession, Legal Education, And Change, Robert H. Jerry Ii
The Legal Profession, Legal Education, And Change, Robert H. Jerry Ii
Faculty Publications
The accounts of how the legal profession has changed in recent years are as abundant as the changes themselves. The common message is clear: the magnitude of change is immense, and the pace is unprecedented.
Advice For The New Law Professor: A View From The Trenches, Susan J. Becker
Advice For The New Law Professor: A View From The Trenches, Susan J. Becker
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
A decade ago, Professor Douglas Whaley published an essay that offers comfort and advice to those commencing the metamorphosis from practitioners, judicial clerks, and students into professors of law. The purpose of this article is twofold: to offer a confirmation from the trenches of many of Professor Whaley's observations and to supplement his suggestions with some of my own.
Teaching Appellate Advocacy In An Appellate Clinical Law Program, J Thomas Sullivan
Teaching Appellate Advocacy In An Appellate Clinical Law Program, J Thomas Sullivan
Faculty Scholarship
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Coping With A Turbulent Environment: Development Of Law Firm Training Programs, Edwin H. Greenebaum
Coping With A Turbulent Environment: Development Of Law Firm Training Programs, Edwin H. Greenebaum
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Book Review. Teaching Conflicts, Improving The Odds, Gene R. Shreve
Book Review. Teaching Conflicts, Improving The Odds, Gene R. Shreve
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Writing For Judges, Pierre Schlag
The Justice Mission Of American Law Schools, David R. Barnhizer
The Justice Mission Of American Law Schools, David R. Barnhizer
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
The scholar's dilemma, particularly those scholars in disciplines such as law that are irreversibly linked to the operation of power and implicit willingness to do violence if necessary, is that societies require shared consensus far more than truth. Negative truths about the scientifically unsupportable premises of our fundamental beliefs might interfere with the quality of the operating consensus, at least for those satisfied with their lot. The stark truth about opportunity, fairness, racial and gender bias, about who receives economic benefits and so forth would not be knowledge that “sets us free” but “sets us at each other's throats”. If …
Simulated Legal Education: A Template, Thomas A. Robinson
Simulated Legal Education: A Template, Thomas A. Robinson
Articles
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