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Canadian Law Schools: In Search Of Excellence, Leon E. Trakman Nov 1980

Canadian Law Schools: In Search Of Excellence, Leon E. Trakman

Dalhousie Law Journal

What makes a law school sound? credible? even excellent? Surely many things: leadership potential, good faculty and good students, a solid public image and communication. Greatness comes from knowing our own strengths and weaknesses, our institutional purposes. In short, achievement flows from how we evaluate ourself and how others evaluate us.' A law school must seek to satisfy many goals. Ideally, every legal institution should strive to excel as a facility of learning, as a bastion of intellectual fervor, as an instrument satisfying community needs. Yet each of these goals are themselves variable in kind. Teaching expertise in one legal …


Nova Law Journal Volume 5-1980-1981, Robert W. Kelley, Melanie G. May, Richard S. Cohen, Karyn Kantner Mann, Alan Marc Green, Mary Ann Duggan, Joseph James Huss, David M. Wiegand, Stephen J. Riley Oct 1980

Nova Law Journal Volume 5-1980-1981, Robert W. Kelley, Melanie G. May, Richard S. Cohen, Karyn Kantner Mann, Alan Marc Green, Mary Ann Duggan, Joseph James Huss, David M. Wiegand, Stephen J. Riley

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Nova Law Journal Volume 4-1979-1980, Cara Ebert Cameron, Frances Avery Arnold, Susan J. Brotman, Eleanor Halperin Kornfeld, Robert Kelley, Judith Rushlow, Robert Sidweber, Victoria S. Sigler, F. Brandon Chapman, Randy R. Freedman, Paul Gougelman, Michael Hand, Donald Jaret, Gary Kornfeld, Melanie May, Becky Schafer Apr 1980

Nova Law Journal Volume 4-1979-1980, Cara Ebert Cameron, Frances Avery Arnold, Susan J. Brotman, Eleanor Halperin Kornfeld, Robert Kelley, Judith Rushlow, Robert Sidweber, Victoria S. Sigler, F. Brandon Chapman, Randy R. Freedman, Paul Gougelman, Michael Hand, Donald Jaret, Gary Kornfeld, Melanie May, Becky Schafer

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A Federal Litigation Program: For Students, Inmates And The Legal Profession, Randy R. Freedman, Thomas J. Ross Ii Jan 1980

A Federal Litigation Program: For Students, Inmates And The Legal Profession, Randy R. Freedman, Thomas J. Ross Ii

Nova Law Review

Across the country, efforts have been made by the federal judiciary, the American Bar Association, and law schools to improve the quality of advocacy in the federal courts.


The Care Of Private Patients In Teaching Hospitals: Legal Implications, George J. Annas Jan 1980

The Care Of Private Patients In Teaching Hospitals: Legal Implications, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

In Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick Ishmael searches for knowledge in diverse ways; he views the world not only through his senses but symbolically and metaphorically. At one point, he is tied to the pagan harpooner Queequeg by a "monkey-rope," and it is his duty to use this rope to pull Queequeg free from the sharks surrounding the dead whale that Queequeg is butchering when Queequeg slips from his perch atop the whale. Should he fail, Queequeg's weight will pull them both into the shark-filled waters. Ishmael ponders: "I seemed distinctly to perceive that my own individuality was now merged …