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Actively Achieving Greater Racial Equity In Law School Classrooms, Catherine Bramble, Rory Bahadur
Actively Achieving Greater Racial Equity In Law School Classrooms, Catherine Bramble, Rory Bahadur
Cleveland State Law Review
2020 illustrated the ongoing pervasiveness of implicit and explicit racism in our society. Less well-acknowledged and recognized is the extent to which Socratic pedagogy also reflects those pervasive racist realities while simultaneously resulting in inferior learning based on a teaching method invented 150+ years ago. Despite this racist and outdated reality, the legal academy has been reluctant to alter the traditional method of teaching. Tangible, empirical evidence obtained from data-driven cognitive learning science research demonstrates that active learning not only improves learning outcomes for all students, but also mitigates the structural effects of racism in the classroom thereby increasing racial …
Is Law A Discipline? Forays Into Academic Culture, Gene R. Shreve
Is Law A Discipline? Forays Into Academic Culture, Gene R. Shreve
Cleveland State Law Review
This Article explores academic culture. It addresses the reluctance in academic circles to accord law the full stature of a discipline. It forms doubts that have been raised into a series of four criticisms. Each attacks an academic feature of law, inviting the question: Is law different from the rest of the university in a way damaging its stature as an academic discipline? The Article concludes that, upon careful examination of each criticism, none establishes a difference between law and other disciplines capable of damaging law’s stature.
On Defining Academic Scholarship, Stephen J. Werber
On Defining Academic Scholarship, Stephen J. Werber
Cleveland State Law Review
This article seeks to find a definition of “scholarship.” Scholarship, to be fully recognized in the academic community, must address the theory of law - not its application. The basic premise of this essay is that such a definition of scholarship is detrimental to the law teaching profession and demeaning of the legal profession as a whole. As in the sciences, there is a need for both theoretical scholarship and applied scholarship. Both should be recognized as contributing to the overall knowledge, development, and beauty of the law as well as to the justice that that law seeks to achieve.
Academic Research And Advocacy Research, Victor L. Streib
Academic Research And Advocacy Research, Victor L. Streib
Cleveland State Law Review
Research is something we all do. Some research is a necessary evil, some a delightful passage, some unmitigated drudgery. Our general concern this evening is to hone the concept of legal research, at least as it is manifested by law professors and lawyers. More specifically, how does academic research and advocacy research differ in the world of law and what unique obligations might such differences suggest for the law professoriate? The general issue is the difference, perhaps conflict, between research aimed primarily at discovering truth and expanding knowledge versus research aimed primarily at mounting an argument to achieve victory for …
The Woman Law Student: The View From The Front Of The Classroom, Jurate Jason, Lizabeth Moody, James Schuerger
The Woman Law Student: The View From The Front Of The Classroom, Jurate Jason, Lizabeth Moody, James Schuerger
Cleveland State Law Review
The primary purpose of this study was to examine law professors' opinions on selected areas of the professor-student relationship with primary focus on the professors' views of and reactions to women law students. A secondary purpose of the study was to stimulate law professors to examine their attitudes and behavior toward women law students.
Then And Now: A Bit Of Autobiography And An Argument, Vernon X. Miller
Then And Now: A Bit Of Autobiography And An Argument, Vernon X. Miller
Cleveland State Law Review
I am old enough to give my younger colleagues (and a few of my contemporaries) some advice. Study the 1920's. They were a law teachers' decade. Even you, honestly sophisticated as you are, can find out how the profession got to where it is. No one of us can afford to stop growing. The profession needs you as lawyers because the profession is under siege. The university schools need you as lawyers because the schools just could forfeit their power in the profession.
A Few Words About Law Teaching, Robert A. Leflar
A Few Words About Law Teaching, Robert A. Leflar
Cleveland State Law Review
The purpose of these few paragraphs will be to look for a quick moment at the law teacher's job as it appears both in retrospect and prospect to one whose law school teaching spans more than forty years and whose fortunate experience at working with other jobs in the law has given him reason to appreciate mightily the happy chance that led him as a youth into the teaching branch of the legal profession.
Random Gripes Of A Law Professor, Marcus Schoenfeld
Random Gripes Of A Law Professor, Marcus Schoenfeld
Cleveland State Law Review
Let use begin at the beginning-the "slave markets." Everyone, both "buyers" and "sellers," agree that it's an exhausting, demeaning,and inefficient way to hire professors. But the art form remains remarkably constant, since no better means of mass matchmaking has yet been devised. Possibly we should adopt the British system, requiring all schools to advertise their openings in the Times classified section. More likely, we will start computerizing to remove the last vestiges of humanity from the system. But until the system is basically changed, why not try to smooth out some rough spots?
The Pompous Professions, Howard L. Oleck
The Pompous Professions, Howard L. Oleck
Cleveland State Law Review
Pomposity seems to be a characteristic of many practitioners of the learned professions. Many lawyers, for their self-estimate, are sure that they are the paladins of justice, and also often are vain of their intellectual prowess beyond all reasonable limits of objective evaluation. But for sheer breath-taking pomposity, few things can equal the lofty self-esteem of many law school teachers and administrators.
Current Controversies About Legal Education (A Survey), Ray Forrester, Leon Green, John G. Hervey, Fred E. Inbau
Current Controversies About Legal Education (A Survey), Ray Forrester, Leon Green, John G. Hervey, Fred E. Inbau
Cleveland State Law Review
Ten current questions on major controversial problems of legal education, of wide general interest and importance, were posed by the Editors of this review to leading legal educators. These questions were and are frankly difficult and controversial, but their answers are of vital importance to our system of legal education and to our society. Capsule answers given by these distinguished personages are believed to be interesting and significant.Brief answers such as these, of course, are not expected to be, nor do they pretend to be, complete or profound. Their purpose is to indicate succinctly the approach of outstanding American "opinion …