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The Profession Of Law: Columbia Law School's Use Of Experiential Learning Techniques To Teach Professional Responsibility, Carol B. Liebman
The Profession Of Law: Columbia Law School's Use Of Experiential Learning Techniques To Teach Professional Responsibility, Carol B. Liebman
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Columbia Law School's ethics course, "The Profession of Law" ("POL"), is an interactive, experiential exploration of lawyer ethics. The course, required for all third-year students, is taught on an intensive basis during the first week of the fall semester. It begins on Monday morning, the first day of the semester, and runs through mid-afternoon on the following Friday. The course has five goals: to introduce students to the rules that govern professional conduct; to help them develop an analytic framework for making ethical decisions in those broad areas where the rules do not give clear answers; to provoke them to …
Business Lawyers And Value Creation For Clients, Ronald J. Gilson, Robert H. Mnookin
Business Lawyers And Value Creation For Clients, Ronald J. Gilson, Robert H. Mnookin
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This Symposium marks an important milestone in legal scholarship and education: The spotlight falls on business lawyers for a change. Ten years ago, when one of us first wrote about what business lawyers really do, no one had devoted much attention to this part of the profession. In his broadside against lawyers, Derek Bok, then President of Harvard University and formerly dean of its law school, reserved his invective for litigators and the litigation process. Business lawyers captured the attention of very few critics; even on the unusual occasion when we were noticed, the criticism was at least funny. If …
Banks Mcdowell, Henry P. Monaghan
Banks Mcdowell, Henry P. Monaghan
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It is very hard for me to get used to the idea that Banks McDowell is retiring from teaching. He and I were colleagues at Boston University more than two decades ago, and I knew him to be a devoted and conscientious person deeply committed to the enterprise of teaching. Banks had great affection for his students, and he took delight in whatever he was able to do to enlarge their horizons.