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Form And Substance: Standards For Promotion And Retention Of Legal Writing Faculty On Clinical Tenure Track, Melissa H. Weresh
Form And Substance: Standards For Promotion And Retention Of Legal Writing Faculty On Clinical Tenure Track, Melissa H. Weresh
Golden Gate University Law Review
This Article first briefly traces the development of legal writing programs and the various forms of job security currently afforded to legal writing faculty. It then examines standards for promotion and retention of legal writing faculty eligible for long-term contracts under 405(c), specifically in terms of titles, rank, and term of employment contracts, and the categories of criteria applicable to promotion for each term of employment. Finally, the Article examines some of the procedural aspects associated with promotion and retention of legal writing faculty under a 405(c) model, particularly in terms of evaluation and objection procedures.
The Juris Doctor Is In: Making Room At Law School For Paraprofessional Partners, Stephen A. Rosenbaum
The Juris Doctor Is In: Making Room At Law School For Paraprofessional Partners, Stephen A. Rosenbaum
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The 60th anniversary of the United States’ oldest continuous legal clinic presents an opportunity to reexamine the pedagogical machinery, reshape the curriculum, reflect on advice not taken, and reignite the “movement for change” in (clinical) legal education. The author recommends a modest retooling: Law schools should offer a degree program for non-lawyer advocates. This would capitalize on the many attributes that paralegals bring to the profession.
The author's focus is on how teaching paralegals or lay advocates in law schools can foster less costly non-adversarial dispute resolution, sensitivity to human and cultural aspects of client rapport, and co-education between members …