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Essay: Justice Sotomayor On The Supreme Court: A Boon For Business?, Dana M. Muir, David Baumer, Stephanie Greene, Gideon Mark, Robert E. Thomas
Essay: Justice Sotomayor On The Supreme Court: A Boon For Business?, Dana M. Muir, David Baumer, Stephanie Greene, Gideon Mark, Robert E. Thomas
Dana M. Muir
In this essay, five business law professors with specialties in five different doctrinal areas analyze Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s jurisprudence in those areas and consider the implications of her appointment to the Supreme Court. Each of the areas, intellectual property, antitrust, securities, ERISA, and employment law, involves an area of federal law of significant importance to businesses. Although employment law also is a matter of state law, this essay focuses on the federal employment law statutes. Based on our analysis, we believe that Justice Sotomayor will approach business cases from a neutral perspective. Overall, we find support for the generally accepted …
What Law Schools Should Teach Future Transactional Lawyers: Perspectives From Practice, Michael A. Woronoff
What Law Schools Should Teach Future Transactional Lawyers: Perspectives From Practice, Michael A. Woronoff
Michael A Woronoff
Since at least the 1980’s, law schools have been chided for doing a poor job at teaching skills. This criticism has been accompanied by pressure to increase their emphasis on skills training. The pressure increased with the publication of the McCrate Report in 1992, and then again with the publication of the Carnegie Report in 2007. This article is based on my remarks given on June 10 at the 2009 mid-year meeting of the AALS Conference on Business Associations. In those remarks, I respond to the questions “Are law schools teaching students adequate transactional skills?” and “From the standpoint of …