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Erasing Race From Legal Education, Judith G. Greenberg
Erasing Race From Legal Education, Judith G. Greenberg
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
In this Article, Professor Greenberg argues that law schools claim to treat African American students as if their race is irrelevant, yet law school curricula have a hidden message that African American students are in fact inferior and dangerous to white students. When African American students do not perform as well as white students, they are assumed to have deficient skills and are placed in remedial programs to improve those skills. Professor Greenberg argues that the cause of African American students' poor performance in law school is not necessarily deficient skills, but rather a bias inherent in the structure of …
Eyes To The Future, Yet Remembering The Past: Reconciling Tradition With The Future Of Legal Education, Amy M. Colton
Eyes To The Future, Yet Remembering The Past: Reconciling Tradition With The Future Of Legal Education, Amy M. Colton
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Note explores the relationship between legal education and the legal profession, and what can be done to stop the two institutions from drifting farther and farther apart. Part I examines the history of the American law school, focusing on how the schools came into existence and what goals they intended to serve. Part II questions whether these goals have been reached, and dissects the present-day law school curriculum in search of both its triumphs and its failures. A necessary part of this curriculum analysis includes examining the evolution of the profession into a creature of both law and business, …
Toil Of The Firestarters, Peter A. Alces
Toil Of The Firestarters, Peter A. Alces
Michigan Law Review
A Review of In the Company of Scholars: The Struggle for the Soul of Higher Education by Julius Getman
Making Elite Lawyers: Visions Of Law At Harvard And Beyond, Daniel A. Cohen
Making Elite Lawyers: Visions Of Law At Harvard And Beyond, Daniel A. Cohen
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Making Elite Lawyers: Visions of Law at Harvard and Beyond by Robert Granfield
Practicing Poetry, Teaching Law, David A. Skeel Jr.
Practicing Poetry, Teaching Law, David A. Skeel Jr.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Before Our Eyes by Lawrence Joseph
Poised At The Threshold: Sexual Orientation, Law, And The Law School Curriculum In The Nineties, Jane S. Schacter
Poised At The Threshold: Sexual Orientation, Law, And The Law School Curriculum In The Nineties, Jane S. Schacter
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Law by William B. Rubenstein
Uncivil Procedure: Ranking Law Students Among Their Peers, Douglas A. Henderson
Uncivil Procedure: Ranking Law Students Among Their Peers, Douglas A. Henderson
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Article does not argue against evaluation, testing, or assessment within law school or outside of it. Nor does it argue against the use of standardized assessment procedures. This Article attempts to discredit the institutional practice of ranking law students among their peers. Part I presents a brief overview of the present system of testing and ranking, its impact on law student careers and the present justifications for these practices. Part II evaluates ranking, and the single end-of-term essay on which it is based, according to psychometric theory, learning theory, and statistical theory. Part III justifies abandoning the system by …
Prosecutors' Peremptory Challenges - A Response And Reply, Lynn A. Helland, Sheldon N. Light, William J. Richards
Prosecutors' Peremptory Challenges - A Response And Reply, Lynn A. Helland, Sheldon N. Light, William J. Richards
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
Three federal trial attorneys disagree with Professor Richard Friedman's proposal to eliminate the prosecution's peremptories, while Friedman defends his view.
Recalibrating The Balance: Reflections On Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Lehman, Sheldon Danziger
Recalibrating The Balance: Reflections On Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Lehman, Sheldon Danziger
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
During the 1992 presidential campaign, Candidate Clinton promised, in Putting People First, "to make work pay" and to "end welfare as we know it":
"It's time to honor and reward people who work hard and play by the rules. That means ending welfare as we know it not by punishing the poor or preaching to them, but by empowering Americans to take care of their children and improve their lives. No one who works full-time and has children at home should be poor anymore. No one who can work should beable to stay on welfare forever."