Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Administrative regulation (3)
- Benchmarking (3)
- Best practices (3)
- Carnegie Report (3)
- Case method (3)
-
- Clinical legal education (3)
- Goals of legal education (3)
- Law reform (3)
- Legal Education (3)
- Legal education (3)
- Legal education reform (3)
- MacCrate Report (3)
- Constitutional Law (2)
- Access to courts (1)
- Attorney of record (1)
- Cruel and unusual punishment (1)
- Effective assistance of counsel (1)
- Eighth Amendment (1)
- Emergency preparedness (1)
- Ghostwriting (1)
- Hurricane Katrina (1)
- International human rights (1)
- Legal ethics (1)
- Limited-scope representation (1)
- Man-made disaster (1)
- Natural disaster (1)
- Orleans Parish Prison (1)
- Pleading (1)
- Prison emergency (1)
- Prisoners (1)
Articles 1 - 5 of 5
Full-Text Articles in Law
‘Best Practices’: What’S The Point?, Ira P. Robbins
‘Best Practices’: What’S The Point?, Ira P. Robbins
Ira P. Robbins
In a separate article - Best Practices on “Best Practices”: Legal Education and Beyond - Professor Robbins formulated a paradigm for “best practices” and applied it to the book, Best Practices for Legal Education. Professor Robbins concluded that the book did not meet any of the criteria necessary to constitute best practices and, further, that using the concept of best practices when thinking and writing about legal education is misleading and inappropriate. The primary author of the book, Roy Stuckey, responded, claiming that “best” can mean something other than best, that the difference really doesn’t matter, and that the debate …
Ghostwriting: Filling In The Gaps Of Pro Se Prisoners’ Access To The Courts, Ira P. Robbins
Ghostwriting: Filling In The Gaps Of Pro Se Prisoners’ Access To The Courts, Ira P. Robbins
Ira P. Robbins
Compared with other litigants, pro se prisoners are at an inherent disadvantage when they try to vindicate their rights. They lack many of the resources enjoyed by non-prisoner litigants. They have limited finances and limited access to legal-research materials. Even if they had such access, their illiteracy would lessen its effectiveness. Moreover, many attorneys are unwilling or unable to undertake full representation of prisoner litigants. As a result, pro se prisoners struggle to navigate the complex legal system, often losing their cases on procedural grounds before ever reaching a decision on the merits. This Article argues that, in order to …
Best Practices On ‘Best Practices’: Legal Education And Beyond, Ira P. Robbins
Best Practices On ‘Best Practices’: Legal Education And Beyond, Ira P. Robbins
Ira P. Robbins
“Best practices” has become one of the most common research and development techniques in the United States and throughout the international community. Originally employed in industry, the concept sought to identify superior means to achieve a goal through “benchmarking,” thereby allowing companies to obtain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. In recent decades, the use of best practices has become widely popularized, and is frequently utilized in the areas of administrative regulation, corporate governance, and academia. As the term has grown in popularity, however, so too has room for its abuse. In many instances, the term has been invoked to …
‘Best Practices’: What’S The Point?, Ira P. Robbins
‘Best Practices’: What’S The Point?, Ira P. Robbins
Ira P. Robbins
In a separate article - Best Practices on “Best Practices”: Legal Education and Beyond - Professor Robbins formulated a paradigm for “best practices” and applied it to the book, Best Practices for Legal Education. Professor Robbins concluded that the book did not meet any of the criteria necessary to constitute best practices and, further, that using the concept of best practices when thinking and writing about legal education is misleading and inappropriate. The primary author of the book, Roy Stuckey, responded, claiming that “best” can mean something other than best, that the difference really doesn’t matter, and that the debate …
Lessons From Hurricane Katrina: Prison Emergency Preparedness As A Constitutional Imperative, Ira P. Robbins
Lessons From Hurricane Katrina: Prison Emergency Preparedness As A Constitutional Imperative, Ira P. Robbins
Ira P. Robbins
Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters ever to strike the United States, in terms of casualties, suffering, and financial cost. Often overlooked among Katrina's victims are the 8,000 inmates who were incarcerated at Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) when Katrina struck. Despite a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, these men and women, some of whom had been held on charges as insignificant as public intoxication, remained in the jail as the hurricane hit, and endured days of rising, toxic waters, a lack of food and drinking water, and a complete breakdown of order within OPP. When the inmates …