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Cross-Cultural Readings Of Intent: Form, Fiction, And Reasonable Expectations, Deborah Waire Post
Cross-Cultural Readings Of Intent: Form, Fiction, And Reasonable Expectations, Deborah Waire Post
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Crisis In The Mortgage Finance Market: The Nature Of The Mortgage Loan And Regulatory Reform, Thomas E. Plank
Crisis In The Mortgage Finance Market: The Nature Of The Mortgage Loan And Regulatory Reform, Thomas E. Plank
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Rlt: A Preliminary Examination Of Religious Legal Theory As A Movement, Samuel J. Levine
Rlt: A Preliminary Examination Of Religious Legal Theory As A Movement, Samuel J. Levine
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They Do Teach That In Law School: Incorporating Best Practices Into Land Use Law, Patricia E. Salkin
They Do Teach That In Law School: Incorporating Best Practices Into Land Use Law, Patricia E. Salkin
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This article, prepared as a follow-up to Salkin & Nolon, Practically Grounded: Convergence of Land Use Pedagogy and Best Practice, 60 J.Legal Education 519 (2011), describes how practice-based assignments can supplement the traditional casebook method of instruction to meet goals and measure outcome assessments for students in the course. The article is based on my own course goals and explains how each assignment relates to individual outcome assessments.
Providing Effective Feedback, Jennifer Carr
Providing Effective Feedback, Jennifer Carr
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This article discusses the process of giving effective feedback in an academic context. Effective feedback gives students a clear explanation of what they should do, concrete steps for doing it, and the ability to ascertain whether those steps have adequately addressed the problem. The author discusses five steps that go into providing effective feedback to students.
Using Payroll Deduction To Shelter Individual Health Insurance From Income Tax, David Orentlicher
Using Payroll Deduction To Shelter Individual Health Insurance From Income Tax, David Orentlicher
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In this article, Professor Orentlicher and his colleagues assess the impact of state laws requiring or encouraging employers to establish ‘‘section 125’’ cafeteria plans that shelter employees’ premium contributions from tax.
Righting The Historical Record: A Case For Appellate Jurisdiction Over Appeals Of Sentences For Reasonableness Under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, Briana Lynn Rosenbaum
Righting The Historical Record: A Case For Appellate Jurisdiction Over Appeals Of Sentences For Reasonableness Under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, Briana Lynn Rosenbaum
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This Article is the first to analyze critically the jurisdictional basis for the Supreme Court’s mandate in United States v. Booker that all courts of appeals review the length of criminal sentences for “reasonableness.” The availability of appellate review has expanded greatly since the Booker opinion, and, indeed, recent research shows that the number of sentence appeals has risen. Unfortunately, the Court did not explain the jurisdictional basis for its expanded “reasonableness review.” The omission is not trivial. For decades, federal courts have held that courts of appeals do not have jurisdiction to review the length of criminal sentences. This …
Deep Irony - The Law Of The Gift, Iris Goodwin
Rethinking The Giant Mess That Is Employment Discrimination Law, Alex B. Long
Rethinking The Giant Mess That Is Employment Discrimination Law, Alex B. Long
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A Tribute To Bob Lloyd, Douglas A. Blaze
Quieting Cognitive Bias With Standards For Witness Communications, Melanie Wilson
Quieting Cognitive Bias With Standards For Witness Communications, Melanie Wilson
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Last year, as part of a project to revise the ABA Criminal Justice Standards for Prosecution and Defense Functions, the ABA Criminal Justice Section initiated round-table discussions with prosecutors, criminal defense lawyers, and academics throughout the United States. The Standards under review provide aspirational guidance for all criminal law practitioners. This Article stems from the Criminal Justice Section's undertaking. It considers the wording, scope, and propriety of several of the proposed changes that address lawyer-witness communications. It begins with a discussion of the effects of cognitive bias on these communications and explains why carefully tailored standards may lessen the detrimental …
Teaching Contract Drafting Using Real Contracts, Brian Krumm, Sharon Pocock, Shelley Dunck
Teaching Contract Drafting Using Real Contracts, Brian Krumm, Sharon Pocock, Shelley Dunck
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Innovative Transactional Pedagogies, Joan Macleod Heminway
Innovative Transactional Pedagogies, Joan Macleod Heminway
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Our law schools are embracing in a more powerful way innovative transactional pedagogies that address not only theory, policy, and doctrine, but also legal skills. This transcribed panel discussion explores three of these pedagogies – teaching corporate finance as advanced contract drafting, teaching numeracy, and teaching substance and skill in contract drafting through the use of in-office meetings and analytical memos – and describes how they are being implemented in law teaching. The panel was part of the “Transactional Education: What’s Next?” conference hosted by the Emory University School of Law’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice on June 4-5, …
Symposium: Bob Dylan And The Law, Foreword, Samuel J. Levine
Symposium: Bob Dylan And The Law, Foreword, Samuel J. Levine
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