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Church-Related Law Schools: Academic Values And Deference To Religion, Sanford Kadish Dec 2015

Church-Related Law Schools: Academic Values And Deference To Religion, Sanford Kadish

Sanford Kadish

Issues in the question of the Association of American Law Schools' acceptance or exclusion of church-related law schools that discriminate on the basis of religion are discussed. Basic principles of academic freedom, other forms of discrimination, and privacy are included, and this kind of religious discrimination is found to be unlike other discrimination issues. (MSE)


Meeting The Experiential Challenge: A Fee-Generating Law Clinic (With Gary S. Laser), Harold Krent Jul 2015

Meeting The Experiential Challenge: A Fee-Generating Law Clinic (With Gary S. Laser), Harold Krent

Harold J. Krent

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The Market For Legal Education And Freedom Of Association: Why The "Solomon Amendment" Is Constitutional And Law Schools Are Not Expressive Associations, Andrew P. Morriss Jul 2015

The Market For Legal Education And Freedom Of Association: Why The "Solomon Amendment" Is Constitutional And Law Schools Are Not Expressive Associations, Andrew P. Morriss

Andrew P. Morriss

This term the Supreme Court will confront the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment, which mandates equal access for military recruiters at universities that accept federal funding. The Third Circuit previously held the statute unconstitutional. This Article argues that the Court should reverse and uphold the statute because the lower court failed to consider the cartelized nature of legal education and so assumed that law schools are "expressive associations" entitled to assert First Amendment claims; the court also failed to give proper deference to Congress's exercise of its Article I power to raise and support armies and over-valued law faculties' interest …


Where Do The New Scholars Learn New Scholarship, Franklin E. Zimring May 2015

Where Do The New Scholars Learn New Scholarship, Franklin E. Zimring

Franklin E. Zimring

As a means of improving the quality of instruction in legal research, it is suggested that would-be teachers (1) undertake a residency of 2 or 3 years to work with a specialist in empirical research, or (2) more practically, be provided released time to gain research skills. (MSE)