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Conclusion: Adapting The Seven Principles To Legal Education, Paula Lustbader
Conclusion: Adapting The Seven Principles To Legal Education, Paula Lustbader
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Professor Lustbader discusses how applying the seven principles to legal education can be done without a complete overhaul of legal pedagogy—several of the principles are now evident in many law schools. Professor Lustbader uses quotations from students to show how the seven principles help to create a more effective learning environment for students. Since the principles maximize the students learning experience, as graduates they will be better prepared to server their clients.
Principle 7: Good Practice Respects Diverse Talents And Ways Of Learning, And Conclusion: Adapting The Seven Principles To Legal Education, Paula Lustbader
Principle 7: Good Practice Respects Diverse Talents And Ways Of Learning, And Conclusion: Adapting The Seven Principles To Legal Education, Paula Lustbader
Faculty Articles
This is one of seven articles from a symposium applying to law school the Principles of Good Teaching Practices that were developed for undergraduate educators. The article presents a good overview of the general issues that impact diverse students such as the institutional climate, admission and selection criteria, academic policies, student support program, curriculum, and law school pedagogy. It provides some concrete suggestions on how law schools can enhance learning. It is a good primer for ASP professionals because it points out the various factors that can hinder students' learning or academic performance.
A History Of Writing Advisors At Law Schools: Looking At Our Past, Looking At Our Future, Anne Enquist, Jessie Grearson
A History Of Writing Advisors At Law Schools: Looking At Our Past, Looking At Our Future, Anne Enquist, Jessie Grearson
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The authors, themselves writing advisors at The John Marshall Law School and Seattle University School of Law respectively, have recently surveyed both Directors of Legal Writing and Writing Advisors across the country to learn more about the phenomena of Writing Advisors in law schools. This article will report the results of that survey. First, however, the authors will give a brief history of the events surrounding the arrival of Writing Advisors at law schools, including the rise of the writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) movement, and then they will describe how these events set the stage for Writing Advisors at law schools. Second, …
Introduction: Critical Race Praxis And Legal Scholarship, Margaret Chon
Introduction: Critical Race Praxis And Legal Scholarship, Margaret Chon
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In this introduction, Professors Margaret Chon and Keith Aoki situate both Professor Yamamoto's work and the articles that respond to it. They also follow Yamamoto's advice and "perform" critical race praxis as it might relate to legal education and legal scholarship. Thus, the latter part of this introduction takes the form of an epistolary exchange, culled loosely from various e-mail messages between Professors Aoki and Chon. It is intended (in both form and content) to illustrate how conceptual tools that Yamamoto provides can be used to address the intergroup racial justice issues that permeate law schools.