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2014 Year In Review: 2 Law Schools Welcome New Deans While A Third Experiences Abrupt Departure

Austen Parrish (2014-2022)

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Trending@Rwu Law: Dean Yelnosky's Post: Ending 2014 With An Exclamation Point; Looking Forward To January..., Michael Yelnosky

Law School Blogs

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Newsroom: Rwu Law: Holding The Line On Cost, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Letter To The Editor, Rachel A. Van Cleave

Publications

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Senior Day 2014, University Of Michigan Law School

Commencement and Honors Materials

Program for the December 19, 2014 University of Michigan Law School Senior Day

Newsroom: A Top 10 Law School For Pro Bono, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Trending@Rwu Law: Kimberly Ahern's Post: Alumni Celebrate, Donate Toys-For-Tots, Kimberly Ahern

Law School Blogs

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Trending@Rwu Law: Veronica Paricio's Post: Exploring Your Options 1: Public Sector, Veronica Paricio

Law School Blogs

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December 2014 Magazine

Ergo

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Vol. 47, No. 13 (December 1, 2014)

Indiana Law Annotated

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50 Years Of Legal Education In Ethiopia: A Memoir, Stanley Z. Fisher

Faculty Scholarship

In this paper I describe my experience as one of the early members of the Haile Selassie I University (H.S.I.U.), Law Faculty, and share my reflections on developments in the ensuing years.

Making Law School A Place For People Who Know What They Want To Do

Austen Parrish (2014-2022)

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Vol. 47, No. 12 (November 24, 2014)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Interest Groups In The Teaching Of Legal History, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

All Faculty Scholarship

One reason legal history is more interesting than it was several decades ago is the increased role of interest groups in our accounts of legal change. Diverse movements including law and society, critical legal theory, comparative law, and public choice theory have promoted this development, even among writers who are not predominantly historians. Nonetheless, in my own survey course in American legal history I often push back. Taken too far, interest group theorizing becomes an easy shortcut for assessing legal movements and developments without fully understanding the ideas behind them.

Intellectual history in the United States went into decline because …

Vol. 47, No. 11 (November 17, 2014)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Learning From The Hope Of Our Veterans, Rachel A. Van Cleave

Publications

I have previously written about the valuable perspective student veterans bring with them to law school and how their experiences and knowledge can enrich classroom discussion about the rule of law and democracy. More recently, I have been impressed with what I am learning about both the training military personnel undergo and their deployment experiences that can teach us all valuable lessons about resilience, grit and perseverance. Veterans also have a lot to teach us about hope. While preparing for combat is not at all the same as preparing to be a lawyer. there are similar mindsets and approaches that …

Vol. 47, No. 10 (November 10, 2014)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Golden Gate University Wins San Francisco Trial Lawyers Mock Trial Competition, Erik Christensen

Press Releases

Golden Gate University School of Law (GGU Law)took first place in The San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association’s (SFTLA) annual Mock Trial competition, earning the title, “Best of the Bay,” for the third consecutive year and fourth first place win in five years. This year, GGU Law beat Santa Clara University, Stanford University and University of California, Hastings in the intense, day-long competition.

Dean's Desk: Partnerships Prep Students For Indiana Legal Careers, Austen L. Parrish

Austen Parrish (2014-2022)

As one of the top public law schools in the nation, we attract students from all over the United States – and the world – who understand the advantages of an IU education. As the state’s flagship law school, however, we also have an enduring commitment to educating Indiana’s best and brightest and encouraging them to stay in the state and contribute to its growth. Taken together, these three programs will go a long way toward advancing a strong commitment that goes back to our founding in 1842 as one of the oldest law schools in the nation and the …

Vol. 47, No. 09 (November 3, 2014)

Indiana Law Annotated

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7 Tips For An Efficient Faculty Bibliography: How To Tackle Faculty Bibliography Challenges With (Relative) Ease, Marcia L. Dority Baker, Stefanie S. Pearlman

Marvin and Virginia Schmid Law Library

There are many reasons to compile a faculty bibliography: recording faculty accomplishments, preserving information for future generations, and supporting your institution’s external affairs office, to name a few. Also, it is a potential publication for librarians at a tenure-granting institution. So, why did we decide to create a faculty bibliography? It was a combination of past inquiries from our patrons and the need to publish. Prior to this bibliography, no such compilation of our faculty’s work existed. Although our library hosts a display of current faculty scholarship at the start of each fall semester to promote recent faculty publications, we …

Most Diverse Law Schools, Mike Stetz

Articles About GGU Law

According to the National Jurist, GGU Law has improved its diversity ranking, moving from a B+ to an A-.

The article may also be read online here: http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cypress/nationaljurist1114/#/26

The 2014 Leadership Academy: Six Months Out - How Are Participants Using What They Learned?, Susan David Demaine

Articles by Maurer Faculty

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

These wise words were one of many lessons that the attendees of the 2014 AALL Leadership Academy took home with them following two full days of hands-on learning this past April. Now, a little more than six months later, Spectrum catches up with a few of the Academy attendees to find out how they are using what they learned and the ways that the Academy has affected their professional (and personal) lives.

Reaching Backward And Stretching Forward: Teaching For Transfer In Law School Clinics, Shaun Archer, James Parry Eyster, James J. Kelly Jr., Tonya Kowalski, Colleen F. Shanahan

Journal Articles

In thinking about education, teachers may spend more time considering what to teach than how to teach. Unfortunately, traditional teaching techniques have limited effectiveness in their ability to help students retain and apply the knowledge either in later classes or in their professional work. What, then, is the value of our teaching efforts if students are unable to transfer the ideas and skills they have learned to later situations?

Teaching for transfer is important to the authors of this article, four clinical professors and one psychologist. The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to some of the …

Vol. 47, No. 08 (October 27, 2014)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 47, No. 07 (October 20, 2014)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Viewpoint: Want To Learn To Think Like A Lawyer? It's 'Elementary'!, Rachel A. Van Cleave

Publications

Legal education is often described as teaching students "how to think like a lawyer." Indeed, most lawyers will agree that law school pedagogy altered their intellectual approach to problems, arguments and analytical challenges. However, most attempts to define the old saw "think like a lawyer" prove elusive. Maria Konnikova's book, "Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes," effectively captures what it means to think like a lawyer in a way that is both meaningful and relevant to the transformations occurring in legal education and in the practice of law. The book contains some great lessons for cultivating the habits of …

Vol. 47, No. 06 (October 13, 2014)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Book Review: “The Good Lawyer: Seeking Quality In The Practice Of Law”, Linda H. Edwards

Scholarly Works

In their first collaboration, The Happy Lawyer, the writing team of Nancy Levit and Doug Linder tackled a crucially important subject: how to have a happy life in the law. As part of that project, they interviewed more than two hundred lawyers about what makes them happy in their jobs. Levit and Linder noticed that happy lawyers nearly always talked about doing good work. Curious about the connection, the authors turned to recent research in neuroscience and learned, not to their surprise, that a key to a happy life is, indeed, the sense of doing good work. It is …

Newsletter, Fall 2014, Vol. 9, Issue 1, The Dean Rusk International Law Center

Newsletters

Georgia Law Summer Program in Brussels and Geneva - Record Year; New Partnership in China with Jiao Tong University; Lectures: Lee A. Feinstein, Karima Bennoune; Congressman David Scott; William Roebuck; Ramin Jahanbegloo; Cybersecurity Conference Looks at Potential for Private-Public Collaboration; New Roles of Corporations in Global Governance; Upcoming Conference: Children and International Criminal Justice, October 28, 2014; Global Internship Program; Georgia Law at Oxford; International Judicial Training Program; Transnational Law Program; Scholarly Exchange: Visiting Professor; International Law Faculty Updates; LL.M. Class of 2015 Welcomed; International Advocacy: Georgia Law Students Travel to Vienna for 21st Annual Vis International Arbitration Moot; Spotlight …