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Interview With Alan M. Lerner, Lake Srinivasan, Alan M. Lerner, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Alan M. Lerner (L '65) was a practice professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1993 until his death in 2010. He practiced and taught mainly in the areas of civil rights and family law.

Interview With Howard Lesnick, Meredith Coleman, Steffen Bressler, Brian Gurtman, Simi B. Kaplin, Donna Mancusi, Diankha Warren, Howard Lesnick, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Howard Lesnick was Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where he began teaching in 1960. From 1982 to 1988 he taught at the newly founded CUNY Law School at Queens College, where he was responsible for curriculum and faculty development. Thereafter, he returned to Penn, retiring in 2016. He made important contributions to scholarship in fields ranging from labor law to legal education to law and religion. He died in 2020.

The Glass Ceiling In Law Firms: A Form Of Sex-Based Discrimination, Rebecca Korzec

All Faculty Scholarship

At a certain level, women lawyers collide with a "glass ceiling," an invisible, artificial barrier which prevents women from being promoted to management and leadership positions within a business or firm. The glass ceiling 'represents a subtle form of sex discrimination - unwritten, generally unspoken, but very pervasive.' Its presence is reflected in trends and statistics which consistently reveal women's underrepresentation in executive and management positions.

This article focuses on whether the glass ceiling formed as a result of sex discrimination, blatant or subtle, or whether it formed as a result of women lawyers' differing qualifications or career choices. It …

Criticizing The Courts: A Lawyer’S Duty (Iii), Roger J. Miner '56

Lawyers and the Legal Profession

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Dedication To Professor Nora Jane Lauerman - In Memoriam, Gordon A. Christenson

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

Tribute to legal scholar, Nora Jane Lauerman.

The Future Debate On Multidisciplinary Practice In The United States, Sydney M. Cone Iii.

Articles & Chapters

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Inbreeding In Law School Hiring: Assessing The Performance Of Faculty Hired From Within, Theodore Eisenberg, Martin T. Wells

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This study compares the scholarly impact of inbred entry-level law school faculty members with the scholarly impact of noninbred entry-level law school faculty members. The sample includes 32 law schools and approximately 700 entry-level faculty members. By our measure of performance, scholarly impact as measured by citation frequency, inbred entry-level law school faculty members do not perform as well as noninbred entry-level faculty members.

Reflections From The Chair-The Road Taken: Honoring The Decade Of Scholarship By Law Professors Of Color In U.S. Law Schools And The People Of Color Movement (1989-1999), 20 B. C. Third World L. J. 13 (2000), Linda R. Crane

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Supreme Court's Iolta Decision: Of Dogs, Mangers, And The Ghost Of Mrs. Frothingham, 30 Seton Hall L. Rev. 846 (2000), Donald L. Beschle

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Another Attempt To Solve The Prior Restraint Mystery: Applying The Nebraska Press Standard To Media Disclosure Of Attorney-Client Communications, 18 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 307 (2000), Alberto Bernabe

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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In Re Moot Court, 29 Stetson L. Rev. 1217 (2000), Darby Dickerson

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Book Review, The Digital Practice Of Law: A Practical Reference For Applying Technology Concepts To The Practice Of Law, Timothy L. Coggins

Law Faculty Publications

A book review on Michael R. Arkfeld's 4th edition of, The Digital Practice of Law: a Practical Reference for Applying Technology Concepts to the Practice of Law.

A Tribute To William Burnett Harvey, Harry Pratter, Douglass Boshkoff, Roger B. Dworkin, William D. Popkin, Julius G. Getman

William Harvey (1966-1971)

The Board of Editors, in recognition of his lasting contributions as Dean of the Law School, hereby dedicates Volume 75 of the Indiana Law Journal to the memory of William Burnett Harvey

The Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege: Loss Of Predictability Does Not Justify Crying Wolfinbarger, Paul Rice

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Women In Law, Susan Carle

Book Reviews

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Appreciating Collaborative Lawyering, Ascanio Piomelli

Faculty Scholarship

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In Memoriam: Gary Bellow, Beatrice A. Moulton, Gerald E. Frug, John D. Hamilton Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

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A Symposium Tribute To Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.: The Mentor And His Message, Margaret Chon

Faculty Articles

The articles in this Symposium tribute to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. emphasize his mentoring as well as his message. This demonstrates that one of the Judge's most important legacies was his "people legacy"—his continual training of the next generation of leaders in ways that would keep alive the more than four-hundred-year-long struggle of American racial justice. The Judge also had a distinct vison of American law, the vision of "we the people” of self-evident truths that "all men are created equal." His second vision was that of "we the people of color," the one that is symbolized by the …

Government Lawyers, Robert E. Rodes

Journal Articles

I am grateful to Professor Lee for the opportunity to comment on this fine set of papers regarding the ethical obligations of government lawyers. These papers shed light on many interesting aspects of serving the government. Professors Shaffer and Lee explore the peculiar challenges to integrity that a lawyer experiences when he has a client who can chop his head off. The challenges are less today, but a lawyer with large student loans to pay may not realize that they are. Professor Hazard points out that government lawyers are government employees with the responsibilities that government employment entails. Professor Green …

The Role Of The Law Review In The Tradition Of Judicial Scholarship, Kenneth F. Ripple

Journal Articles

This article explores one of the most important sources of judicial education, the law review. Part I first examines, by way of introduction, why continued intellectual growth is so important to the American jurist of today. It then sets forth the growth of the law review as an institution within the legal profession. Part II examines the various roles that law reviews play traditionally in the intellectual life of a judge and suggests, with respect to each, certain improvements in the judge-law review relationship designed both to enhance the effectiveness of the law review as an intellectual companion and to …

Riddikulus!: Tenure-Track Legal Writing Faculty And The Boggart In The Wardrobe, Mary Beth Beazley

Scholarly Works

Professor Beazley compares myths to boggarts in this examination of the reasons schools cite when explaining their lack of tenure-track positions for legal writing faculty. These boggarts are the living myths that pop out and whisper in faculty ears whenever someone suggests that law schools should create tenure-track - or even permanent - faculty positions in legal writing. Although some faculties have defeated these boggarts, they are still out there, popping out not from under the bed or from behind the closet door, but at lunch in the faculty lounge, after the committee meeting, and during the conversation in the …

A Law Of Healing, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

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Climb High: High Altitude Mountaineering Lessons For Librarians, Georgia Briscoe

Publications

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Idaho Court Assistance Office Project (Caop) Update, Patrick D. Costello

Articles

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Designing Electronic Casebooks That Talk Back: The Cato Program, Kevin D. Ashley

Articles

Electronic casebooks offer important benefits of flexibility in control of presentation, connectivity, and interactivity. These additional degrees of freedom, however, also threaten to overwhelm students. If casebook authors and instructors are to achieve their pedagogical goals, they will need new methods for guiding students. This paper presents three such methods developed in an intelligent tutoring environment for engaging students in legal role-playing, making abstract concepts explicit and manipulable, and supporting pedagogical dialogues. This environment is built around a program known as CATO, which employs artificial intelligence techniques to teach first-year law students how to make basic legal arguments with cases. …

Colorado Association Of Law Libraries, Georgia Briscoe

Publications

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Public Declarations Of Professionalism Professionalism Symposium, Bruce A. Green

Faculty Scholarship

When it comes to the subject of "professionalism," there is a gap between the leaders of the organized bar and its members. Bar leaders are eager to discuss the subject. For example, this year's annual meeting of the American Bar Association ("ABA") afforded bar leaders, as well as legal academics, a host of opportunities to share strategies to promote "professionalism" and "professional values." The Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar sponsored a program on "Professionalism in Law Schools and the Profession." Organizations representing bar executives, bar presidents, and bar foundations jointly presented a program called "Tough Talk, …

Third Party Payments To Criminal Defense Lawyers: Revisiting United States V. Hodge And Zweig, David Orentlicher

Scholarly Works

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Equality And Affiliation As Bases Of Ethical Responsibility, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

All Faculty Scholarship

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Princes Of Darkness And Angels Of Light: The Soul Of The American Lawyer, David R. Barnhizer

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

The increasing belief among many lawyers that life is comprised of "fear and greed and money" has altered the legal profession and helped make lawyers into one of the most feared and powerful groups in American society - and one of the most scorned. In the midst of the widespread contempt American society is showing lawyers, this article seeks to explain the special role the legal profession serves in our complex democracy. At the same time it condemns attitudes such as those reflected in Fritts' statement. The belief that life is driven by fear, greed, and money has created a …