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Full-Text Articles in Law
Time For A Top-Tier Law School In Arkansas, Richard J. Peltz-Steele
Time For A Top-Tier Law School In Arkansas, Richard J. Peltz-Steele
Faculty Publications
A simple change in state law could improve the quality of legal education in Arkansas and the quality of legal services available to our consumers - and save significant amounts of taxpayers' money. With an Afterword on academic freedom. Also available from Advance Arkansas Institute website.
Race And Socioeconomic Diversity In American Legal Education: A Response To Richard Sander, Danielle R. Holley-Walker
Race And Socioeconomic Diversity In American Legal Education: A Response To Richard Sander, Danielle R. Holley-Walker
Faculty Publications
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Teaching Gender As A Core Value In The Firstyear Contracts Class, Kerri Lynn Stone
Teaching Gender As A Core Value In The Firstyear Contracts Class, Kerri Lynn Stone
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No abstract provided.
Alternative Justifications For Law School Academic Support Programs: Self-Determination Theory, Autonomy Support, And Humanizing The Law School, Louis N. Schulze Jr.
Alternative Justifications For Law School Academic Support Programs: Self-Determination Theory, Autonomy Support, And Humanizing The Law School, Louis N. Schulze Jr.
Faculty Publications
This Article examines a problem that exists in law school academic support programs. While many schools now include extensive academic support opportunities within their curricula, some schools make the choice that more modest investments in these programs are warranted. Obviously, funding such programs is expensive, and law school administrations understandably are reticent to finance such endeavors absent guarantees of results. As such, scholars have attempted to prove, empirically, that law school academic support programs (ASPs) lead to demonstrable results in terms of improvements in student performance in law school and on the bar exam. Setting aside that important project, I …
The Griswold 9 And Student Activism For Faculty Diversity At Harvard Law School In The Early 1990s, Philip Lee
The Griswold 9 And Student Activism For Faculty Diversity At Harvard Law School In The Early 1990s, Philip Lee
Faculty Publications
This article reconstructs a mostly forgotten moment in Harvard Law School history when the students organized in the early 1990s across race, gender, sexual orientation, and ability and disability lines to push for faculty diversity. The new student coalition, called the Coalition for Civil Rights, gave the students’ activism unusual momentum. This initiative included the first time that law students, acting pro se, sued their law school for discrimination in faculty hiring and the first time Harvard Law School students were publically tried by their school’s Administrative Board for conducting an overnight sit-in at the Dean’s office (i.e., the Griswold …
Making The Leap To Being A Law Library Director, Joseph A. Custer
Making The Leap To Being A Law Library Director, Joseph A. Custer
Faculty Publications
This article addresses my experience in going from being a mild-mannered Associate Director of an academic law library to that of a dynamic leader of an academic law library.