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Bringing The Practice To The Classroom: An Approach To The Professionalism Problem, Steven H. Goldberg
Bringing The Practice To The Classroom: An Approach To The Professionalism Problem, Steven H. Goldberg
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The first section of this article presents a brief history and description of a professionalism movement that continues to urge law schools to do more to solve the “professionalism problem.” The second discusses legal education's failure to bring professionalism into the law school curriculum. The third describes the structure and teaching method of The Practice—a different kind of course about professionalism—while the fourth discusses the professionalism content of the course. I conclude with a plea for law faculty to direct their considerable talents toward collecting stories and data about the profession and creating material to facilitate law school courses that …
Memorial: Nicholas Triffin (1942-2000), Marie Stefanini Newman
Memorial: Nicholas Triffin (1942-2000), Marie Stefanini Newman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Professor Nicholas Triffin, Director of the Pace University School of Law Library from 1984 until 1998, died on April 8, 2000, after a long and valiant battle against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease). During the eight years Nick fought this cruel disease, his body became increasingly frail, but his will to survive, his dedication to his students, and his love of the study of the law were undiminished. Nick continued to fulfill his personal and professional obligations with grace and dignity, and taught his last class just a few days before his death. It never occurred to him to …
Tenure And Its Discontents: The Worst Form Of Employment Relationship Save All Of The Others, James J. Fishman
Tenure And Its Discontents: The Worst Form Of Employment Relationship Save All Of The Others, James J. Fishman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article attempts to defend academic tenure and offer some recommendations to make it more effective. There is nothing unique in this effort. What might be new to the discussion is the belief that the catalyst to making tenure more flexible and effective lies not with the professorate relinquishing some of its rights, but with university administrators creating an environment of expectations and incentives for tenured faculty, developing the fortitude and procedures to make tenure work as it should, and encouraging faculty to exercise the responsibilities that accompany their status.