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Teacher, Student, Ticket: John Frank, Leon Higginbotham, And One Afternoon At The Supreme Court--Not A Trifling Thing, John Q. Barrett
Teacher, Student, Ticket: John Frank, Leon Higginbotham, And One Afternoon At The Supreme Court--Not A Trifling Thing, John Q. Barrett
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A path to greatness often begins with a special teacher, and this is such a story. In the fall of 1949, John P. Frank was a new associate professor at the Yale Law School. This story also involves a young student. In autumn 1949, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., was a first year law student at Yale. Higginbotham, a 21-year-old black man from Trenton, New Jersey, had attended Purdue University and, after transferring, graduated from Antioch College in 1949. Leon Higginbotham was one of three black students who entered Yale Law School in fall 1949. Higginbotham met John Frank when he …
Law School Externships: Building Another Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Martin A. Geer
Law School Externships: Building Another Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Martin A. Geer
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A commitment to an excellent externship program in which students are intensely engaged in learning lawyering skills, values, responsibilities, and how the law and legal systems affect communities, families, and individuals, further advances William S. Boyd School of Law’s goals. It is another bridge over gaps between legal education, the profession, and the community. This article discusses the externship program at William S. Boyd School of Law.