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Repealing The Statute Of Wizarding Secrecy In Legal Education, Mark Burge
Repealing The Statute Of Wizarding Secrecy In Legal Education, Mark Burge
Faculty Scholarship
In the fictional Harry Potter universe, J.K. Rowling has fashioned a parallel world based on our own, but with the fundamental difference of a separate magical society grafted onto it. In Rowling’s fictional version, the magical population lives among the non-magical Muggle population, but we Muggles are largely unaware of them. This secrecy is by elaborate design and was brought about by centuries-long hostility toward wizards by the non-magical majority. But what if secrecy is precisely the wrong approach? What if widespread wizard-Muggle collaboration were precisely the thing needed to address the enormous and pressing problems of the day?
The …
Mindsets In Legal Education, Victor D. Quintanilla, Sam Erman
Mindsets In Legal Education, Victor D. Quintanilla, Sam Erman
Articles by Maurer Faculty
If you teach 1Ls, you may share the following concern. At the start of each year, we meet enthusiastic and successful students who are passionate about law. They arrive on campus invested in learning, ready to work hard, and eager to participate in class. But trouble brews soon thereafter. Students worry whether they have what it takes to do well, whether they will fit in, and whether they belong in law school. Answering questions in class, many sense (rightly or wrongly) that their professors and peers think that they aren’t smart and that they will not do well. When they …
The Institute For The Future Of Law Practice: A New Narrative For Legal Education And The Legal Profession, William D. Henderson
The Institute For The Future Of Law Practice: A New Narrative For Legal Education And The Legal Profession, William D. Henderson
Articles by Maurer Faculty
"The mission of IFLP is to produce more legal professionals who have strong legal knowledge plus foundational training in allied disciplines — in other words, “T-shaped” legal professionals."
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You look down at your smartphone and see that you just got a text from a close family relative. They are asking to schedule a phone call.
The next line reads, “I’m thinking about going to law school.”
Well, if you read PD Quarterly, you’re likely a logical person to seek out for advice. You’ve got some time to think about it. What are you going to say?
Whatever your counsel, …
Rebooting Empathy For The Digital Generation Lawyer, Lauren A. Newell
Rebooting Empathy For The Digital Generation Lawyer, Lauren A. Newell
Law Faculty Scholarship
There is a growing preference in today’s technology-saturated society for online interaction via email, text messages, social networks, and instant messaging, rather than real-world interaction through face-to-face or telephonic conversations. For today’s young people—the Digital Generation—this is more than a mere preference; it is a way of life. Research indicates that the movement toward virtual communication comes with negative consequences, such as poor real-world communication skills and underdeveloped social skills. Most significantly, research suggests that the Digital Generation are less empathic than elder generations are. Some researchers speculate that the rising prominence of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in everyday …
Not For Free: Exploring The Collateral Costs Of Diversity In Legal Education, Spearit
Not For Free: Exploring The Collateral Costs Of Diversity In Legal Education, Spearit
Articles
This essay examines some of the institutional costs of achieving a more diverse law student body. In recent decades, there has been growing support for diversity initiatives in education, and the legal academy is no exception. Yet for most law schools, diversity remains an elusive goal, some of which is the result of problems with anticipating the needs of diverse students and being able to deliver. These are some of the unseen or hidden costs associated with achieving greater diversity. Both law schools and the legal profession remain relatively stratified by race, which is an ongoing legacy of legal education’s …
The High Cost Of Transferring The Dream, Kim Brooks
The High Cost Of Transferring The Dream, Kim Brooks
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
This paper is part of a larger project where I use the facts in tax decisions to reveal something about who we are. It looks through a small window into the lives of the people who find themselves caught between our collective and their individual expenditure aspirations. More specifically, it explores the circumstances in which individuals find that their outstanding tax debts pose a threat to their ability to maintain ownership of their home.
In this paper I use the facts of tax cases for two ends. First, I am interested in disrupting legal knowledge hierarchies. We choose cases to …
Ferguson, The Rebellious Law Professor, And The Neoliberal University, Harold A. Mcdougall Iii
Ferguson, The Rebellious Law Professor, And The Neoliberal University, Harold A. Mcdougall Iii
School of Law Faculty Publications
Neoliberalism, a business-oriented ideology promoting corporatism, profit-seeking, and elite management, has found its way into the modern American university. As neoliberal ideology envelops university campuses, the idea of law professors as learned academicians and advisors to students as citizens in training, has given way to the concept of professors as brokers of marketable skills with students as consumers. In a legal setting, this concept pushes law students to view their education not as a means to contribute to society and the professional field, but rather as a means to make money. These developments are especially problematic for minority students and …
The Structure And Evolution Of The Academic Discipline Of Law In The United States: Generation And Validation Of Course-Subject Co-Occurrence (Csco) Maps, Peter A. Hook
School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications
This dissertation proposes, exemplifies, and validates the usage of course-subject co-occurrence (CSCO) data to generate topic maps of an academic discipline. CSCO is defined as course-subjects taught in the same academic year by the same teacher. This work is premised on the assumption that in the aggregate and for reasons of efficiency, faculty members teach course-subjects that are topically similar to one another. To exemplify and validate CSCO, more than 112,000 CSCO events were extracted from the annual directories of the American Association of Law Schools covering nearly eighty years of law school teaching in the United States. The CSCO …
Brown's Dream Deferred: Lessons On Democracy And Identity From Cooper V. Arron To The School-To-Prison Pipeline, Lia Epperson
Brown's Dream Deferred: Lessons On Democracy And Identity From Cooper V. Arron To The School-To-Prison Pipeline, Lia Epperson
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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Social Change Requires Civic Infrastructure, Harold A. Mcdougall Iii
Social Change Requires Civic Infrastructure, Harold A. Mcdougall Iii
School of Law Faculty Publications
Article explores how civil society might become sufficiently organized to hold business accountable beyond consumer choice, and government beyond merely voting.
A Law Clinic Systems Theory And The Pedagogy Of Interaction: Creating Legal Learning System, Patrick C. Brayer
A Law Clinic Systems Theory And The Pedagogy Of Interaction: Creating Legal Learning System, Patrick C. Brayer
Faculty Works
This article introduces a clinical systems approach that reframes professional experience as an interaction with a professional environment. The article encourages clinical faculty and other legal educators to contemplate the pedagogy of systemic interaction when teaching from experience and to then expand professional interactive opportunities within the short period of student participation. Clinical systems theory operates on the premise that students should reframe how they look at their surroundings so that the challenges that make up their professional system are not seen as problems but as means to a solution. Reframing by the student is realized in a clinical system …
What Will Our Future Look Like And How Will We Respond?, Michael A. Fitts
What Will Our Future Look Like And How Will We Respond?, Michael A. Fitts
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Role Of A Law School Dean: Balancing A Variety Of Roles And Interests - The American University Washington College Of Law Experience, Claudio Grossman
The Role Of A Law School Dean: Balancing A Variety Of Roles And Interests - The American University Washington College Of Law Experience, Claudio Grossman
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
The Role Of International Arbitrators, Susan Franck
The Role Of International Arbitrators, Susan Franck
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
With the advent of the global economy, arbitration has become the preferred mechanism for resolving international disputes. Today international arbitrators resolve billions of dollars worth of disputes.' Arbitration has taken on such prominence in the international context that commentators express "little doubt that arbitration is now the first-choice method of binding dispute resolution" and has "largely taken over litigation."'
In The Beginning Was The Law… An Intellectual Odyssey, Patrick Mcauslan
In The Beginning Was The Law… An Intellectual Odyssey, Patrick Mcauslan
The Practice of Law and Development: Socio-Legal Approaches
Is there such a distinctive phenomenon in practice as "law and development?" Isn’t all law directed towards some kind of development in the sense that new law – judicial decisions, legislation, administrative directives – change the existing law and so is a development from that existing law and in changing the existing law, change, in howsoever slight a degree, the economy and society of which the law is a part. Law and Development did not start in the 1960s when American legal scholars discovered the developing world nor did it end in the 1970s when, starved of funds to pursue …
Why Pro Bono In Law Schools, Howard Lesnick
Why Pro Bono In Law Schools, Howard Lesnick
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Being A Teacher, Of Lawyers: Discerning The Theory Of My Practice, Howard Lesnick
Being A Teacher, Of Lawyers: Discerning The Theory Of My Practice, Howard Lesnick
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Artists, Workers, And The Law Of Work: Keynote Address, Howard Lesnick
Artists, Workers, And The Law Of Work: Keynote Address, Howard Lesnick
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.