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1969

Cleveland State Law Review

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A Few Words About Law Teaching, Robert A. Leflar Jan 1969

A Few Words About Law Teaching, Robert A. Leflar

Cleveland State Law Review

The purpose of these few paragraphs will be to look for a quick moment at the law teacher's job as it appears both in retrospect and prospect to one whose law school teaching spans more than forty years and whose fortunate experience at working with other jobs in the law has given him reason to appreciate mightily the happy chance that led him as a youth into the teaching branch of the legal profession.


Random Gripes Of A Law Professor, Marcus Schoenfeld Jan 1969

Random Gripes Of A Law Professor, Marcus Schoenfeld

Cleveland State Law Review

Let use begin at the beginning-the "slave markets." Everyone, both "buyers" and "sellers," agree that it's an exhausting, demeaning,and inefficient way to hire professors. But the art form remains remarkably constant, since no better means of mass matchmaking has yet been devised. Possibly we should adopt the British system, requiring all schools to advertise their openings in the Times classified section. More likely, we will start computerizing to remove the last vestiges of humanity from the system. But until the system is basically changed, why not try to smooth out some rough spots?


Then And Now: A Bit Of Autobiography And An Argument, Vernon X. Miller Jan 1969

Then And Now: A Bit Of Autobiography And An Argument, Vernon X. Miller

Cleveland State Law Review

I am old enough to give my younger colleagues (and a few of my contemporaries) some advice. Study the 1920's. They were a law teachers' decade. Even you, honestly sophisticated as you are, can find out how the profession got to where it is. No one of us can afford to stop growing. The profession needs you as lawyers because the profession is under siege. The university schools need you as lawyers because the schools just could forfeit their power in the profession.