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Nontraditional Career Alternatives For Law Graduates, Jay C. Carlisle
Nontraditional Career Alternatives For Law Graduates, Jay C. Carlisle
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The large increase in the number of law students and law school graduates is causing concern because of lack of opportunities for employment in the private practice sector. This article directs its attention to other areas of work providing career opportunities to law students outside of private practice.
What Is Taught In The First Year Property Course?, John A. Humbach
What Is Taught In The First Year Property Course?, John A. Humbach
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The battle over the first-year curriculum will unlikely ever end so long as there is a diversity of views as to what ought to be taught there. Because first-year courses are both a requirement (for the most part) and an initiation, most would probably agree that their subject matter should tend to emphasize the fundamental and general, not the esoteric or the highly specialized areas of legal knowledge. Nevertheless, first year subject matter should not be so abstractly "general" that it is too far removed from the real issues which a practical lawyer is likely to face. Beyond this, agreement …