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Health Law At The Turn Of The Century: From White Dwarf To Red Giant, George J. Annas Apr 1989

Health Law At The Turn Of The Century: From White Dwarf To Red Giant, George J. Annas

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The evolution of stars is inexorable. From the form in which we currently view our own Sun, it and similar stars eventually expand as their exteriors cool to become red giants. When a red giant runs out of fuel, its exposed core will collapse to form a degenerate white dwarf and, eventually, a dead black dwarf.1 Health law, as a discipline worthy of our attention, seems to have an opposite trajectory: from black dwarf to white dwarf, it is now on its way to becoming a red giant. The relevance of health law and the reasons for its exponentially …


Integration Of Professional Skills Into The Law School Curriculum: Where We've Been And Where We're Going, Elizabeth M. Schneider Jan 1989

Integration Of Professional Skills Into The Law School Curriculum: Where We've Been And Where We're Going, Elizabeth M. Schneider

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No abstract provided.


Autopsy Of A Murder: Using Simulation To Teach First Year Criminal Law, Stacy Caplow Jan 1989

Autopsy Of A Murder: Using Simulation To Teach First Year Criminal Law, Stacy Caplow

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No abstract provided.


The First Integration Of The University Of Maryland School Of Law, David S. Bogen Jan 1989

The First Integration Of The University Of Maryland School Of Law, David S. Bogen

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No abstract provided.


What Are Professional Skills And Why Should Law Schools Teach Them?, Donald G. Gifford Jan 1989

What Are Professional Skills And Why Should Law Schools Teach Them?, Donald G. Gifford

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No abstract provided.


Ethos And Conscience—A Rejoinder, Daniel S. Kleinberger Jan 1989

Ethos And Conscience—A Rejoinder, Daniel S. Kleinberger

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In “Wanted: An Ethos of Personal Responsibility,” Professor Kleinberger sought to prompt debate about the moral preconceptions of the legal profession. Professor Morawetz responded in his essay, “Layers and Conscience.” This article responds, commenting on Morawetz’s arguments that (1) excessive pessimism about lawyer morality is unfounded and counterproductive; (2) the public’s antipathy toward lawyers is inevitable given the role lawyers play in our society; (3) codes of ethics can and do have an uplifting influence on the morals of lawyers; and (4) law schools can and do train moral judgment.


Wanted: An Ethos Of Personal Responsibility—Why Codes Of Ethics And Schools Of Law Don't Make For Ethical Lawyers, Daniel S. Kleinberger Jan 1989

Wanted: An Ethos Of Personal Responsibility—Why Codes Of Ethics And Schools Of Law Don't Make For Ethical Lawyers, Daniel S. Kleinberger

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This article: (1) argues that neither codes of professional ethics nor traditional modes of law school teaching do much to produce ethical lawyers; (2) asserts that ethics codes and the presuppositions of the adversary system work to alienate lawyers from a sense of individual responsibility; (3) critiques the conceptual connection between the adversary system and codes of lawyer ethics; (4) critiques the conventional approach to teaching legal ethics in law schools; (5) invokes the approach to ethical analysis championed by the German sociologist and social theorist Max Weber; and (6) explains how that approach, coupled with traditional tools of legal …


The Meaning Of Morality, George P. Fletcher Jan 1989

The Meaning Of Morality, George P. Fletcher

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Many lawyers, both inside and outside the law schools, suffer from insecurity about our discipline. Instead of thinking of ourselves as the curators of a grand tradition in Western thought, many of us think of the law as a collection of doctrinal formulas and rules imposed on us by legislatures and the highest courts. We are always looking elsewhere to find a source of wisdom that will give the law coherence and meaning. At various times in this century we have looked to sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis and, of course, economics in an effort to ground our ideas in firmer soil. …


Teaching Mediation As A Lawyering Role Developments, Jacqueline Nolan-Haley Jan 1989

Teaching Mediation As A Lawyering Role Developments, Jacqueline Nolan-Haley

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The growth of the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) movement has generated an increased interest in the study and practice of mediation as a nonadversarial method of conflict resolution. With mediation, individuals settle their disputes using a neutral third party who has no power to impose a settlement. Historically, mediation has been widely neglected in legal education, and-except for those involved in the labor field-lawyers have not practiced it. Recent gains in visibility have not necessarily resulted in widespread acceptance of mediation. In fact, mediation has even been openly resisted by some members of the legal profession.