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Students As Teachers, Teachers As Learners, Derrick Bell, Erin Edmonds

Michigan Law Review

Judge Edwards divides his analysis of the cause of the crisis in ethical lawyering into an overview and three parts. The overview and first two parts deal mainly with the role of law schools and legal curriculum in what he views as the deterioration of responsible, capable practitioners. This article takes issue with some of the assumptions, analyses, and conclusions those sections contain. The third part of Edwards' article analyzes the role of law firms in causing that same deterioration. This article agrees with and will elaborate upon that part of Edwards' treatment.

We approach Judge Edwards' article, we hope, …

Clerks In The Maze, Pierre Schlag

Michigan Law Review

It must be very difficult to be a judge - particularly an appellate judge. Not only must appellate judges reconcile often incommensurable visions of what law is, what it commands, or what it strives to achieve, but judges must do this largely alone. What little help they have in terms of actual human contact, apart from their clerks, typically takes the form of two or more advocates whose entire raison d'être is to persuade, coax, and manipulate the judge into reaching a predetermined outcome - one which often instantiates or exemplifies only the most tenuous positive connection to the rhetoric …

The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education And The Legal Profession: A Postscript, Harry T. Edwards

Michigan Law Review

In this essay I offer a postscript to "The Growing Disjunction." It is not possible for me to "respond" directly to the other participants in this symposium, because I had no opportunity before publication to read what they have written. I will therefore limit myself to two tasks. First, I will briefly discuss several issues raised in the article. Second, and most important, I wish to share a representative sample of the responses I have received regarding the article. These responses, I think, provide good evidence of the magnitude of the problem that we face.

A Response From The Visitor From Another Planet, J. Cunyon Gordon

Michigan Law Review

In order to admit, as I do, that the related planets of practice and academia are conjoined, one has to realize, as I have, that the legacy of the heavily doctrinal education Edwards wants to preserve may be precisely the lawyers he upbraids - lawyers who generally do not live, work, and behave ethically (with fairness, compassion, and creativity) in a complex, heterogeneous society. This recognition in turn compels the conclusion I reach that the outsiders - with their challenges to the status quo's values, their upstart theories and innovative pedagogies, and even their Star Trek-and-the-law scholarship - may help …

The Disjunction Between Judge Edwards And Professor Priest, Louis H. Pollak

Michigan Law Review

With characteristic vigor, Judge Harry Edwards, in his essay The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education and the Legal Profession, has censured the law schools and, secondarily, the bar, for what he sees as profoundly disturbing trends pulling academics and practitioners farther and farther apart. Judge Edwards' censure is not proffered off the cuff. He has carefully polled his former law clerks on their perceptions of their law school years and of their postclerkship professional experiences - whether in private practice, in government, or in teaching. In the text and footnotes of his essay, Judge Edwards quotes his law clerks' …

Commentary On Judge Edwards' "Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education And The Legal Profession", James L. Oakes

Michigan Law Review

Perhaps this little piece should be entitled Grace Notes rather than Commentary because I agree with so much of what Judge Edwards had to say in the Michigan Law Review. When I first read his piece, I have to say I was quite skeptical of his methodology, namely, running a survey past a group of former law clerks who, by virtue of their own super achievement, primarily in so-called elite law schools, quite easily could have ethereal points of view. But in typical Edwardsian fashion, the judge made appropriate disclaimers, and the clerks' comments seemed to me, for the most …

Judge Edwards' Indictment Of "Impractical" Scholars: The Need For A Bill Of Particulars, Sanford Levinson

Michigan Law Review

I can summarize my response as follows: Although Judge Edwards' article certainly seems to be leveling a heartfelt indictment, it lacks a sufficiently precise bill of particulars to know exactly whom he has accused of doing what. Nor does one know exactly what penalty Judge Edwards would exact from the miscreants. Unless he supplies such a bill, his indictment should be dismissed, though, presumably, without prejudice to its reinstatement should he wish to do the hard work of supplying evidence for the charges he set out.

Lawyers, Scholars, And The "Middle Ground", Robert W. Gordon

Michigan Law Review

The Judge seems to be arguing that both teachers and firm lawyers have been seduced from their real vocation by the fatal attraction of neighboring cultures: the practitioners by the commercial culture of their business clients, the academics by the disciplinary paradigms and prestige of theory in the rest of the university. The "deserted middle ground" is the ground of professional practice - practical, yet also public-minded. Perhaps without straining his thesis too far we could ascribe to Judge Edwards a "republican" view of the legal profession, in which legal scholars, practitioners, judges, legislators, and administrators - despite their separate …

Pro Bono Legal Work: For The Good Of Not Only The Public, But Also The Lawyer And The Legal Profession, Nadine Strossen

Michigan Law Review

I agree with Judge Edwards that "the lawyer has an ethical obligation to practice public interest law - to represent some poor clients; to advance some causes that he or she believes to be just." I also concur in Judge Edwards' opinion that "[a] person who deploys his or her doctrinal skill without concern for the public interest is merely a good legal technician - not a good lawyer."

Rather than further develop Judge Edwards' theme that lawyers have a professional responsibility to do pro bono work, I will offer another rationale for such work, grounded in professional and individual …

Stewardship, Donald B. Ayer

Michigan Law Review

While I agree with much that Judge Edwards has proposed, I thus submit that his formulations of the problem are partial - a bit like those of the blind men examining different parts of the elephant. The law's current unhappiness is only partly described as that of law schools and practicing lawyers going in different directions, of law practice becoming too commercial, or of law schools failing to serve the needs of the practicing lawyers and judges with practical teaching and scholarship. All of these observations, while correct as far as they go, miss the root of the problem, which …

The Mind In The Major American Law School, Lee C. Bollinger

Michigan Law Review

Legal scholarship is significantly, even qualitatively, different from what it was some two or three decades ago. As with any major change in intellectual thought, this one is composed of several strands. The inclusion in the legal academic community of women and minorities has produced, not surprisingly, a distinctive and at times quite critical body of thought and writing. The emergence of the school of thought known as critical legal studies has renewed and extended the legal realist critique of law of the first half of the century. But more than anything else it is the interdisciplinary movement in legal …

Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer 1993)

IU Law Update

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The Justice Who Never Graduates: Law School And The Judicial Endeavor, Shirley S. Abrahamson

Indiana Law Journal

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Who's "Number One"?: Contriving Undimensionality In Law School Grading, Jeffrey E. Stake

Indiana Law Journal

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Back To The Future: An Address To The Class Of 2042, Alfred C. Aman

Indiana Law Journal

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1993 Recognition Ceremony Program

Recognition Ceremony

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Vol. 03, No. 09 (May 1993)

Res Ipsa Loquitur

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Legal Education In Germany And The United States--A Structural Comparison, Juergen R. Ostertag

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

In this Article, Mr. Ostertag compares German and United States legal education. He believes that the differences in the two educational systems result from such factors as the separate development of the respective educational programs, the different training goals each system has for law students, and the relative significance of code law instruction and case method instruction. The author perceives a dichotomy between legal theory and practice, and he believes that law schools could bridge this gap through a comprehensive internship program that would expose students to all aspects of legal practice.

Microeconomics Made (Too) Easy: A Casebook Approach To Teaching Law And Economics, Gregory S. Crespi

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Cases and Materials on Law and Economics by David W. Barnes and Lynn A. Stout

Training Tomorrow's Banking Lawyers, John D. Hawke Jr., Melanie L. Fein

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Banking Law and Regulation by Jonathan R. Macey and Geoffrey P. Miller

The Weekly April 28 ,1993, North Carolina Central School Of Law

NCCU Law School Weekly

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Judicial Notice April 20th, 1993 V19 N8, The Catholic University Of America, Columbus School Of Law

Judicial Notice

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Vol. 43, No. 11, April 19, 1993, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Law School: American Dream or Indentured Servitude? •Brother Can You Spare a Grant or a Loan? •Admissions: The First Step Toward the Dream •Sustein: Porn is Not Free Speech •MacKinnon Responds to Letter Printed in "Princess" Column •Pre-Screening: A Panacea for Placement? •Increased Costs, Lower State Aid Result in Tuition Hikes •Students Face Leaner Job Market •Faculty Propose Changes in Grade System •Law School Seeks to Fill Faculty Spots •The Docket •LSSS Funds Stolen From Office •Some Royal Hints for Interviewing

Vol. 43, No. 10, April 5, 1993, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Hungry for Justice, Hungry for Peace •Pro Bono Could Become More than an Option •Page: Tackle Inner City Educational Barriers •Could we Have Been More Diligent? •Gender Journal Responds to RG Article •Rodney King Verdict: Future Legal Repercussions? •Law Students Seek to Add Women to the Walls •Haitian Refugee Problem: A Real-Life Drama •Judge Promotes Equal Rights for Children •Shaw to Attend Conference in South Africa •New Section Grateful for Program •The Docket •In the Line of Fire: A Clerkship •Summer Starters Dominate Moot Court •And Now, a Word on Our Faculty •Law in the Raw

Law Week 1993, North Carolina Central School Of Law

Law Week Guides

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Caveat, April 1993

Caveat

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Spring 1993

Transcript

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Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 1993)

IU Law Update

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Vol. 03, No. 08 (April 1993)

Res Ipsa Loquitur

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Spring 1993

Bill of Particulars

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