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2006

Legal Education

Seattle University School of Law

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Leveling The Playing Field: Helping Students Succeed By Helping Them Learn To Read As Expert Lawyers, Laurel Oates Jan 2006

Leveling The Playing Field: Helping Students Succeed By Helping Them Learn To Read As Expert Lawyers, Laurel Oates

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The article explores a way in which law schools can level the field of student admission in order to ensure the success of students as law students and as lawyers in the United States. A study which compares the reading skills of a professor and four students who had been admitted to law school under a special admissions program is presented. It provides the techniques for students to develop their reading skills. It emphasizes on the importance of teaching legal reading.


A Conversation Among Deans On Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change, And A Decade Of Gender Studies, W. H. Knight, K. Bartlett, E. Rubin Jan 2006

A Conversation Among Deans On Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change, And A Decade Of Gender Studies, W. H. Knight, K. Bartlett, E. Rubin

Faculty Articles

On March 10, 2006, the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, cosponsoring with the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and the Harvard Law Review, hosted a conference, "Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change, and a Decade of Gender Studies," to address the number of student experience studies that detail women's lower performance in and dissatisfaction with law school. Rather than advocate for a particular set of responses to the different experiences of men and women in legal education, this conference sought to foster a discussion about the institutional challenges these patterns highlight. As one means of accomplishing this end, law …


Introductory Essays, Kellye Testy, Thomas J. Holdych, Robert Medved Jan 2006

Introductory Essays, Kellye Testy, Thomas J. Holdych, Robert Medved

Seattle University Law Review

Congratulations to the Law Review for its first thirty years and many thanks to each and every graduate who, during their tenure on the Law Review, made it what it is today. May your outstanding work be an inspiration for those whom follow. After all, look at what four students with typewriters and carbon paper did in 1975!