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Vol. 59, No. 6, November 19, 2008, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Two Days with Desmond Tutu •Pulitzer Prof •Lawyer Video Game •Save Yourself •Between the Briefs •This is Water •The Tech Column •When You Were Cooler •The Food Court •Halloween Pics

Vol. 59, No. 5, October 29, 2008, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Jenny Runkles Banquet •Letter from the Editor •Tech Column •Save Yourself •Between the Briefs •Presidential Debate •This is Water •Best of LawOpen •The Food Court

Vol. 59, No. 4, October 14, 2008, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•The RG Tries Its Hand at Economic Analysis •Letter to the Editor •Nunc Pro Tunc •Kicking it Old School •Pop Linguistics •Softball Champs •Nannes •Save Yourself •Case Notes •The Food Court •Fall Recipe Bonanza

Vol. 59, No. 2, September 16, 2008, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•The Michigan Law Class of 2011 •Letter from the (New) Editor •A Few Words from Your LSSS President •The Summer Pop Music We Loved to Hate •Continuing What They Started •Don't Be a Slave to the Curve •The Inevitable Grade Curves •The Dean's Public Service PSA •Deviations from the Curve •The Food Court •Between the Briefs •Kicking it Old School •Crossword

Vol. 59, No. 1, August 25, 2008, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•All I Ever Needed to Know About OCI I Learned Doing My Laundry •How to Succeed at OCI Without Really Trying •Baby I'm an L-STAR •Dining for Dollars •Summertime Blues •Expert Advice •Kicking It Old School •Between the Briefs •No Other Warranties, Expressed or Implied •The On-Campus Interview ad Lib •Vintage RG: OCI R(G)ad Lib

Vol. 58, No. 12, April 8, 2008, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Michigan Grads Earning Top Salaries •Juan Luis Tienda •SFF Spread! •Davidson Hoops •Butch Carpenter •Origins Photos •Sex Questions

Vol. 58, No. 10b, April 3, 2008, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Questions & Answers About Your Future •Preview Weekend Schedule •Spotlight on Snack Bar Staff •Best of Ann Arbor •Student Org. Open House Map •Between the Briefs •Bathroom Survey

Vol. 59, No. 3, September 30, 2008, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•The Inaugural ELPP Conference •Letter to the Editor •MLawLive •Kennedy •Best of LawOpen •Generation Project •Kicking it Old School •Mamdouh •The Food Court •Between the Briefs •LSSS Statements

Vol. 58, No. 11, March 18, 2008, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Law School Building Expansion •PRS, Part Deux •SFF Photos •Lethal Injection Debate •Symposia! •Blast From the Past •New Tax Group

Vol. 58, No. 9, February 19, 2008, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•PRS Registration Explained •Secret Crushes •Sex Answers •Restaurant Review •SFF Auction Preview •Date Auction Pics •Grades

Vol. 58, No. 8, January 29, 2008, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Professor Forman, Jr.'s Dream •Transitioning to Working Life •Bar Month Pics •Between the Briefs •Mr. Wolverine Pics •No Other Warranties Expressed or Implied •Crossword

University Of Michigan Law School Faculty, 08/09, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Biographies of the University of Michigan Law School faculty.

Reflections On The Nature Of Legal Scholarship In The Post-Realist Era, Marin Roger Scordato

Scholarly Articles

This article presents a tightly organized and closely reasoned analysis of legal scholarship in the current post-realist era. Secure and well-defined within the formalist legal world of the nineteenth century, the practice of legal scholarship has been profoundly affected by the realist revolution of the early twentieth century and the instrumentalist view of law that now prevails in the twenty-first century. In response, legal scholars have been forced to dramatically alter the focus, the materials and the basic methods of their study. The practice of legal scholarship is currently occupied in a prolonged struggle to adapt to these changes and …

Shame, Paul Campos

Publications

Here are some observations drawn from nearly seventeen years spent as a legal academic, using a particular device: the depiction of several fictional yet all-too-familiar legal academic characters. With one exception these characters are imaginary - yet their name is legion. The characters are The Drone, The Bully, The Hack, and The Fraud.

What can be done about them - or about us? Answering this question at all satisfactorily requires confronting more than the personal flaws of particular individuals: it necessitates grappling with the structural failures of the contemporary law school. It's true that some of what is wrong with …