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Full-Text Articles in Law
Cognition And Star Trek: Learning And Legal Education, Kate Bloch
Cognition And Star Trek: Learning And Legal Education, Kate Bloch
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Pitfalls Ahead: A Manifesto For The Training Of Lawyers, Anita Bernstein
Pitfalls Ahead: A Manifesto For The Training Of Lawyers, Anita Bernstein
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No abstract provided.
Teaching Transactional Skills In A Clinic, Robert Statchen, Serge Martinez
Teaching Transactional Skills In A Clinic, Robert Statchen, Serge Martinez
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In May 2008, the Center for Transactional Law and Practice at Emory University School of Law held a conference entitled “Teaching Drafting and Transactional Skills—The Basics and Beyond.” This Article reflects the Authors’ discussion of teaching drafting and transactional skills to law students in the context of a law school clinic.
Legal Research Assessment, Simon Canick
Legal Research Assessment, Simon Canick
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Legal research instructors seek to provide their students with a working knowledge of important research tools, strategies with which to develop a rational research plan, and the skill to conduct research efficiently, among other things. A well-conceived legal research class may utilize short-answer assignments, quizzes, and scavenger hunt exercises as a means to establish a baseline of knowledge with critical sources; a series of research problems, with grading based upon students' ability to describe a coherent and logical progression; and a pathfinder or process-oriented final exam, all depending on the instructor's goals. Ultimately, the variety of available assessment tools suggests …
Teaching Business Lawyering In Law Schools: A Candid Assessment Of The Challenges And Some Suggestions For Moving Ahead, Eric J. Gouvin
Teaching Business Lawyering In Law Schools: A Candid Assessment Of The Challenges And Some Suggestions For Moving Ahead, Eric J. Gouvin
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As a result of several recent studies and changes in the ABA's Standards for Approval of Law Schools, legal education is paying more attention to skills training for law students. The need to bring the skills and values of business lawyers into the classroom has never been greater, yet there remains a real risk that "skills training" may be skewed in favor of litgation skills, with little emphasis given to transactional practice. This Article assesses some of the obstacles that stand in the way of effective integration of transactional skills into the law school curriculum and offers some concrete suggestions …
More Pedagogic Techniques: Online Exercises & (And) Integrating Skills Into Different Kinds Of Courses, Leslie Larkin Cooney
More Pedagogic Techniques: Online Exercises & (And) Integrating Skills Into Different Kinds Of Courses, Leslie Larkin Cooney
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The Business Practice Clinic is an externship program that sends third-year students out to work either full-time or part-time in an agency or law firm. The externs are trained in the clinical program and during a biweekly class. There is also a three-credit class that students complete before they go into extern placement. It was a big challenge to complete the placement class in only two weeks because of the students’ busy schedules, so we began offering pieces of it online. We are moving more and more of this course to our online platform. This article discusses our experience in …
Students Schooling Students: Gaining Professional Benefits While Helping Urban High School Students Achieve Success, Susan P. Leviton, Justin A. Browne
Students Schooling Students: Gaining Professional Benefits While Helping Urban High School Students Achieve Success, Susan P. Leviton, Justin A. Browne
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This article looks at the educational plight of urban low income children and explores the opportunities for success that small urban high schools provide. It then distills commonalities among successful small schools to demonstrate three central points: 1) that small is essential but not sufficient; 2) that small schools offer an opportunity for urban school districts to help improve educational opportunities for disadvantaged students by providing a fertile environment where individualized instruction, more class time, better-trained teachers, and a curriculum that prepares students psychologically and emotionally, as well as intellectually can help them overcome the adverse effects of poverty; and …
Alinsky's Prescription: Democracy Alongside Law, Barbara L. Bezdek
Alinsky's Prescription: Democracy Alongside Law, Barbara L. Bezdek
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This Article examines the import of the life’s work of Saul Alinsky—arguably the most prominent founder of contemporary organizing—to the content and methodologies of today’s legal education. I review the community organizing theory and practice of Saul Alinsky for its synergies and lessons on two approaches by legal theorists and educators working in law schools today — “community lawyering” and “social justice”education. These approaches embrace the special responsibility of the legal profession for the quality of justice in society[1] by extending the traditional conceptions of lawyers’ relationships with clients in ways that are informed by the insights of community organizers, …
Research Stories: Video Tales From The Summer Associate Workplace, Susan Herrick
Research Stories: Video Tales From The Summer Associate Workplace, Susan Herrick
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No abstract provided.
Recalibrating The Moral Compass: Expanding "Thinking Like A Lawyer" Into "Thinking Like A Leader", Karen H. Rothenberg
Recalibrating The Moral Compass: Expanding "Thinking Like A Lawyer" Into "Thinking Like A Leader", Karen H. Rothenberg
Faculty Scholarship
This essay was prepared for the Leadership in Legal Education Symposium IX.
Negotiating Classroom Process: Lessons From Adult Learning, Melissa Lee Nelken
Negotiating Classroom Process: Lessons From Adult Learning, Melissa Lee Nelken
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No abstract provided.
Religious Law Schools: Tension Between Conscience And Academic Freedom, Kent Greenawalt
Religious Law Schools: Tension Between Conscience And Academic Freedom, Kent Greenawalt
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My comments this afternoon are responsive to John Garvey’s Presidential
Address on Institutional Pluralism at last year’s meeting. The gist of his
address, delivered gracefully, undogmatically, and persuasively, is that it may
be desirable to have law schools that are devoted substantially to particular
endeavors and points of view. Dean Garvey mentioned law schools that
concentrate on teaching particular subjects, such as law and economics, or
training for geographical areas, such as northern New York, or preparing
for forms of practice, such as clinical work, or helping a particular group of
potential lawyers, such as African‑Americans, or reflecting a special …
Externships: A Signature Pedagogy For The Apprenticeship Of Professional Identity And Purpose, Kelly S. Terry
Externships: A Signature Pedagogy For The Apprenticeship Of Professional Identity And Purpose, Kelly S. Terry
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No abstract provided.
Remembering Mary C. Daly: A Legal Ethicist Par Excellence, Bruce A. Green
Remembering Mary C. Daly: A Legal Ethicist Par Excellence, Bruce A. Green
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No abstract provided.
American Moment[S]: When, How, And Why Did Israeli Law Faculties Come To Resemble Elite U.S. Law Schools?, Pnina Lahav
American Moment[S]: When, How, And Why Did Israeli Law Faculties Come To Resemble Elite U.S. Law Schools?, Pnina Lahav
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Following independence in 1948, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem founded a law faculty and modeled it on the European example (Continental and British). Today, the Israeli law faculty is much more similar to the U.S. law school than to institutions of legal education in Europe. This Article traces the history of the changes in Israeli legal education. It argues that the shift began after 1967, faced resistance in the 1980s, and gained momentum in the 1990s. Presently we may be witnessing the beginning of a shift away from U.S. influence and back to Continental Europe or even Asia. The Article …
The Twenty-First Century Law Library, Richard A. Danner, S. Blair Kauffman, John G. Palfrey
The Twenty-First Century Law Library, Richard A. Danner, S. Blair Kauffman, John G. Palfrey
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On November 6, 2008, the J. Michael Goodson Law Library at the Duke University School of Law held a number of events in celebration of its newly renovated and expanded space. This is an edited version of the program, “The 21st Century Law Library: A Conversation,” that was held as part of that celebration. The conversation explores the role of the academic law library in legal education in an increasingly digital environment.
On Capturing The Possible Significance Of Institutional Design And Ethos, Peter L. Strauss
On Capturing The Possible Significance Of Institutional Design And Ethos, Peter L. Strauss
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At a recent conference, a new judge from one of the federal courts of appeal – for the United States, the front line in judicial control of administrative action-made a plea to the lawyers in attendance. Please, he urged, in briefing and arguing cases reviewing agency actions, help us judges to understand their broader contexts. So often, he complained, the briefs and arguments are limited to the particular small issues of the case. We get little sense of the broad context in which it arises – the agency responsibilities in their largest sense, the institutional issues that may be at …
Interactive Group Learning In The Legal Writing Classroom: An International Primer On Student Collaboration And Cooperation In Large Classrooms, Roberta K. Thyfault, Kathryn Fehrman
Interactive Group Learning In The Legal Writing Classroom: An International Primer On Student Collaboration And Cooperation In Large Classrooms, Roberta K. Thyfault, Kathryn Fehrman
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Research has long shown that students who work in small groups learn and retain more than students who are taught by other techniques. This crucial bit of information has led many scholars and educators to explore a variety of models for supporting and involving students in group learning. Part II of this article will provide an overview of the scholarship of collaborative and cooperative learning and the associated definitions and techniques. Part III discusses the application of collaborative and cooperative learning techniques in the law school classroom and special considerations and suggestions for international and large law school classrooms. Finally, …
Clara Shortridge Foltz Professorship Acceptance, Barbara Cox
Clara Shortridge Foltz Professorship Acceptance, Barbara Cox
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No abstract provided.