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Oral History Interview With Low Kee Yang: Conceptualising Smu, Kee Yang Low
Oral History Interview With Low Kee Yang: Conceptualising Smu, Kee Yang Low
Oral History Collection
The interview covered: first involvement with SMU, university education in Singapore, curriculum, CIRCLE values, private university, logo, teaching pedagogy, interview students for admissions, legal aspects, incorporation of SMU, first day of class, law school, challenges, student recruitment, law internships, Juris Doctor programme, challenges.
Biography:
Associate Professor of Law, SMU, 2000–present
Member of SMU start-up team
Professor Low Kee Yang joined the start-up team for SMU in 1998; one of his responsibilities was supervising legal matters. He served as deputy dean of the business school from 1999 to 2002 and chaired the organising committee for the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business …
North Dakota Law, Rob Carolin
North Dakota Law, Rob Carolin
North Dakota Law
Alumni Magazine of the University of North Dakota School of Law
Florida State Law Alumni Magazine (Fall 2010), Florida State University College Of Law Office Of Development And Alumni Affairs
Florida State Law Alumni Magazine (Fall 2010), Florida State University College Of Law Office Of Development And Alumni Affairs
Alumni Newsletter & FSU Law Magazine
No abstract provided.
Roll Over Langdell, Tell Llewellyn The News: A Brief History Of American Legal Education, Stephen R. Alton
Roll Over Langdell, Tell Llewellyn The News: A Brief History Of American Legal Education, Stephen R. Alton
Faculty Scholarship
The origin of this essay is a presentation the author made at the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas on December 10, 2008. This essay is derived from the author's presentation, which originally was entitled "A Brief and Highly Selective History of American Legal Education and Jurisprudence. " In this essay, the author provides an overview of the history and development of legal education in America, emphasizing the establishment and evolution of the case method of instruction in American law schools and focusing on the influence of American jurisprudence on the development of legal education in …
North Dakota Law, Rob Carolin
North Dakota Law, Rob Carolin
North Dakota Law
Alumni Magazine of the University of North Dakota School of Law
Florida State Law Alumni Magazine (Spring 2010), Florida State University College Of Law Office Of Development And Alumni Affairs
Florida State Law Alumni Magazine (Spring 2010), Florida State University College Of Law Office Of Development And Alumni Affairs
Alumni Newsletter & FSU Law Magazine
No abstract provided.
Deepening The Discourse Using The Legal Mind’S Eye: Lessons From Neuroscience And Psychology That Optimize Law School Learning, Hillary Burgess
Deepening The Discourse Using The Legal Mind’S Eye: Lessons From Neuroscience And Psychology That Optimize Law School Learning, Hillary Burgess
Hillary Burgess
Research demonstrates that incorporating visual aids and exercises into learning environments improves learning with higher-order cognitive skills such as “thinking like a lawyer.” This article argues that because law school learning focuses on the highest order cognitive skills, professors optimize the learning environment by including visual aids and visual exercises.
This article begins by defining what higher order cognitive skills are by mapping common law school learning tasks onto a leading taxonomy of learning objectives. This article argues that the legal curriculum engages all six levels of learning by traditionally teaching the lowest four levels of learning and by traditionally …
The Prosser Notebook: Classroom As Biography And Intellectual History, Christopher Robinette
The Prosser Notebook: Classroom As Biography And Intellectual History, Christopher Robinette
Christopher J Robinette
Japan’S Legal Education Reforms From An American Law Professor’S Perspective, Jeffrey Lubbers
Japan’S Legal Education Reforms From An American Law Professor’S Perspective, Jeffrey Lubbers
Reports
This paper describes and analyzes Japan’s reform of legal education. This reform that began in 2004—a new system of legal education, coupled with changes in the national bar examination and in the national legal training institute for successful exam-takers—was part of a wideranging national law reform movement in Japan. As a result, 74 universities across Japan established graduate-level “law schools,” most of which were added to pre-existing undergraduate law departments. The new law schools provide a degree equivalent to an American Juris Doctor (JD) degree. These law degrees became the main prerequisite for taking the national bar exam. The pass …
Top 10 Law School Home Pages Of 2009, Roger V. Skalbeck
Top 10 Law School Home Pages Of 2009, Roger V. Skalbeck
Law Faculty Publications
This brief ranking report attempts to identify the best law school home pages based entirely on objective criteria. The goal was to include elements that make websites easier to use for sighted as well as visually impaired users. Most elements require no special design skills, sophisticated technology or significant expenses
Contested Meanings: Achievement And Ambition At An Elite Law School, Deborah Waire Post
Contested Meanings: Achievement And Ambition At An Elite Law School, Deborah Waire Post
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
A Little More Mascara: Response To Making Up Is Hard To Do, Darren Rosenblum
A Little More Mascara: Response To Making Up Is Hard To Do, Darren Rosenblum
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Response to the exploration of the dynamics of race, gender, and sexual orientation in the law school classroom by Professors Adrienne Davis and Robert Chang.
The Legal Writing Institute: Celebrating 25 Years Of Teaching & Scholarship, Robin Boyle
The Legal Writing Institute: Celebrating 25 Years Of Teaching & Scholarship, Robin Boyle
Faculty Publications
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BRITTANY FLOWE: Welcome everyone. I am Brittany Flowe, the Lead Articles editor of the Mercer Law Review. On behalf of all the students and faculty, we are truly grateful for your presence here today. We are excited and honored to be celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Legal Writing Institute. Thank you all for being here; we are looking forward to a wonderful panel. Now, I would like to introduce Dean Daisy Hurst Floyd.
DEAN DAISY FLOYD: Thank you everyone. Good morning. It is my great privilege to welcome you to Macon, to Mercer University, and to Mercer University's …