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Collaboration With Doctrinal Faculty To Introduce Creac, Beth Hirschfelder Wilensky
Collaboration With Doctrinal Faculty To Introduce Creac, Beth Hirschfelder Wilensky
Articles
When legal writing professors introduce CREAC (or IRAC, TREAT, etc.), our examples necessarily use some area of substantive law to demonstrate how the pieces of legal analysis fit together. And when we ask students to try drafting a CREAC analysis, they also have to learn the relevant substantive law first. Students might be asked to analyze whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor or whether the elements of a tort claim are satisfied. But that means that students need to learn the relevant substantive doctrine while they are also grappling with the basics of CREAC. In the language …
Using Appellate Clinics To Focus On Legal Writing Skills, Timothy Pinto
Using Appellate Clinics To Focus On Legal Writing Skills, Timothy Pinto
Articles
Five years ago, I went to lunch with a colleague. I was teaching a legal writing course to 1L students, and he taught in a clinic in which 2L and 3L students were required to write short motions and briefs. Several of his students had taken my writing class as 1Ls, and he had a question for me. "What the heck are you teaching these students?" he asked as we sat down. He explained that several of his students were struggling with preparing simple motions. They were not laying out facts clearly. They were not identifying key legal rules. In …
Positive Legal Education: Flourishing Law Students And Thriving Law Schools, Debra S. Austin
Positive Legal Education: Flourishing Law Students And Thriving Law Schools, Debra S. Austin
Maryland Law Review
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What We Still Don't Know About What Persuades Judges – And Some Ways We Might Find Out, Edward R. Becker
What We Still Don't Know About What Persuades Judges – And Some Ways We Might Find Out, Edward R. Becker
Articles
Over 25 years ago, in his foreword to the first volume of Legal Writing, Chris Rideout nailed it: legal writing as actually practiced by lawyers and judges needs to improve, “[b]ut more fundamental inquiry into legal writing...is needed as well.” The intervening decades have seen many laudable efforts on the latter front, as our collective scholarly discipline, then in its infancy, has matured. But one particular question that Rideout identified remains largely unaddressed by our discipline, although recent developments suggest a welcome increase in attention to the topic. Specifically, Rideout explained that our field did not know as much as …
It's The Ambiance, Thomas C. Galligan Jr.
It's The Ambiance, Thomas C. Galligan Jr.
Journal Articles
In this article, the author discusses his experience of serving at Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS). It informs that he became dean at the University of Tennessee twelve years later and attended his first SEALS conference; his experience of teaching torts to law students; and scholars' workshops offered by SEALS.
Draft Of A Letter Of Recommendation To The Honorable Alex Kozinski, Which I Guess I'M Not Going To Send Now, Yxta Maya Murray
Draft Of A Letter Of Recommendation To The Honorable Alex Kozinski, Which I Guess I'M Not Going To Send Now, Yxta Maya Murray
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
This legal-literary essay engages the current social and jurisprudential moment, encapsulated by the hashtag #metoo. It focuses on the allegations, made in the first week of December 2017, that Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski verbally sexually harassed former law clerks Emily Murphy and Heidi Bond. I wrote the lioness’s share of the piece during December 10–11—that is, in the days before news outlets reported that other women complained of Kozinski touching them on the thigh or breast while propositioning them for sex or discussing recent sexual encounters—and concluded that Kozinski was unlikely to face impeachment or meaningful …
Collaborating For Transformation, Marjorie A. Silver
Collaborating For Transformation, Marjorie A. Silver
Journal of Experiential Learning
No abstract provided.
Experiential Legal Education: How The University Of Kansas School Of Law Alumni Are Contributing To Teaching Professional Skills, Suzanne Valdez
Experiential Legal Education: How The University Of Kansas School Of Law Alumni Are Contributing To Teaching Professional Skills, Suzanne Valdez
Journal of Experiential Learning
No abstract provided.
Restoring Power: A Law School’S Response To A Superstorm, Melissa H. Luckman, Patricia R. Sturm
Restoring Power: A Law School’S Response To A Superstorm, Melissa H. Luckman, Patricia R. Sturm
Journal of Experiential Learning
No abstract provided.
The Seven Principles For Good Practice In [Asynchronous Online] Legal Education, Kenneth R. Swift
The Seven Principles For Good Practice In [Asynchronous Online] Legal Education, Kenneth R. Swift
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
No abstract provided.
Teaching The Art Of Effective Advocacy In The 21st Century: A Paradigm Shift, John O. Sonsteng, Samuel Heacox, Hannah Holloran, Cara Moulton
Teaching The Art Of Effective Advocacy In The 21st Century: A Paradigm Shift, John O. Sonsteng, Samuel Heacox, Hannah Holloran, Cara Moulton
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
No abstract provided.
Reaching And Teaching Millennials: Designing The Future Of Student Services, Kimberly Mattioli, Brian Detweiler, Mike Martinez Jr.
Reaching And Teaching Millennials: Designing The Future Of Student Services, Kimberly Mattioli, Brian Detweiler, Mike Martinez Jr.
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Today’s students have come to expect library services that are quite different from their predecessors and law librarians must evolve to meet their needs. As law libraries in the United States face the realities of declining enrolment and decreasing budgets, it is imperative that we find new and creative ways to build positive relationships with our students while also preparing them for the realities of practicing law in an environment driven by rapid technological change. Three law librarians from the United States, Brian Detweiler, Kimberly Mattioli, and Mike Martinez, Jr., discuss their successes and failures in reaching out to their …