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Our Forgotten Founders: Reconstruction, Public Education, And Constitutional Heroism, Tom Donnelly Jan 2010

Our Forgotten Founders: Reconstruction, Public Education, And Constitutional Heroism, Tom Donnelly

Cleveland State Law Review

In this Article, I consider the constitutional stories we tell our schoolchildren about the Founding and Reconstruction. To that end, I analyze the relevant sections of our leading high school history textbooks, focusing particularly on the consensus narratives and constitutional heroes that emerge in these accounts. This analysis is vital to more fully understanding the background assumptions that elite lawyers, political leaders, and the wider public bring to bear when they consider the meaning of the Constitution.


Bad News, Good News: The Justice Mission Of U.S. Law Schools, Haywood Burns Jan 1992

Bad News, Good News: The Justice Mission Of U.S. Law Schools, Haywood Burns

Cleveland State Law Review

I attempt to address what is wrong with law schools and how to fix it. First of all, with respect to the issue of the justice mission, one of the things that is wrong is that most law schools do not even recognize they have a mission. Secondly, there is the issue of what gets taught in the curriculum. Furthermore, the justice mission calls for us to reexamine the way in which we approach the question of admissions. The question not only whom do we teach but who teaches is also of great concern to us. How we teach has …


Legal Education: Confronting Reality And Too Many Siblings, Ralph Slovenko Jan 1969

Legal Education: Confronting Reality And Too Many Siblings, Ralph Slovenko

Cleveland State Law Review

What do we-all of us-want out of legal education? Why is there so much concern and dissatisfaction with regard to the third, and to some extent, the second year of the curriculum? Questions most often raised are: What does one want or expect of legal education?; why is there so much dissatisfaction?; what really is the problem, and what can be done about it?