Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Anthropology (1)
- Business (1)
- Business Organizations Law (1)
- Economics (1)
- Education (1)
-
- Educational Sociology (1)
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations (1)
- Higher Education (1)
- Law and Economics (1)
- Law and Society (1)
- Legal History (1)
- Legal Profession (1)
- Organizational Behavior and Theory (1)
- Political Economy (1)
- Rule of Law (1)
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (1)
- Science and Technology Studies (1)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (1)
- Social and Cultural Anthropology (1)
- Sociology (1)
- Theory, Knowledge and Science (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Law
Think Like A Businessperson: Using Business School Cases To Create Strategic Corporate Lawyers., Alicia J. Davis
Think Like A Businessperson: Using Business School Cases To Create Strategic Corporate Lawyers., Alicia J. Davis
Articles
For the past twenty-five years, my academic and professional pursuits have straddled the line between business and law. I majored in business administration in college and then worked as an analyst in the Corporate Finance department at a bulge bracket Wall Street firm. After completing a JD/MBA, I returned to investment banking with a focus on middle-market mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and subsequently practiced law with a focus on private equity and M&A. Finally, in 2004, I found my current home as a corporate law professor. In my courses, which include Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Organization, and Investor Protection, I …
Preparing For Service: A Template For 21st Century Legal Education, Michael J. Madison
Preparing For Service: A Template For 21st Century Legal Education, Michael J. Madison
Articles
Legal educators today grapple with the changing dynamics of legal employment markets; the evolution of technologies and business models driving changes to the legal profession; and the economics of operating – and attending – a law school. Accrediting organizations and practitioners pressure law schools to prepare new lawyers both to be ready to practice and to be ready for an ever-fluid career path. From the standpoint of law schools in general and any one law school in particular, constraints and limitations surround us. Adaptation through innovation is the order of the day.
How, when, and in what direction should innovation …