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Vol. 61, No. 8, April 13, 2011, University Of Michigan Law School Apr 2011

Vol. 61, No. 8, April 13, 2011, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•SFF Auction 2011 •Interviewing H. Hutchins •Fantasy LawOpen Emails •SFF Auction Photos •Law Library Loves You •Sudoku •Prom Photos •APALSA Origins •RG's Job Survey •SCOTUS Sex Q&A •Green Construction •Beauty and the Bite •Law & Lit

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Vol. 61, No. 7, March 24, 2011, University Of Michigan Law School Mar 2011

Vol. 61, No. 7, March 24, 2011, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Foxes, Gin, Puss-Cats, and Pornography •Alternative Spring Break •Law School Prom Q&A •Herzog's Last Laugh •Beer Gal •Sudoku •Spring Break Pics •Dean Z's Facebook •Kicking it Old School •Butch Carpenter •Crossword

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Vol. 61, No. 6, February 24, 2011, University Of Michigan Law School Feb 2011

Vol. 61, No. 6, February 24, 2011, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Advice for Mr. Wolverine 2011 •Poetry Contest Winners •Law & Lit •The Beer Gal •Mr. Wolverine Pictures •Grade Curves •MJIL Symposium •Question on the Quad •Crossword

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Vol. 61, No. 5, February 3, 2011, University Of Michigan Law School Feb 2011

Vol. 61, No. 5, February 3, 2011, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Law-School-Style Movie Review •The Beer Gal •Frank Murphy 1L Oral •When You Were Cooler •Law & Lit •Kicking it Old School •Beauty and the Bite •Sudoku •Crossword

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Getting Law Students Into The Law Library: The University Of Michigan Succeeds With A Plan, Jennifer L. Selby Jan 2011

Getting Law Students Into The Law Library: The University Of Michigan Succeeds With A Plan, Jennifer L. Selby

Law Librarian Scholarship

The goal of the University of Michigan Law Library's Awareness Campaign was to raise the consciousness of law students about the many ways in which librarians here can help them succeed as students now and as lawyers later. We sought to increase the number of students using the library. We wanted to get them physically into the library, and, once here, we wanted to increase students' use of the library's services: reference and circulation services, research consultations; our multitude of web-based resources, including our online research guides, book sts, and tutorials; group study rooms, etc. Not onl did we strive …

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Simulations In Clinics, Contract Drafting, And Upper-Level Courses, Carole O. Heyward, David M. Epstein, Helen S. Scott, Daniel B. Bogart Jan 2011

Simulations In Clinics, Contract Drafting, And Upper-Level Courses, Carole O. Heyward, David M. Epstein, Helen S. Scott, Daniel B. Bogart

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

I teach in a transactional clinic called the Urban Development Law Clinic. In my Clinic, we represent non-profit tax-exempt organizations that engage in real estate, economic, and community development. Some of our clients include Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity and Karamu House, which is a theater and community arts center. We serve as general counsel for some clients and provide legal advice on an as needed basis for others. The Clinic provides legal advice on real estate matters, corporate governance, transactions, and tax issues. The complexity of matters that we handle ranges from drafting a code of regulations to representing …

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Helping Haiti In The Wake Of Disaster: Law Students As First Responders, Melissa Gibson Swain, Jonel Newman Jan 2011

Helping Haiti In The Wake Of Disaster: Law Students As First Responders, Melissa Gibson Swain, Jonel Newman

Articles

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The Future Of The Legal Profession: The New York City Corporation Counsel's Perspective On The Challenges And Opportunities Ahead, Michael A. Cardozo Jan 2011

The Future Of The Legal Profession: The New York City Corporation Counsel's Perspective On The Challenges And Opportunities Ahead, Michael A. Cardozo

Hofstra Law Review

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Helping Haiti In The Wake Of Disaster: Law Students As First Responders, Melissa Gibson Swain, Jonel Newman Jan 2011

Helping Haiti In The Wake Of Disaster: Law Students As First Responders, Melissa Gibson Swain, Jonel Newman

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

This is the story of how we put an immediate-need and longer-term TPS service effort together, the lessons we learned in doing so, and what we believe to be a sustainable clinical pedagogy, and law school service model built around disaster assistance and recovery. We begin by examining how lawyers and law students have traditionally made valuable contributions to disaster response by using their legal training. All too often, those efforts have been hampered by the post-disaster ad hoc nature in which they have been constructed, and by the limitations inherent in the relatively small number of lawyers available to …

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Teaching Transactional Skills And Law In An International Context, Deborah Burand, Kojo Yelpaala, Peter Linzer Jan 2011

Teaching Transactional Skills And Law In An International Context, Deborah Burand, Kojo Yelpaala, Peter Linzer

Other Publications

Today, we are going to be discussing how we think about transactional skills in an international context. It doesn't surprise me that this is a smaller group. This is a subspecialty, but let me just do a very quick survey of you. How many of you now in this room are teaching an international course? And what are you doing?

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Assisting Law Students With Disabilities In The 21st Century, David Jaffe Jan 2011

Assisting Law Students With Disabilities In The 21st Century, David Jaffe

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Unpacking The Apprenticeship Of Professional Identity And Purpose: Insights From The Law School Survey Of Student Engagement, Carole Silver, Amy Garver, Lindsay Watkins Jan 2011

Unpacking The Apprenticeship Of Professional Identity And Purpose: Insights From The Law School Survey Of Student Engagement, Carole Silver, Amy Garver, Lindsay Watkins

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Drawing on data from the Law School Survey of Student Engagement, this paper investigates the ways in which law students develop a sense of professional identity and purpose, the third apprenticeship identified by the Carnegie Foundation in its report, Educating Lawyers. The data offer only a first step toward unpacking how students learn about professional identity and purpose. Generally, the findings point to the importance of law school classes for effective learning about legal ethics, and to the role of clinical legal education as a means for deepening the effectiveness of lessons about ethics, professional identity and purpose.

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Legal Reading And Success In Law School: The Reading Strategies Of Law Students With Attention Deficit Disorder (Add)., Leah M. Christensen Dec 2010

Legal Reading And Success In Law School: The Reading Strategies Of Law Students With Attention Deficit Disorder (Add)., Leah M. Christensen

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

The new reality in legal education is that a certain percentage of our students will come to us with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or with another learning disability, either disclosed or undisclosed. Yet there has been little empirical research on how law students with learning disabilities read and understand the law. This study examines how three law students with ADD read a judicial opinion. The results suggest a relationship between successful law school performance and the use of problematizing and rhetorical reading strategies, and between less successful law school performance and the use of default reading strategies. Further, the results …

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Vol. 61, No. 4, November 24, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School Nov 2010

Vol. 61, No. 4, November 24, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Turning Up the Heat in Hutchins •Law & Lit •Torts and Football •The Beer Gal •Save Yourself •Zach Letter Law •Beauty and the Bite •Jenny Runkles •Kicking it Old School •Alt-Prom Pics •Crossword

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Vol. 61, No. 3, November 20, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School Nov 2010

Vol. 61, No. 3, November 20, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Where in the World Were You on Wednesday? •The Beer Gal •When You Were Cooler •Sudoku •Zach Letter Law •Law & Lit •Food Court •Kicking it Old School •Nannes Challenge Results •Halloween Party Pics •Crossword

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Vol. 61, No. 2, October 27, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School Oct 2010

Vol. 61, No. 2, October 27, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Michigan's Top Five Urban Legends •Soccer League •Hutchins Makeover •The Beer Gal •Sudoku •Question on the Quad •Crossword

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Vol. 61, No. 1, September 30, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School Sep 2010

Vol. 61, No. 1, September 30, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Dean Z Speaks •Zach Letter Law •Trivial Pursuit of Justice •Law and Lit •The Ex-Pat Perspective •Trespassing with Felix •Kicking It Old School •Grade Curves

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Vol. 60, No. 6, April 1, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School Apr 2010

Vol. 60, No. 6, April 1, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•UMLS IP Moot Court Duo Headed to Nationals •Brief Interview with SFF Celebs •This is Water •The Beer Guy •Save Yourself •Law & Lit •RG Crime Alerts •Dean Z Is Going to Rick's! •SFF Auction •SFF Student/Faculty Basketball Game •Facial Hair Competition •The Ex-Pat Experience

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Vol. 60, No. 6a, March 11, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School Mar 2010

Vol. 60, No. 6a, March 11, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Dean Z Speaks! •Dean Caminker (w/Photos) •Ode to the Snack Bar Staff •The Law Quad: It's Pretty! •Dean Z on the Schedule •Hutchins vs. the Library •Grading the Bathrooms

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Vol. 60, No. 5, February 24, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School Feb 2010

Vol. 60, No. 5, February 24, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Law & Lit •The Beer Guy •Save Yourself •That Guy You Hate •The Food Court •The Ex-Pat Perspective •Valograms! •ALT+PRM • Grade Summary

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Vol. 60, No. 4, February 3, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School Feb 2010

Vol. 60, No. 4, February 3, 2010, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Quit Looking at My Butt •Questions on the Quad: Times Two! •The Beer Guy •This is Water •When You Were Cooler •Save Yourself •The Food Court •Mr. Wolverine Photos! •The Ex-Pat Experience •A Modest Grades Proposal •Judicial Reactivism •Kicking it Old School

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Legal Education Prepares Students To Weather Tough Times, Tara L. Casey Feb 2010

Legal Education Prepares Students To Weather Tough Times, Tara L. Casey

Law Faculty Publications

The author discusses how law students are facing a daunting problem—a competitive job market in the midst of an economic recession. But because of the training they receive both inside and outside of the classroom, law students are uniquely poised to weather this storm.

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Library Anxiety Of Law Students: A Study Utilizing The Multidimensional Library Anxiety Scale, Stacey L. Bowers Jan 2010

Library Anxiety Of Law Students: A Study Utilizing The Multidimensional Library Anxiety Scale, Stacey L. Bowers

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

The purpose of this study was to determine whether law students experienced library anxiety and, if so, which components contributed to that anxiety. The Multidimensional Library Anxiety Scale (mlas) developed by Dr. Doris Van Kampen was used to assess library anxiety levels of law students. The mlas is a 53 question Likert scale instrument that measures the construct of library anxiety. Participants in the study were law students enrolled in a private midwestern university during the 2009-2010 academic year who completed the survey instrument. Law students are a unique graduate school population who undergo an extremely rigorous and competitive course …

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One Day, All Americans..: Considering A Tfa-Style Lawyer Corps, Gregory Zlotnick Jan 2010

One Day, All Americans..: Considering A Tfa-Style Lawyer Corps, Gregory Zlotnick

Faculty Articles

This Note argues for the creation of a public interest recruiting and placement organization like Teach for America, in the tradition of Edgar and Jean Cahn's call for federally funded neighborhood legal services and TFA founder Wendy Kopp's call for the creation of a national teacher corps. Part I argues that such a recruiting and placement organization should be implemented now, in light of the constitutional and legal limitations of federally funded legal services; an excess supply of lawyers coupled with a disparity in those receiving legal services; cutbacks in public interest positions such as legal aid and public defender …

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Launch Of An International Transactions Clinic: Doing Good While Doing Deals, Deborah Burand Jan 2010

Launch Of An International Transactions Clinic: Doing Good While Doing Deals, Deborah Burand

Articles

September 2008 marked the launch of the International Transactions Clinic (ITC) at the University of Michigan Law School, the first legal clinic of its kind to combine an international and transactional focus. As Law School Dean Evan Caminker said upon the launch of the ITC, “[t]his is an exciting opportunity to involve a new generation of bright legal minds in cross-border transactions that will train our students for a lifetime of international business dealings, and that can also make an enormous difference in the lives of people in the developing world.”

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Doing Good While Doing Deals: Early Lesson In Launching An International Transactions Clinic, Deborah Burand Jan 2010

Doing Good While Doing Deals: Early Lesson In Launching An International Transactions Clinic, Deborah Burand

Articles

That is not to say that the launch of this clinic was easy. Four of the most challenging issues the ITC faced in its first year of operation were: 1) developing a client pool, 2) defining client projects so as to be appropriate to student clinicians’ skill levels and capacity, 3) making use of efficient and inexpensive technology to foster international communication with clients and transaction management, and 4) tapping supervisory attorney talent capable of supporting student clinicians in their international transactional work. The first two issues were the biggest challenges that we faced in launching the ITC and so …

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If I Had A Hammer: Can Shepardizing, Synthesis, And Other Tools Of Legal Writing Help Build Hope For Law Students?, Edward R. Becker Jan 2010

If I Had A Hammer: Can Shepardizing, Synthesis, And Other Tools Of Legal Writing Help Build Hope For Law Students?, Edward R. Becker

Articles

Are lawyers mechanics? In 1920, photographer Lewis Hines took a striking photo of a powerhouse mechanic sure-handedly wielding a large wrench to tighten bolts on a steam pump. This picture may bring to mind many things, but I suspect that many legal writing professors in our (past or present) incarnations as practicing attorneys would not look at this image and think, "My job is a lot like that." Similarly, I assume that many of our students do not think of a lawyer's role in this way. Indeed, many of our students might have chosen to pursue a career in law …

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Lrw Program Design: A Manifesto For The Future, Eric Easton Jan 2010

Lrw Program Design: A Manifesto For The Future, Eric Easton

All Faculty Scholarship

All of us have, at one time or another, had occasion to consider, or reconsider, our program model. The trigger may have been a new dean; the prospect of a sabbatical inspection; a budget crisis or financial windfall; a faculty champion or saboteur; some-thing we learned at a Legal Writing Institute (LWI) or Association of Legal Writing Directors conference; or merely the cycle of bureaucratic reorganization. Those reconsiderations have led to a great diversity of Legal Research and Writing (LRW) program models: two-, three-, four-, and all-semester programs; adjunct-, contract-, and tenure-track staffing; and directors, co-directors, and no directors. Reconsiderations …

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Vol. 60, No. 3, November 24, 2009, University Of Michigan Law School Nov 2009

Vol. 60, No. 3, November 24, 2009, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Football Observations By The Unqualified •Letter to the Editor: LRAP •Justice At All Costs •The Fast and the Furious •This is Water •Ye Olde Issue Spotter •The Beer Guy •The Food Court •"Best" of LawOpen •Crossword •Kicking it Old School

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Vol. 60, No. 2, October 14, 2009, University Of Michigan Law School Oct 2009

Vol. 60, No. 2, October 14, 2009, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•John Nannes '73: He's Paying for This Paper •Dean Gregory on Tutors •Question on the Quad •The Dual-Degree Life •The Beer Guy Returns! •The Food Court •Sesquicentennial Style •Kicking It Old School •Between the Briefs

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