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Quebec Legal Education Since 1945: Cultural Paradoxes And Traditional Ambiguities, J Ec Brierley

Dalhousie Law Journal

Some remarkable things have occurred in Quebec legal education over the last forty years. All phases of the educational process have been the object of an official government enquiry (as a consequence of widespread student discontent that led to street demonstrations); a major sociological and futuristic study of the profession and of university studies has attempted to stimulate a major shift in the intellectual orientations of legal education to ready us for the year 2000; the loss by the Quebec legal professions of lawyers and notaries of substantial power to the profit of a government agency regulating all professions in …

Keepers Of The Flame: Prosser And Keeton On The Law Of Torts, Craig Joyce

Vanderbilt Law Review

Rarely in the history of American legal education has one author's name been so clearly identified with his subject as the name of William L. Prosser is with the law of torts. Even today, fourteen years after his death in 1972, "Prosser on Torts" remains in the minds of students, teachers, the bench, and the bar alike a single thought, its parts indistinguishable one from the other. Indeed, the passage of time has done nothing to diminish the influence of the man on the subject. His articles remain landmarks in the development both of the literature of torts and of …

Faith, Hope, And The Law Teacher: A Reaction To Professor Levinson, Joseph P. Tomain

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

In this symposium, the editors have assigned the commentators a difficult task by requesting a response to Professor Levinson's speech. I disagree with little, if any, of what Professor Levinson has written.

Professor Levinson's article of faith stands poised between modernist and postmodernist sentiments about law and contains a degree of skepticism that I understand, share, and find uncomfortable. The modernism in Levinson's remarks, as I see it, is contained in his recognition (and partial acceptance) of paradox and contradiction in law, and his consequent rejection of, or agnosticism toward, legal dogma as the Way to Truth and Justice. As …

Res Gestae 1986 Volume 8 No. 1, Lynne Mariani Zimmerman, Gary Johnson, Robert L. Schmid

Law School Historical Documents

Res Gestae is published two times a year for alumni/ae and friends of the University of Utah College of Law. Business and editorial offices are located at the College of Law

Law-The Last Of The Universal Disciplines, Soia Mentschikoff, Irwin P. Stotzky

Articles

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Adr And Civil Procedure: A Chapter Or An Organizing Theme?, Bryant G. Garth

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Professional Education In Medicine And Law: Structural Differences, Common Failings, Possible Opportunities, Roger C. Cramton

Cleveland State Law Review

Medicine and law emerged in the early decades of the twentieth century as strong, highly organized professions with high status, increasing rewards, and growing autonomy. Professional claims of esoteric knowledge, collegial solidarity, and disinterestedness were accepted by members of the profession and the general public. Professional schools in both disciplines forged university connections and achieved dominant positions in the preparation of new professionals. Patterns of medical and legal education established during this formative period, extending roughly from 1890 to 1920, have been highly persistent. Despite these similarities, educators in the two professions have proceeded in isolation from one another. There …

Clinical Negotiating Achievement As A Function Of Traditional Law School Success And As A Predictor Of Future Negotiating Performance, Charles B. Carver

Journal of Dispute Resolution

This article will explore the degree to which these two basic hypotheses have been substantiated. Statistical comparisons will be made between negotiation course performance and overall law school success. Comparisons of bargained results obtained in a Trial Advocacy class are made between students who had previously taken my Lawyer as Negotiator course and students who had not received such clinical training.

Book Review , John S. Murray

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Textbooks intended for law school use should be evaluated in line with their intended purpose. The objective of Dispute Resolution is to provide law students with materials that describe, explain and raise questions about our society's processes for resolving disputes. An ideal textbook is thorough in its coverage of the substance and issues of the subject matter, usable in the sense of providing resources to help the teacher motivate students and channel class discussion, and readable in a student-friendly sense. In this essay I will review the Goldberg, Green and Sander text from the classroom perspective using these standards as …

Patricia Roberts Harris, John T. Baker

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Law Schools: Where The Elite Meet To Teach (Transforming Legal Education: A Symposium Of Provocative Thought), Howard Glickstein

Scholarly Works

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A Short History Of The School Of Law At Ualr, Lawrence H. Averill Jr.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Preface: Missouri Law Review--1913-1936-1986, Dale A. Whitman

Faculty Publications

The half-century from 1936 to 1986 has seen astonishing growth in the law and in legal education. Among countless illustrations are the enormous expansion of the law of products liability, the promulgation and adoption of numerous Model and Uniform Acts and Codes, and the adoption of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and of Evidence. In Missouri, procedural civil and criminal codes have been created, a new Constitution has been adopted, and the judiciary has recently abandoned the doctrine of contributory negligence in favor of a system of pure comparative fault, working a fundamental change in our common law of …

Reflections Of An Octogenarian On Criminal Law And Criminology, Jerome Hall

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Place Of Law And Social Science In The Structure Of Legal Education, Sheldon Jay Plager, David M. Trubek

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Virtues And Vices In Practical Legal Education: Address Given On The Occasion Of The 1985 Commencement Of The Dickinson School Of Law, Charles A. Morrison Q.C.

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

This Article is the Commencement Address given to the Class of 1985 at Dickinson Law School.

A Comment On Style: The Elevator As Metaphor, James Brook

Articles & Chapters

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Legal Education And Social Responsibility, Sandra Day O'Connor

Fordham Law Review

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Mediator Expectations And Professional Training: Implications For Teaching Dispute Resolution, Raymond Albert

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Thus, this study explores the following questions within the context of landlord-tenant disputes: What are mediator role expectations? Do these vary depending on the mediator's professional training? What are the implications for the teaching of disputes resolution?

George L. Haskins, Morris L. Arnold

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Two Cheers For The Case Method, Gene R. Shreve

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Metamorphosis Of Legal Education Symposium On Legal Education, Peter L. Strauss

Faculty Scholarship

Professor Brook's remarks this morning provide a context for my own. I mean to say a word or two for the classical era. One of the characteristics of legal education over the past half century or so, one that we ought not give up, has been its passion for order in a chaotic world. Striking as it is to say that "a passion for order ill suits a chaotic world," the world has ever been chaotic – and that passion, our principal defense. The question is, with what principles of order do we exercise that passion, to subdue unruly fact. …

Legal Education For Non-Litigators: The Role Of The Law Schools And The Practicing Bar, Gerald Korngold

Articles & Chapters

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Introduction, James F. Simon

Articles & Chapters

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Thinking Like A Statistician: The Report Of The American Statistical Association Committee On Training In Statistics In Selected Professions, David H. Kaye

Faculty Scholarship

In 1983, a subcommittee of the American Statistical Association composed of legal educators and one judge issued a report describing existing programs for educating law students in statistics and offering recommendations for improving these programs. This article summarizes that report.

Moral Implications And Effects Of Legal Education Or: Brother Justinian Goes To Law School, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

This Article explores the moral implications of a legal education. Specifically, the author addresses three moral points of view—teleologically, interpersonally, and responsibility—and explains how a legal education advances or is in opposition to a moral community.

Invisible Teachers: A Comment On Perceptions In The Classroom, Robert F. Nagel

Publications

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Training Lawyers To Be More Effective Dispute Preventers And Dispute Settlers: Advocating For Non-Adversarial Skills, Paul L. Tractenberg

Journal of Dispute Resolution

After briefly recounting some milestones in the history of legal education, and especially efforts to train lawyers in non-Langdellian techniques, I will explore re-orientation of lawyer training, first globally and then more specifically. Most of the ideas in this article are not new. Many of them date back 50 years and more. Articles by Llewellyn and Frank in the 1920's and 1930's could be reprinted with modest changes and seem totally relevant. 3 This in itself bears serious pondering. We do have the advantage of some relatively recent studies which, in the main, tend to support Llewellyn's and Frank's intuitions. …

A Clinical Experience, Edwin H. Greenebaum

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Lawyering In First-Year Property, Joseph P. Tomain

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

This essay discusses the use of a role-playing exercise in a large (70-100 students), first-year Property II course. The central focus of the course is land use. The author uses a Board of Adjustment hypothetical, with students in the roles of lawyer, client, expert, and member of the Board of Adjustment. I first used the problem to encourage fact analysis. Even second-semester first-year students too easily ignore facts and focus on the "rules of law" seemingly to the exclusion of all else. After using this method, however, it became apparent that many more learning opportunities present themselves. In addition to …