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Forrest Lacey: A Tribute From A Colleague, Joseph G. Cook

Scholarly Works

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The Professional School As A Focus For Clinical Education, Edwin H. Greenebaum

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Professional Competence And Social Responsibility: Fulfilling The Vanderbilt Vision, Sandra D. O'Connor

Vanderbilt Law Review

In our laudable attempt to train law students to "think like lawyers" by teaching them legal method, we must not lose sight of the fact that questions of professional responsibility cannot properly be resolved with the same legal framework of analysis. Rather,we must see that as professionals with almost exclusive access to our system of justice, we have moral responsibilities totally outside the scope of the legal rules, and not amenable to analysis in terms of legal method. It is time to return to consideration of the moral and spiritual foundations of our legal system. It is time to train …

Book Review. History Of Legal Education, Gene R. Shreve

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Educating For The World View: A Primer On The Role Of U.S. Law Schools, L. Gilles Sion

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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A Practical Legal Education, William E. Conklin

Dalhousie Law Journal

One of the central issues in regard to legal education during the past half century has been whether law faculties ought to have a theoretical or practical character. The debate has been an intense one. It has taken on many forms and grown from many diverse circumstances. Law societies periodically resurrect the issue. Professional law faculties interminably debate it. Positions are taken, factions are formed, and the unresolved outcome of the debate has left curriculum and initial assumptions relatively unchatged." This essay questions one of the most important assumptions of that debate - namely, that a practical legal education is …

The Social Costs Of Incompetence: An Educator's View, A. Wayne Mackay

Dalhousie Law Journal

After I had cut off my hands and grown new ones, something my former hands had longed for came and asked to be rocked. After my plucked out eyes had withered and new ones grown, something my former eyes had wept for came asking to be pitied. 2 The above quotation has been applied to lawyers and in particular the process of legal education. It is a distressing thought for anyone who cares about the law and considers it a worthy profession. Must people sever hands that can rock and pluck out eyes that can pity in order to become …

Preface: On Natural Resources As An Area Of The Law, David H. Getches

Publications

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Is There Scholarship After Death Or Are Evidence Teachers Needed After The Federal Rules?, Jack B. Weinstein

Maryland Law Review

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

Publications

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Legal And Medical Education Compared: Is It Time For A Flexner Report On Legal Education, Robert M. Hardaway

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

The purpose of this Article is to explore the common elements of legal and medical education and to compare the reform movements in each profession, with a view toward finding an explanation for the widely differing conditions that exist today in the education of each profession. For example, why is it that medical education can provide facilities and training costing up to ten times that provided law students? Why do medical schools receive outside financial support paying up to 95% of the costs of medical education while law schools are supported primarily by tuition and fees? Why do medical students …

The Path Of Legal Education From Edward I To Langdell: A History Of Insular Reaction, Ralph Michael Stein

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article presents an analytic overview of key aspects in the history of legal education in England and the United States from the time of Edward I to the end of the last century. The response of lawyers and legal educators to the perceived need to protect the profession from a variety of ills and plagues is explored. The development of a sense of professionalism by those engaged in the teaching of law, a sense of professionalism that was reactive to public perception about lawyers as well as to academic dismay at the roles played by lawyers, will be explored …

Towards A Comprehensive Approach To Clinical Education: A Response To The New Reality, Terence J. Anderson

Articles

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Lawyer Competence And The Law Schools, Roger C. Cramton

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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1981-1982 Bulletin, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law Bulletin

Contents:

Boards – p. 4

Yeshiva University – p. 4

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law – p. 4

University Administration – p. 5

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (Overview) – p. 7

A Message From the Dean – p. 7

Administration – p. 9

Faculty – p. 10

Adjunct Faculty – p. 20

Yeshiva University: History and Purpose – p. 23

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law: History and Purpose – p. 25

Program – p. 27

Degree Requirements – p. 28

Ethical and Professional Standards – p. 28

Admissions – p. 29

Student Finances – p. 31 …

The Myth Of Legal Reasoning, Alan D. Hornstein

Maryland Law Review

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Bringing The Educational Reforms Of The Cramton Report Into The Case Method Classroom -- Two Models, Gene R. Shreve

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The Report and Recommendations of the Task Force on Lawyer Competency. The Role of the Law Schools appeared on August 10, 1979. The report was released under the auspices of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association. The title was quickly shortened to the Cramton Report, after Dean Roger Cramton, Chairman of the Task Force.

The Cramton Report advocates reform in law school coursework that would permit students simultaneously to explore and develop a greater number of skills relevant to practicing law. This Article advocates that these reforms' not be confined to …

Law Deans' "Open Letter" Tells Of Student Skills Training Plan, Sheldon J. Plager, Frank T. Read, David T. Link, Charles A. Ehren Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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What Makes A Law School Great?, Maxwell Cohen

Dalhousie Law Journal

It is very humbling to try and match the amusing candor and informed wisdom of Professor Willis Reese, and so I will try to use his anecdotal insights only as a launching pad for my long repressed ambivalence about law schools and legal education. On the whole, Professor Reese comes down on the side of student brains as against the prepared onslaught of the faculty. Nothing can harm the good student and very little can be expected to help him since he often is abler than the teacher and even more often, believes it. Despite Professor Reese's affluent infrastructure - …

Law Schools And Other Reformatories, Norval Morris

Dalhousie Law Journal

It is, of course, a great and undeserved honor for me to be offering this year's Horace E. Read Memorial Lecture. The slightest acquaintance with Dean Read's career reveals the range and quality of his contributions to the law, to the institutions of society and to legal education. It is a great pleasure to be playing a role in these annual memorial celebrations. His life is a model of service and scholarship to all who wish to live the life of the law at its higher levels and refutes those who see our profession as narrow or intellectually confined. Nevertheless, …

Legal Education In China Today, R. St. J. Macdonald

Dalhousie Law Journal

Two developmerits in China since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 are of particular interest to the legal profession in Canada: the revival of legal education and the reform of the legal system. Legal education in China today has entered its most exciting period since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. During the academic year 1980-81, China's four institutes of political science and law, and law faculties at eight universities and colleges, enrolled over 2,000 new students in four more law institutes and faculties than in 1965, the year before the Cultural Revolution. The present enrollment …

The U.C.C. (Sales) As An Introductory Law School Course, Ronald B. Brown

Faculty Scholarship

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Book Review. Law, Intellect, And Education By Francis A. Allen, Gene R. Shreve

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Prefatory Remark, John M. Ferren

Cleveland State Law Review

Bill Pincus, therefore, has had a vision. He has been steadfast. He has been substantially responsible for a major, new direction in legal education. He will continue to nourish it. There are few - very few - about whom this much can be said.

The French Legal Studies Curriculum: Its History And Relevance As A Model For Reform, Thomas E. Carbonneau

Faculty Scholarship

This article attempts to describe and analyze those events which fostered the historical metamorphosis of the French legal studies curriculum. The predominance of a broad academic approach to law and the concomitant absence of a narrow "trade school" mentality in the French law schools might be attributed to the general organization of higher education in France. One of the primary contentions of this article is that the fundamental character of French legal education, which emphasizes the educating of jurists as opposed to the training of lawyers, is the product of a set of factors which are deeply rooted in French …

Some Further Reflections On The Problem Of Adequacy Of Trial Counsel , Warren E. Burger

Fordham Law Review

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Legislative Process And Drafting In U.S. Law Schools: A Close Look At The Lammers Report, Reed Dickerson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Clinical Legal Education: The Case Against Separatism, Frank W. Munger

Articles & Chapters

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Legal Education In Canadian Schools?, Hugh M. Kindred

Dalhousie Law Journal

Law courses have exploded across school programmes in recent years. From one end of Canada to the other, thousands of students and hundreds of school teachers are now studying law. Just what they are learning is uncertain for, apart from a head count of those present in the classroom, there is little curricular enquiry and even less organisation. The effort appears to be an unled mass movement rather than a planned educational development. And its size is still growing. The origins of this explosion of legal interest explain its unorganised character. The pressure for legal education has come from the …

Teaching Legal Writing In The Law Schools (With A Special Nod To Legal Drafting), Reed Dickerson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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