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Developing Professional Identity Through Reflective Practice, Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus
Developing Professional Identity Through Reflective Practice, Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus
Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus
No abstract provided.
Tough Love: The Law School That Required Its Students To Learn Good Grammar, Ann Nowak
Tough Love: The Law School That Required Its Students To Learn Good Grammar, Ann Nowak
Ann L. Nowak
No abstract provided.
Using An Alumni Survey To Assess Whether Skills Teaching Aligns With Alumni Practice, Sheila F. Miller Ms.
Using An Alumni Survey To Assess Whether Skills Teaching Aligns With Alumni Practice, Sheila F. Miller Ms.
Sheila F. Miller Ms.
This article addresses the implications of the results of a survey of alumni in which they identify the research and writing skills they use in practice. Comparisons are drawn to other similar survey results. The author draws conclusions regarding techniques to be used in teaching research and writing skills based on the survey results. This article should be helpful to those who are interested in pursuing data on their own alumni, a practice encouraged by the article. Moreover, the article should be helpful for those teaching research and writing because there are implications from the findings that may inform how …
Do Law Schools Mistreat Women Faculty? Or, Who’S Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Dan Subotnik
Do Law Schools Mistreat Women Faculty? Or, Who’S Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Dan Subotnik
Dan Subotnik
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Doctrinal Conversation: Justice Kagan's Supreme Court Opinions, Laura Ray
Doctrinal Conversation: Justice Kagan's Supreme Court Opinions, Laura Ray
Laura K. Ray
In her first two terms on the Supreme Court, Justice Elena Kagan has crafted a distinctive judicial voice that speaks to her readers in a remarkably conversational tone. She employs a variety of rhetorical devices: invocations to “remember” or “pretend”; informal and even colloquial diction; a diverse assortment of similes and metaphors; and parenthetical interjections that guide the reader’s response. These strategies engage the reader in much the same way that Kagan as law professor may well have worked to engage her students, and in the context of judicial opinions they serve several purposes. They make Kagan’s opinions accessible to …
Circumstance And Strategy: Jointly Authored Supreme Court Opinions, Laura Ray
Circumstance And Strategy: Jointly Authored Supreme Court Opinions, Laura Ray
Laura K. Ray
The standard form of authorship for a Supreme Court opinion is a single author who then may be joined by any colleagues who are in agreement. There is, however, a significant and overlooked variant of this form, one used in a small cluster of major cases, most of them landmark decisions, over the past seventy years: the jointly authored opinion. In these cases, there may be as many as nine authors signing an opinion (as in Cooper v. Aaron) or as few as two (as in McConnell v. FEC). All the signatories may be credited with the entire opinion (as …
Reduce, Reuse, And Recycle: How Using “Recycled” Simulations In An Lrw Course Benefits Students, Lrw Professors, And The Relevant Global Community, Rita F. Barnett
Reduce, Reuse, And Recycle: How Using “Recycled” Simulations In An Lrw Course Benefits Students, Lrw Professors, And The Relevant Global Community, Rita F. Barnett
Rita Barnett-Rose
Unlike theory-based first year doctrinal courses, an LRW course typically teaches law students how to think, analyze, research, and write like lawyers through the use of real-world “simulations.” Drafting these simulations is one of most challenging and time-consuming aspects of an LRW professor’s job. Yet, despite the effort involved in both creating and teaching new simulations, controversy continues within the legal academy about whether reusing simulations is appropriate – or is simply an invitation for students to cheat. This article is the first to address head-on the ongoing debate over “recycling” LRW simulations, and describes not only how concerns over …
Driving Pedestrian Traffic To Law Journals, Michael N. Widener
Driving Pedestrian Traffic To Law Journals, Michael N. Widener
Michael N. Widener
Today’s technology permits students, academics in non-law fields and lay persons to be exposed to the political views, theories and philosophies of legal scholars. Law journals and their supporting institutions should provide background and context to this scholarly output by summarizing the published works and linking them, using devices like QR codes, to readily understood, simply-expressed background materials. This effort will make the published scholarship accessible – at an education-appropriate level – to the inquiring reader.