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Stuck Inside The Heartland With Those Coastline Clerking Blues Again, Carl W. Tobias Jan 1995

Stuck Inside The Heartland With Those Coastline Clerking Blues Again, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Circuit Judge Edward Becker, and Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi deserve kudos for helping to craft, implement, and publicize an efficacious solution to the increasing difficulties engendered by the selection of federal judicial law clerks. The jurists' essay, The Federal Judicial Law Clerk Hiring Problem and the Modest March 1 Solution, which recently appeared in the Yale Law Journal, is a must read for all those who participate in the process of law clerk hiring.

The concerted efforts of Justice Breyer and Judges Becker and Calabresi have apparently succeeded in bringing considerable order out of chaos, …


The Criminal Defense Lawyer's Reliance On Bias And Prejudice, Eva Nilsen Oct 1994

The Criminal Defense Lawyer's Reliance On Bias And Prejudice, Eva Nilsen

Faculty Scholarship

This Article is divided into three parts. Part I examines both the many contexts in which criminal defense lawyers and clinical students encounter bias and prejudice,12 and the commonly-raised objections to its exploitation. Part II looks at the way the tactical use of bias relates to a lawyer's duty of zealous advocacy. Here, the Article focuses on whether existing ethics rules provide guidance for a lawyer's use of bias and whether proposed rules aimed at eliminating such advocacy would improve or diminish justice. This article argues against such efforts because they impinge on legitimate lawyering, and they may distract …


Teaching Ethics: The Role Of The Law Schools, The Courts And The Bar, Ellen Suni Jan 1994

Teaching Ethics: The Role Of The Law Schools, The Courts And The Bar, Ellen Suni

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Judicial Opinions As Binding Law And As Explanations For Judgments, Thomas W. Merrill Oct 1993

Judicial Opinions As Binding Law And As Explanations For Judgments, Thomas W. Merrill

Cardozo Law Review

To what extent does the executive branch have autonomous powers of legal interpretation? The issue is often broadly framed in terms of two disparate understandings of the allocation of interpretative power: "judicial supremacy" and "departmentalism." In this paper, I shall speak of two different understandings of judicial opinions: the idea that judicial opinions (or at least the "holdings" of opinions) are legally binding on actors in the executive branch, and the idea that opinions are, from the perspective of executive actors, merely explanations for judicial judgments. I adopt this locution because it focuses more precisely on the core of the …


New York Law School — Final Examinations, Roger J. Miner '56 Jan 1991

New York Law School — Final Examinations, Roger J. Miner '56

New York Law School Events and Publications

No abstract provided.


Appellate Advocacy From The Viewpoint Of An Appellate Judge, Roger J. Miner '56 Jan 1990

Appellate Advocacy From The Viewpoint Of An Appellate Judge, Roger J. Miner '56

Law Practice

No abstract provided.


Passion For Justice, Martha L. Minow, Elizabeth V. Spelman Oct 1988

Passion For Justice, Martha L. Minow, Elizabeth V. Spelman

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Brief For Petitioner, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 955 (1988), L. Lee Byrd, Yvonne T. Griffin, G. Rodney Young Jan 1988

Brief For Petitioner, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 955 (1988), L. Lee Byrd, Yvonne T. Griffin, G. Rodney Young

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Brief For Respondent, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 983 (1988), Matthew W. Nakon, Laura J. Steffe, Steven R. Yoo Jan 1988

Brief For Respondent, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 983 (1988), Matthew W. Nakon, Laura J. Steffe, Steven R. Yoo

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Task Force Reports On Women In The Courts: The Challenge For Legal Education, Elizabeth M. Schneider Jan 1988

Task Force Reports On Women In The Courts: The Challenge For Legal Education, Elizabeth M. Schneider

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Book Review, Richard B. Collins Jan 1986

Book Review, Richard B. Collins

Publications

No abstract provided.


Court Trial Empirical Survey: Interview Responses From Trial Judges Explaining Their Experiences And Views Regarding The Trial Of Non-Jury Cases, John O. Sonsteng, Roger S. Haydock Jan 1985

Court Trial Empirical Survey: Interview Responses From Trial Judges Explaining Their Experiences And Views Regarding The Trial Of Non-Jury Cases, John O. Sonsteng, Roger S. Haydock

Faculty Scholarship

Knowing how a judge will react to certain trial techniques in a trial can greatly enhance an attorney's effectiveness in the courtroom. This article contains and explains the results of the authors' empirical survey. Fifty-nine judges serving in both criminal and civil court in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area were surveyed, with each judge responding to thirty-eight questions designed to obtain objective information concerning their experiences and views on effective trial advocacy. The survey covered eight topics: (1) trial briefs; (2) pretrial chambers discussions; (3) opening statements; (4) direct and cross-examinations; (5) evidentiary matters; (6) closing arguments; (7) findings of fact …


Supreme Court At Law School Apr 1982

Supreme Court At Law School

Sheldon Plager (1977-1984)

No abstract provided.


Warren E. Burger And The Administration Of Justice, Edward A. Tamm, Paul C. Reardon Sep 1981

Warren E. Burger And The Administration Of Justice, Edward A. Tamm, Paul C. Reardon

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Minority Preferences In Law School Admissions, Terrance Sandalow Jan 1980

Minority Preferences In Law School Admissions, Terrance Sandalow

Book Chapters

In addressing the subject of "reverse discrimination," I want to caution at the outset against permitting the use of the word "discrimination" to prejudice consideration of the subject. "Discrimination" has, in recent years, become a bad word. It tends to be used as a shorthand for "unjustifiably unequal treatment." In its original and still proper meaning, however, the word is quite neutral. Discrimination merely means differentiation. It comes from a Latin word that means "to distinguish." Accordingly, when we discriminate-i.e., when we differentiate or distinguish-among people, the propriety of our action depends upon the reasons that we have acted as …


Trial Techniques Course Gives Students Chance To Learn By Doing And Observing, Philip C. Thorpe Jan 1976

Trial Techniques Course Gives Students Chance To Learn By Doing And Observing, Philip C. Thorpe

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Law Reform And Legal Education, Robert E. Keeton Dec 1970

Law Reform And Legal Education, Robert E. Keeton

Vanderbilt Law Review

Painfully slow as the mills of law reform grind, they have moved faster in our generation than in most. This appraisal may seem overly generous to our own day when we reflect on the difficulties and delays encountered in achieving some particular reform. But if we measure progress in another way--comparing what has happened in the last dozen years with what happened in other time periods of similar length--differences emerge. The most easily documented difference concerns the performance of appellate courts of last resort in reforming private law by candidly overruling precedents. In the last dozen years, there have been …


Maynard E. Pirsig: Idealism In The Service Of Judicial Administration, Charles W. Wolfram Jan 1970

Maynard E. Pirsig: Idealism In The Service Of Judicial Administration, Charles W. Wolfram

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Harvey Probes Fair Trial Rule, John Fancher May 1968

Harvey Probes Fair Trial Rule, John Fancher

William Harvey (1966-1971)

No abstract provided.


Biskind: How To Prepare A Case For Trial, And Lake: How To Win Lawsuits Before Juries, Charles W. Joiner Nov 1954

Biskind: How To Prepare A Case For Trial, And Lake: How To Win Lawsuits Before Juries, Charles W. Joiner

Michigan Law Review

A Review of How to Prepare a Case for Trial. By Elliott L. Biskind; How to Win Lawsuits Before Juries . By Lewis W. Lake


Model Probate Code And Monographs On Probate Law: A Review, Russell Denison Niles Jan 1947

Model Probate Code And Monographs On Probate Law: A Review, Russell Denison Niles

Michigan Law Review

The current volume in the Michigan Legal Studies, Problems in Probate Law: Model Probate Code, is an outstanding example of what can be achieved by the cooperation of a professional association and a well-financed and forward-looking law school. The Probate Division of the Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law of the American Bar Association initiated the project of preparing a model probate code and sponsored the project through to completion. The code is the Probate Division's proudest achievement. But the code would not have been possible without the Herculean labors of Professor Lewis M. Simes, Director of …


Civil Justice In Germany, Burke Shartel, Hans Julius Wolff Apr 1944

Civil Justice In Germany, Burke Shartel, Hans Julius Wolff

Michigan Law Review

Our aim in preparing this paper is to develop for American lawyers a picture of the functioning of German civil justice. This aim, as well as the paper itself, is an outgrowth of a series of lectures on the German legal system delivered by the authors as background in the law of military occupation for the Judge Advocate General's School of the United States Army in Ann Arbor. That part of these lectures which concerns the operation of German civil justice seems to us of sufficient intrinsic interest to warrant publication.


Cases On Pleadings And Procedure, Mason Ladd Feb 1931

Cases On Pleadings And Procedure, Mason Ladd

Michigan Law Review

A review of CASES ON PLEADINGS AND PROCEDURE By Charles E. Clark.


The Book Of English Law Dec 1930

The Book Of English Law

Michigan Law Review

A Review of THE BOOK OF ENGLISH LAW By Edward Jenks.


Practice Court Work, Charles M. Hepburn Jan 1925

Practice Court Work, Charles M. Hepburn

Charles Hepburn (1918-1925)

No abstract provided.


Cases On Procedure Annotated. Trial And Appellate Practice, Edson R. Sunderland Jan 1924

Cases On Procedure Annotated. Trial And Appellate Practice, Edson R. Sunderland

Books

“A dozen years ago the present editor published a case-book for law school use on Trial Practice. It was then a subject unknown in the law school curriculum. But in the years that have passed the teaching of trial practice has become a common feature in American legal education….

The editor’s earlier volume on Trial Practice has not been incorporated in the present book, but that subject has been entirely reorganized and rewritten. Legal Ethics in connection with trial work has been treated more adequately, new sections on the Verdict and Judgment have been added, certain topics, such as Instructing …


Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Evans Holbrook, Jospeh H. Drake, Ralph W. Aigler, Victor H. Lane Nov 1919

Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Evans Holbrook, Jospeh H. Drake, Ralph W. Aigler, Victor H. Lane

Michigan Law Review

The Law School- The year 1919-1920 opens with 336 sudents enrolled. These are classified as follows: Third year--85; second year--W; first year -149; special-s. As compared with 65 enrolled a year ago the present attendance is gratifying. Preliminary applscations point to a large number of entering students in February.


Pre-Legal Education, John B. Waite Jan 1919

Pre-Legal Education, John B. Waite

Articles

It was once thought that a lawyer's vocation was chiefly to serve his clients, so that he might bring fame and fortune to himself. The profession of law was considered only a means of livelihood, merely more difficult than clerking and more remunerative, sometimes, than carpentry. To require study for the law was thought an unfair preclusion of embryo breadwinners from an adventure with that particular occupation. Fortunately, the public mind has changed; the practice of law is no longer only a means of livelihood, but has become an important agency in promoting civilization. Some one has likened law to …


Note And Comment, Gordon Stoner, Ralph W. Aigler, Michigan Law Review Nov 1917

Note And Comment, Gordon Stoner, Ralph W. Aigler, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bradley Martin Thompson - For a second time within the year death has claimed a member of the Faculty of the Law School. Professor Jerome C. Knowlton died in January, and now on September 29th last, Professor Bradley M. Thompson has completed his life-work.


Note And Comment, John B. Waite, Samuel D. Frankel, Melville C. Mason Jan 1917

Note And Comment, John B. Waite, Samuel D. Frankel, Melville C. Mason

Michigan Law Review

The Death of Professor Knowlton - The loss to the Law School and to his colleagues of the law faculty in the death of Jerome Cyril Knowlton cannot be expressed. For thirty-one years, the longest period of active service ever given by any man to this Law School, Mr. Knowlton was an effective factor in the development of the institution and in the moulding of the character and the legal ideas and ideals of the thousands of graduates who have passed through the Law School into the service of community and state and country, at the bar, upon the bench, …