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Vol. 33, No. 14, February 6, 1985, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Haocai Compares Legal Systems •Karate: An Affirmative Defense? •MSA Rep. Schnaufer Opposes the Code •Library Expansion Coming Soon •Public Interest Seeks Redress of Injustice, Not Just Transfer •Give 'Em the Chairs •Capitalist Clients Negate Pro Bono •Martin Clarifies RG Exam Report •Senate Discusses Exams •Notices •Terez: A Public Letter to John Riggins •Law in the Raw

A New List Of Recommended Reading For Prospective Law Students, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A List Compiled from the Recommendations of the Faculty of the Michigan Law School

Vol. 33, No. 13, January 30, 1985, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Committee Rethinks Summer Program •Law Profs Attend China Conference •Campbell Heads For Semi-Final Round •Your Own Time Is Between You and Your Conscience •Ease the Debt •Ours is Not to Question Why •Test More Often for Fair Results •Placement Office Fails Average Student •Israeli Diplomat Blum Teaches At M Law •Senate Studies Exam Re-Use Guidelines •Copiers Phase Out Coins •Tardy Reviews Spark Controversy •Loan Forgiveness Committee Stalls •Trivia Experts Win Big •Too Much Going On In 'Cotton Club' •Talking Heads Make Sense •Law Vocal Performers Find Song Outlet •Jonathan Richman Live- Influential, idiosyncratic •Socrates Method Haunts Hutchins •Crossword •Law in …

Vol. 33, No. 12, January 23, 1985, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Margolick Blends Law, Journalism •Law Troupe To Re-enact A ''Murder'' •Jewish Views Vary On Law Issues •Kopel Misinterpreted the Bernhard Goetz Shooting •Take Grades With A Grain of Salt •Kopel Amusing •Poor Bear Brunt •Schnee Stung •Office Space Will Wait •Notices •Admissions Has it All Wrong •Show Of English Masters At Art Museum •Law In the Raw

Vol. 33, No. 11, January 16, 1985, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Law School Fake Dupes Aid Office For A Loan •It Ain't Ocean Research But… •Clinic Classes Face Large Enrollment •E.O. Students 'Bic'-er •Profs Re-use Exams Yet Again •In The Real World, The Poor Need Guns •So Stop Re-Using Them Already!!! •Gerstmann Criticizes Public Interest Pan •Lodahl Responds: Mea Culpa, But... •Notices •Picozzi Progress •White, Sax Rank With Students •Senate Addresses Exam Re-Use, Room 100 •Whirr, Click and Shuffle: Copy Center on Schedule •Barnes and Noble Enters the Ring •Law Gold, Magnum Fish Devastate Foes •Bang Gang Grid Champs •Crossword •Hart Broken at Michigan Law •Law In the Raw

Class Of 1985 Fifteen Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni fifteen years after graduation.

Class Of 1985 Fifteen Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.

Class Of 1985 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni five years after graduation.

Class Of 1985 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.

Point/Counterpoint: A Debate On Irony And Interpretation, Richard Lempert, Peter Westen

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Can irony play a role in the construction of statutes? In the following articles, legal scholars Richard Lempert and Peter Westen debate the point, taking, as their context, the Supreme Court decision in United Steelworkers v. Weber, a 1979 affirmative action case that brings to the fore the moral dilemmas posed by such programs.

Professor Lempert's initial article originally appeared in Ethics 95 (October 1984), published by the University of Chicago Press. Professor Westen's response, and Lempert's rejoinder to it, were written especially for Law Quadrangle Notes.

Richard Lempert is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of …

Point/Counterpoint: A Debate On Irony And Interpretation, Richard Lempert, Peter Westen

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Can irony play a role in the construction of statutes? In the following articles, legal scholars Richard Lempert and Peter Westen debate the point, taking, as their context, the Supreme Court decision in United Steelworkers v. Weber, a 1979 affirmative action case that brings to the fore the moral dilemmas posed by such programs.

Professor Lempert's initial article originally appeared in Ethics 95 (October 1984), published by the University of Chicago Press. Professor Westen's response, and Lempert's rejoinder to it, were written especially for Law Quadrangle Notes.

Richard Lempert is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of …

Clinical Legal Education: Is Taking Rites Seriously A Fantasy, Folly, Or Failure?, Steven D. Pepe

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This article assesses the primary product of law schools-the practicing lawyer-and reviews the criticisms of the adequacy of the initial training for attorneys that law schools provide. After a brief. review of goals of legal education and goals of clinical teaching methods, the article argues that properly structured clinical programs are not based on flawed premises and that the nation's law schools, particularly the leading schools, should not abandon their clinical experiments without further efforts to help clinical legal education achieve its unfulfilled promises. The premises and assertions of this article are not new. Indeed, they are reiterations of a …

Is Thinking Like A Lawyer Enough?, Sallyanne Payton

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Every year that I attend meetings of the Law School's Committee of Visitors I ask members of the committee how the school might improve the training that we give to our graduates. Every year until this one the lawyers who have responded to this question have given a standard answer: the young lawyers are smart, they say, smarter in many respects than their seniors, but they don't know how to write well. This response usually leads to a discussion of the proper place of skills training in the law school curriculum; lawyers and professors engage in a little jousting over …

Why Would Law Students Benefit From Studying Economics?, Michelle J. White

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Why would law students benefit from studying economics? Three reasons come to mind. First, knowing some economics should enable students to understand more fully the issues encountered in a variety of areas of the law. Second, in a variety of areas of the law, economic analysis constitutes a central component of the legal arguments made in prosecuting and defending the case. Third, many law students will become involved in policy-making, whether because they end up working in the executive branch of government or because they become legislators, lobbyists, or legislative staff.

In the following sections, I treat each of the …

Fairness In Teaching Advocacy, Charles W. Joiner

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The questions I address are these: Is fairness related to advocacy? Is fairness a concept that law teachers should address in their teaching, in particular in courses involving advocacy? By "courses involving advocacy" I mean courses that teach both law and practice techniques involving the direct protection of the rights of clients, particularly in the courts-for example, civil and criminal procedure and evidence.

Mediation And Negotiation: Learning To Deal With Psychological Responses, Andrew S. Watson

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

In this essay I analyze some of the emotional events that occur during mediation and negotiation; the analysis may help us understand many of the problems that arise during the development and application of these legal practice skills. Following the analysis I present a few suggestions about how this teaching might best be accomplished.

Honors Convocation, University Of Michigan Law School

Commencement and Honors Materials

Program for the May 10, 1985 University of Michigan Law School Honors Convocation.

Preparation Of The Multistate Bar Examination: One Drafting Committee's Perspective, John W. Reed

Articles

One who wants to know how the Multistate Bar Examination is created should begin by learning how the drafting committees work. My assignment is to describe the work of one of those committees: the Evidence Committee. Though there are differences among the six committees, they mostly are ones of style, and to learn how to operate in the evidence group is to understand the process generally.

Preface, Journal Of Law Reform

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This collection of essays is offered not as a .finished product but as part of an on-going discussion among faculty, between faculty and students, and between Michigan faculty and others concerned with legal education. It is our hope that this collection will convey to students that faculty members take seriously their responsibility to provide a comprehensive, quality legal education, to individual faculty members that other faculty are thinking about similar issues, and to faculty at other schools that several ideas about legal education are being explored by Michigan faculty members.

The Nobel Prize For Law, Alfred F. Conard

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

There is no Nobel prize for law. This lack is not in itself a cause for concern, since the discipline of law is replete with its own rewards. But some cause for concern inheres in the implication that law provides very few examples of the kinds of contributions to humanity that merit Nobel prizes.

Doctrine In A Vacuum: Reflections On What A Law School Ought (And Ought Not) To Be, James Boyd White

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Although this paper will reach a wider audience, in it I mean mainly to address the students and faculty of the University of Michigan Law School. It is meant to be part of a conversation in which members of this community talk to each other about the life they share.

I have written elsewhere about the expectations-the fears and hopes-that one can appropriately bring to law school. In this paper I speak to those who are immersed in ·the process of legal education, on one side of the podium or the other, and wish to say something of what I …

The Law School Of The University Of Michigan: 1859-1984: An Intellectual History, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The intellectual history of the University of Michigan Law School is recorded in the titles of contributions to legal literature published from its organization in October 1859 to the present. These writings demonstrate a continued commitment to legal scholarship and illustrate both the changing patterns in the subjects chosen for research and writing, and the methods utilized for treatment of the subjects.

Why I Teach Water Law, Joseph L. Sax

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

I began my first law school job in 1962 and water law is the only subject I have taught every year since then. Though I am enthusiastic about all the courses I teach, I confess that water law remains my favorite. I have often asked myself why, because few subjects are considered more peripheral to the central mission of the law schools. In the East and Midwest the course is rarely taught, and in the West-where it has long been a staple- it is pretty much treated as a "nuts-and-bolts" offering for students who will practice in appropriation doctrine states. …

Thoughts On Teaching, Christina B. Whitman

Articles

I teach in classrooms where, ten years ago, I sat as a student. People who were my teachers are now my colleagues. People who were my students are still my friends. The difference between teacher and student, it seems to me, is more appropriately described as progression through a life than as distinct positions in a hierarchy.

Two Views Of The Question: Are Law Schools Doing Their Job?, Terrance Sandalow, Robert B. Mckay

Other Publications

You have all heard the criticisms of lawyers, which I need not rehearse to this audience. Critics range from Aristotle, Jesus, Shakespeare, and Samuel Johnson to Jimmy Carter and Derek Bok; the cast of characters goes on and on. The criticism I like best, although in a way it is the most cutting of all, is what Samuel Johnson is alleged to have said about two centuries ago: "I do not like to speak ill of any man behind his back but I do believe he is a lawyer." It is always easy to bring people together, nonlawyers at least, …

Vol. 33, No. 10, November 28, 1984, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Profs: Ax Summer Term •Sandalow Pulls Down Six Figures Annually •Polarization Politics: Whose Side are You On? •Lodahl Just Disgruntled Over Democratic Outcome •2, 4, 6, 8, Come on, Let's Evaluate •The Comparable Worth Debate: A Recipe for Economic Disaster •Peer Schools Aid Repayment •'Alternative' Careers Explored •HLSA Proposes Office Plan •Law Students to Stage Play •Crossword •'Choose Me' Short on Quality Options •Save a Suit, Draft a Lawyer •Notices •The UPI's Bottom Five List •Law in the Raw

Vol. 33, No. 9, November 14, 1984, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Debts Hurting Public Interest? •Oil Sheik to Author Yearbook Article •Shapiro Discusses Oral Argument •Reflection on the Election: Is the Great Society Dead? •Get Committed •Eklund: Share Office Space, or Lose It •New Limo Service Begins Airport Price War •Dry Up, Aristocrats •Playoff-Bound Law Gold Stomps Shoes •Group to Discuss Loan Plan •Law in the Raw

Vol. 33, No. 8, November 7, 1984, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Eklund: RG, LSSS Will Keep Offices •Report Tried 11th Hour Reagan Busting •Kopel Doesn't Equate Democracy and Capitalism •Move Over •Kamisar Willing to Teach First Years to Shepardize •Pub Naming Contest Attracts Bad Puns •Students Start New Review •Notices •Kroger Workers Gave a Union Lesson •No Date Yet for Picozzi Hearing •Law Club Mealtimes Become Bridgetime •Trial Practice Set for Vacation •22 File Moot Court Briefs •Crossword •Surrealism Comes to Ann Arbor •My Kingdom for a Magazine •Law in the Raw

Vol. 33, No. 7, October 31, 1984, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Davis on Everything but Picozzi •Hutchins Bucks Trend •Author Arca Edits Great Communicator •Reagan No Great Leader •Get it Straight •No Grounds to Presume that Democracy and Capitalism are Inevitable Linked •Reception Story Disappointing •Reception was Significant, Coverage was Inadequate •Barnes Piece Dismays Reader •Litman: Director turns Academic •Magazine Survey Sparks Firm Response •Experimental Clubs Combine Torts, Memo •Tutoring Program Offers Guidance •Senate Focuses on New Office Space •'Teachers' Flunks the Course •Unilateral Contact Drills Molars •Crossword •Notices •Dean Discusses Public Interest Law School •Amadeus Makes Sweet Music •Law in the Raw

Vol. 33, No. 6, October 17, 1984, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Senate Changes Budget Timing •Reception Honors Women Profs •Hutchins Temps May Even Out •"Busters" Assault Senses •Holcombe Misconstrued Point of Sign Removal Complaint •Peevishness •Some Law Firms Interviewing This Fall are Heavily Involved in Union-Busting •Moody Complains of Complaining Mood •Reagan's Anticommunist Policy Fails for Want of Human Focus •Experts Debate Immigration Bill •Pub Work Waits for Kitchen Planning •Notices •How to Jazz up Your Law Life •Law Sweep of Softball Series •Crossword •What Color is Your Beanie? •How Many C's are There in Success? •Law in the Raw