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Transferability: Helping Students And Attorneys Apply What They Already Know To New Situations (Part 2), Edward R. Becker

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Part 1 of this column (January 2019) described several ways that professors and supervisors can help young attorneys transfer their knowledge of legal skills and legal practice to new situations. The pedagogical techniques discussed in Part 1 look forward, helping novice lawyers make connections between what they learn today and how to put those lessons into play tomorrow. This month’s column changes direction. Successful knowledge transfer also looks to the past. When young lawyers and law students are introduced to what might first appear to be brand-new legal skills, their ability to quickly make sense of that new information is …

Transferability: Helping Students And Attorneys Apply What They Already Know To New Situations (Part 1), Edward R. Becker

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Every fall, I work with my first year law students to begin developing their legal writing skills. They work hard learning how to analyze cases objectively, predict how a court might resolve a dispute, and convey their assessments to an experienced attorney. Their improvement from September to December is noticeable. They have only one semester of law school behind them and still have much to learn, but they’re on their way…In the second semester, we begin focusing on advocacy. The first assignment asks students to draft a pretrial brief. When I review the drafts, I’m struck by how many problems …

Foundations: Curriculum & Faculty, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Michigan Law Faculty are the best of the best. As you look through these pages, you will see some of their accomplishments: They serve as senior advisers to policymakers and governments around the world, they argue important cases in courts of every level, and they produce superb research that addresses society's greatest problems.

Our faculty also take teaching very seriously. They are dedicated to using their research and experience to help create a curriculum that will challenge and transform you. Michigan Law's rich curriculum features foundational courses that evolve with the needs of the profession, a wide array of upper-level …

Senior Day December 2018, University Of Michigan Law School

Commencement and Honors Materials

Program for the December 21, 2018 Senior Day ceremonies.

Diversity Of Thought And Respecting The Other Side Of The Argument: Insights From The Office Of The U.S. Solicitor General, University Of Michigan Law School

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Program for a panel discussion with the Office of the Vice President & General Counsel, Michigan Law, and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Collaboration With Doctrinal Faculty To Introduce Creac, Beth Hirschfelder Wilensky

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When legal writing professors introduce CREAC (or IRAC, TREAT, etc.), our examples necessarily use some area of substantive law to demonstrate how the pieces of legal analysis fit together. And when we ask students to try drafting a CREAC analysis, they also have to learn the relevant substantive law first. Students might be asked to analyze whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor or whether the elements of a tort claim are satisfied. But that means that students need to learn the relevant substantive doctrine while they are also grappling with the basics of CREAC. In the language …

The Rule Of Three, Patrick Barry

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Judges use the Rule of Three. Practitioners use the Rule of Three. And so do all manner of legal academics. Yet although many people seem to have an intuitive feel for how useful this rhetorical move is, no extended explanation of its mechanics and variety of forms exists. This essay offers that explanation. It begins with an introduction to the more straightforward form of the rule of three, which simply involves arranging information not in twos or fours or any other set of numbers-but rather in the trusty, melodic structure of threes. It then moves on to a closer look …

Using Appellate Clinics To Focus On Legal Writing Skills, Timothy Pinto

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Five years ago, I went to lunch with a colleague. I was teaching a legal writing course to 1L students, and he taught in a clinic in which 2L and 3L students were required to write short motions and briefs. Several of his students had taken my writing class as 1Ls, and he had a question for me. "What the heck are you teaching these students?" he asked as we sat down. He explained that several of his students were struggling with preparing simple motions. They were not laying out facts clearly. They were not identifying key legal rules. In …

Senior Day 2018, University Of Michigan Law School

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Program for the May 2018 Senior Day Ceremony.

Senior Day May 2018, University Of Michigan Law School

Commencement and Honors Materials

Program for the May 4th, 2018 Senior Day ceremonies.

2018 Junior Scholars' Conference, University Of Michigan Law School

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Schedule of events for the 2018 Junior Scholars' Conference.

93rd Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition Final Round, University Of Michigan Law School

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Program for the 2018 Moot Court Competition, Final Round.

40th Annual Alden J. "Butch" Carpenter Memorial Scholarship Gala, University Of Michigan Law School

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Program for the 40th Annual Alden J. "Butch" Carpenter Memorial Scholarship Gala.

Student Funded Fellowships 2018 Auction, University Of Michigan Law School

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Program for the 2018 Student Funded Fellowship Auction.

Associates Firm Expectations, Michael R. Fayhee

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PowerPoint presentation given at the event, The Value Proposition: Changing Roles of Law Firm Associates at the University of Michigan Law School.

A More Human Dwelling Place: Reimagining The Racialized Architecture Of America, Michigan Journal Of Race & Law

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Program for a 2018 Symposium.

Will Ai Change How Or What We Teach, Virginia A. Neisler

Law Librarian Scholarship

A micro essay on AI in legal education.

Think M, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Our students converge on Ann Arbor from across the nation and around the globe. The real magic at Michigan Law is how extraordinary individuals form a community. The intimacy and energy of the Law School leads them to find new friends in their classmates - a development that few expect, and that few law schools offer. At Michigan Law, students and faculty create an intellectually stimulating and close-knit community whose norms are rooted in respect and professionalism. Chalk it up to the vibrancy of Ann Arbor, the spirit of a football Saturday, or the ambiance of the Law Quad: Michigan …

Senior Day December 2017, University Of Michigan Law School

Commencement and Honors Materials

Program for the December 22, 2017 University of Michigan Law School Senior Day.

Stable And Integrated Housing For America's Working Poor, University Of Michigan Law School

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Program for a presentation of work from the Problem Solving Initiative. Working as a group, students were tasked with designing a comprehensive plan to tackle the crisis in affordable housing in Detroit, Issues of law, policy, public health, urban planning, financing, and other matters.

Third Annual Financial Stability Conference, University Of Michigan Law School

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Program for the Third Annual Financial Stability Conference.

International Perspectives On Privacy And Free Expression: Concepts, Conflicts, Consequences, University Of Michigan Law School

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This conference contributes to the energetic and transnational dialogue currently going on about privacy: How do we define it? Is it a right, an interest, a value, or something else? Privacy against what? Privacy from whom? Is privacy necessarily in tension with free expression? Or is it often an essential predicate to it? How have different political regimes answered these questions? How do entities and individuals navigate those conflicting transnational approaches?

This is the program for the conference.

Behavioral Finance Symposium, University Of Michigan Law School

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Program for a symposium in which economics meets law, finance, public policy, and psychology held at the Ross School of Business.

The 2016-17 Survey Of Applied Legal Education, Robert R. Kuehn, David A. Santacroce, Margaret Reuter, Sue Schechter

Other Publications

This report summarizes the results of the Center for the Study of Applied Legal Education’s (CSALE) 2016-17 Survey of Applied Legal Education. The 2016-17 Survey was CSALE’s fourth triennial survey of law clinic and field placement (i.e., externship) courses and educators. The results provide insight into the state of applied legal education in areas like program design, capacity, administration, funding, and pedagogy, and the role of applied legal education and educators in the legal academy. Law schools, legal educators, scholars, and oversight agencies rely on CSALE’s data. They do so with the summary results provided here, the earlier Reports …

2017 European Alumni Reunion, University Of Michigan Law School

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Invitation to the 2017 European Alumni Reunion.

Experiential Skills In Legal Education: Introducing Tomorrow’S Practitioners To Practicing Law, Edward R. Becker

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Welcome to the “Future of Law,” a new column that will appear regularly in the Michigan Bar Journal. This month, we kick off a recurring series devoted to legal education. These articles will highlight new developments and ongoing efforts at the five Michigan law schools to introduce students to experiential skills and more effectively prepare them to practice law. In future columns, authors will shed light on what law schools are doing to prepare students for practice and, we hope, inspire more Michigan attorneys to get involved—or, for some of you, become further involved—in those efforts. Why is this inaugural …

Senior Day May 2017, University Of Michigan Law School

Commencement and Honors Materials

Program for the May 5, 2017 University of Michigan Law School Senior Day.

Luxembourg Forum 2017, University Of Michigan Law School

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Program for the Court of Justice of the European Union visit to the University of Michigan Law School.

92nd Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition Final Round, University Of Michigan Law School

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Program for the final round of the 92nd Moot Court Competition.

Identifying And Supporting Human Trafficking Victims In The Child Welfare System, University Of Michigan Law School

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Program for a presentation to aid in identifying and supporting victims of human trafficking in the child welfare system.