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A Peruvian Tax Lawyer In A U.S. Corporate Tax Class: What Can Be Explained And What Cannot Be Explained, Fernando J. Loayza Jordán

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This paper is more of an ethnographic comparison, inspired by classroom experiences, between U.S. and Peruvian tax law education than what Garbarino calls “hard-nose comparative work” that requires an underlying theory and a clear methodology. It is also different from most comparative works because it is not actually about an area of law itself but about how it is taught and why, visiting some of the most critical variables in legal education. Nevertheless, I have tried to keep in mind the main critiques of comparative tax studies that could also become errors in the comparisons that I intend to draw.

W&L Law Fall Scholarship Celebration 2019, Brant J. Hellwig, Christopher B. Seaman

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On October 15, 2019, the Washington and Lee Law Library hosted the third bi-annual W&L Law Fall Scholarship Celebration. The event was co-sponsored by the Frances Lewis Law Center and took place in the Law Library's main reading room from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

On display were dozens of scholarly articles, books, and chapters authored by the W&L Law faculty and student body during 2018 and 2019, with hundreds of additional works accessible online through the Scholarly Commons institutional repository.

Faculty, librarians, staff, and administrators mingled with law students over hors d'oeuvres and wine to peruse the formidable scholarly output …

Virginia Bar Exam, July 2019, Section 1

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Virginia Bar Exam, July 2019, Section 2

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Address By Professor David B. Wilkins, Washington And Lee University School Of Law Commencement Exercises, May 5, 2018, David B. Wilkins, Brant J. Hellwig

Washington and Lee Law Review

Professor David B. Wilkins of Harvard Law School delivered an invited address to the Washington and Lee Law Class of 2018 at their commencement ceremony. Following the conclusion of the ceremony, Dean Brant Hellwig secured Professor Wilkins' gracious permission to publish the address in the Washington and Lee Law Review, and provides a written introduction to Professor Wilkins' speech here.

Professor Wilkins undertook considerable research in crafting a commencement address that incorporated several prominent figures from the history W&L Law and the University. His speech highlighted not only the contributions of George Washington and Robert E. Lee, for whom …

Virginia Bar Exam, February 2019, Section 1

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Progress Is A Chameleon, Melanie D. Wilson

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Progress is a chameleon. Its hue changes with our perspective, which is influenced by our race, gender, socio-economic status, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, age, and ancestry, among other influences. The amount of progress we perceive also varies from person to person and depends on the type of law we practice and whether we work in a small town or big city. Perhaps most importantly, how we view the rapidity of change in the legal profession — as stagnant, developing, or somewhere in between — is impacted by our unique experiences, our psychology, the length of time we have been lawyers, …

A Tribute To Professor Jonathan Rohr, Melanie D. Wilson

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A Tribute to Professor Jonathan Rohr.

Virginia Bar Exam, July 2018, Section 2

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W&L Law Library Annual Report 2017-2018, The Law Library At Washington And Lee University School Of Law

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A Tribute To Professor Mark H. Grunewald, Samuel W. Calhoun, Robert T. Danforth, Sidney S. Evans, Edward O. Henneman, Andrew W. Mcthenia, Brian C. Murchison, Joan M. Shaughnessy, Barry Sullivan, John W. Vardaman, Mark A. Williams

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Virginia Bar Exam, February 2018, Section 1

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Virginia Bar Exam, February 2018, Section 2

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Virginia Bar Exam, July 2018, Section 1

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Clerking For God’S Grandfather: Chauncey Belknap’S Year With Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Todd C. Peppers, Ira Brad Matetsky, Elizabeth R. Williams, Jessica Winn

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Most of what we know about law clerks comes from the clerks themselves, usually in the form of law review articles memorializing their Justices and their clerkships or in interviews with reporters and legal scholars. In a few instances, however, law clerks have contemporaneously memorialized their experiences in diaries. These materials provide a rare window into the insular world of the Court. While the recollections contained in the diaries are often infused with youthful hero worship for their employer—in contradistinction to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s claim that no man is a hero to his valet— they offer a real-time, …

A Blueprint For A Fairer Aba Standard For Judging Law Graduates’ Competence: How A Standard Based On Students’ Scores In Relation To The National Mean Mbe Score Properly Balances Consumer Safety With Increased Diversity In The Bar, William Wesley Patton

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

Current and recently proposed American Bar Association (ABA) standards regarding students’ bar passage rates have a significant disparate impact on states that have adopted difficult bar examination passage standards (the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE cut scores). Many scholars have demonstrated that the ABA bar passage standards have a negative impact on diversity in the bar by discouraging law schools from enrolling large numbers of minority students, who have, traditionally, performed below state mean in passage rates on the exam. This study presents a new and supplemental standard for the ABA to use in monitoring student outcome measures and law schools’ …

Virginia Bar Exam, July 2017, Section 1

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Virginia Bar Exam, July 2017, Section 2

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Tribute To Professor Margaret Howard, Neil P. Olack, Geoffrey L. Berman, Eric D. Chapman, Shane Vandenberg, Joshua A.T. Fairfield, Lois R. Lupica, Ann Maclean Massie, Denise Neary, Nancy B. Rapoport, Charles J. Tabb, Eugene R. Wedoff, Robin Fretwell Wilson

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Tribute To Professor Sally Wiant, Laura N. Gasaway, James Heller, Ann Maclean Massie, Brian C. Murchison, Caroline L. Osborne, Christopher B. Seaman, Joan Shaughnessy, Joseph A. Ulrich, Christopher Wolf

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Virginia Bar Exam, February 2017, Section 1

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Virginia Bar Exam, February 2017, Section 2

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W&L Law Library Annual Report 2015-2016, The Law Library At Washington And Lee University School Of Law

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Virginia Bar Exam, July 2016, Section 2

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Virginia Bar Exam, July 2016, Section 1

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The State Of Legal Research Education: A Survey Of First-Year Legal Research Programs, Or “Why Johnny And Jane Cannot Research”, Caroline L. Osborne

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Virginia Bar Exam, February 2016, Section 1

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Virginia Bar Exam, February 2016, Section 2

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Higher Education Under Pressure: What Will The Future Hold?, Nora V. Demleitner

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