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A Form Letter To The Dean, R. Lawrence Dessem

Faculty Publications

Even though modern word processing and electronic mail greatly facilitate communication, one still must compose the basic letter, memorandum, or electronic message. In an effort to cut down on the time and intellectual intensity of this endeavor, I offer the following suggested form letter to the dean. This format may be used within basic word processing packages or for creating e-mail messages. All you need do is choose the most appropriate insertions for your basic message, and the message will be electronically created.

Preparing The New Law Graduate To Practice Law: A View From The Trenches, Rodney J. Uphoff, James J. Clark, Edward C. Monahan

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Most legal educators reject the premise that the primary mission of the law school is to train law students to practice law. Rather, most law professors claim that their primary function is to teach students to think like lawyers. To many commentators, however, the academic community's antipractice attitude has spawned an unhealthy dichotomy between theory and practice, a division within the academic community, and a chasm between law schools and the practicing bar. Moreover, this dissonance or gap between law school and practice significantly contributes to the fact that most law graduates are substantially unprepared to function as lawyers when …

Common Ground: Perspectives On Latino-Latina Diversity, Ediberto Román

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In academic circles, when one speaks of scholarship, one speaks of scholarly legal publications. While such writing is obviously important for reform as well as for professional self-preservation,, I would take the term scholarship a step further. As true students of the law, we have a status in society that gives us a forum, and as Latinos/as we have an obligation to use our status to affect our communities. I, therefore, strongly support becoming more active by getting our voices heard beyond traditional modes of legal discourse. There are scores of communication mediums, such as newspapers and non-legal journals whose …

James Landis: The Administrative Process, Charles H. Koch Jr.

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The Revolving Door Part I: A Federal Prosecutor Returns To School, Frank O. Bowman Iii

Faculty Publications

Law teaching is hard work. To my trial lawyer friends who expressed envy at the easy life I must be enjoying, I often said they should imagine having to prepare and present five or six oral arguments a week, every week, for months on end. To the novice teacher presenting several courses for the first time, the task often feels just that daunting. As practicing lawyers, we flatter ourselves that we are "experts" in our fields, and thus that it would be a simple matter to step over to the local law school and, with minimal preparation, unburden ourselves of …

On The Future Of Integration Between Skills And Ethics Teaching: Clinical Legal Education In The Year 2010, James E. Moliterno

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Twelve years ago Anthony G. Amsterdam looked into the 21st century for a description of clinical legal education. With the decided advantage of being that much closer to the turn of the century, I think I will take a similar stab. This essay is less a contradiction of Amsterdam's predictions than it is a supplement with the advantages of the passage of time. I will adopt his 21st-century perspective and look at clinical legal education from the vantage point of the year 2010.

The Criminal Defense Lawyer As Effective Negotiator: A Systemic Approach, Rodney J. Uphoff

Faculty Publications

In the first issue of the Clinical Law Review, Peter Hoffman challenged clinical legal educators to produce clinical scholarship that is “practical in its orientation and design” and written so as to enhance the ability of lawyers to represent their clients and to help law students prepare for law practice. This article takes up Hoffman's challenge in the context of examining the skill of negotiating or plea bargaining from the perspective of the criminal defense lawyer. Before discussing the methods, approach or techniques that lawyers can use to enhance their ability to bargain effectively, it is critical to understand what …

A Response To Professor Vernellia R. Randall's The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, First Year Law Students And Performance, Cynthia V. Ward

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Professional Preparedness: A Comparative Study Of Law Graduates' Perceived Readiness For Professional Ethics Issues, James E. Moliterno

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All We Really Need To Know About Teaching We Learned In Kindergarten, R. Lawrence Dessem

Faculty Publications

Being asked to talk recently about teaching to non-law school professors caused me to think about some of the successful techniques I have used or seen used in law school teaching. I was concerned, though, that these techniques might not be transferrable to other teachers in other settings. However, the more I thought about it the more I realized that the techniques we use in teaching law students are comparable to, if not identical with, techniques used by any successful teacher. These are the same techniques we all have seen utilized by our best teachers over our many years of …

An Experiment With Electronic Mail And Constitutional Theory, I. Trotter Hardy

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The Law School Expansion Draft (On The Lighter Side), Paul A. Lebel

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Private Practice For Public Consumption: Two Views Of Corporate Law, Jayne W. Barnard

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Deerly, Departed (On The Lighter Side), Paul A. Lebel

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An Analysis Of Ethics Teaching In Law Schools: Replacing Lost Benefits Of The Apprentice System In The Academic Atmosphere, James E. Moliterno

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Not Another Constitutional Law Course: A Proposal To Teach A Course On The Constitution, Thomas E. Baker

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Professors Baker and Viator discuss the shortcomings of the current law school constitutional law curriculum. They lament the emphasis on current Supreme Court cases to the almost complete exclusion of the actual text of the Constitution and writings of the intellectual and philosophical history from which it sprang. The professors then lay out a syllabus for their proposed three credit constitutional law class.

Senior Faculty Attitudes Toward Retirement, David Day, Thomas Langham, Suzan Pearson

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The Secret Of Success: The Small-Section First-Year Skills Offering And Its Relationship To Independent Thinking, James E. Moliterno

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The Legal Skills Program At The College Of William And Mary: An Early Report, James E. Moliterno

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Teaching Legal Ethics In A Program Of Comprehensive Skills Development, James E. Moliterno

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Goodness And Humanness: Distinguishing Traits, James E. Moliterno

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The Joe Isuzu Dean Search: A Guide To The Interpretation Of Announcement Letters, Paul A. Lebel, James E. Moliterno

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Diagnosing Posttenure Slump Syndrome: A Guide To The Aging Of Law Professors, Paul A. Lebel

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A Law Student’S Responsibility For A Liberal Education, Thomas E. Baker

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Pretrial Discovery In The Law School Curriculum: An Analysis And A Suggested Approach, Edward D. Cavanagh

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The topics of pretrial discovery and professional responsibility in the conduct of discovery are given short shrift in many law school classrooms. This is not to say that these topics are ignored by law schools; first-year students are typically acquainted with the concept of broad pretrial discovery in the federal system and the various disclosure tools provided by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Nevertheless, the intricacies of discovery practice and ethics are learned on the job or through continuing legal education programs. Although law schools, in response to criticism by the bench and bar of the general level …

Law Professor Trading Cards - Has Anyone Got A Monaghan For A Tribe, Paul A. Lebel

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Missouri Law Review Fellows Program Inaugurated, Dale A. Whitman

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The Missouri Law Review has a distinguished history of service to the legal profession and the academic community. First published more than fifty years ago, the Review has printed many articles and student notes which have served to improve the administration of justice, while at the same time providing hundreds of second- and third-year law students with a uniquely valuable experience in legal analysis, scholarship, and editing. Membership on the Review has become an important credential, reflecting credit on the student members and enhancing their attractiveness to law firms seeking associates and judges seeking clerks.

Teaching Constitutional Law: Role-Playing The Supreme Court, David Day

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A Message From The New Dean, Timothy J. Sullivan

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"Of Law And The River," And Of Nihilism And Academic Freedom, Peter W. Martin, Robert W. Gordon, Paul D. Carrington, Paul Brest, Phillip E. Johnson, William W. Van Alstyne, Guido Calabresi, Owen M. Fiss

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