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Vol. 13, No. 05 (September 22, 1997)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Vol. 13, No. 04 (September 15, 1997)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Vol. 13, No. 03 (September 8, 1997)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Vol. 48, No. 1, September 5, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Blowing Smoke •Who's Who in New, Visiting and Adjunct Professors at Michigan This Fall •Symposium Speakers Announced •Larry's World •The RG's Advice on Food and Fun in Ann Arbor •SEX •Book Reviews •Paul Luongo's Summer Adventures •Dueling Cartoons

Vol. 13, No. 02 (September 2, 1997)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Law And The Wisconsin Idea, Erika Lietzan, Paul D. Carrington

Faculty Publications

We recall a summer of contentment when American law was suffused with optimism, a season ending a long winter of despair and disorder. For the first fifteen years of this century, many (and perhaps most) American lawyers were filled with confidence that America had healed the wounds of civil war and was healing those of class struggle. We could, and we would, overcome all obstacles to peace and prosperity, not only for our people but for all mankind. This, it was widely believed, would be our century. As early as 1879 Daniel Coit Gilman, the premier educator of his time, …

Law Students' Commitment Benefits Everyone - A View On Law Student Participation, Pamela Daiker-Middaugh

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Describes the value of law students participating in pro-bono and volunteer opportunities.

Introduction To Volume 100 Of The West Virginia Law Review, John W. Fisher Ii

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

What The Knicks Debacle Of '97 Can Teach Students About The Nature Of Rules, Robert A. Hillman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Volume 21, No. 7

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Colin Ground, Elizabeth Kanyikwa, Nicholas Lenco, Derrick White

Revamping The Law Tutorial, Nadja Alexander, Ann Black

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The lecture/tutorial format is the dominant structurethrough which law is taught in Australia. This articleexamines the learning environment of the law tutorial, andsuggests approaches aimed at maximising the learningexperience for students, on the basis of students’ learningpreferences. The discussion utilises Golay’s learningpattern assessment in developing an understanding of thedifferent learning styles of students. Based on thisanalysis, activities are advanced which advocate andimplement joint tutor-student responsibility for learningwithin tutorials. It is argued that students will learn moreeffectively, and expand their learning experiences wheninvolved directly in the structure, format and content ofthe tutorial itself.

Vol. 13, No. 01 (August 25, 1997)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Innovative Teaching Methods And Practical Uses Of Literature In Legal Education, Karin M. Mika

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Because I believe a breadth of reading enhances one's ability to think and write, throughout the years I have tried to encourage extra curricular and diversified reading to be done in conjunction with my Legal Writing class. Unfortunately, yet understandably, law students generally only do the required work, but not more. As a consequence, I have discovered, over time, that the "readers" in my classes continue to read while the "non-readers" never take the opportunity to discover what advantage there might be in taking my advice. Because no change has occurred in students' overall attitudes, I decided to make life …

Competition And The Curve, Barbara Glesner Fines

Faculty Works

In judging pedagogical issues, most law professors favor their own experiences as students: the best way to teach is the way they were taught. I suspect that I am no different in this respect. Unlike most faculty, however, I was taught without the grading game playing a central role in my education. My undergraduate education was at a small, public, interdisciplinary, liberal arts college, with no departments, no majors, no curricular requirements to speak of, no tests and, most critically, no grades. I loved my education. It stays with me today. I attribute that retention and enthusiasm to the learning …

If It Can't Be Lake Woebegone . . . A Nationwide Survey Of Law School Grading And Grade Normalization Practices, Robert C. Downs, Nancy Levit

Faculty Works

This article explores various methods of grade normalization used by law schools. Based on a survey of 116 responding ABA accredited law schools, 84% have some form of grade normalization policy, and the trend is toward adoption of grade normalization. The survey assessed the types of normalization plans (distributional requirements, required means, required medians, set standard deviations, and informal policies), as well as the reasons schools have adopted such plans. It also inquired about methods for ensuring faculty compliance as well as justifications for departures from grade norms.

The article considers and responds to the arguments against grade normalization and …

The Dream Is Still Alive: Twenty-Five Years Of Parkdale Community Legal Services And The Osgoode Hall Law School Intensive Program In Poverty Law, Frederick H. Zemans

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Over twenty-five years have passed since Parkdale Community Legal Services opened its doors in Toronto, changing the face of poverty law and clinical legal education in Ontario. This article details the formative years of the Parkdale clinic and its ongoing partnership with Osgoode Hall Law School. Despite initial opposition from the legal profession the clinic has survived, evolving into an innovative educational tool and delivery model of legal services. The clinic has become an essential component of the mixed Ontario legal aid system and a pattern for other clinics and clinical education programs in Canada. This article documents the considerations …

Twenty-Five Years Of Dynamic Tension: The Parkdale Community Legal Services Experience, Shelley A.M. Gavigan

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Parkdale Community Legal Services has been the site of initiatives, challenges, and historic accomplishments in the areas of community-based poverty law, community organizing and law reform, and clinical legal education. In this article, the author takes the occasion of the clinic's twenty-fifth anniversary to consider some of the events and issues that shaped Parkdale's history. Drawing on a range of sources, including evaluations and reports, student writing, and scholarly publications, the author examines the issues and debates that PCLS has sparked at Osgoode Hall Law School, and some of the ground it has broken more generally in its work. The …

Legal Education: Nemesis Or Ally Of Social Movements?, Janet E. Mosher

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

There is much in legal education which contributes to lawyering practices that are fundamentally at odds with the formation of social movements. These practices include the "individualization" of client problems; the reshaping of the realities of clients' lives into legal categories or boxes; the commitment to instrumentalism (that is, to securing a favourable legal result); and lawyer domination and control and the correlates of client silence and passivity. The genesis for these features of dominant lawyering practices can be traced, at least in part, to legal education. More specifically, legal education's emphasis upon doctrinal analysis, its tendency to trade upon …

The Ellis Archives-1972 To 1981: An Early View From The Parkdale Trenches, S. Ronald Ellis

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

The author was intimately involved with PCLS from 1972 to 1981. Significant extracts from a recently uncovered, personal horde of archival materials--framed by the author's description and explication of the materials' original context--provide old perspectives on a wide range of surprisingly current issues--perspectives which the author believes readers will find still useful. The subject matter includes: the private bar's role in the ultimate success of PCLS and the clinic system; legal aid services; the bar's role in the legal aid system; the need for customized legal services in low-income communities; the role and operation of community based legal clinics; a …

World Of Research On-Line, Oregon Law Institute, Lesley Buhman, Roger Olsen, Julie A. Spieker, Karen Read, Lajean Humphries, Melissa Estes, Jeffrey N. Barlow, Patricia Tate, Brenda B. Clark, Carol Yamashita

Oregon Law Institute, 1997

Course Materials from the June 20, 1997 Program in Portland

Profile, Spring 1997, Vol. 7, No. 1

Alumni Magazines

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of Seattle University Skills Development Series, James E. Moliterno

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

1997 Recognition Ceremony Program

Recognition Ceremony

No abstract provided.

Aman In Asia (Photograph)

Alfred Aman Jr. (1991-2002)

Bloomington Law School Dean Alfred C. Aman Jr. met with four of IU 's international alumni clubs - Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, and Japan - during a trip to Asia last fall. Members of the IU Alumni Club of Japan include Hiroshi Watanabe, president of the club, to the right of Aman, and Kaoru Ando, BS'36, LLD'80, founder of the club, to his left. Ando is a 1977 recipient of IU's top alumni award, the Distinguished Alumni Service Award.

The Florida Supreme Court Commission On Professionalism And The Crises Of Legal Education, Donald J. Weidner

Scholarly Publications

No abstract provided.

Legal Writing As A Kind Of Philosophy, Joel R. Cornwell

Mercer Law Review

Post-structuralist theories of textual meaning have been integrated into legal education in various ways, notably through the influence of the Critical Legal Studies movement. Ironically, legal writing courses, the portion of the first-year curriculum ostensibly allotted to techniques of dissecting and manipulating language, have largely ignored the insights of analytical philosophy and literary deconstruction indirectly appropriated in other courses. The standard models remain algorithmic, reinforcing a conservative view of writing as an applied lexigraphic skill, essentially void of the substance taught in nonwriting courses. This conceptual disjunction between writing and thought engenders and feeds the attitude that legal writing courses …

Vol. 07, No. 08 (May 1997)

Res Ipsa Loquitur

No abstract provided.

Vol. 47, No. 11, April 16, 1997, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Possible Transcript Changes Source of Student Concern •Indigenous Genius: "Law Revue" Showcases Law School Talent •Discussion, Debate in the Desert Dust at the National Indian Law Conference •So You Think You Wanna Be on a Journal? •Michigan Bids Farewell to "The Saint" •3Ls Reflect •The Educational Environment Committee Speaks •So Does Larry Sager •B&B Offer the Wisdom of the Ages

The Weekly April 8, 1997, North Carolina Central School Of Law

NCCU Law School Weekly

No abstract provided.

Vol. 12, No. 12 (April 7, 1997)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.