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Faculty/Staff News, Human Rights Brief

Human Rights Brief

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Situating Thinking Like A Lawyer Within Legal Pedagogy , David T. Butleritchie

Cleveland State Law Review

The phrase "thinking like a lawyer" maintains as much relevance to today's legal academy as it ever has. In the face of recent criticism that the ideas connected with the concept of "thinking like a lawyer," e.g., the case law method with its focus on the adversarial litigation process, the fact is that legal educators must still teach their students to "think like lawyers." Critics have complained that the narrow focus of this traditional concept unduly restricts the ability of law students to develop refined analytical and practical skills which go beyond the adversarial context. In one sense these critics …

Looking Back, Ralph Michael Stein

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

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Clarence Thomas: The First Ten Years Looking For Consistency, Mark Niles

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Toward A Bridge: The Role Of Legal Academics In The Culture Of Private Practice, Camille Nelson

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Training A New Breed Of Lawyer: California Western's Advanced Mediation Program In Juvenile Hall, Floralynn Einesman, Linda H. Morton

Faculty Scholarship

This article describes the authors’ experiences in designing, initiating, and evaluating a Mediation Clinic in which students mediate disputes between incarcerated juveniles. With the purpose of enhancing students’ “essential human competencies” of self-awareness, self-control, empathy, listening, teamwork, and conflict resolution, the authors describe techniques used to teach these relational skills appropriate to “a new breed of lawyer.” They also analyze the success of their program through both statistical and anecdotal evidence.

"I Will Not Sit Idly By While My Future Is Determined:" The Response Of The University Of Michigan Black Law Students' Alliance To Grutter V. Bollinger, Et Al., The Black Law Students' Alliance

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Back in 1998, the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law expressed support for the University of Michigan Law School's defense of its affirmative action policy, which is at controversy in Grutter v. Bollinger. Today, as in 1998, "[W]e certainly do not believe the Law School admissions policy truly addresses the inequalities within our law school and the legal profession generally. Legal education is unfortunately not a bastion of diversity." Women and students of color struggle to be heard and seen, and to achieve equal representation in both the study and practice of law. "Without active efforts, we cannot create …

Does Information And Agreement Equal Informed Consent?, Carl E. Schneider, Michael H. Farrell

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

The following essay is based on a talk delivered last summer in England and on the chapter "Information, Decisions, and the Limits of Informed Consent," in (Michael Freeman and Andrew D. E. Lewis, eds.) Law and Medicine: Current Legal Issues 2000, Volume 3 (Oxford University Press, 2000). This version appears with permission of the publisher.

For many years, a principal labor of bioethics has been to find a way of confiding medical decisions to patients and not to doctors. The foremost mechanism for doing so has been the doctrine of informed consent. Anxious as bioethicists and courts have been to …

Faculty Scholarship 1999-2002, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

A listing of all the published works of University of Michigan Law School faculty.

Res Ipsa Loquitur

Yearbooks & Class Year Publications

Yearbook of the Class of 2002.

Joint Teaching With A Colleague, For Just A Week Or Two, Richard Henry Seamon

Articles

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Remarks Upon The Retirement Of Dean Emeritus And Professor Sheldon A. Vincenti, John A. Miller

Articles

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Dicta, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

We are proud to present the 2002 edition of Dicta, the Law School Literary Journal. The literary journal was created in order to provide a forum for the creative talents that are sometimes overlooked in a rigorous academic environment. This journal reflects the richness and diversity of our Law School Community, students, faculty, and staff alike.

A Comment On Race And The Law, Zanita E. Fenton

Articles

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Introduction To Erasing Lines: Integrating The Law School Curriculum, Amy E. Sloan

All Faculty Scholarship

Our goal at this conference is to begin the process of erasing the often artificial lines that presently exist between "doctrinal" and "skills" courses, between education focused on the acquisition of knowledge and education focused on the practical application of that knowledge. The lines that have been drawn are more a matter of perception than reality. If we were to deconstruct the pedagogical goals in both of these types of courses, we would find that they have as many similarities as they have differences.

Professionalism: Remarks At The Dedication Of The University Of Oklahoma's Law School Building And Library, 2002, Sandra Day O'Connor

Oklahoma Law Review

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Reflections On Editing A Journal For Law Teachers, Erik M. Jensen

Faculty Publications

One should hesitate to draw grand conclusions based on personal experience, but I won't. What I'll do in this essay is discuss some of the decidedly unscientific lessons about American legal education, or at least about the scholarship dealing with American legal education, that I've drawn from my editorial experience: About American legal education's provincialism, about the limited interest in writing on pedagogical subjects, about quality of writing, and about the politicization of the legal academy.

From The Paper Chase To The Digital Chase: Technology And The Challenge Of Teaching 21st Century Law Students, 43 Santa Clara L. Rev. 1 (2002), Rogelio A. Lasso

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Imagine: A Comment On "A Liberal Education In Law", Melody Richardson Daily

Faculty Publications

While I was impressed with Professor Parker's paper for many reasons, to me her single most striking assertion is this: "Practicing law--and learning law-is at heart an imaginative enterprise."' It is a sentence that should be carved above the entrance to every law school. Few practicing attorneys would disagree with Professor Parker's observation. After all, if imagination is the ability to deal creatively with reality, then imagination is essential for each of the ten fundamental lawyering skills listed in the MacCrate Report. For example, no lawyer can succeed in problem-solving without first engaging in the process of imagining multiple possible …

Honors Convocation, University Of Michigan Law School

Commencement and Honors Materials

Program for the May 3, 2002 University of Michigan Law School Honors Convocation.

So You Want To Build A Building: Some Helpful Hints For Those Deans Who May Develop An "Edifice Complex", Andrew Coats

Faculty Articles

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Breaking Into The Academy: The 2002-2004 Michigan Journal Of Race & Law Guide For Aspiring Law Professors, Gabriel J. Chin, Denise C. Morgan

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Guidance for individuals interested in becoming law professors.

Law School Professors Comment On The Campus Boycott Of Justice Clarence Thomas: Did They Do The Right Thing?, Angela Mae Kupenda

Journal Articles

The black professors' only mistake occurred if they assumed that, like white professors, they would be found deserving of two core professorial rights: the right of academic freedom and the right to exercise individual moral responsibility. The harsh critics of the black professors' boycott of Justice Thomas' speech are trying to deny the professors these core professorial rights/duties that are ordinarily heaped upon white professors without reservation.

From Punch Cards To Smart Cards: A History Of The Technology At The Levin College Of Law, Betty W. Taylor

UF Law Faculty Publications

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Women In The Law: Milestones And Information, Colleen Kristl Pauwels

Historic Documents

Colleen Pauwels was the Director of the Jerome Hall Law for more than 30 years and wrote and researched about the history of the Maurer School of Law. This document details names and dates of major milestones of women in the law from 1892-1988.

Barely At The Margins: Race And Ethnicity In Legal Education -- A Curricular Study With Latcritical Commentary, Francisco Valdes

Articles

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Labor And Employment In The Academy - A Critical Look At The Ivory Tower: Proceedings Of The 2002 Annual Meeting Of The Association Of American Law Schools, Joint Program Of The Section On Labor Relations And Employment Law And Section On Minority Groups, Elizabeth M. Iglesias, Jo Anne Durako, Devon Wayne Carbado, Margaret E. Montoya, Michael A. Olivas, Rex R. Perschbacher, Douglas D. Scherer, Vicki Schultz

Articles

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Challenging A Tradition Of Exclusion: The History Of An Unheard Story At Harvard Law School, Luz E. Herrera

Faculty Scholarship

In a series of lectures at Harvard University, Professors Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres posited that people of color are the "miner's canary" in American society. Guinier and Torres argue that pursuing color blindness policies is dangerous because it ignores racial differences that affect every aspect of our society. According to Guinier and Torres, like the miner's canary that uses a call of distress to warn the miner of the hazardous atmosphere in the mine, the critiques people of color offer our institutions are warning signals to alert us to the presence of more systemic problems. Instead of relegating the …

Building A Foreign Law Collection At The University Of Michigan Law Library, 1910-1960, Margaret A. Leary

Articles

Ms. Leary describes the vision, energy, imagination, and techniques of the dedicated people who built an eminent foreign law collection at the University of Michigan Law Library. She also uses Michigan as an example to illustrate the development of libraries and librarianship nationally.

The Law School Consortium Project: Law Schools Supporting Graduates To Increase Access To Justice For Low And Moderate Income Individuals And Communities, Deborah Howard

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The Law School Consortium Project is an organization with the goal of extending the educational and professionalism missions of law schools beyond graduation to provide training, mentoring, and other support to solo and small-firm lawyers. The Article discusses different models of achieving this goal. It outlines the benefits to practitioners, low and moderate income individuals and communities, and to participating law schools.