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Using A Literary Case Study To Teach Lawyering Skills: How We Used Damages By Barry Werth In The First-Year Legal Writing Curriculum, Jeanne M. Kaiser, Myra Orlen

Faculty Scholarship

First-year law students arrive for their first day of classes with varying perceptions about the practice of law and what it means to be a lawyer. Although some students have first-hand knowledge of the profession based on their work in a law office or from family members who are attorneys, many students base their entire conception of what it means to be a lawyer on images from popular media. The Authors discuss how they used a literary account to acquaint students with an authentic picture of litigation, while still teaching the rudiments of legal research and writing. The book used …

Vol. 29, No. 15 (December 12, 2005)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Some Preliminary Statistical, Qualitative, And Anecdotal Findings Of An Empirical Study Of Collegiality Among Law Professors, Michael L. Seigel

ExpressO

This article is an empirically-based follow-up to a piece I published last year in the Journal of Legal Education entitled, On Collegiality, 54 J. Legal Educ. 406 (2004). It provides insight into the process of conducting empirical research and sets forth some preliminary – yet very intriguing – data and qualitative information gleaned from a survey responded to by more than 1200 law professors nationwide. The survey addressed a wide range of topics related to collegiality and job satisfaction in the legal-academic profession.

Vol. 29, No. 14 (December 5, 2005)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Reinvigorating First Year Criminal Law: Integrating Mental Disability Issues Into The Criminal Law Course, Linda C. Fentiman

ExpressO

This article explores how mental disability issues can be incorporated into a traditional criminal law class, in order to enrich student understanding of both mental disability law and criminal law doctrine. The intersection of mental disability with the doctrinal aspects of criminal law can be broken into five major categories: 1) the justifications for punishment; 2) the definition of crime in general, e.g., the requirements of a voluntary act, mens rea, and causation; 3) the definition of particular crimes, such as murder, manslaughter, rape, and burglary; 4) defenses to crime, including mistake of law and of fact, as well as …

Vol. 4, No. 01 (December 2005)

Indiana Law Update

No abstract provided.

Vol. 29, No. 13 (November 28, 2005)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Vol. 29, No. 12 (November 21, 2005)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Vol. 56, No. 6, November 15, 2005, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Professors Provide Powerful Exam Tips •Question on the Quad •Professor Herzog Talks Torts, Teaching, and Swift •Over 70 M-Law Students 'Get Arrested' With New Club •Academic Journals: Humanity's Only Hope? •Introducing the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop •Abandon All Cell Phones, All Ye Who Enter •Jenny Runkles Photos •Three Years in the Life of 3L Section ABCD •2L Speaks Out on Gender, Grades, and Giving Hugs •Addiction Can be a Good Thing •On the Supreme Court, Love and Basketball •'Twas the Night Before Finals

Vol. 29, No. 11 (November 14, 2005)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Readers' Expectations, Discourse Communities, And Writing Effective Bar Exam Answers, Denise D. Riebe

ExpressO

This article advocates that law schools should provide bar exam preparation for students, including instruction regarding effective writing for bar exams. Using the reader expectation approach and considering the unique conventions of the legal profession's discourse community as a theoretical backdrop, this article examines effective writing for bar exams. It also provides practical recommendations for instructing students to write effective bar exam answers.

A Formstone Of Our Federalism: The Erie/Hanna Doctrine & Casebook Law Reform, Robert J. Condlin

Faculty Scholarship

The one I feel sorry for is John Ely. More than thirty years ago, in his classic article The Irrepressible Myth of Erie, he explained painstakingly, if not clearly, how thinking of the Erie/Hanna doctrine as a constitutional cornerstone of our federalism was just a mistake. Such a view, he pointed out, makes a major mystery out of what are really three distinct and rather ordinary problems of statutory and constitutional interpretation. He described the analytical and practical costs of the mistake, showed how the analysis ought to go, explained why academics and judges had failed to get it …

Vol. 29, No. 10 (November 7, 2005)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Vol. 56, No. 5, November 1, 2005, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•A Half-Hour With Prof. Horwitz •Editorial: Move Your Lunch or Lose It •Question on the Quad •Fear No Evil in Campus of the Dead •Introducing the Poetry of James Merrill •Halloween Party Photos •BLSA Date Auction Photos •When Did I Become Grandpa? •Lonely Litigants Looking for Love, Liability •An Immodest Proposal: Or, Against Socratism •Letter to the Editor

Letter To Derrida/America, Anton Schütz

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

From The President, Claire M. Germain

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Volume 30, No. 2

The Weldon Times

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

Editor in Chief: Michael Shalke

Layout Editor: Rob Richler

Assistant Editors: John Drover, Jennifer Bye, Jennifer Morrison, Simone Bern

Vol. 29, No. 09 (October 31, 2005)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Vol. 29, No. 08 (October 24, 2005)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Vol. 56, No. 4, October 18, 2005, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Lost and Found: Mitch's to Return Next Year •Editorial: Reading Room Etiquette Not Just for Students •Hotel Rwanda Subject Rusesabagina Awarded Wallenberg Medal, Gives Lecture •Professor Weiler on EU Constitution: It Should Have Been a Treaty •Court's 216th Session is One to Watch •Thirty Minutes with Professor Blumenthal •A Chicago-Based Alumnus Wakes Up •How My Undergrad Days Saved My Law School Soul •Bar Night Photos •Attractive Nuisance: Laura Fargas •Why I Still Believe in the Football Team at 3-3 •Faculty, Students Question Times' Story •The Scoop on the LSSS Halloween Party •A Judge for All Cases, Places, and Faces •Take …

Internationalizing U.S. Legal Education: A Report On The Education Of Transnational Lawyers, Carole Silver

ExpressO

This article analyses the role of U.S. law schools in educating foreign lawyers and the increasingly competitive global market for graduate legal education. U.S. law schools have been at the forefront of this competition, but little has been reported about their graduate programs. This article presents original research on the programs and their students, drawn from interviews with directors of graduate programs at 35 U.S. law schools, information available on law school web sites about the programs, and interviews with graduates of U.S. graduate programs. Finally, the article considers the responses of U.S. law schools to new competition from foreign …

Vol. 29, No. 07 (October 10, 2005)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Vol. 56, No. 3, October 4, 2005, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Professor Lutz Discusses Life, Law School and the Pursuit of Success •Editorial: Construction Frustrates Disabled Access •Feeling Like the Mayor of DingVille? Here's How to Execute Plan B •Learn How to Land a Public Interest Job •Rubin on Roberts: "He's No Moderate" •Me as a Lawyer: Better than Shatner? •Last Chance to Take Part in the Record-Breaking Nannes Third-Year Challenge •Please Don't Kick Me Out: The Average 1L Settles In •Violate Some Copyrights Tonight: Check Out These New Tracks on the D/L •Introducing the Poetry of Robert Lowell •Two Time Contender Gives Campbell Advice •LLSA Golf Scramble Photos •Crossword

Vol. 29, No. 06 (October 3, 2005)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Volume 29, Issue 2 (Fall 2005)

Transcript

No abstract provided.

Advancing Public Interest Practitioner Research Skills In Legal Education, Randy J. Diamond

Faculty Publications

The information revolution has dramatically altered the legal research landscape, expanding the bounds of legal authority. Practitioner research requires more than traditional legal research. It also encompasses factual investigation, non-legal information, interdisciplinary and audience research. Many new lawyers are ill-prepared to research novel and unusual situations, to cope with unwritten laws and local customs, and to meet shifting authority expectations.

Clinic Times, University Of Michigan Law School

Newsletters

Fall 2005 issue of the University of Michigan Law School Clinics' newsletter.

The Aba/Aals Sabbatical Site Inspection: Strangers In A Strange Land, R. Lawrence Dessem

Faculty Publications

At some point in their deanships, most law school deans will host a sabbatical site inspection of their law school by the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Virtually all deans also will have the opportunity to serve as a representative of the ABA or AALS on a team inspecting another law school. In this article I will discuss these site visits from the dean's perspective.

Vol. 3, No. 09 (October/November 2005)

Indiana Law Update

No abstract provided.

Go East, Young Lawyers: The Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Pamela S. Karlan, Thomas C. Goldstein

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

No abstract provided.