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Honors Convocation, University Of Michigan Law School

Commencement and Honors Materials

Program for the May 6, 2005 University of Michigan Law School Honors Convocation.

Uk Law Notes, 2005, University Of Kentucky College Of Law

Annual Magazines

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The Sacred Way Of Tibetan Crt Kung Fu: Can Race Crits Teach The Shadow's Mystical Insight And Help Law Students "Know" White Structural Oppression In The Heart Of The First-Year Curriculum? A Critical Rejoinder To Dorothy A. Brown, Reginald Leamon Robinson

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Part I of this Article uses a quasi-parable, in which Dorothy Brown is a Tibetan Master who teaches law students CRT Kung Fu, the monastic fighting skills by which they will acquire the Shadow's mystical insight to "know" the heart of the first-year curriculum. Part II challenges the organizing principles and content on which Brown's Critical Race Theory purports to critically interrogate traditional legal doctrine, applying a New Age Philosophical critique as well as agency theory to crack dealing in Spanish Harlem. I use this case study to argue that crack dealers deliberately and purposefully choose extra-legal economic opportunities, even …

Should Antitrust Education Be Mandatory (For Law School Administrators)?, Thom Lambert, Royce De R. Barondes

Faculty Publications

The purpose of this essay is merely to examine the pertinent antitrust issues. The essay proceeds on the assumption that the AALS policy, whose terms are precatory, speaks to what is in fact an agreement among law schools. As noted below, the policy itself contemplates that law school deans will seek waivers, in individual cases, extending the time periods for up to two months. Were the policy to be litigated, law schools might dispute the existence of an agreement. We believe, though, that the nature of the policy strongly suggests that it represents an agreement among law schools and that …

Surya Prakash Sinha-In Memory Of Our Colleague, Teacher And Friend, Ralph Michael Stein

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Retired Professor of Law Surya Prakash Sinha died in late July 2005 after a long struggle against cancer. Joining our faculty in 1979 and teaching until 1996, he was a powerful intellectual eminence at our school and a major, highly regarded scholar in the world of Public International Law.

The Establishment Of The Pennsylvania State Board Of Law Examiners, 1895-1902, Joel Fishman

Law Faculty Publications

As the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania recently celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the origins of the State Board of Law Examiners, it is useful to examine how the board came about in the early twentieth century. Pennsylvania had a long history of local county control over admission to the bar, and it was during the reform period that Pennsylvania joined with many other states to create a state board to oversee admission to its Supreme Court and tried to regulate admission to the local bars. This article will review chiefly the eighteenth and nineteenth century background to admission to the …

Marilyn & Edward Bellet: A Dedication, William Michael Treanor

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Fordham Law School is defined by its profound and extraordinary commitment to legal ethics and to the service of others. Tragically, this year two remarkable people who played a central role in establishing that commitment were lost. It is difficult to imagine that any law school could ever have supporters more involved, encouraging, or dynamic than Ed and Marilyn Bellet. Ed and Marilyn were great benefactors of Fordham Law's ethics and professionalism programs, they were the torchbearers of a commitment that has spanned many years and generations, and they were great friends to so many of us. This issue of …

Effective Use Of War Stories In Teaching Evidence, Michael L. Seigel

UF Law Faculty Publications

There are many ways to teach any law course successfully, including Evidence. It can be approached from a very theoretical perspective or a very practical one. Some professors still use the tried and true case method, while others have moved more toward a problem-oriented approach. Others use movie clips to illustrate important points. A minority of professors have even adopted a NITA approach, essentially teaching Evidence through Trial Practice. This Essay does not advocate any particular method for teaching Evidence. It does take the position, however, that if an Evidence professor has some practical experience, he or she would be …

A Tribute To Professor Herman M. Levy, Margaret M. Russell

Faculty Publications

On April 5, 2004, the Santa Clara University School of Law lost a beloved and exceptional professor, mentor, colleague, and friend. Professor Herman M. Levy passed away in Oroville, California, the day before his seventy-fifth birthday. Herman had taken a quick trip to Oroville to conduct a labor arbitration; he had served for many years as an arbitrator throughout California and other western states. Every year, I invited him to visit my first-year civil procedure class to talk about arbitration as a form of dispute resolution; he always delighted the class with his combination of wry humor and practical wisdom. …

Confronting The Privatization And Commercialization Of Academic Research: An Analysis Of Social Implications At The Local, National, And Global Levels, Risa L. Lieberwitz

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Globalization and Education Symposium

Legal Education After Law School: Lessons From Scotland And England, Clark D. Cunningham

Faculty Publications By Year

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Dispute Resolution, Access To Civil Justice And Legal Education, Trevor C. W. Farrow

Articles & Book Chapters

This article examines current dispute resolution teaching and research programs in the context of improving access to justice through recent civil justice reform initiatives. Animated by extensive domestic and international literature, online and survey-based research, the article explores the landscape of alternative dispute resolution education (primarily at law schools), comments on the need for continued thinking and reform and acts as a leading resource to assist in the ongoing, collaborative development of dispute resolution initiatives in legal education in Canada and abroad.

Depriving Law Reform Of Its Potential? New Perspectives On The Public-Private Divide Law Commission Of Canada, Ed. (Vancouver: University Of British Columbia Press, 2003), Richard Devlin Frsc

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

New Perspectives on the Public-Private Divide is the second installment in a new series, Legal Dimensions, sponsored by the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, the Canadian Law and Society Association, the Canadian Council of Law Deans and the Law Commission of Canada. The ambitions of this series are large: to "examine various issues of law reform form a multidisciplinary perspective [and]... to advance our knowledge about law and society through the analysis of fundamental aspects of law."

The focus on the public-private divide is an excellent choice for the Legal Dimensions Series for no matter how one conceptualizes the relationship, …

Feminists, Angels, Poets, And Revolutionaries: What I'Ve Learned From Ruthann Robson And Nicole Brossard On What It Means To Be A Law Teacher, Kim Brooks

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

This short piece was written as a tribute to the contributions Ruthann Robson has made to legal pedagogy, and was presented at a Symposium in her honor held at CUNY.

Madly Off In One Direction: Mcgill’S New Integrated, Poly-Jural, Trans-Systemic Law Program, Harry W. Arthurs

Articles & Book Chapters

In 1994, the McGill Faculty of Law organized a two-day faculty retreat, seeking to lay the foundations of a new curriculum. This desire was in part a response to the contradictions inherent to the faculty, but also stemmed from a deep-seated preoccupation with ‘polyjurality’, non-state normativity, transnational legal systems, and legal theory—a preoccupation that dates back to its origins, over 150 years ago. The author, while praising McGill's efforts at reinventing itself, laments a certain reserve toward interdisciplinarity. He conjectures that at least some understand the teaching of polyjurality and transsystemic law as a project that is largely concerned with …

Dispute Resolution And Legal Education: A Bibliography, Trevor C. W. Farrow

Articles & Book Chapters

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Globalizing Approaches To Legal Education And Training: Canada To Japan, Trevor C. W. Farrow

Articles & Book Chapters

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Teaching Property Stories (Book Review), Laura S. Underkuffler

Faculty Scholarship

Reviewing Property Stories (Gerald Korngold & Andrew P. Morris eds., 2004))

Navigating Diverse Identities: Building Coalitions Through Redistribution Of Academic Capital--An Exercise In Praxis, Aya Gruber

Publications

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Beauty And The Beast-Hybrid Prosecution Externships In A Non-Urban Setting, Margaret A. (Peggy) Tonon

Faculty Law Review Articles

This article examines and demonstrates how two components -- hybrid and a non-urban setting -- work together to create quality external prosecution clinics. Part I describes the non-urban setting of the University of Montana School of Law and explores the emotional and political characteristics of the non-urban setting. Part II discusses the definition of a hybrid clinic as it is understood at the University of Montana School of Law and as it is described in the published scholarship. Part III examines the history of clinical education at the University of Montana School of Law and describes the evolution of the …

Justice And Jesuit Legal Education: A Critique, John M. Breen

Faculty Publications & Other Works

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Why Print And Electronic Resources Are Essential To The Academic Law Library, Michelle M. Wu

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Libraries have supported multiple formats for decades, from paper and microforms to audiovisual tapes and CDs. However, the newest medium, digital transmission, has presented a wider scope of challenges and caused library patrons to question the established and recognized multiformat library. Within the many questions posed, two distinct ones echo repeatedly. The first doubts the need to sustain print in an increasingly digital world, and the second warns of the dangers of relying on a still-developing technology. This article examines both of these positions and concludes that abandoning either format would translate into a failure of service to patrons, both …

Dealing With Hate In The Feminist Classroom, Kathryn M. Stanchi

Scholarly Works

The goals of this essay are two-fold. First, by describing the experience I had in Law and Feminism, the essay will show how hateful and harassing speech in a seminar devoted to issues of gender, race and sexuality can rob students of important educational experiences. The story of my class is meant to remind legal educators and administrators of the concrete harm, both personal and educational, of hate speech. Too often the hate speech debate focuses on the theoretical and the abstract; participants forget that the principles at stake have demonstrable consequences for real people.

Second, while this essay does …

Incorporating Literature Into A Health Law Curriculum, Stacey A. Tovino

Scholarly Works

Literature has had a long relationship with medicine through literary images of disease, literary images of physicians and other healers, works of literature by physician-writers, and the use of literature as a method of active or passive healing. Literature also has had a long relationship with the law through literary images of various legal processes, lawyers, and judges, works for literature by lawyer-writers, and the use of literature as therapy. At last count, eighty-four law schools in the United States and Canada reported offering some variations of a “law and literature” course and recent scholarship demonstrates that literature increasingly is …

“Kulturkampf[S]” Or “Fit[S] Of Spite”?: Taking The Academic Culture Wars Seriously, Sylvia R. Lazos

Scholarly Works

Polarization and heated debate within legal academia are nothing new. Some might argue that vigorous contentiousness, even if not always civil, is essential to a healthy intellectual culture. Others would note that lawyers, legal academics especially, are a highly contentious bunch with a reputation for aggressive behavior.

Fundamentally, this Article asks whether strife and disagreement are a necessary part of academic discourse. The Article describes the academic Kulturkampfs aimed at Critical Race Theory that have taken place in the last ten years both outside of and within the Critical Race Theory (CRT) movement. The Article particularly examines what it is …

Valuing And Nurturing Multiple Intelligences In Legal Education: A Paradigm Shift, Kristen A. Dauphinais

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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A Call From Jerome, Robert S. Chang

Faculty Articles

This short article is a homage to the late Professor Jerome M. Culp, Jr. who provided courage necessary to propel critical race legal scholarship. He focused on building coalitions in the Crit community and his more recent work urged looking inwards. While he has passed away, his call to action remains.

Is An Annual Report In Your Library’S Future?, Kristin Cheney

Faculty Articles

Ms. Cheney examines the multifaceted document known as the library annual report and offers suggestions on how to create a report appropriate to a library's objectives and institutional setting.

A Review Of Animal Rights: Current Debates And New Directions, Laura Ireland Moore

Animal Law Review

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Cool Data On A Hot Issue: Empirical Evidence That A Law School Bar Support Program Enhances Bar Performance, Emmeline Paulette Reeves

Law Faculty Publications

Many law schools have become increasingly concerned about the bar passages rates of their graduates. Low bar passage rates may negatively impact student morale, accreditation, and future admissions. Law schools are also concerned about the emotional and financial impact on their graduates of failing the bar examination. What, if anything, can and should law schools do to improve their graduates' chances of passing the bar examination?

Many law schools are deciding that they should do something. A significant number of law schools are now offering programs "specifically designed" to improve their graduates' performance on the bar examination. And these schools …