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Vol. 34, No. 01 (January 14, 2008)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Salt 2008 Awards Dinner Program, Society Of American Law Teachers

Meetings & Events

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Scribbles!, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Journal of Literature and Art released for Winter/Summer 2008

Scribbles! University of Michigan Law Journal of Literature and Arts is produced by and for students of the University of Michigan Law School. Copyrights are retained by the creators. Opinions herein do not reflect the opinions of the University of Michigan, the Law School, or the editors.

Tributes To Professor Andy King, Karen H. Rothenberg, William L. Reynolds, Jana B. Singer, Gordon G. Young, David Rosen

Faculty Scholarship

Tributes to Professor Andrew King upon his retirement from the University of Maryland School of Law.

Conversations On "Community Lawyering:" The Newest (Oldest) Wave In Clinical Legal Education, Karen Tokarz, Nancy L. Cook, Susan Brooks, Brenda Bratton Blom

Faculty Scholarship

This Article explores the pedagogical and professional challenges and rewards of community lawyering and clinical legal education. The authors are clinical law faculty who self-identify as community lawyers and teachers of community lawyering clinics. They have gathered in recent years with a larger group of similarly engaged colleagues to discuss what is meant by community lawyering, how it is taught, and how it is practiced. This Article seeks to capture some of those conversations, crystallize some of the ideas that have arisen out of the discussions, and examine the implications of these ruminations for future directions in clinical legal education.

Law Clerk Influence On Supreme Court Decision Making: An Empirical Assessment, Todd C. Peppers, Christopher Zorn

Scholarly Articles

Here, we undertake the first effort at assessing the existence and extent of law clerk influence in the U.S. Supreme Court. Drawing upon original survey data on the political ideology of 532 former law clerks, we evaluate the extent to which both the Justice's personal policy preferences and those of his or her law clerks exert an independent influence on the Justice's votes. While our results are preliminary, they nonetheless support the contention that--over and above "selection effects" due to Justices choosing like-minded clerks--clerks' ideological predilections exert an additional, and not insubstantial, influence on the Justices' decisions on the merits. …

In Memoriam: Val Nolan, Jr., 1920-2008, Ken Yasukawa

Val Nolan Jr. (1976 Acting; 1980 Acting)

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Fundraising Tips For Deans With Intermediate Development Programs, Donald J. Weidner

Scholarly Publications

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What Helps Law Professors Develop As Teachers? -- An Empirical Study, Gerald F. Hess, Sophie M. Sparrow

Law Faculty Scholarship

The overall goal of this article is to provide concrete suggestions for how law schools can improve teaching and enrich law student learning. In doing so, it reviews and analyzes the data collected from two national surveys about the kinds of faculty development activities that are most effective in improving law professors’ teaching. One survey was designed to quantify how many law teachers engaged in twenty-two types of teaching development activities over the previous five years and to assess the effectiveness of each of those activities. The other survey focused on the effectiveness of a national conference on teaching and …

When Bias Is Bipartisan: Teaching About The Democratic Process In An Intellectual Property Law Republic, Ann Bartow

Law Faculty Scholarship

[Introduction]: Intellectual property law courses offer law professors the opportunity to teach a subject area rich with complicated statutory and court-made doctrines about which students do not usually have strong or extensively delineated moral views. I It also gives everyone in the classroom a refreshing break from the traditional partisanship of political party politics. Identification as a Democrat or Republican does not provide too much guidance or create too many expectations about a person's views of intellectual property issues, freeing classroom debates from the constrictions that political loyalties impose in so many other contexts.

Cracking The Egg: Which Came First -- Stigma Or Affirmative Action?, Emily Houh, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Mary Campbell

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

This Article examines the strength of arguments concerning the causal connection between racial stigma and affirmative action. In so doing, this Article reports and analyzes the results of a survey on internal stigma (feelings of dependency, inadequacy, or guilt) and external stigma (the burden of others' resentment or doubt about one's qualifications) for the Class of 2009 at seven public law schools, four of which employed race-based policies when the Class of 2009 was admitted and three of which did not use such policies at that time. Specifically, this Article examines and presents survey findings of 1) minimal, if any, …

Much Has Changed: Diversity And Opportunity At The University Of Idaho College Of Law, Donald L. Burnett Jr.

Articles

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Expert Learning For Law Students, Michael Hunter Schwartz

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Books

Expert Learning for Law Students is designed to help law students build the analytical skills necessary to succeed in law school, on the bar exam, and in law practice. This book reveals how successful law students and lawyers plan, monitor, and implement their work, and it provides detailed guidance regarding individual student personality types and learning styles. The accompanying workbook includes questions and exercises to assist students in practicing the concepts explained in the text.

The second edition includes greater emphasis on students personalizing all strategy suggestions by adapting strategies to their individual learning styles, personality types, and, most importantly, …

Human Nature As A New Guiding Philosophy For Legal Education And The Profession, Lawrence S. Krieger

Scholarly Publications

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Michigan Law Environmental Law & Policy Program Fall 2008 Conference, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Program for the Fall 2008 Environmental Law & Policy Program Conference: An Environmental Agenda for the Next Administration.

Using A Wiki To Increase Student Engagement In Administrative Law, David I.C. Thomson

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Administrative law is one of the courses students love to hate. This is particularly true in schools where Admin is a required course, since many students in the class would not take it otherwise, and gripe about being forced to. The problem with Admin law – for both the teacher and the student – is that it is such a vast topic that teaching it in a manner students can comprehend is diffi cult. When I was asked to teach Admin law last year, I looked at this as a challenge, rather than a burden. Because I am fairly comfortable …

Freeriders And Diversity In The Legal Academy: A New Dirty Dozen List, Ediberto Román, Christopher B. Carbot

Faculty Publications

Latina and Latino student enrollment in U.S. law schools the last few decades has increased. This increase, however, has not resulted in a comparable increase in Latino and Latina law professors. To foster diversity in law school faculties and to increase Latina representation, the “Dirty Dozen List” was published. The List was comprised of the top twelve U.S. law schools located in high Latina populated areas but lacking a single Latina professor on the faculty. The List served to increase awareness of the lack of diversity at some of the nation’s top legal institutions, as well as “shame” these schools …

Giants Of A Golden Age: An Appreciation Of Professors Dennis Colson And Craig Lewis, Donald L. Burnett Jr.

Articles

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(Un)Covering Identity In Civil Rights And Poverty Law, Anthony V. Alfieri

Articles

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Teaching Ethics In Context: Wood V. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon In The First Year Curriculum, Celia R. Taylor

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

More and more attention is being placed on the importance of teaching ethics throughout the law school curriculum. This article focuses on the seminal contracts law case of Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon and demonstrates how it raises numerous ethical issues that can serve as the basis for stimulating discussion, encouraging even first-year law students to understand the importance of ethical thinking and behavior in their education and their careers.

Center News/Faculty And Staff Updates, Human Rights Brief

Human Rights Brief

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Combating Gender Inequities In Law School: Time For A New Feminist Rhetoric That Encourages Practical Change, Caitlin Howell

The Modern American

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Banding Together: Reflections Of The Role Of The Women's Bar Association Of The District Of Columbia And The Washington College Of Law In Promoting Women's Rights, Jamie R. Abrams, Daniela Kraiem

The Modern American

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Deaning For Whom? Means And Ends In Legal Education, Hon. Kristin Booth Glen

Seattle University Law Review

I was an accidental dean. Law school deanship, or any kind of administration, was something that had never occurred to me. But after almost thirty happy and rewarding years as a constitutional litigator, state trial and appellate judge, and frequent law school professor, my dear friend, W. Haywood Burns, asked me to apply for the deanship at City University of New York School of Law (CUNY). Any request from Haywood was a good enough reason for complying. When, to my surprise, I was selected, I had to confront the more profound question of why I should become a law school …

Francis D. Morrissey: A Life In The Law, 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. Xxiii (2008), Michael A. Pollard, Ann Lousin

UIC Law Review

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Dedication To Professor Timothy P. O'Neill, 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. Xxv (2008), Kathryn J. Kennedy

UIC Law Review

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Foreword, 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. Xxvii (2008), Nancee Alexa Barth

UIC Law Review

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Dedication Of Issue To Dean Emeritus Fred F. Herzog, 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. Xxiii (2008), William S. Weltman

UIC Law Review

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Remarks At Memorial Service For Dean Emeritus Fred F. Herzog, 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. Xxv (2008), Ann Lousin

UIC Law Review

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Fred Herzog Memorial Service: Fred's Life (1938-2008), 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. Xxxi (2008), Gerald E. Berendt

UIC Law Review

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