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From Grimm To Glory: Simulated Oral Argument As A Component Of Legal Education's Signature Pedagogy, Lisa T. Mcelroy

Indiana Law Journal

The past two years have been a period of landmark transformation in legal education. With the issuance of the Carnegie and Best Practices for Legal Education Reports, law schools and law professors have revisited the essential process of analyzing and transforming legal pedagogy. This widespread reexamination of the law school curriculum has yielded two important changes in legal education; first, law schools-including those in the top tier-have begun radically to amend their curricular goals and structures; and, second, legal scholars have begun to turn their attention to the theory and implementation of better legal education. As Carnegie and Best Practices …

Spring 2009

Alumni News

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Reforming Knowledge? A Socio-Legal Critique Of The Legal Education Reforms In Japan, Annelise Riles, Takashi Uchida

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This article critiques the current Japanese legal education reforms, modeled largely on the United States, by proposing a socio-technical framework for analyzing the distribution of legal expertise in a given society. On one side of the spectrum is the "monocentric" model of legal expertise, in which expertise is monopolized by the profession and legal literacy is low. On the other side of the spectrum is the "polycentric" model of legal expertise, in which a range of social and institutional actors share responsibility for legal expertise and legal literacy is high. If the U.S. is a more monocentric system, the Japanese …

Wikis While You Work: Incorporating Wikis In The Classroom, Samantha A. Moppett

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

In many instances, today's students learn more effectively through the use of technology. Wikis-Web sites that allow numerous people to contribute and edit the content of the site-are one of the newer technology tools available. This article introduces wikis, describes one way the author has used wikis as a teaching tool, and explores the advantages of using wikis in the classroom.

Uwlaw, Spring 2009, Vol. 59

Alumni Magazines

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Of Counsel, Volume 9 | Spring 2009, North Carolina Central University School Of Law

Of Counsel

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Of Counsel, Volume 11 | Spring 2009, North Carolina Central University School Of Law

Of Counsel

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Can You Hear Me Now? Using Voice Comments To Provide Feedback On Students' Memoranda, Sabrina Defabritiis

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

This article addresses the advantages, and possibly some disadvantages, of using voice comments instead of traditional written comments to provide students feedback on their written memoranda. The article also discusses how to create voice comments and provide them to students.

Why Write?, Erwin Chemerinsky

Michigan Law Review

This wonderful collection of reviews of leading recent books about law provides the occasion to ask a basic question: why should law professors write? There are many things that law professors could do with the time they spend writing books and law review articles. More time and attention could be paid to students and to instructional materials. More professors could do pro bono legal work of all sorts. In fact, if law professors wrote much less, teaching loads could increase, faculties could decrease in size, and tuition could decrease substantially. The answer to the question "why write" is neither intuitive …

The Food Stays In The Kitchen: Everything I Needed To Know About Statutory Interpretation I Learned By The Time I Was Nine, Hillel Y. Levin

Scholarly Works

What happens when kids and their parents interpret laws like lawyers and judges? Where and why does interpretation go off the rails?

Based on a true story, this piece starts with a proclamation by Mother, the Supreme Lawmaker, that "no food may be eaten outside the kitchen." What follows is a series of rulings by Judges - father, babysitter, grandma (a liberal jurist, of course), etc. - who, using traditional tools of interpretation, eventually declare it to mean that all food may be eaten outside of the kitchen. Ultimately, the supreme lawmaker reacts and clarifies.

The piece is meant to …

Dan Freed: My Teacher, My Colleague, My Friend, Ronald Weich

All Faculty Scholarship

At a recent meeting of the National Association of Sentencing Commissions, Yale professor Dan Freed was honored during a panel discussion titled "Standing on the Shoulders of Sentencing Giants," Dan Freed is indeed a sentencing giant. but he is the gentlest giant of all. It is hard to imagine that a man as mild-mannered, soft-spoken, and self-effacing as Dan Freed has had such a profound impact on federal sentencing law and so many other areas of criminal justice policy, Yet he has.

I've been in many rooms with Dan Freed over the years — classrooms, boardrooms, dining rooms, and others. …

Vol. 59, No. 10, March 31, 2009, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•New Scheduling Policy •Letter to the Editor •ACS Moot Court •Kicking it Old School •Bold As Tech •The Food Court •Origins Pics •LC Recycling •When You Were Cooler •Alum Assesses Jobs •Bless Your Heart •Between the Briefs •SFF Pics

Vol. 36, No. 10 (March 30, 2009)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 59, No. 8, March 26, 2009, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Campbell Semi-Finals Kick Off! •Website Launch •Valogram Pics •Ask the Beer Guy •Grade Curves •Save Yourself •This is Water •Bold As Tech •Between the Briefs •The Food Court •Grade Deviations •Juan Luis Tienda Pics

Vol. 36, No. 09 (March 23, 2009)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 36, No. 08 (March 9, 2009)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 36, No. 07 (March 2, 2009)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Teaching In Practice: Legal Writing Faculty As Expert Writing Consultants To Law Firms, E. Joan Blum, Kathleen Elliott Vinson

Mercer Law Review

As experts in the pedagogy and substance of legal writing, full-time legal writing faculty who serve as writing consultants to law firms help fill an increasing need for training and support of lawyers. In addition to providing a direct benefit to lawyers and their firms, this practice benefits the legal academy by providing fresh ideas for teaching and scholarship. This Article discusses generally the practice of legal writing consulting in law firms by full-time legal writing faculty. The Article provides background in theory and practice, addressing why law firms seek outside consultants for this type of training and support, and …

Teaching Professionalism, Patrick E. Longan

Mercer Law Review

In Work and Integrity, William Sullivan posits that all professional schools must train their students in "three apprenticeships." The first apprenticeship is intellectual; it develops the knowledge base and the habits of the mind that the profession deems most important for the practitioner to possess. The second equips the student with the set of skills that will be necessary for translating the intellectual training into effective action in practice. The third inculcates the student with the values and ideals of the profession. To master the complex tasks we expect of professionals, and to use that mastery in ways that …

Vol. 7, No. 02 (March/April 2009)

Indiana Law Update

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Teaching Legal Ideals Through Jurisprudence, Seow Hon Tan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This article examines the value of jurisprudence in legal education. It argues that jurisprudence should be mandated at an early stage of the students' law curriculum as the legal ideals that may be imparted through a jurisprudence course cannot be adequately taught in a professional ethics course or through teaching jurisprudential perspectives in doctrinal subjects. Law schools have a special responsibility to get students thinking about what law is, what makes law legitimate, and how law is related to justice, morality, politics and rationality. A mandatory jurisprudence course should be intentionally structured along these themes.

Citizen As Lawyer, Lawyer As Citizen, Mark Tushnet

William & Mary Law Review

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The Citizen Lawyer And The Administrative State, Edward Rubin

William & Mary Law Review

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The Rankings Game, James W. Ely, Jr. Professor Of Law, Mark E. Brandon Professor Of Law & Political Science

Vanderbilt Law Review

The world that law schools inhabit is obsessed with rankings. The most conspicuous example of this is the annual survey of law schools by U.S. News and World Report. Although university administrators ritually decry such rankings, their condemnations ring hollow. After all, law schools regularly rank applicants and students, as well as faculty performance. And it is common for the deans of schools that "move up" in the rankings to trumpet their success, if not to the world, then to their own faculties, alumni, students, and prospective students. Thus, the schools themselves can hardly claim an exemption from this hierarchical …

Reproducing Gender On Law School Faculties, Ann C. Mcginley

BYU Law Review

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Virginia Bar Exam, February 2009, Section 1

Virginia Bar Exam Archive

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Virginia Bar Exam, February 2009, Section 2

Virginia Bar Exam Archive

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Vol. 36, No. 06 (February 23, 2009)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 59, No. 7, February 17, 2009, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•A Blue Jean Lecture with A.W. Brian Simpson •Pub. Int. Love Connection •Halloween Tickets •Save Yourself •Op-Ed: Postracialism •MLaw SCOTUS Clerks •Kicking it Old School •Mr. Wolverine Photos •Q&A with Dean Sarosi •The Tech Column •Sports •The Beer Guy •When You Were Cooler •Nunc Pro Tunc •A Call to Action

Is Permitting Student Use Of Laptops In Class A Good Idea? 'It Depends' - A Variety Of Approaches Is Best, Lynn Mclain

All Faculty Scholarship

An annotated bibliography compiling articles about students' use of technology in law school classes, with a second section discussing Professor McLain's personal experience with classroom technology use.