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Sooner Lawyer Archive

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Class Notes

Sooner Lawyer Archive

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Faculty News

Sooner Lawyer Archive

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Alternative Justifications For Law School Academic Support Programs: Self-Determination Theory, Autonomy Support, And Humanizing The Law School, Louis N. Schulze Jr.

Faculty Publications

This Article examines a problem that exists in law school academic support programs. While many schools now include extensive academic support opportunities within their curricula, some schools make the choice that more modest investments in these programs are warranted. Obviously, funding such programs is expensive, and law school administrations understandably are reticent to finance such endeavors absent guarantees of results. As such, scholars have attempted to prove, empirically, that law school academic support programs (ASPs) lead to demonstrable results in terms of improvements in student performance in law school and on the bar exam. Setting aside that important project, I …

Honors Convocation, University Of Michigan Law School

Commencement and Honors Materials

Program for the May 6, 2011 University of Michigan Law School Honors Convocation.

Techniques To Teach Substance And Skill In Contract Drafting: In-Office Meetings And Analytical Memos, Lyman P. Q. Johnson

Scholarly Articles

This short article is based on a talk at Emory Law School on Transactional Lawyering. One overall pedagogical aim of a transactional course (or any business contract drafting course) is to link skills training with insistence on in-depth substantive learning about law and business. In this way, skills training – although acknowledged to be practical – also can be recognized as intellectually demanding, a point not always appreciated by proponents of more traditional law teaching. Two techniques for making the connection – in-office meetings and detailed “companion” analytical memos – are described.

Using Comparative And Transitional Corporate Law To Teach Corporate Social Responsibility , Franklin A. Gevurtz

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Winter 2011 Magazine

Ergo

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Teaching Admiralty Popularly, Robert M. Jarvis

Faculty Scholarship

Robert Jarvis, Teaching Admiralty Popularly, 55 Saint Louis University Law Journal 541 (2011).

Technology: Are You (And Your Vendors) Ahead Of, Or On The Curve?, Kenneth Hirsh, Sharon Krevor-Weisbaum, Gary Norman, Bryan Rapp

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Winning The Game Of Appellate Musical Shoes: When The Appeals Band Plays, Jump From The Client’S To The Judge’S Shoes To Write The Statement Of Facts Ballad, Laurie A. Lewis

Scholarly Articles

An appellate brief's Statement of Facts is critical to a successful appeal. The client trusts the attorney with his or her story. To fully hear it, the attorney must actively listen and demonstrate empathy in the initial interview. The attorney needs to step into the client's shoes to retell the story at trial. On appeal, however, the attorney needs to step into the appellate judge's shoes. The story must be recast for an audience knowing nothing about the client. It must be interesting, and appeal to the judge's spirit of justice. If the client suffered an injustice in the court …

Center News/Faculty And Staff Updates, Human Rights Brief

Human Rights Brief

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Center News/Faculty And Staff Updates, Human Rights Brief

Human Rights Brief

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Center News/Faculty And Staff Updates, Human Rights Brief

Human Rights Brief

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Experimenting With Clinical Legal Education To Address The Disconnect Between The Larger Promise Of Law And Its Grassroots Reality In India, Ajay Pandey

Maryland Journal of International Law

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Law In The Time Of Cholera: Teaching Disaster Law As A Research Course, Neal R. Axton

Faculty Scholarship

Disaster law is fun to teach but it has a serious purpose. Emergencies will inevitably arise but how society responds to them will determine whether or not they become full-blown disasters. Training law students to adapt to dynamic situations will give them the skills they need in a world facing global warming, resource depletion, and a burgeoning population. By creating a more robust legal system, we can create a more resilient society.

Originally published in the May 2011 issue of AALL Spectrum.

Global Clinical Legal Education And International Partnerships: A Chinese Legal Educator's Perspective, Yanmin Cai

Maryland Journal of International Law

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Toward Integrated Law Clinics That Train Social Justice Advocates, Marcy L. Karin, Robin R. Runge

Journal Articles

The integrated approach to clinical legal education enables law students to explore and to utilize more than one legal advocacy strategy simultaneously to achieve social change. This framework facilitates law students’ ability to develop a range of essential lawyering skills including reflecting upon the connection between law and social justice by addressing the broader social problems impacting our communities. The integrated approach has been accepted as an effective clinic structure, and is being successfully developed and applied in a range of ways that are best suited to specific legal issues and geographic regions. In this article the authors, who are …

Legal Education And Civility, Mark Niles

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Sometimes Putting Pen To Paper Is Tougher Than It Seems, Heather Ridenour, David Spratt

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Race And Socioeconomic Diversity In American Legal Education: A Response To Richard Sander, Danielle R. Holley-Walker

Faculty Publications

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Should American Law Schools Continue To Graduate Lawyers Whom Clients Consider Worthless?, Clark D. Cunningham

Maryland Law Review

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Opening The Doors To South Hall, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Facts about and donors to the new South Hall building for the University of Michigan Law School.

In Celebration Of Eric Stein 1913-2011, University Of Michigan Law School

Event Materials

Program for a memorial service in honor of Eric Stein.

University Of Michigan Law School Faculty, 2011-2012, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Biographies of the University of Michigan Law School faculty.

Telling Tales In School: Storytelling For Self-Reflection And Pedagogical Improvement In Clinical Legal Education, Faith Mullen

Scholarly Articles

In the past twenty years, there has been a surge in legal scholarship that recognizes the value of story in law, and law schools are beginning to tap into the extraordinary power of story. Largely absent from this mix are stories told by law students about their own experiences with the law. The authors used class time formerly devoted to clinic rounds to offer students the opportunity to tell stories about their cases outside the presence of their supervising attorneys. Clinical faculty then compared their own, recorded version of the story of a case with the student’s version. This article …

Improving Clinical Judgment In Lawyering With Multidisciplinary Knowledge About Brain Function And Human Behavior: What Should Law Students Learn About Human Behavior For Effective Lawyering?, Beryl Blaustone

University of Baltimore Law Review

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The Durham Statement Two Years Later: Open Access In The Law School Journal Environment, Richard A. Danner, Kelly Leong, Wayne V. Miller

Faculty Scholarship

The Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship, drafted by a group of academic law library directors, was promulgated in February 2009. It calls for two things: (1) open access publication of law school–published journals; and (2) an end to print publication of law journals, coupled with a commitment to keeping the electronic versions available in “stable, open, digital formats.” The two years since the Statement was issued have seen increased publication of law journals in openly available electronic formats, but little movement toward all-electronic publication. This article discusses the issues raised by the Durham Statement, the current state …

Making The Leap To Being A Law Library Director, Joseph A. Custer

Faculty Publications

This article addresses my experience in going from being a mild-mannered Associate Director of an academic law library to that of a dynamic leader of an academic law library.

The Sophistic Method?: Dialectic And Eristic In Legal Pedagogy, Thomas Cothran

Kentucky Law Journal

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